The countdown has already begun and the momentum around this year’s Databricks Data & AI Summit (DAIS) 2026 is building up.
It is bigger, sharper and solution driven.
Over the past few years, conversations around AI have evolved from cautious experimentation to urgent execution. Speed, along with the ability to operationalize AI, maintain strong governance, and generate measurable ROI, are among the key discussion themes at DAIS 2026.
With more than 800 sessions, DAIS is expected to showcase the latest developments around its marquee technologies like Unity Catalog, Lakebase, Delta Lake, Databicks SQL, Genie among others.
Databricks is clearly positioning DAIS 2026 as a thoughtfully curated platform for production-grade AI transformation, while pushing a larger vision: AI systems that are deeply embedded into day-to-day company operations. The aim is to remove the struggle with disconnected data control models and AI experiments that rarely reached production.
What Makes DAIS 2026 Ideal for Business Leaders:
• AI-driven decision making and its ROI across levels:
Expect real talk on how AI is finally moving beyond experiments to become a core decision-making engine that delivers clear, measurable return on investment from frontline teams, all the way up to the C-suite.
• Time operational analytics:
With data growing in large volumes, sessions will show how companies can pull instant, actionable insights from live data streams to make daily operations faster and smarter.
• Industry-specific AI helpers:
DAIS 2026 will spotlight practical AI assistants built for real-world challenges in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and more with tools designed to solve actual industry problems, not generic ones.
• Data clean rooms and secure collaboration:
For a privacy-first world, there’ll be a strong focus on how organizations can safely share and collaborate on sensitive data using clean rooms to unlock innovation while staying fully compliant.
• Analytics through platforms like Databricks Genie:
Witness how conversational analytics is changing the game, letting everyday business users simply ask questions in plain language and get instant, governed answers from their enterprise data.
• Company-grade Lakehouse modernization:
The spotlight will be on upgrading legacy systems to modern Lakehouse architectures that brings together data, analytics, and AI – for companies focused on scalability, governance, and speed.
This is particularly relevant for industries dealing with large-scale operational complexity and compliance-heavy environments. Banks are under pressure to accelerate insights while maintaining control. Healthcare and pharma companies are trying to use AI without compromising data privacy. Retail and manufacturing companies need forecasting, supply chain intelligence and real-time customer analytics.
DAIS 2026 is expected to focus on manoeuvring the talks from “what AI can do” and exploring further on “how companies can actually use it responsibly at scale.”
Why the Databricks Partner Ecosystem Matters Now More than Ever
Data and AI platforms need partners who understand industry workflows, cloud modernization, control frameworks, data migration complexity and AI usage. This is where the Databricks partner ecosystem has become increasingly influential.
Hoonartek is building a strong differentiation with Databricks as their preferred partner, in driving measurable business results, through a data intelligence layer that’s imperative for companies with a focus on enterprise scale modernization.
Hoonartek delivers this with ClearView™, a platform that accelerates data journey across modernising the foundation, activating Lakehouse and operationalising decisions for ambitious enterprises. Alignment to business goals, and moving away from plain insights delivery, is the path Hoonartek is paving for enterprises ready to optimise for scale.
ClearView™ is Hoonartek’s decision intelligence layer that is unifying data, AI and execution in a governed decision loop without disrupting core operations, for businesses ready to act.
Levelling Up at DAIS 2026
There is a reason the excitement around DAIS 2026 is palpable with intensity and urgency.
AI investments are no longer driven by hype. Today, boards expect clear, measurable business outcomes and operational value. At the same time, CIOs are under growing pressure to cut through complexity and make technology ecosystems simpler, faster, and more effective. Data leaders are being asked to unify architectures while enabling AI innovation simultaneously, which platforms like ClearView™ enable.
What makes the Summit especially valuable is the blend of vision and practicality, presented by a community of active doers.
Three Things to Explore with Hoonartek at DAIS 2026:
1. Questions that drive ClearView™ Live Agentic Demo
where we showcase how the flagship platform transforms raw enterprise data into governed, explainable, real-time AI decisions with audit trails, approvals, and regulatory compliance built-in. This will be presented for BFSI, Telecom, Manufacturing and Digital Natives.
2. Brickbuilder Accelerator Demo Day
Live demos of smart Databricks-certified accelerators such as Lakebridge (legacy ETL/SQL migration), DQPulse (data quality), MaskX (privacy masking), DataHaven (clean rooms), PeggyX (conversational AI), VaultX (governance), all designed to speed delivery and reduce risk.
3. RealizeAI Platform
A suite of 30+ pre-built solutions for Generative, Predictive, and Conversational AI, natively built on Databricks for strong scalability and governance.
For companies trying to modernize legacy systems while simultaneously preparing for the AI economy, these topics need urgent attention, but with a detailed business transformation journey mapping.
Book a 1:1 meeting with us at DAIS 2026: Meet Hoonartek at Databricks Data + AI Summit (DAIS) 2026
