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
| Expo | 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM |
| Registration + Networking Coffee | 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM |
| Keynote | 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Lunch | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
| Breakout Sessions | 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Speakers
Senior Minister of State
MDDI
Chief Product Officer
Grab
Chief Digital & Information Officer
Suntory
Head of AI Practice
GovTech
Director of Data Science Accelerator
Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board
Head of Data and AI Products
Prudential
Senior Deputy Director
CPF Board
Research Scholar, NUS and
Head of Data&AI, Eastspring Investments
Head of AI and Data Science
Bolttech
Global Practice Lead, Data and Intelligence
Sourced Group an Amdocs Company
Senior Pre-Sales Engineer
Neo4j
SVP of Products
Databricks
VP & GM of ASEAN & GCR
Databricks
Global Head of Cybersecurity
Databricks
Global Head of Insurance
Databricks
APJ ML Lead
Databricks
Solutions Architect
Databricks
Consultant
Databricks
Director Data aNalytics & Ai and Chief Data Officer
Synapxe
Global Head Digital and Data Solutions
SATS Ltd
Specialist Solutions Architect
Databricks
Data Analyst
GrabTaxi Holding Pte Ltd
Head of IT
Alliance to End Plastic Waste
General Manager Azure Databricks
Microsoft
Managing Partner APAC
Ekimetrics
Associate Director of Data Platform
Singtel
Director, Field Engineering
Databricks
Senior Solutions Architect
Databricks
Practice Lead - Data and AI Strategy
NCS Pte Ltd
Domain Leader, APAC
Ekimetrics
Senior Solutions Architect
Databricks
Data Analyst
Grab
Lead Solutions Architect
Databricks
Sr. Solution Architect
Databricks
Featured sessions
Featured sessions
Guest-of-Honour Address
Mr. Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI), will be sharing exciting announcements at the Data + AI World Tour 2024 Singapore.
Data + AI World Tour 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.
Grab: Driving Southeast Asia Forward with Data and AI
Join Philipp Kandal, Chief Product Officer at Grab, as he delves into the transformative power of data and AI in addressing real-world challenges across Southeast Asia. This keynote will feature impactful case studies showcasing Grab's innovative use of AI technologies to enhance safety, drive growth, and revolutionize transportation, on-demand delivery, and financial services in the region. Discover how Grab’s cutting-edge solutions are shaping stronger digital economic empowerment for Southeast Asia.
GovTech’s Data & AI Strategy to transform the Singapore Government
Join Feng Yuzhang, Head of GovTech's AI Practice, as he addresses the increasing importance of leveraging data and AI technologies to enhance public service delivery and improve stakeholder experiences. Delve into GovTech’s comprehensive data and AI strategy for the Singapore government, and explore compelling use cases that demonstrate how GovTech’s data and AI initiatives have enabled the Singapore public service to develop and deliver exceptional products and services for its stakeholders.
Customizing LLMs for Your Business: Boosting Local Ice Cream Sales With AI
What local ice cream flavours do Singaporeans love best? Is it the gula melaka, milo dinosaur or durian? See how a local ice cream chain can use AI to analyse their ice cream sales and create personalised social media posts for each regional branch. Beyond ice cream, discover how you can customize LLMs to optimize sales for your own business at each local franchise.
Data Modernization: Transforming into an AI-Powered Organization
Discover how leaders from the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board, Eastspring Investments, Suntory, and Synapxe are reducing costs, innovating faster and simplifying their data platform. Learn how you can modernize your enterprise data warehouse and scale as your business needs grow and accelerate innovation by running all your data, analytics and AI workloads on a single unified data platform.
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.
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 solutions for all your data and AI. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to level up your data game with Unity Catalog!
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.
The AI-powered Future of Financial Services and Insurance
Get ready for the AI-powered future of financial services and insurance! Databricks and FSI leaders are sharing best practices for leveraging analytics and human-AI collaboration at scale. Discover how Databricks is driving governed and trusted data insights to fuel smarter risk taking, personalized experiences, and cost savings. Don't miss your chance to position your organization for success in the AI age with your FSI peers.
Transforming Cybersecurity on Data Intelligence Platform
Discover how technology-focused enterprises are modernizing their data infrastructure and analytics capabilities to better protect from cyber threats. Learn how the Databricks Intelligence Platform is helping future-proof your security architecture, ensuring scalability and flexibility without lock-in, while allowing seamless integration of new security tools as your business evolves. Explore how to scale advanced analytics, augment your SIEM (e.g. Splunk) and lower overall costs while maintaining your current processes and procedures with Databricks. Hear a firsthand account from an organization that has already embraced Databricks, gaining valuable insights into their successful cybersecurity journey.
Best Practices for Architecting Data Collaboration At-Scale Across Clouds, Regions, Platforms
Join us for this technical session to review best practices for architecting data collaboration at scale with Delta Sharing.
BI Transformation at Prudential Enabling Self-Service
The presentation will highlight the BI Transformation at Prudential with an emphasis on three key aspects
Charting a New Course: SATS' Data Transformation with Azure Databricks
In an era where data is pivotal to operational excellence and strategic decision-making, SATS, a leading global provider of air cargo, airport gateway services and food solutions, embarked on a transformative journey with Azure Databricks
Enabling Business Self-Service with Lakeview Dashboards + AI/BI Genie
Generative AI is transforming the way business teams interact with data. To support business analysts, the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform introduced a new AI-driven dashboarding experience called Lakeview Dashboards. Powered by DatabricksIQ, our data intelligence engine, these AI-powered capabilities allow users to build charts and extract insights from governed data simply by using natural language.
Attend this session to discover more about these exciting new capabilities and see them in action. This session is a must-attend for anyone looking to empower their analysts to get insights from data without relying on expert practitioners.
As a busy data professional, you're probably getting far more requests to answer questions and build visualizations than you have time to actually handle. What if you can empower your partner teams to do more in a self-service way? In this talk, we'll explore some best practices in doing so.
Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Implementing with Databricks
Explore the essentials of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and its implementation via Databricks in this session. Learn why RAG is a game-changer in AI, enhancing applications by integrating external knowledge sources for improved context and accuracy. Discover the key components, advantages, and practical steps for applying RAG to your AI projects. Through a blend of theory and demonstrations, gain actionable insights to elevate your AI solutions with Databricks, making them more intelligent and responsive.
Join this session to gain:
- A deep understanding of RAG principles and their application benefits.
- How to Enhance AI with external knowledge via vector search.
- Practical insights into the implementation of RAG with Databricks.
- Strategies for leveraging external knowledge sources to enhance AI applications.
Road from Waste to Wisdom: The Crucial Role of Data Governance & AI to End Plastic Waste
In this session, Ekimetrics and ATEPW will debunk the challenges and opportunities in ESG.
This fireside chat will explore how the strategic combination of data governance and AI can unlock transformative solutions to the global plastic waste crisis.
Gain insights into the pivotal role data & AI play in driving impactful decisions, and learn how Gen AI is shaping a smarter, more efficient approach towards combating plastic waste with demo sharing. Don't miss this engaging discussion on leveraging innovation to tackle one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.
Simplify Orchestration for Data and AI with Databricks Workflow: Live Demos and Latest Features!
Join the Databricks Workflows product team to learn about the latest capabilities of Databricks Workflows, the unified orchestrator for data, analytics, and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform. In this session, we’ll show how you can easily define, manage, and monitor multi-task workflows for ETL, analytics, and machine learning pipelines. This session will include useful demos and showcase some of the recent innovations the team has added to Workflows including:
- Repair runs for jobs and tasks with greater control
- Enhanced control flow using for-each and conditionals
- Improved job scheduling using file arrival and table triggers
- Authoring jobs in Python using Databricks Asset Bundles
Accelerate time to value with end-to-end model development and MLOps on Databricks
If you’ve ever been offered device insurance along with your latest hand phone upgrade, chances are it was a policy from Bolttech. In this presentation, Romain Barraud, Head of AI and Data Science at Bolttech shares some of the most important lessons we learned during our Databricks implementation. Bolttech was facing a challenge with the allocation of sales agents visiting phone
stores. Where to go? When? These decisions have a critical impact on sales and needed an optimized data-driven approach. With help from Sourced Group an Amdocs Company, we built on
Databricks an end-to-end graph-based solution covering the whole ML lifecycle from data ingestion to endpoint serving. Leveraging MLOps best practices on Databricks, Bolttech is now ready to efficiently scale the solution with repeatable development, deployment and monitoring processes, ensuring faster time to value for the business.
Accelerating Gen AI to Production at CPF with Neo4j and Databricks
Generative AI and LLMs have changed the world but there are still many challenges (hallucinations, auditability, etc.) to be solved. By leveraging the easy access to any data from Databricks, GenAI and LLMs will use Neo4j Graph Database to bring control and context to any knowledge projects. This session will present why Graph Databases are needed for grounding data from Databricks in your GenAI projects. CPF, who has been using both technologies for some time, will share about their use cases.
Grab: Accelerating GenAI in Finance Analytics using Databricks Platform
Join us to learn how Grab take GenAI model from experimentation to production, accelerating GenAI in Finance Analytics using Databricks
Harnessing the Data Lakehouse Platform by NCS & Singtel
NCS is an APAC-wide Databricks partner with more than 40 years long track record transforming the technology journeys of government agencies and enterprises. Join us as we share about our Data Lakehouse capabilities and our strategy for leveraging Databricks to address common data/business challenges, positioning companies for the technology endgame in harnessing AI & Digital Resilience.
Co-sharing the stage with our customer Singtel, we will also deep dive into their multi-year digital transformational journey:
- POV on common costs of not establishing a unified Data Lakehouse
- Data Lakehouse enabled ready-to-use data products for an API-centric modern application ecosystem
- Key implementation learnings and takeaways from APAC
- User empowerment through enterprise reporting and AI/ML use cases
Generative AI Fundamentals
This training is suited for Business Leaders and Technical Leaders
Duration: 1 hour
Hands-on labs: No
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. In this session, we will introduce generative AI and the power of large language models (LLMs). You will learn how generative AI is being used, how you can prepare your organization for success with generative AI, and how to assess the potential risks and challenges of generative AI. At the end of this session, you will have the opportunity to earn the Generative AI Fundamentals accreditation from Databricks.
By the end of the course, you will be able to use Databricks SQL to:
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Describe how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to revolutionize practical AI applications
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Describe how organizations can find success with generative AI applications
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Recognize the potential legal and ethical considerations of using generative AI applications
No prerequisites required.
Get Started with Data Engineering with Databricks
This training is suited for Data Engineers.
Duration: 3.5 hours
Hands-on labs: Yes
Learn how to navigate the Databricks Data Engineering & Data Science Workspace user interface, develop and run code using Databricks Notebooks, version notebooks with Databricks Repos, and use Delta Lake to perform data management tasks.
Prerequisites
- Beginner-level knowledge of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
- Beginner familiarity with cloud computing concepts (virtual machines, object storage, etc.)
- Intermediate experience with basic SQL concepts (select, filter, groupby, join, etc)
Morning Networking Break
Network and exchanges ideas with your data and AI peers
Networking Lunch
Network and exchange ideas with your data and AI peers.
Registration and Networking Coffee
Registration commences at 8:00 am. Arrive early to get a Databricks swag.
In partnership with
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) leads Singapore’s digital transformation by developing a vibrant digital economy and an inclusive digital society. As Architects of Singapore’s Digital Future, we foster growth in Infocomm Technology and Media sectors in concert with progressive regulations, harnessing frontier technologies, and developing local talent and digital infrastructure ecosystems to establish Singapore as a digital metropolis. For more news and information, visit www.imda.gov.sg or follow IMDA on LinkedIn (@IMDA), Facebook (@IMDAsg) and Instagram (@IMDAsg).
Sponsors
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies - trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
Infocepts
Infocepts is a global leader in enterprise analytics and AI-driven business solutions, enabling data-driven decision-making for some of the largest organizations worldwide. Since past 20 years, we've specialized in creating custom data products through our unique hybrid approach, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technology with tailored strategies. Our proprietary platforms feature pre-built workflows and reusable modules, empowering our clients to realize the vision of a truly data-driven world while minimizing TCO.
Microsoft
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With its Intelligent Data Platform, Microsoft supports organizations combine advanced AI, analytics, database and security services to form powerful solutions capable of data-driven innovation and transformation in the era of AI.
Mantel Group
Mantel Group harnesses technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, we integrate emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. Our deep technical specialisation as a Databricks partner is built on helping data teams focus on putting all their data work to discover new insights. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation.
NCS
NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group, is a leading technology services firm with presence in Asia Pacific and partners with governments and enterprises to advance communities through technology. Combining the experience and expertise of its 13,000-strong team across 58 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its NEXT capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity. NCS also believes in building a strong partner ecosystem with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation. For more information, visit ncs.co.
Neo4j
Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledge graphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com.
Sourced Group
Sourced Group, an Amdocs company, is a leading cloud consulting firm specialising in tailored cloud adoption and optimisation strategies for enterprise in highly regulated industries. Our expertise spans securing, migrating, and managing cloud infrastructure, integrating configuration management, automation, cloud computing, and data management. Partnering with AWS, Azure, and GCP, we deliver innovative solutions globally. As part of Amdocs, we expand our capabilities to empower enterprises in their digital transformation journeys, prioritising innovation and customer-centricity. By utilising our proven deployment frameworks, managed services, and trusted design patterns, we with the largest and most security conscious organisations to unlock innovation through cloud computing.
Ekimetrics
Ekimetrics is a pioneering leader in data science and AI-powered solutions for sustainable business performance. We help companies unlock data opportunities and implement pre-packaged solutions to combine high impact with long-term business purposes. Ekimetrics is one of the world’s largest independent AI and analytics firms with offices on 3 continents; Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. For +18 years, we have led more than a thousand marketing science and analytics projects in over 50 countries, generating more than €1bn in profit for our customers.
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@databricks.com or apacevents@databricks.com. |
| Will you be providing meals with dietary restrictions in mind? | We will provide meal options that include a vegetarian option. |
| Where is the event located? | The event is held at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. |
