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title: "Announcing the winners of the 2026 Databricks Customer Awards"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2026-databricks-customer-awards-rr5gyklwg
source_url: https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-winners-2026-databricks-customer-awards
type: article
source: "databricks"
published: 2026-06-09T17:50:47.931Z
updated: 2026-06-09T17:51:11.819Z
tags: ["ai", "data-engineering", "databricks"]
reading_time: 11
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comments: 0
language: en
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# Announcing the winners of the 2026 Databricks Customer Awards

**[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Databricks has announced the winners of its 2026 Customer Awards, recognizing 10 organizations and leaders across 8 categories and 4 regions. Winners include Applied Materials (semiconductor data modernization), Virgin Atlantic (unified airline operations data), Fonterra (dairy cooperative analytics), Vivo/Telefónica Brazil (telecom lakehouse), Virtue Foundation (global health volunteer matching), Octopus Energy (10 trillion rows/year for virtual power plant management), Axpo (GenAI multi-agent platform AxploreAI), Atlassian (petabyte-scale security lakehouse via Project Banyan), Rivian's Wassym Bensaid (AI-defined vehicles at 500-600 PB scale), and Lippert's Kenan Colson (enterprise AI adoption across customer care, finance, and HR).

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