Databricks will return to San Francisco this summer with its Data + AI Summit, adding another large-scale technology gathering to the city’s 2026 conference calendar as companies across software, cloud, finance, retail, and manufacturing continue to build around data infrastructure and artificial intelligence. The conference is scheduled for June 15 through June 18 in San Francisco, with a virtual option also planned.
Databricks is presenting the event as a conference for data, analytics, and AI professionals, with programming built around enterprise deployment, governance, applications, machine learning, and data infrastructure. The company says the summit will feature more than 800 sessions, keynotes, and training, and describes it as the world’s largest data, analytics, and AI conference.
The company’s featured speaker list is led by top Databricks executives and product leaders. Those listed on the official summit page include co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, Chief Technologist and Apache Spark and MLflow creator Matei Zaharia, co-founder and Chief Architect Reynold Xin, co-founder and senior vice president of field engineering Arsalan Tavakoli, Field CDO Robin Sutara, Vice President of Engineering Nikita Shamgunov, and product leaders Kasey Uhlenhuth and Miranda Luna.
The guest speaker roster broadens the event well beyond Databricks itself. Databricks’ summit materials and related conference programming have highlighted major outside names including Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft; Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; and Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. The program also points to participation from leaders and technical figures tied to Meta, Atlassian, PepsiCo, adidas, CVS Health, and Arize, giving the conference a cross-industry speaker mix that reaches from banking and cloud computing to consumer brands and enterprise software.
That broader corporate footprint is also visible in the session previews already posted by Databricks. The official event page lists preview sessions featuring speakers from 7-Eleven, adidas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Atlassian, Nationwide Insurance, and Virgin Atlantic. Those early examples suggest the conference will lean heavily on customer case studies from sectors including retail, healthcare, aviation, insurance, and software.
The summit’s sponsor lineup adds another layer of industry weight. Sponsors listed on the official event page include Sigma, Capital One Software, Deloitte, EY, Fivetran, Glean, Monte Carlo, and Quest. The mix reflects how closely the event sits at the intersection of enterprise software, consulting, data tooling, and AI infrastructure.
Databricks is also structuring the event as more than a keynote-driven conference. Its published materials promote instructor-led training, onsite certifications, meetups, networking events, and an expo alongside the main session schedule. Early-bird general admission is listed at $947.50 through April 30, with standard pricing rising to $1,895 from May 1 through June 15.
For San Francisco, the summit fits a broader pattern that has become increasingly visible over the past year. The city continues to attract major conferences tied to AI, cloud software, cybersecurity, developer tools, and enterprise infrastructure, while nearby cities including San Jose have remained key hosts for hardware- and platform-focused events. Databricks’ decision to bring back one of the largest conferences in enterprise data and AI adds another major name to that lineup.
The event’s scale also points to Databricks’ position in the current market. Unlike consumer-facing AI gatherings built around chatbots or device announcements, the Data + AI Summit is focused on the systems companies use to store, govern, analyze, and operationalize data for production AI work. In San Francisco, that makes it less a general tech spectacle than a large industry meeting for the businesses trying to move AI deeper into their operations.
With Ghodsi, Zaharia, Xin, and Tavakoli leading the Databricks bench, and with outside names from companies including JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Anthropic, Google Cloud, 7-Eleven, adidas, AstraZeneca, Atlassian, Nationwide, and Virgin Atlantic tied to the broader program, the summit is set to bring a wide slice of the enterprise AI economy to San Francisco. For the Bay Area, it is another sign that the region remains one of the main stages for the conferences, executives, and companies shaping the next phase of business AI.
