IBM at Databricks Data and AI Summit 2026

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IBM and Databricks together

IBM’s hybrid data, governance and enterprise data fabric capabilities expanded the Databricks platform’s workload reach into highly regulated or sovereign environments. Together, they delivered consistent lakehouse experiences across environments and enabled compliant AI powered by all data across cloud and on‑premises environments.

IBM joined the Databricks Data and AI Summit—a global event that brought together thousands of data practitioners, leaders and visionaries from more than 160 countries. The summit explored the latest in lakehouse, open source, AI/ML and more.

Event highlights

AI agents can dramatically accelerate your ability to react to new information and make trusted decisions—but only when they have the right context from your data.

However, preparing datasets for each individual AI use case is time-consuming and expensive hindered by fragmented data landscapes, inconsistent governance and data complexity.

In this session, attendees learned how to power AI agents with real-time context from unstructured and structured data across hybrid data landscapes—without migration.

Speakers:

Victor Povar, Generative and Agentic AI Sales Leader, IBM

AI doesn’t deliver value in the lab—it delivers in production. In this live demo, participants saw how IBM moves from building agents with IBM Bob™ to running them at scale with watsonx Orchestrate®, the enterprise AI control plane. We showed how agents go from creation to real-world deployment, with full visibility, governance and control. This system is what enterprise AI looks like when it’s not a pilot—but a system you can trust and scale.

Speakers:

Ed Anuff, CPO Data, IBM
Erik Duffield, Americas Data Transformation Services Leader, IBM

All day in the main Expo Hall.

Featured speaker: Clay Doise, Director, IT Business Intelligence, Energy Transfer

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Take a step further in IBM's Innovation Studio after Databricks Data + AI Summit

Curious about what deployment patterns we’re seeing as we work with our clients across industries? We can get inspired by others who have faced similar issues. Our industry experts lead our industry exploration sessions, drawing on their first‑hand experience in identifying challenges, discovering opportunities, getting to the heart of the problem and designing and implementing solutions.

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