Sponsored by: E6Data |The Hidden Strategic Leverage in Open Lakehouse Architectures
Overview
| Experience | In Person |
|---|---|
| Track | Data Engineering & Streaming |
| Industry | Energy & Utilities, Enterprise Technology, Financial Services |
| Technologies | Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog |
| Skill Level | Intermediate |
Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting open lakehouse architectures to support scalable analytics and AI workloads, yet many still remain operationally constrained by rising compute costs, limited workload flexibility, and infrastructure dependencies. This session explores the hidden strategic and financial leverage within open lakehouse architectures, highlighting how organizations can improve performance, optimize compute efficiency, and retain infrastructure optionality without large-scale migrations or re-platforming efforts. Attendees will learn how open architectures enable greater control over cost, governance, and workload portability while preparing enterprise data platforms for the next generation of AI and analytics use cases.