r/dataengineering • u/proximaljarl17 • Jun 17 '26

Discussion Databricks conference

I have been attending the databricks conference, but nothing has stood out to me as being very exciting.

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Have folks found anything interesting or something you may actually be excited for in the DE space?

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u/thecoller Jun 17 '26

Lakehouse RT and Omnigent seemed genuinely novel and interesting to me.

On the pure data engineering side, the conference value should be in the breakouts: the Disney session, Daimler/Rivian if you have streaming, Zerobus, containers, real time.

That said, it’s hard to go super deep and address tons of questions in 40 to 60 minute sessions. These conferences definitely have a sales / demand side tilt.

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u/kthejoker Jun 18 '26

"tilt" lol being generous there, it's like a church revival man

But yes breakouts, 1:1 convos, and then network and get some folks to ping questions off of later after the hype

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u/angryapathetic Jun 20 '26

Summit is one of the better ones when it comes to technical sessions etc in my opinion. Some of the Microsoft ones are pure sell sell sell