Databricks' annual event. Mosaic AI, Unity Catalog, model training and serving on the lakehouse.
The Databricks Data + AI Summit is the largest event in the data and AI engineering community, drawing 12,000+ in-person attendees to San Francisco's Moscone Center and 100,000+ virtual participants each June. Databricks' open-source leadership (Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow) makes this Summit the most influential gathering for data engineering and ML platform teams globally — open-source announcements here flow into the production stacks of millions of engineers within 6–12 months.
For APAC enterprises with significant data engineering infrastructure, the Summit is the primary venue for understanding the evolving lakehouse architecture and how Databricks is positioning against Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric for AI workloads. The 2025 Summit introduced Mosaic AI and the DBRX open model, signalling Databricks' push into enterprise LLM fine-tuning and serving.
AIMenta maintains partnerships with Databricks' APAC enterprise team and uses the Summit as a calibration point for advising clients on data platform strategy. If your team is evaluating Databricks vs. Snowflake vs. Google Cloud for a major data platform investment, the comparative analysis we prepare from Summit proceedings is a typical starting point for the scoping conversation.