Sponsored By: dbt Labs | dbt and Databricks Partner Well-Architected Framework for AI Apps

Building AI apps on Databricks is straightforward — building AI apps that are trusted, governed, and production-ready is a different challenge entirely. In this talk, we walk through the Databricks Partner Well-Architected Framework with dbt Labs as the data foundation. We’ll show how structured, tested, and semantically-rich data flows from dbt into Unity Catalog, and from Unity Catalog into any AI application running on Databricks. We'll deploy a live-managed app on Databricks that pulls governed assets directly from Unity Catalog with lineage, contracts, and semantic definitions built end-to-end in dbt. The result is an architectural blueprint where your AI apps aren't guessing at the data beneath them — with dbt, they have the required context to be governed, reliable, and right. You’ll leave with a Well-Architected reference pattern for AI apps on Databricks, and a clear picture of how dbt and Unity Catalog become the governed data infrastructure every AI use case depends on.