Data + AI World Tour Tokyo 2026
Overview
The Tokyo stop of the one-day conference that Databricks runs in 20 cities worldwide, a tour billed at over 40,000 attendees and 800 sponsors in total. Sessions cover lakehouse and AI agent implementation through customer case studies. At the previous Tokyo edition, session queues ran long and the content skewed practical, from consolidating data platforms to concrete RAG implementation steps. The 2026 edition returns to The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, the same venue as last year.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2024
- Founder
- Held for the Japanese market by Databricks Japan K.K.
Rolled out worldwide as the regional counterpart to Data + AI Summit, the vendor's annual US conference; the Tokyo stop has become a venue for case studies on data platform modernization and generative AI implementation
Transition
- 2024 Held November 14 at ANA InterContinental Tokyo
- 2025 Held November 28 at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, centered on Agent Bricks and Lakebase
- 2026 November 27 at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, as part of a 20-city tour projected at over 40,000 attendees
Voices
Session entry lines ran long, and getting into the popular talks meant queueing early (from J-kosaka's report, in Japanese)
Learned about a two-stage RAG implementation that balances cost and accuracy by selecting answer candidates with a low-cost model and making the final selection with a high-cost model (from J-kosaka's report, in Japanese)
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