Unity Catalog 101: Unified Governance for AI Agents, Apps and Data

As organizations build AI-powered applications and autonomous agents, governance becomes more complex. Data, models and tools must be discovered, understood and securely accessed across teams, platforms and engines, yet governance is often fragmented across catalogs, security systems and AI tooling.

Unity Catalog is the unified governance solution for all AI agents, applications and data on the Databricks Platform. It enables organizations to discover trusted data with shared business context, apply consistent governance policies across data and AI assets and automate governance workflows using built-in intelligence, all while governing open data formats and assets across clouds and platforms.

In this introductory session, we’ll walk through how Unity Catalog works and how it enables three foundational capabilities: discovery with business context, unified AI governance and AI-powered automation. You’ll learn how organizations use Unity Catalog to simplify governance, reduce data and AI sprawl and build trusted AI systems on an open and governed data foundation.