Top 3 reasons to attend
- Discover the latest advances in GenAI, machine learning, analytics and data governance.
- Learn how to drive insights with natural language, integrate data management with AI and governance, and support GenAI applications with quality, privacy and control.
- See how leading companies are reducing TCO through automatic performance and storage optimization.
Agenda overview
| Registration | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Expo | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 10:30 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Keynote | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
| Breakout Sessions | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Lunch | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Breakout Sessions | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Reception | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
Customer & Partner Speakers
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
Northwestern Mutual
Vice President - Field & Client Service
Northwestern Mutual
Strategic Analytics Director
Ulta Beauty
Director - Data & Analytics Technology Management
Edward Jones
Product Discovery, Data and ML/AI
Grainger
Director, Data Engineering
United Airlines
VP Business Development and Marketing
Anomalo
Sr. Director of Advanced Analytics
Readerlink
Managing Director, AI
Slalom
Sr. Sales Engineer
Fivetran
Director, Enterprise Data Governance
Nationwide
Field CTO - Data
Qlik
Lead, Account Solution Engineer
Salesforce
Databricks Speakers
SVP, Product
Databricks
Staff Technical Marketing Manager
Databricks
Databricks
Sr. Solutions Architect
Databricks
Manager, Specialist Solutions Architecture
Databricks
Sr. Technical Product Marketing Engineer
Databricks
Sr. Solutions Architect
Databricks
Solutions Architect
Databricks
Sr. Solutions Architect
Databricks
Solutions Architect
Databricks
Solutions Architect
Databricks
Featured sessions
Featured sessions
AI to ROI: Turning AI aspirations into quantifiable business value
Learn how to achieve measurable business impact with your AI investments. In this session, Slalom will share our proven approach to help you build scalable, production-ready AI use cases that drive tangible ROI.
Breakfast and Networking
Join us after checking in for a light breakfast and networking prior to the keynote
Building a Trusted Data Foundation for AI on Databricks
For companies looking to use the power of AI at scale, modernizing data engineering is not a choice, it’s a requirement. Doing that right means having the ability to automate the discovery, integration, & transformation of source data directly into Databricks, while tapping into advanced functionalities directly within workflows. Learn how Qlik integrates with Databricks MosaicAI, and automates real-time complete end-to-end pipelines that are low or no-code. Spend less time integrating & transforming data & more time performing rich AI driven analysis, LMM fine tuning, and feeding Machine Learning & generative AI models like Databricks DBRX. Join this session how Qlik Talend Data Integration automates the delivery and transformation of sources data, including SAP to the Databricks Intelligent Data Platform. Plus, hear examples of successful real-time data integration into the Databricks Lakehouse from customers like Vale, Textron, Mercedes Benz, Trek Bikes, and JB Hunt.
Comprehensive Guide to Mosaic AI: Getting GenAI Apps to Production on Databricks
Step into the world of rapid Generative AI application development with Mosaic AI. We'll explore the suite of tools within Mosaic AI that revolutionize how we create and maintain high-quality AI applications, cutting down the path to production.
Gain insights into:
- Efficient Application Design: Learn how to leverage Mosaic AI for designing production-quality GenAI applications
- Seamless Maintenance Strategies: Discover strategies for the ongoing maintenance of your AI applications, ensuring they continue to meet evolving needs.
- Practical Integration Techniques: Witness a comprehensive end-to-end demonstration that showcases the practical application of these tools and strategies in real-world scenarios.
- This session is your gateway to mastering the intricacies of GenAI application development, offering actionable knowledge to streamline your projects with Mosaic AI and Databricks.
Data frenzy to data freedom: How centralized data fuels analytics & AI
In today’s data-rich environment, companies face the challenge of centralizing large volumes of diverse data to drive insights and operational efficiency. Without a comprehensive data centralization strategy, organizations risk missing out on significant opportunities for revenue growth and competitive advantages with data trapped in silos. By freeing data from silos and establishing a single source of truth, companies can accelerate their innovation to stay competitive. Join us as we explore how data freedom powers analytics, operations and AI/ML with all your data.
In our talk, you will discover:
- The key obstacles hindering organizations from achieving a mature data strategy
- Learn how Fivetran and Databricks work together to achieve automated data integration for analytics and AI on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
- Hear about real-world examples where embracing Fivetran’s data centralization capabilities into Databricks led to deeper innovation
Data Intelligence for All: Cross-Industry Customer Panel
Hear from fellow Databricks users on this panel discussion featuring customers leveraging the Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks Keynote
Complexity has long been the barrier to success with data and AI. But, the unification of lakehouse architecture with generative AI has rapidly opened up new opportunities to simplification. By bringing AI to your data, you can analyze huge quantities of information from many different sources to generate outputs that drive efficiency, spur creative thinking and enhance productivity.
Hear from Databricks leaders about the latest innovations in AI, data warehousing, and analytics on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Additionally, data leaders will explore the interconnections between data and AI and how to save good models from bad data.
Delta Live Tables in Depth: Best Practices for Intelligent Data Pipelines
Join Databricks Product SMEs for the authoritative guide to Delta Live Tables (DLT). Learn what’s new, what’s coming, and how to easily master the ins and outs of DLT.
In this session we will explain and demonstrate:
- Pipeline development best practices
- Unity Catalog integration with DLT
- Data quality, monitoring and operations
- Serverless compute for DLT
- DLT Flows: The next generation of Delta Live Tables
Discover Unity Catalog: Your Guide to Governance for Data and AI with Live Demos and new features!
Join the Unity Catalog product team for an in-depth exploration of the latest in data and AI governance. Unity Catalog is the only solution that offers unified governance for both data and AI, native to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. In this session, we will unveil the newest features, such as enhanced governance with detailed row/column filtering, Governed Tags, Attribute-Based Access Controls (ABAC), and the latest updates in automated data lineage, governance for ML assets, and performance improvements.
This session, packed with demos, will illustrate how Unity Catalog's new features can streamline your data governance processes and simplify your analytics and AI initiatives. You'll also get an exclusive preview of our future plans. Plus, seize the opportunity to pose your most pressing questions to the product experts and learn why Unity Catalog is the best governance solution for all your data and AI. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to level up your data game with Unity Catalog!
Explore the Latest in Data Sharing and Collaboration
Databricks Clean Rooms provides privacy-safe collaboration for data, analytics, and AI with multi-cloud and multi-platform support through Delta Sharing. Data clean rooms enable different organizations to collaborate and securely share their datasets in an isolated environment, where they can run joint analyses without directly exposing the raw data to others. Our Databricks Clean Rooms allow analysis through Python and SQL notebooks, so organizations can bring in their own libraries and support any complex methodologies without restriction.
In this session, we’ll show you how to get started on analyzing shared data, and enable advanced use cases with Databricks Clean Rooms, such as working with data across platforms, training ML/AI models, enforcing privacy policies, incorporating proprietary libraries, analyzing unstructured data, auditing clean room actions, and others.
Join us to learn the latest about Databricks Clean Rooms and how it can help your organization.
Get Started with Data Engineering with Databricks (without labs)
In this course, you will learn basic skills that will allow you to use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to perform a simple data engineering workflow.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, you will:
- Describe fundamental concepts about Databricks
- Work with objects in Databricks such as catalogs, schemas, volumes, tables, compute clusters, and notebooks
- Follow follow a basic data engineering workflow to perform tasks such as creating and working with tables
- Ingest data into Delta Lake
- Transform data through the medallion architecture
- Use Databricks Workflows to orchestrate data engineering tasks.
Get Started with GenAI
Learn how to navigate the Databricks Platform to build and develop Generative AI applications in this follow-along course. You will learn how to develop prompts, and compound AI systems using MLflow and Mosaic AI on the platform. As well as learn concepts around governance and differences with GenAI.
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course, you will learn:
- Generative AI opportunities and challenges
- How to set up a dev environment and get started with prompt engineering on Databricks with MLFlow
- How to build a compound AI system with retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
- Introduction to fine-tuning models and pretraining LLMs with Mosaic AI
- How to approach governance for AI applications
Prerequisites:
- Intermediate-level experience with Python
- Working knowledge of machine learning and deep learning is helpful
Getting Started with Databricks SQL: Live Demos and New Features
Join us for live demos on Databricks SQL and discover how our streamlined interfaces simplify data warehousing for analysts, developers, admins, and business users. Learn how to create a data warehouse, ingest and transform data, and build queries and dashboards effortlessly. This session will showcase the latest features, including new AI assistants for coding and dashboards, performance optimizations with serverless infrastructure, and enhanced observability with system tables. Additionally, we'll explore AI-powered capabilities that address performance, governance, and usability challenges in data warehousing, such as natural language queries and visualizations, and serverless, elastic infrastructure for better total cost of ownership.
How Nationwide Automates Enterprise Data Quality at Scale
Hear from Mike Randall, Director of Enterprise Data Governance at Nationwide Insurance about their Databricks data architecture, the business initiatives they're driving, and how automated data quality with Anomalo makes it possible. We'll conclude with learnings, best practices, and tips for other enterprise data leaders looking to drive data modernization initiatives at their organizations.
Lunch and Networking
Enjoy lunch, hear Lightning Talks from our sponsors, and meet our partners in the expo
Morning Break
Network, meet our partners in the expo areas, and enjoy coffee and light refreshments
Reception and Happy Hour
Wrap up the day with happy hour with fellow attendees - Cheers!
The Journey to Autonomous Supply Chains
Learn more about how you can support supply chain initiatives leveraging the power of the Data Intelligence Platform
Unlock the Power of Your Lakehouse Analysis with Tableau and Databricks
Discover how Tableau, in partnership with Databricks, helps you see and understand all the data in the Data Intelligence Platform. Through real-world use cases and expert insights, you’ll learn how our integrations empower secure data sharing for visualization and accelerate time-to-insight with AI. Join us to see how Tableau instills confidence in your data and offers a flexible, composable analytics platform.
Sponsors
Sponsors
Alation
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, enabling self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data. Alation is built for everyone to find, understand, and trust data for smarter analytics and AI usage, delivering data lakehouse success. Alation’s open and extensible integration with Databricks, across an organization’s data ecosystem, helps modernize the AI data stack. More than 550 enterprises build data culture and improve data-driven decision-making with Alation, including Albertsons, DocuSign, Nasdaq, Hertz, RaceTrac, New Relic, and DraftKings.
Anomalo
Anomalo is the market leader in enterprise data quality monitoring, leveraging automated AI to swiftly detect and resolve data issues. Its advanced machine learning techniques ensure data integrity for decision-making and analytics, reducing risks and costs associated with data errors. Designed for scalability, Anomalo adapts to evolving enterprise needs, enhancing operational efficiency. By transforming enterprise data management from reactive to proactive, Anomalo not only safeguards data accuracy but also provides enterprises a competitive edge in the data-driven world.
Celebal Technologies
Celebal Technologies is a leading global IT services organization renowned for driving enterprise digital transformations across diverse industries. Our expertise spans Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Industry Data Models, Database Migration, and SAP Modernization. With a proven track record, we've successfully collaborated with over 200 clients worldwide. By seamlessly integrating traditional enterprise practices with cutting-edge cloud technologies, we empower businesses to thrive in the digital era. We are committed to delivering holistic, end-to-end solutions that drive sustainable growth and provide a competitive advantage.
Dataiku
Dataiku is the Universal AI Platform, uniting the technology, teams, and operations needed for companies to build intelligence into their daily operations, from modern analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities, at all scales and in all industries. Organizations that use Dataiku enable their people to be extraordinary, creating the AI that will power their company into the future. More than 600 companies worldwide use Dataiku, including leaders across industries including life sciences, logistics, retail, manufacturing, energy, financial services, software, and technology. With a strong focus on the Forbes Global 2000, Dataiku also supports non-profits and academic institutions through its AI-for-Good initiatives.
DataNimbus
DataNimbus specializes in Data and AI solutions that help companies modernize data infrastructure and derive actionable insights. Our innovative product, DataNimbus Designer for Databricks, significantly reduces development and run-time costs by deploying ETL workloads natively inside the Databricks environment. With specialization in MLOps and Data engineering, we offer comprehensive consulting services to streamline model lifecycle management and complex ETL/ELT pipelines across industries. Our AI/ML accelerators, powered by cutting-edge machine learning and generative AI, automate data analytics, drastically reducing development time.
Domo, Inc.
Domo transforms the way you experience data by making it accessible and actionable for everyone. Our platform offers a range of solutions—from user-friendly dashboards to custom-coded apps—all powered by AI and data science. Domo uniquely bridges the gap between IT’s security and governance needs and the business’s demand for swift, clear insights and decisive action. With Domo, companies don’t just manage data; they ignite a culture of curiosity and drive impactful growth at scale.
Fivetran
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads. The Fivetran platform reliably and securely centralizes data from hundreds of SaaS applications and databases into any cloud destination — whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment. Thousands of global brands, including Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation. For more info, visit fivetran.com.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
Koantek
Koantek is a premier global Databricks partner, integrator and trusted advisor for businesses looking to accelerate their data journey. Whether Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Warehouse Migrations, and implementing superior governance with Unity Catalog, its deep Databricks expertise and custom frameworks help guide customers through fast, reliable, cost-effective digital transformation initiatives. Koantek serves various industries, from startup to enterprise, enabling them to unlock new opportunities and gain a competitive edge in the age of AI. Koantek was recognized as the 2024 Databricks Innovation Partner of the Year, the 2023 Databricks Velocity Partner of the Year and the 2022 Databricks Rising Star of the Year. The company has over 145 certified Databricks experts and is part of the Databricks Brickbuilder Accelerator and Solutions programs.
KX
Our mission at KX is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. Trusted by the world's top capital market institutions, aerospace, space, defense, life, health sciences, and advanced manufacturing companies. Time series, vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. KX empowers Databricks users to analyze massive, historical time series data quickly and cost-effectively. With KX's lightning-fast kdb+ database and PyKX Python integration, users can enhance their data-driven models and gain valuable insights directly within the Databricks environment. This streamlines workflows, improves research, and accelerates analytics. More on www.kx.com
LatentView
LatentView is a global data analytics and AI company that empowers enterprises to succeed in the digital age by unlocking the power of data. As an Elite Databricks partner, LatentView accelerates data-driven transformation through joint solutions that drive business impact. Our expertise spans data engineering, AI/ML, marketing analytics, supply chain analytics, RGM, and predictive maintenance, built on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. We support unified data governance, data warehouse modernization, and GenAI adoption. Trusted by 30+ Fortune 500 companies across Technology, CPG, Industrials, Financial Services, and Retail, we serve clients globally across the US, Europe, the UK, LATAM, APAC, and India. With 1700+ employees, we deliver scalable, insight-driven solutions that enhance efficiency, foster innovation, and turn data into a competitive edge
Monte Carlo
Barr Moses, CEO and Co-founder of Monte Carlo, coined the term data observability with the mission of making data and AI more reliable. Our data observability platform ensures data teams are the first to know and solve data quality issues - before they impact the business. Monte Carlo is used by hundreds of data teams and across the largest Databricks deployments including Riot Games, Amgen, Comcast and more. We continue to lead the category as we enter the age of generative AI, helping teams improve the reliability of their AI products by ensuring that the data that is feeding LLMs is trustworthy, accurate, and on time.
Nousot
Nousot is a boutique consultancy solely focused on providing end-to-end, leading-edge analytics, AI, and modernization solutions. We are involved at every stage of the journey, from planning and prioritization through modernization and engineering, to enabling and governing AI and analytics assets and processes. As lifelong AI and analytics experts, Nousot focuses on delivering tangible, business-driven outcomes and accelerating time to value by leveraging proprietary GenAI accelerators, saving time and cost. As a Databricks consulting partner, we have a rapidly expanding number of certified professionals, Databricks Champions, Brickbuilder solutions, and a passion for ensuring our clients maximize their ROI from the platform.
Prophecy
Prophecy is the data copilot company. Fortune 500 enterprises - including the largest institutions in banking, insurance, healthcare & life sciences, and technology - rely on Prophecy Data Transformation Copilot to accelerate AI and analytics by delivering data that is clean, trusted, and timely. Prophecy enables all data users and makes them productive by helping develop, deploy, and observe data pipelines on cloud data platforms. Organizations trust Prophecy for the most demanding workloads, including tens of thousands of data pipelines that deliver massive volumes of data for AI and analytics.
Qlik
Qlik is a recognized top tier Select Databricks partner, serving more than 40,000 global customers. It is our mission to ensure they can get the most value from their data. To reveal hidden patterns, address complex challenges, and seize new opportunities. Qlik Talend Cloud uses AI-augmented, low-to-no code data pipeline designer to provide real-time ingestion automation, transformation, security, and governance for Databricks customers. Now engineers and architects can deliver trusted and continuous data streams from hundreds of diverse data sources with complex Change-Data-Capture capability directly to Databricks Data Intelligence platform and MosaicAI. The Qlik Talend Cloud Data Integration platform provides the necessary tools and features to build a reliable foundation for AI innovation.
Salesforce
Salesforce provides a complete suite of products, unifying your sales, service, marketing, analytics, and IT teams with a single, shared view of customer information. Salesforce helps everyone in your company work more productively and better deliver the personalized experiences customers love.
Satori Cyber Inc.
Satori is a Data Security Platform that allows data teams to enable their users to go fast with their data while meeting security and compliance requirements. This in turn helps companies win with data, and become AI-ready faster. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across your databases, lakes and warehouses, tracks data usage and applies security policies dynamically. Learn more at satoricyber.com.
Sigma Computing
Sigma is next-generation analytics and business intelligence that scales billions of records using spreadsheets, SQL, Python, or AI—without compromising speed and security. Sigma is the only Cloud Analytics solution with a spreadsheet-like interface that enables anyone to explore data. Discover what happened, why it happened, and what will happen.
Slalom
Slalom is a next-generation professional services company creating value at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity. With our fiercely human approach, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by over 700 technology partners, our nearly 12,000 team members in eight countries and 49 offices help people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For nine years running. Learn more at slalom.com.
Unravel Data
Unravel’s AI-powered data actionability platform enables you to go beyond just observing problems. Instead, take immediate action with purpose-built AI agents and automation to govern spend, optimize code, and simplify operations. Empower your FinOps, DataOps, and data engineering teams for transformative results. Leading enterprises such as Humana, Intel, Equifax, Maersk, and 7-Eleven rely on Unravel to unlock data value, accelerate transformation, and scale innovation. Unravel is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices around the world.
Event details and FAQ
| How much does it cost to attend the Data + AI World Tour? | All Data + AI World Tour stops are free to attend. |
| I am having difficulties registering. How can I get help? | Please email world-tour-support-chicago@databricks.com. |
| How do I register for training? |
Please be aware that we do not accept advance registrations for our training sessions. Spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and we can only accommodate a limited number of participants onsite. If you plan on attending training, please bring your own laptop. To ensure you secure a spot, we recommend arriving early. |
| Will Vegetarian, Vegan, and Gluten Free food options be available? | Yes - vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available during this event |
| Where is the event located? | The event is held at the Fairmont Millennium Park, 200 N Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60601. |
| Is parking available onsite? | Valet parking is available at the Fairmont, however parking is the responsibility of the attendee and is not included as part of this event. |
| What are the closest public transportation stations? | The closest "L" Subway stations are Washington (Blue Line) and Lake (Red Line) |
