# Data & AI Summit VIC 2026

- Dates: 22 October 2026
- Location: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- Address: 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Organiser: Databricks
- Industry: Cybersecurity

## About

The Data & AI Summit VIC 2026 convenes senior data and artificial intelligence leaders at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre for a focused examination of how organisations are embedding intelligent technologies into core business operations. As Australian enterprises move beyond proof-of-concept projects toward production-grade AI systems, the summit addresses the strategic, technical and governance challenges that determine whether these initiatives deliver measurable returns or stall at the pilot stage.

## Who attends

AI/machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers and practitioners, app developers, database administrators, business executives, IT decision-makers, product managers, entrepreneurs, investors and more.

_As described by the organiser._

## Official links

- [Official website](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit)
- [Registration](https://dataaisummit.databricks.com/flow/db/dais2026/landing/page/home)
- [Agenda](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/agenda)

## Topics

- From Experimentation to Enterprise-Scale AI
- Data Governance in Distributed Enterprises
- Engineering Systems for Agentic AI
- Managing Modern Data Platform Complexity
- Measuring Return on Data Investments

## Speakers

- Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO, Databricks
- Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
- Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder, OpenAI
- Magesh Bagavathi, Global Chief Data and AI Officer, PepsiCo
- Federico Cohen Freue, Executive Vice President, AI and Data Operations, Mastercard
- Sinna Lia Vange, Principal IT Solution Architect, Novo Nordisk
- James Maki, Sr. Solution Architect, NVIDIA
- Axel Torbenson, Field Engineer, Replit
- Kasey Uhlenhuth, Director, Product Management, Databricks
- Jeff Wang, CEO, Windsurf/Incoming President
- Harrison Chase, Co-Founder and CEO, LangChain
- Jackie Bow, Engineering, Anthropic
- Mr.Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited
- Matei Zaharia, Original Creator of Apache Spark™ and MLflow; CTO, Databricks
- Reynold Xin, Co-founder and Chief Architect, Databricks
- Ashwin Sreenivas, CTO and Co-founder, Decagon
- Angie Ruan, CTO, Capital Access Platforms
- Ashpreet Bedi, CEO, Agno
- Jerry Liu, Co-founder and CEO, LlamaIndex
- Nicole Catalino, Staff Product Manager, Fox Corporation

## Sponsors and partners

- Capital One Software
- Quest

## Where to stay

- **Causeway Inn on the Mall**: 80 m from the venue
  - [Hotel website](https://www.causeway.com.au/)
- **BreakFree Heritage on Little Bourke**: 120 m from the venue, 318 Little Bourke Street, 3000
  - [Hotel website](https://www.breakfree.com.au/heritage-on-little-bourke/)
- **Holiday Inn Bourke Street Mall**: 130 m from the venue, 296 Little Collins Street
- **Hotel Indigo**: 150 m from the venue
- **YTI Garden Hotel**: 180 m from the venue, 372-378 Little Bourke Street
  - [Hotel website](https://www.ytigarden.com/)
  - Phone: +61 3 9600 4000
- **Pullman Melbourne City Centre**: 180 m from the venue, 195 Swanston Street, 3000
- **Mercure Welcome**: 180 m from the venue, 265-281 Little Bourke Street
  - [Hotel website](https://www.mercurewelcome.com.au/)
- **Causeway 353 Hotel**: 200 m from the venue, 353 Little Collins Street, 3000
  - [Hotel website](https://www.causeway.com.au/)

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Source: https://www.luminik.io/events/data-ai-summit-vic/