Telefónica Tech Named Databricks UK&I Growth Partner of the Year
Telefónica Tech named Databricks UK&I Growth Partner of the Year
Telefónica Tech UK&I has been named Databricks UK&I Growth Partner of the Year 2026. The award was announced at Databricks Data + AI World Tour London, held today at ExCeL London.
Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale. The Databricks Partner of the Year awards honour companies that have demonstrated outstanding performance, innovation, and dedication in implementing Databricks solutions.
Over the past year, Telefónica Tech has helped organisations across highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, policing, legal, and financial services, as well as a broad range of commercial industries to build the data foundations they need to move AI from experimentation into production.
Ben Jarvis, Chief Technology Officer at Telefónica Tech:
“Databricks has become central to how our customers turn data into decisions, and increasingly into AI that people can actually trust and use. This award reflects the hard work of our teams, and the confidence our customers place in us to deliver in complex, highly regulated environments. Growth only matters if it’s built on results, and we’re proud that the results our customers are seeing are what’s driving ours. We’re looking forward to deepening our partnership with Databricks and helping even more organisations across the UK and Ireland get AI into production.
We have build a culture of continuous innovation around the Databricks platform. Our teams are constantly developing new AI use cases and helping customers bring the opportunities of AI to life. That includes driving customer adoption of the latest Databricks capabilities: Lakebase, for building real-time, AI-powered applications on governed data; Databricks Genie, which lets business users ask questions of their data in natural language; and Unity Gateway, for controlling access, spend, and security across AI models and agents.”
Telefónica Tech and Databricks have deliberately built a joint go-to-market partnership, rather than just a technology or reseller arrangement. Telefónica Tech has brought its sales, technical, marketing, alliance and delivery teams closer to their Databricks counterparts, connecting the right people around the right customer opportunities.
