Manuka

Innovator

Overview

Manuka is a specialist Data & AI consultancy, exclusively focused on Databricks. Operating globally across Australia & New Zealand, EMEA, and the Americas, we combine world-class Databricks depth with genuine local delivery, giving enterprises the confidence of a global partner and the responsiveness of a local team.

We help organisations transform core business processes through tailored, secure, and scalable AI solutions, built on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. By pairing deep platform mastery with an investor mindset and a collaborative, human-first approach, we turn Databricks investment into measurable improvements in efficiency, performance, and lasting business advantage.

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Sponsored Sessions

  • Lightning Talk
    Intermediate
    Artificial Intelligence & Agents
    Agent Bricks
    Lakebase
    Unity AI Gateway
    Energy & Utilities
    Retail & Consumer Goods
    Financial Services
    yes
    All Sessions
    2:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sep 16
    Wednesday, Sep 16
    You have Databricks. Your executives now want agents. Between those two facts sits a handful of decisions most teams make by accident: where agent assets live, who can write to production, how you know an agent is good enough to ship, and what the second agent inherits from the first. Get them wrong and every agent is a bespoke build. Al Ghurair is working through exactly this. Phil Chan, SVP of AI, opens with what he inherited: multiple agents spread across separate vendor stacks, no shared registry and no evaluation baseline. This fireside chat will leave you knowing which of these to settle before agent one, which are expensive to retrofit, how to make governance something your CI/CD pipeline enforces rather than a review board, and where simple RAG and agent loops start to run out.
  • Breakout
    Energy & Utilities
    yes
    All Sessions
    Wednesday, Sep 16
    3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sep 16

    The integration of AI into various sectors has opened new horizons, and the energy & utilities industry, including oil and gas, is no exception. In an industry that has traditionally relied on human expertise and manual processes, AI solutions are now enhancing data-driven decision-making and automating complex tasks.

    Dedicated to practioners and leaders from Energy, Utilities and Industrials, join this forum to explore how Databricks is supporting these sectors to optimise operations, improve safety, reduce costs, and enable more efficient use of resources.