Overview
- Databricks published its 2026 Customer Awards on June 9, 2026, naming ten industry winners and several named excellence and impact winners for using the Databricks Platform to modernize data and AI at scale.
- Winners emphasized migrations from legacy warehouses and fragmented stacks to a single governed lakehouse that centralizes data, access controls and lineage to support production analytics and machine learning.
- Several high‑scale technical results were cited as evidence of impact, including Octopus Energy ingesting more than 10 trillion rows per year and converting 460,000+ EVs into a 3GW virtual power plant, Superhuman serving peak inference above 200,000 QPS with sub‑second P99 latency, and Atlassian querying over 21 billion security events in under a minute.
- Award stories also show direct human benefits, from Virtue Foundation’s VFMatch.org matching clinicians and supporting surgical cases to SMBC using unified data to strengthen cybersecurity and improve client interactions.
- Databricks framed the announcements as case studies for enterprises, arguing that governed lakehouses, cataloged access and high‑throughput model serving make AI easier to operationalize and could speed wider adoption of conversational agents and cross‑region data sharing.