DATA + AI WORLD TOUR

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September 4, 2025 / The Renaissance Dallas Addison Hotel

DATA + AI WORLD TOUR: Dallas

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July 31, 2025 / Executive Venue

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All Sessions, 24 sessions

Past Sessions

8:00 AM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Meals
    yes
    All Sessions
    8:00 a.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Breakfast
    Session Type: Meals
    • Thursday, Sep 48:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
      Garden Court I&II, Bel-Air I-IV - Expo Hall

9:00 AM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Keynote
    yes
    All Sessions
    9:00 a.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Be the first to witness the latest breakthroughs from Databricks and share the success of innovative data and AI companies. Discover the latest advances on the Data Intelligence Platform with AI agents, Agent Bricks, and Lakebase and hear from...

    Session Type: Keynote

    , Sr. Director, Product Management, Databricks

    , Vice President, Data & Analytics, Trinity Industries

    , Director AI/ML, Analytics & Data Engineering, Lenox International

    , CTO, Ontada

    • Thursday, Sep 49:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
      Crystal IV-V

11:00 AM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Breakout
    Intermediate
    Artificial Intelligence
    MLFlow
    Mosaic AI
    Enterprise Technology
    yes
    All Sessions
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    11:00 a.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    More than 80% of AI projects fail.  The reason?  Customers are not ready to put AI in production in areas where the Agent can cause reputational or financial harm.  Introducing Agent Bricks, a new approach to deploying production-ready AI...

    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: MLFlow, Mosaic AI
    Industry: Enterprise Technology

    , Staff Technical Marketing, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 411:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II
  • Breakout
    Beginner
    Data Engineering and Streaming
    Databricks Workflows
    DLT
    LakeFlow
    Enterprise Technology
    yes
    All Sessions
    Data Ingestion
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    ETL
    11:00 a.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Data engineering doesn’t have to be a patchwork of tools and handoffs. In this session, we’ll introduce you to Lakeflow, Databricks’ unified solution for building reliable, scalable data pipelines with less friction and more control. Whether...

    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Beginner
    Technologies: Databricks Workflows, DLT, LakeFlow
    Industry: Enterprise Technology

    , Sr. Manager, Field Engineering, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 411:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII
  • Breakout
    Intermediate
    Data and AI Governance
    Unity Catalog
    Enterprise Technology
    yes
    All Sessions
    Catalogs
    Data Intelligence
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    11:00 a.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Whether you are just getting started with data governance or working to scale it across the enterprise, this session will walk you through how Unity Catalog helps simplify secure access, discovery, and collaboration for data and AI...

    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: Unity Catalog
    Industry: Enterprise Technology

    , Sr. Solution Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 411:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
      Crystal IV-V

12:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Meals
    yes
    All Sessions
    12:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Lunch
    Session Type: Meals
    • Thursday, Sep 412:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
      Garden Court I&II, Bel-Air I-IV - Expo Hall

1:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Lightning Talk
    yes
    All Sessions
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Come learn about the latest tools to keep your team under budget and optimize your data ROI.
    Session Type: Lightning Talk

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 41:00 PM - 1:20 PM CDT
      Crystal IV-V
  • Lightning Talk
    Intermediate
    Data Strategy
    Delta Sharing
    Unity Catalog
    Media and Entertainment
    Retail and CPG, Food
    Travel and Hospitality
    yes
    All Sessions
    Customer Data Platform
    Data Intelligence
    AI Agents
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Treasure Data’s revolutionary Hybrid CDP architecture shifts the paradigm of customer data management. By aligning with Databricks’ open data ecosystem, we introduce a model that allows you to consistently secure your most sensitive customer data...
    Session Type: Lightning Talk
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: Delta Sharing, Unity Catalog
    Industry: Media and Entertainment, Retail and CPG, Food, Travel and Hospitality

    , GM - AI & Personalization Services, Treasure Data

    • Thursday, Sep 41:00 PM - 1:20 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII
  • Lightning Talk
    Beginner
    Data Engineering and Streaming
    Delta Lake
    Apache Iceberg
    Unity Catalog
    Energy and Utilities
    Manufacturing
    Financial Services
    yes
    All Sessions
    Data Ingestion
    Streaming pipelines
    AI Agents
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Learn how Confluent and Databricks are simplifying the path from real-time data streams to governed, analytics- and AI-ready tables. This session will explore how Confluent Tableflow automatically materializes Kafka topics into Delta tables and...
    Session Type: Lightning Talk
    Level: Beginner
    Technologies: Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog
    Industry: Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Financial Services

    , Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

    • Thursday, Sep 41:00 PM - 1:20 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II
  • Training
    yes
    All Sessions
    Trainings
    Training
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    This course is an introduction to AI agents, their role in modern AI applications, and how to build AI agent applications on the Databricks Platform. You'll learn about the principles of AI agents, how they differ from traditional AI systems,...

    Session Type: Training

    , Technical Trainer, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 41:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
      Lalique Ballroom
  • Lightning Talk
    yes
    All Sessions
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Unlock the truth behind data modeling in Databricks. This session will tackle the top 10 myths surrounding relational and dimensional data modeling. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of what Databricks Lakehouse truly supports today,...

    Session Type: Lightning Talk

    , Senior Solutions Architect - HLS, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 41:30 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
      Crystal IV-V
  • Lightning Talk
    Intermediate
    Data Lakehouse Architecture and Implementation
    Apache Spark
    Apache Iceberg
    Unity Catalog
    Energy and Utilities
    Enterprise Technology
    Manufacturing
    yes
    All Sessions
    Data Ingestion
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    ETL
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Apache Iceberg is open, and interoperable with Databricks, but getting the best performance from Iceberg data is hard. In this session, you’ll learn how adaptive Iceberg optimizations in Qlik significantly simplifies the ingestion and management...
    Session Type: Lightning Talk
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog
    Industry: Energy and Utilities, Enterprise Technology, Manufacturing

    , Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

    • Thursday, Sep 41:30 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II
  • Lightning Talk
    yes
    All Sessions
    1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines Serverless offers a range of benefits that make it an attractive option for organizations looking to optimize their ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.
    Session Type: Lightning Talk

    , Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 41:30 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII

2:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Lightning Talk
    yes
    All Sessions
    Thursday, Sep 04
    2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04

    Explore how AI is transforming business intelligence and data analytics across the Databricks platform. This session offers a comprehensive overview of AI-assisted capabilities, from generating dashboards and visualizations to integrating Genie...

    Session Type: Lightning Talk

    , Manager, Field Engineering, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 42:00 PM - 2:20 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II
  • Breakout
    Intermediate
    Data Warehousing
    Databricks SQL
    Enterprise Technology
    yes
    All Sessions
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    Thursday, Sep 04
    2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04

    New to Databricks SQL or just trying to keep up with everything that’s been added? This session gives you both. We’ll start with a fast-paced introduction to Databricks SQL, including how to set up a warehouse, load data, run queries, and build...

    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: Databricks SQL
    Industry: Enterprise Technology

    , Specialist Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 42:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII
  • Breakout
    Beginner
    Data Lakehouse Architecture and Implementation
    Databricks Apps
    Enterprise Technology
    yes
    All Sessions
    Databricks Experience (DBX)
    Getting started with Databricks
    Thursday, Sep 04
    2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04

    Lakebase is a new Postgres-compatible OLTP database designed to support intelligent applications. Lakebase eliminates custom ETL pipelines with built-in lakehouse table synchronization, supports sub-10ms latency for high-throughput workloads,...

    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Beginner
    Technologies: Databricks Apps
    Industry: Enterprise Technology

    , Practice Lead, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 42:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
      Crystal IV-V
  • Lightning Talk
    yes
    All Sessions
    Thursday, Sep 04
    2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04

    Join us for a session on all of the improvements made to the Databricks Assistant over the past year. We’ll highlight new features like full integration into Catalog Explorer and other key pages, the ability to edit multiple cells in a...

    Session Type: Lightning Talk

    , Manager, Delivery Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 42:30 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II

3:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Breakout
    Intermediate
    Data Lakehouse Architecture and Implementation
    MLFlow
    AI/BI
    Unity Catalog
    Energy and Utilities
    Enterprise Technology
    Health and Life Sciences
    yes
    All Sessions
    ETL
    Generative AI (LLMs)
    ML/LLMOps
    3:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Join us as we dive into how Turnpoint Services, in collaboration with DataNimbus, built an Intelligence Platform on Databricks in just 30 days. We'll explore features like MLflow, LLMs, MLOps, Unity Catalog & Agents that powered AI applications...
    Session Type: Breakout
    Level: Intermediate
    Technologies: MLFlow, AI/BI, Unity Catalog
    Industry: Energy and Utilities, Enterprise Technology, Health and Life Sciences

    , VP Solution Engineering, Americas, DataNimbus

    , Lead Data Scientist, DataNimbus

    • Thursday, Sep 43:00 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
      Crystal IV-V
  • Breakout
    yes
    All Sessions
    3:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Databricks is changing how organizations work together by making data sharing more open, secure, and flexible. With new capabilities like Clean Rooms for multi-party collaboration, cross-platform view sharing, Sharing for Lakehouse Federation,...

    Session Type: Breakout

    , Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 43:00 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII
  • Breakout
    yes
    All Sessions
    3:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Discover how the latest innovations in Databricks AI/BI Dashboards and Genie are transforming self-service analytics. This session offers a high-level tour of new capabilities that empower business users to ask questions in natural language,...

    Session Type: Breakout

    , Sr. Technical Advisor, Financial Services, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 43:00 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II

4:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Breakout
    yes
    All Sessions
    4:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Databricks Apps is now generally available, offering a new app hosting platform that brings together everything needed to build production-ready data and AI applications. It gives data and developer teams a way to create custom interfaces on...

    Session Type: Breakout

    , Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 44:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom VII-VIII
  • Breakout
    yes
    All Sessions
    4:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    A traveler snaps a photo of a sunset beach and instantly receives a tailored itinerary. A guest checks in to find their favorite snack already waiting. A shopper gets a curated basket of ingredients just from uploading a meal photo. These...

    Session Type: Breakout

    , Global VP of Consumer Industries GTM, Databricks

    , Vice President Enterprise Data, Dave & Busters

    , Senior Solution Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 44:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
      Crystal IV-V
  • Breakout
    yes
    All Sessions
    4:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04

    Tired of waiting on SAP data? Join this session to see how Databricks and SAP make it easy to query business-ready data—no ETL. With Databricks SQL, you’ll get instant scale, automatic optimizations, and built-in governance across all your...

    Session Type: Breakout

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, Databricks

    • Thursday, Sep 44:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
      Crystal Ballroom I-II

5:00 PM CDT - Thursday, Sep 4

  • Evening Event
    yes
    All Sessions
    5:00 p.m. Thursday, Sep 04
    Thursday, Sep 04
    Networking Event
    Session Type: Evening Event
    • Thursday, Sep 45:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
      Garden Court I&II, Bel-Air I-IV - Expo Hall

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