Your Personal Summit Guide
Data + AI
Summit 2026
Your guide to four days of keynotes, deep dives, hands-on labs, and networking tailored to Disney's data and AI priorities.
Your guide to four days of keynotes, deep dives, hands-on labs, and networking tailored to Disney's data and AI priorities.
Click a day to see what's happening.
Optional instructor-led half-day courses. Complimentary for Disney through the Skills @ Scale program. Browse training catalog →
Moscone South lobby. Grab it today to skip Monday and Tuesday lines.
Optional instructor-led half-day courses. Complimentary for Disney through the Skills @ Scale program. Browse training catalog →
Available through Thursday. Your home base between sessions.
Moscone South lobby. Pick up today to avoid Tuesday morning lines.
Media & publisher industry run along the Embarcadero. Register
South lobby. Get in line by 7:30 for keynote seats.
Ali Ghodsi (CEO) and Greg Brockman (President, OpenAI). Moscone South, Hall A. Be seated by 7:45.
Moscone West, Level 3. Keynote by Arsalan Tavakoli, roundtables on AI modernization. Through 6:00 PM.
800+ sessions across data engineering, governance, analytics, agents, and AI. Through 6:00 PM.
Co-hosted by LatentView. Calendar invite to be sent to all confirmed Disney attendees.
Hosted by Epsilon & Databricks. Canopy by Hilton. Register
SPIN, San Francisco. Register
Reynold Xin (Chief Architect), Matei Zaharia, and engineering leadership. Moscone South, Hall A.
Deep dives on Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Catalog, agents, and more.
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate AB. Keynotes and panels from data leaders across media, advertising, sports, and gaming. Registration required.
Canopy by Hilton. Connect with peers in media and publishing. Register
Food, drinks, live entertainment, and The Chainsmokers. Free with your Summit pass.
Last chance for sessions, labs, and certifications. Through 2:30 PM.
200+ sponsors, partner booths, Databricks demos, Lightning Talks. Closes at 3:30 PM.
Safe travels. On-demand session streaming available after the event.
Hand-picked by your Databricks team based on Disney's strategic priorities. Browse all 800+ sessions →
Session registration opens May 21. Popular sessions fill up fast. Browse the full catalog and register for the sessions you want to attend to ensure you get a spot.
Ali Ghodsi (CEO) + Greg Brockman (OpenAI). Product announcements and platform vision.
Browse agenda →Reynold Xin + Matei Zaharia. Architecture and engineering deep dive.
Browse agenda →Arsalan Tavakoli on enterprise intelligence. Roundtables on AI modernization.
Browse agenda →Andy Kofoid with State Street EVP CIO and Dick's Sporting Goods EVP CTO.
Browse agenda →Format convergence and multi-engine governance. Directly relevant to Disney's gold layer interop initiative.
Define metrics once, consume everywhere. Governed semantics across Genie, Snowflake, Looker, Tableau.
Your guide to access control at scale. Directly relevant to Disney's governance and tracker remediation work.
Consumer access roles, simplified provisioning, and making the platform accessible to non-technical users.
AI functions for automated PII detection, data classification, and privacy compliance. Relevant to Disney's AI Data Classification initiative.
Real-world Genie deployment at enterprise scale. Relevant to Disney's Playback User Fact and Ad Sales Finance POCs.
Per-team provisioning, cost attribution, inference tables, and guardrails. Aligns with Disney's AI Gateway V2 rollout.
Build agents with declarative tools, MLflow Tracing for observability, and production deployment patterns.
Production ML patterns for high-throughput inference. Relevant to Ursula personalization (150K RPS target).
Guardrails for coding agents, MCP integrations, and enterprise AI readiness.
Building secure agents with enterprise-grade data protection.
Build, deploy, and distribute enterprise data apps at scale.
Enterprise Lakebase at scale. Relevant to IFP/SingleStore takeout, Exec Dashboard, and GCI Feature Store.
Threat detection on the lakehouse. GCI Identity Security is a preview candidate.
Sub-second latency streaming at production scale. Relevant to KDA/Flink migration.
Next-gen data pipelines with declarative patterns, streaming tables, and managed table support.
How Disney architects complex, real-time data streams with Databricks.
How NBCUniversal aligns advertising with content using AI at scale.
Streaming personalization with generative AI. Closest peer to Disney's Ursula platform.
Gaming peer on serverless SQL adoption at scale.
Real-time streaming analytics for media workloads using Spark Declarative Pipelines.
Enterprise Genie deployment patterns. Relevant to Disney's Playback User Fact and Ad Sales POCs.
Deep dive format on streaming architecture. Relevant to KDA/Flink migration and real-time pipelines.
Keynotes and panels from media, advertising, sports, gaming leaders.
Demos: Identity 360, Content Supply Chain, Ad Optimization, Personalization.
Half-day instructor-led courses, Sunday through Thursday. Complimentary for Disney through Skills @ Scale. If you're interested in signing up for training, reach out to us on the Disney DAIS Attendee Teams channel or email disney-team@databricks.com. Browse full training catalog →
Single and multi-agent systems, tool creation, governance, LangChain and OpenAI Agent SDK, Agent Bricks.
Declarative RAG: parsing, chunking, embedding, citation generation. Knowledge Assistant lifecycle with quality loop.
MLflow evaluation framework, built-in judges, guideline judges, custom LLM judges, human feedback with Assessments.
Prototype to production. MLflow Tracing, scorer types, sampling strategies, trace metrics, Delta archival.
Design, build, and maintain Genie Spaces. Knowledge Store curation, benchmarking, quality improvement.
Business-user focused. Ask natural language questions, solve data mysteries, translate insights into recommendations.
Build a semantic layer on top of the gold layer. Enable validated business insights and KPI exploration.
Hands-on with AI/BI Dashboards and Genie. Create dashboards, manage access, maintain assets through their lifecycle.
Managed PostgreSQL for operational data. Provisioning, connection management, permissions, and best practices.
Core concepts, OLTP vs OLAP, how Lakebase bridges transactional and analytical workloads.
Seamless interop between Delta and Iceberg. Cross-platform analytics, eliminating data silos.
Build and deploy Databricks Apps with templates, vibe coding, SQL warehouses, and AI model serving.
Spark UI analysis, liquid clustering, data skipping, caching, Photon. Optimize workloads and physical layout.
Incremental batch and streaming ingestion. Streaming tables, materialized views, temporary views.
CI/CD for Databricks. REST API, SDK, CLI, GitHub Actions, multi-environment deployment.
Pure SQL pipelines. Medallion architecture, Auto Loader, SCD Type 1/2, Lakeflow Jobs orchestration.
On-site at Moscone West. Complimentary for Disney through Skills @ Scale. Walk-in, first-come first-served.
Associate exams: 90 minutes
Professional exams: 120 minutes
14-day retake policy if you don't pass
Disney-curated events plus Summit highlights. See the full on-site experience →
Industry run along the Embarcadero with media & publisher data leaders.
Co-hosted by LatentView. Calendar invite to all confirmed Disney attendees.
Hosted by Epsilon & Databricks. Cocktails, bites, and networking.
Keynotes and panels from data leaders across media, advertising, sports, and gaming.
Food, drinks, live entertainment, and The Chainsmokers. Free with Summit pass.
First time in SF? Here's what you need to know for Summit week.
June averages 58–68°F. Cool foggy mornings, warm afternoons, chilly evenings.
Pack: Layers, light jacket, walking shoes, sunscreen. You'll want that jacket by 7pm.
Coffee: Blue Bottle (Mint Plaza), Sightglass (7th St)
Quick: The Bird (5th St), Eataly (Westfield), Super Duper (3rd St)
Dinner: Waterbar, Tropisueño, Benu
SFO: BART to Powell (~30 min, $10) or Lyft (~25 min, $30–50).
Walk during Summit — everything is 10–15 min from Moscone. Muni for longer hops.
SoMa around Moscone is safe and busy all week. FiDi and Yerba Buena are great for walks.
Avoid: Tenderloin (6th–8th & Ellis/Eddy) and 6th St corridor, especially at night. Stick to Market St and south.
DAIS Mobile App is live. Build your personal schedule, get real-time notifications, and navigate the campus. Download now →
Moscone Center, 747 Howard St. Three buildings: South (registration, keynotes), North (expo), West (breakouts, exec forum).
Opens Sunday afternoon, Moscone South lobby. Pro tip: grab it Sunday evening to skip Monday lines.
SFO: ~25 min via BART or Lyft. Closest hotels: Marriott Marquis, InterContinental, W, Hilton Union Square.
Marriott → South: ~3 min
South → North (skybridge): ~2 min
South → West (across Howard): ~5 min
Ryan Chittick & Kevin Farrell — AEs
Tom Bai (Lead SA), Stephanie Lee, Kam Look, Michelle Lui — SAs
Haley Weaver, Chandan Sahai — DSAs
Email disney-team@databricks.com or join the Disney DAIS Teams channel.