As the first wave of AI experimentation matures, leaders are facing a new bottleneck: the "Architectural Tax" of fragmented stacks. To move beyond universal foundation models and build production-grade AI applications, an interoperable foundation is essential — one that unifies governance, data and model choice to power high-frequency data and governed intelligence from a single platform.

This Tech Industry Forum joins leaders from top AI innovators to bridge the gap between AI ambition and operational reality. We will move past the hype to address the foundational challenges that define market leadership: eliminating the latency between data and application with Lakebase, slashing the overhead of massive compute costs, putting governed intelligence at every user's fingertips with Genie, and establishing the governance frameworks required to scale intelligent systems with confidence. Featuring an industry keynote, customer presentations and live Databricks demos, this session is designed for leaders who must act now to transition from experimental AI into high-velocity, production-scale operations.