Unity Gateway: Govern AI Costs, Access, and Interactions

Thursday, September 10, 2026 | 9:00 AM-10:35 AM PT

Effective governance is essential to democratizing data and AI in the age of LLMs and generative AI. Enterprises struggle with fragmented governance across databases, warehouses, lakes, and diverse data formats, which complicates discovery, access permissions, data usage, audits, and sharing. Additionally, users often cannot access the right data from their preferred tools, leading to vendor lock-in. Managing ML models and AI tools for regulatory compliance adds another layer of complexity.

Learn how Unity Gateway helps organizations lower AI costs without losing productivity. In this 90-minute hands-on workshop, you will configure and use a governed Model Service, add metadata for usage analysis, query cost and audit evidence, configure rate limits and budgets, manage Unity Catalog permissions, and test runtime service policies on model requests and responses. 

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Configure a governed Model Service for AI workloads.
• Assign Unity Catalog permissions to control model access.
• Apply rate limits and budgets to manage AI costs.
• Enforce guardrails and service policies on requests and responses.
• Use observability and audit evidence to analyze usage, cost, and policy outcomes.