Each year, the Databricks Data + AI Summit draws thousands of data engineers, architects, analytics leaders, and AI practitioners together for four days of announcements, sessions, and conversations that shape the direction of enterprise data and AI. This June 15–18 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Perficient will be there as an Innovator Sponsor — and if you’re attending DAIS 2026, you’ll want to know exactly what we’re bringing to the table.
We’re coming with a message that is critical for Databricks customers, and demos that prove what’s possible when you stop underutilizing the platform you’ve already invested in.
The Problem No One Talks About Enough
As a Databricks Gold Partner, we don’t just implement the platform — we help our clients activate it. There’s a meaningful difference, and that gap is exactly what we’re addressing at this year’s Summit.
Our Lightning Talk — From Second Gear to Full Throttle: Unlocking Trapped Value in Your Databricks Investment — walks the audience through the real journey of a $30 billion building products distributor with more than 1,700 locations.
The session reveals how this organization went from three products in use to more than ten in production — not by migrating to new tools, not by rebuilding their architecture, and not by buying additional licenses. They did it by activating the platform they already owned. And they did it across two simultaneous workstreams that together tell the complete story of modern enterprise data and AI transformation.
Come Find Us at Booth #434
The lightning talk is where the framework comes to life in story form. Booth #434 is where you can see it in action, hands-on, across the industries and use cases most relevant to your organization.
Perficient’s booth is built around live, industry-specific demos spanning financial services, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare — alongside our Brickbuilder accelerators, which are designed to compress time-to-value on the Databricks platform. Here’s a preview of what you can experience at the booth:
Investment Advisory Solutions — See how Databricks can power intelligent, data-driven advisory workflows that give financial services firms a competitive edge in client engagement and portfolio intelligence.
Retail & Inventory Analytics with Genie — Watch Databricks’ Genie natural language interface transform how retail teams interact with inventory and operational data. Ask questions in plain language, get answers that drive decisions.
Battery Passport – Discover the digital record that tracks an electric vehicle’s battery lifecycle, including its condition, health, and performance to provide critical insights to consumers, OEMs, dealers, insurance companies, and regulatory bodies.
AI Healthcare Data — Explore how AI-powered interactions are transforming patient engagement and clinical data workflows. This demo speaks directly to healthcare organizations grappling with how to make their data infrastructure work as hard as their clinical teams do.
Migration + Lakehouse Launchpad — For organizations still in the process of moving to Databricks or struggling to get their lakehouse off the ground, this demo shows the practical path to platform activation — fast.
Why Perficient at Data + AI Summit 2026 Matters
As a Databricks Gold Partner, our job isn’t to tell you what the platform can do in theory. It’s to show you what it’s already doing for enterprises like yours — and help you close the distance between where you are and where you’re trying to go.
The lakehouse promise — unified data, deployed AI, measurable value — is real. But the execution is harder than the pitch, and the organizations that are pulling ahead aren’t the ones with the newest tools. They’re the ones with the most activated platforms.
If you’re heading to Data + AI Summit 2026, here’s what we’d encourage you to do:
- Attend Perficient’s lightning talk and walk away with a framework you can apply immediately
- Stop by Booth #434 to see live demos tailored to your industry
- Connect with our team about where your organization is on the activation curve — and what unlocking the next layer of your Databricks investment could mean for your business
