Games Run on the Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks for Games at DAIS 2025

Summary

Discover how Databricks empowers game developers and gaming companies at DAIS 2025! Learn to leverage data intelligence and AI to create customer-centric experiences to increase engagement with your players. Visit our Industry Showcase, Industry Forum and General Sessions to learn from some of the best in the industry!

What to Expect

• Thought leadership across Games and Gaming with real customers and industry leaders sharing their vision for the future and what they’re accomplishing today at our Industry Forum
• 18 different organizations sharing their stories
• Demonstrations that highlight some of the key use cases we see game companies tackling across the industry. Learn more at databricks.com/games
• Access to Databricks for Games’ thought leaders and technical experts during the show
• An ecosystem of technology and services partners that can help you augment what you’re building or make your vision a reality

Games Industry Forum

For the first time, we’ll have a dedicated Games Industry Forum. This forum will be your best opportunity to meet and find your peers in Games, make connections within Games+Data, and hear from industry visionaries and the efforts that your peers are taking to enable data-informed player-centric experiences.

We kick off the forum on June 10th, Tuesday, at 4 PM with Dennis Ceccarelli from 2K Games sharing 2K’s journey integrating data into their development process and their vision for the future. We continue with Bal Sanghera from Sony Interactive Entertainment sharing their vision for Data Products in Games and how SIE continues to evolve through the use of data.

We will also have two breakout sessions later in the week where we’ll get more technical with teams sharing how data is helping them evolve their customer experience.

• Ludia’s JC Rodrigue will share how Data and Databricks are helping them through their divestiture, the ongoing development of Jurassic Park and their future titles.
• Second Dinner’s Justin Wu, Associate Director of Data, will share how Databricks helps them shape their player experience.

Games and Gaming General Sessions and Demos

In addition to the Games Industry Forum we have a wide variety of Games and Gaming customers presenting in general sessions at DAIS this year. All in all, 12 different clients will be sharing their stories, best practices, learnings and outcomes with Databricks across 13 different sessions. We’ve included links to each of the sessions below; sign up for a seat fast; you won’t want to miss any of them!

Games Sessions

• Activision: Machine Learning Aimbot Detection in Call of Duty
• Bagelcode: Embracing Unity Catalog and Empowering Innovation With Genie Room
• ByteDance: A Unified Solution for Data Management and Model Training With Apache Iceberg and Mosaic Streaming
• FunPlus: Cost-Effective Data Architecture and AI Practice With Databricks at FunPlus
• Kaizen Gaming: Redesigning Kaizen's Cloud Data Lake for the Future
• Krafton: Franchise IP and Data Governance at Krafton: Driving Cost Efficiency and Scalability
• Riot Games with Rebel Data Science: Future of Anti-cheat with Riot
• SEGA Europe: Unlocking Streaming Power: How SEGA Wins With DLT
• Supercell with Snowplow: Leveling Up Gaming Analytics: How Supercell Evolved Player Experiences With Snowplow and Databricks
• Tencent: One-Stop Machine Translation Solution in Game Domain From Real-Time UGC Content to In-Game Text
• (Riot) dbt: Sponsored by: dbt Labs | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience

Gaming Sessions

• DraftKings: Building Real-Time Sport Model Insights with Spark Structured Streaming
• DraftKings: Scaling Real-Time Fraud Detection With Databricks: Lessons From DraftKings
• Dream11: Building a Scalable, Real-Time Concurrency Prediction Service
• Games 24x7: Games24x7's Revolutionizing Online Skill Gaming With Databricks
• LSports: Unlocking the Power of Iceberg: Our Journey to a Unified Lakehouse on Databricks
• Sportsbet: Kill Bill-ing? Revenge is a Dish Best Served Optimized with GenAI

Demos at our Games Industry Lounge

• Player feedback analysis at scale, powered by GenAI
• 2D marketing creative generation for Games
• Beyond machine learning translation for Games
• Conversational Analytics for Games
• LLM enhanced player segmentation
• Real Time Game Analytics with EPAM, Heroic Labs and Sigma

Meet Our Ecosystem Partners

Whether you are looking for help building your data platform, addressing specific use cases, or looking for partners to fulfill a specific function for you in the form of a SaaS or ISV data product, our ecosystem is here to help. At our Industry forum you’ll find AWS for Games and Sigma at hand to help you with all your Cloud and Visualization needs. In addition to our forum, you’ll find the biggest names for the Games Ecosystem at our Expo.  

A snippet of our attending Data and AI Summit Expo sponsors:

• AWS for Games: Built for breakthrough gaming experiences.
• Sigma Computing: Leaders in Analytics for Games and Gaming (Booth 606)
• Lovelytics:  Leveling up gaming with cutting-edge Data & AI (Booth 323)
• Amperity: AI Identity Resolution in Databricks for Games and Gaming. Amperity has recently released a new solution guide, blog post and listing on the Databricks Marketplace highlighting how Amperity and Databricks drive faster, AI-ready customer data unification.
• Snowplow: Composable data infrastructure to capture and centralize player data
• Aimpoint Digital: Leaders in operationalizing AI use cases for Games and Gaming Companies (Booth F709. Book Here)
• Blueprint: Leaders in games data intelligence

Want to have some fun? Here’s a few events to check out:

• Sigma: Several events throughout the week
• Lovelytics Happy Hour: June 10th, 7-10 PM Press Club, 20 Yerba Buena Lane
• Amperity: Multiple June 9 - 11th at Minna Gallery
• Snowplow: June 10th, 8-10 PM, City View at The Metreon
• Blueprint: June 11th. 5-8 PM at Shelby’s Rooftop from 5-8 PM

Let’s Meet at DAIS!

If you haven’t already reached out to your account team to help you schedule time with our thought leaders, product teams, and/or Games-specific technical experts. Spots are already filling up, so reach out soon if you haven’t already. If you have any peers that you are especially interested in meeting, let them know that as well, and we’ll do our best to make an introduction. You can also leverage the DAIS App for all your networking needs to see who is coming and make that connection.

Whether it be at our industry forum, games industry lounge, in a 1-on-1 meeting scheduled with your account team or at one of the many social events, we look forward to seeing you there!

Huntting Buckley, GTM Leader

Games @ Databricks