Sponsored by: dbt Labs | dbt + 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 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.