Your 2025 Data + AI Summit Guide for the Tech Industry Experience

Welcome, Tech Innovators

The world’s largest data and AI event is almost here! As your Industry Marketing Leader for Digital Natives, I’m excited to welcome you to Data + AI Summit 2025, June 9–12 in San Francisco and online. With 20,000+ attendees and 700+ sessions, this is your chance to connect with the brightest minds and boldest builders in tech.

This guide highlights the stories and strategies of innovative leaders across the technology sector—organizations shaping the future of data and AI. Some of these are Databricks customers, some are partners and all are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Our focus here is on business, architecture and data platform transformation stories (for deep-dive sessions, see the links at the end).

Why Data + AI Matters for Tech

Tech’s pace of innovation is relentless. Industry leaders are building unified data and AI platforms, democratizing analytics and embracing open ecosystems to move faster and smarter. At Summit, see how your peers are breaking silos, accelerating product cycles and delivering real-time intelligence at scale.

Tech Industry Experience: Scaling Impact, Democratizing Analytics and Building Open Ecosystems

Tech Industry Forum: Tip of the Spear With Data and AI | Sponsored by: Aimpoint Digital and AWS

Tue 2:40–3:40p | Join visionaries from Dropbox, Robinhood, ThredUp, Zillow and Jason Reid and Shant Hovsepian for a forward-looking exploration of how unified data platforms empower organizations to scale real-time analytics, democratize access to data and foster open collaboration.

Tech Industry Session: Optimizing Costs and Controls to Democratize Data and AI

Wed 12:40–1:20p | YipitData and OT Technologies, Inc. will join Miranda Luna to highlight how leading tech companies adopt unified platforms and open architectures to empower thousands of users, from engineers to business teams, with real-time, scalable analytics and AI tools.

Tech Industry Session: Building Collaborative Ecosystems with Openness and Portability

Thu 12:30–1:10p | Adrian Bolosan welcomes Health Catalyst, Addepar and Tealium to a dynamic session on how companies accelerate growth using open ecosystems and built-on solutions to foster collaboration, accelerate innovation and create scalable data products.

Tech Must-See Stories

Unified Data and AI

Tue 8:00–8:40a | ThredUp’s Journey with Databricks: Modernizing Our Data Infrastructure

Tue 10:20–11:00a | DraftKings Building Real-Time Sport Model Insights with Spark Structured Streaming

Tue 11:30a–12:10p | OpenAI Kafka Forwarder: Simplifying Kafka Consumption

Tue 12:40–1:20p | NVIDIA & TwelveLabs Accelerating Model Development and Fine-Tuning on Databricks with TwelveLabs

Tue 12:40–1:20p | Scribd Let's Save Tons of Money With Cloud-Native Data Ingestion!

Tue 3:00–3:40p | Tonal Empowering Progress: Building a Personalized Training Goal Ecosystem with Databricks

 

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | Anthropic Building Intelligent AI Agents With Claude Models and Databricks Mosaic AI Framework

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | Scaling Real-Time Fraud Detection with Databricks: Lessons from DraftKings

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | How Skyscanner Runs Real-Time AI at Scale with Databricks

Wed 1:50–2:30p | Netflix Lessons Learned: Building a Scalable Game Analytics Platform

Wed 3:00–3:40p | DoorDash Iceberg Table Format Adoption and Unified Metadata Catalog Implementation

Wed 3:00–3:40p | Scaling Trust in BI: How Bolt Manages Thousands of Metrics Across Databricks, dbt and Looker

Wed 4:30–4:50p | Coinbase Scaling Blockchain ML with Databricks: From Graph Analytics to Graph Machine Learning

Wed 5:20–6:00p | Rivian Optimizing EV Charging Experience: Machine Learning for Accurate Charge Time Estimation 

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Data and Intelligence for Everyone

Tue 8:00–8:40a | Thumbtack Boosting Data Science and AI Productivity with Databricks Notebooks

Tue 8:00–8:40a | Rivian and Rivian Volkswagen Group Technology Smashing Silos, Shaping the Future: Data for All in the Next-Gen Ecosystem

Tue 11:30a–12:10p | Hinge Health HIPAA Without the Headache: Simple PHI Governance with Fine-Grain Access Control

Tue 12:40–1:20p | Zillow Building Dashboards as a Production-Grade Data Product

Tue 1:10–1:30p | Monte Carlo Building Reliable Agentic AI on Databricks

Tue 2:00–2:20p | LinkedIn ViewShift: Dynamic Policy Enforcement with Spark and SQL Views

Tue 4:30–4:50p | Doordash Customer 360 Data Store and Its Evolution to an Entity Management Framework

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Open Ecosystem Approach 

Tue 2:00–2:20p | Procore Site to Insight: Powering Construction Analytics Through Delta Sharing

Tue 4:10–4:50p | Health Catalyst A Prescription for Success: Leveraging DABs for Faster Deployment and Better Patient Outcomes

Tue 5:20–6:00p | Block Meet Goose, an Open Source AI Agent

 

Wed 12:40–1:20p | How Arctic Wolf Modernizes Cloud Security and Enhances Threat Detection with Databricks

Wed 4:10–4:50p | Harnessing Databricks Asset Bundles: Transforming Pipeline Management at Scale at Stack Overflow

Wed 4:10–4:50p | Integral Ad Science How Ad Tech Runs on Databricks

 

Thu 12:30–1:10p | Health Data, Delivered: How DLT Powers the HealthVerity Marketplace

Thu 1:40–2:20p | Addepar Advanced Governance and Auth With Databricks Apps

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Inside Databricks: Databricks on Databricks—How We Run the Data Platform at Scale

Explore how Databricks operates its own enterprise-grade lakehouse, supporting petabyte-scale analytics, secure workloads and data-driven decision-making across the company.

Tue 11:30a–12:10p | Building a Seamless Multi-Cloud Platform for Secure Portable Workloads See how Databricks enables secure, portable workloads across clouds with a unified platform. 

Tue 11:30a–12:10p | Chaos to Clarity: Secure, Scalable and Governed SaaS Ingestion through Lakeflow Connect and More How Databricks ingests and governs SaaS data at scale with Lakeflow Connect.

Tue 11:30a–12:10p | Federated Data Analytics Platform Explore the Databricks approach to federated analytics across business units and clouds.

Tue 1:50–2:30p | Swimming at Our Own Lakehouse: How Databricks Uses Databricks A high-level tour of our internal lakehouse—processing hundreds of petabytes across multicloud regions to power everything from marketing insights to SIEM.

Tue 1:50–2:30p | Trust You Can Measure: Data Quality Standards in The Lakehouse Learn about the Databricks approach to data quality and reliability at scale.

Tue 4:10–4:50p | From Largest to Best: How We Transformed Databricks’ Biggest Workspace With Unity Catalog A case study in workspace transformation and governance with Unity Catalog.

Tue 5:20–6:00p | Advanced Data Access Control for the Exabyte Era: Scaling with Purpose How Databricks manages secure, scalable access control for massive data volumes.

Tue 5:20–6:00p | Securing Databricks Using Databricks as SIEM How the Databricks Platform is used for security information and event management.

 

Wed 4:10–4:50p | Stop Guessing Spend Where It Counts: Data-Driven Decisions for High-Impact Investments on Databricks See how Databricks uses analytics to optimize resource allocation and maximize ROI.

 

Thu 1:40–2:20p | Got Metrics? Build a Metric Store — A Tour of Developing Metrics Through UC Metric Views A practical guide to building and scaling a metric store with Unity Catalog.

Explore the Tech Industry Lounge: Hands-On Demos and Expert Guidance

Running Tuesday through Thursday during Expo Hall hours, you’ll find live demos across twelve industry and solution kiosks. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in the Tech Demo Area: 

Unified data and AI

• Deep learning and advanced ML: Image classification for default detection, end-to-end MLOps and online inference with feature store.
• Real-time pipelines: Change Data Capture (CDC) with Delta and DLT for up-to-date analytics and model serving.
• Generative AI and RAG: Build LLM agents with UC Functions and develop high-quality Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) apps using Mosaic AI, including agent evaluation and Vector Search.

Data and intelligence for everyone

• AI/BI for everyone: Genomic patient data analysis and customer support review using dashboards and Genie for natural language analytics.
• Data quality and monitoring: Automated data quality checks with Lakehouse Monitoring.
• Modern data warehousing: Identity, primary and foreign key support for robust analytics.

Open ecosystem approach

• Unified governance: System Tables for billing, usage analytics and access auditing, plus table/row/column security with UC.
• Provenance and sharing: Data lineage with UC, Delta Sharing for airline data and secure open data collaboration.
• Industry AI use cases: Demos on fraud detection, predictive maintenance and GenAI agents for real-world applications.

Don’t just watch—get hands-on. The Industry Lounge is where you’ll see the Data Intelligence Platform in action, meet the experts and connect with other innovators shaping the future of tech.

Want Deep Dives?

If you’re looking for technical dives into the Data + AI Summit catalog, check out these excellent resources:

• Denny’s Picks
• Sessions for data warehouse smarties

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Let’s Define the Future 

As tech leaders, we’re not just adapting to the future—we are creating it. The breakthroughs, partnerships and ideas you’ll experience at Data + AI Summit 2025 set the standard for how technology will drive business, empower teams and connect industries.

Plan Your Personalized Industry Experience:
Explore the Tech Industry Experience Pages to see every session, forum and activation tailored to your expertise.

Don’t miss the biggest data + AI event of the year. Register for DAIS 2025, reserve your session seats and shape what’s next.

See you at Summit!