DAIS 2026
The 8 most important announcements from Data + AI Summit 2026
Databricks expands Agent Bricks into a comprehensive platform solving the other 99% of agentic infrastructure work: deployment, security, evaluation, and governance at scale.
Agent Bricks
Unity AI Gateway delivers visibility, cost controls, contextual policies, and AI activity monitoring in one place — extending Unity Catalog to the world of agents and models.
Unity AI Gateway
Unity Catalog evolves from a system of record into an active runtime decision-maker with enterprise semantics for agents, multi-cloud support, and multimodal data governance.
Unity Catalog
Databricks announces automatic identity management, simplified private connectivity for serverless workloads, and new global compliance certifications across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Databricks Platform Security
MLflow 3.0 solves the three core obstacles of GenAI development: production observability, quality measurement at scale, and continuous improvement with structured feedback loops.
MLflow 3.0
Databricks introduces the complete Genie ecosystem: a conversational AI coworker, autonomous domain agents, and a semantic context layer that continuously learns from business operations.
Genie
Databricks launches Genie Code for ML engineering, serverless GPU training with AI Runtime, and high-performance real-time ML with Feature Store and Model Serving at 300K+ QPS.
AI Platform
Azure Databricks introduces LTAP architecture for real-time data, Genie embedded across Microsoft 365, and userLake as the first agentic CDP natively embedded in the lakehouse — all governed by Genie Ontology.
Azure Databricks