Hot off the press! Simon and Gavi will walk you through the latest and greatest from Databricks, including shiny new AI features and platform updates you’ll want to try ASAP.
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Gavi Regunath
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Chief AI Officer
Advancing Analytics
Gavita Regunath is the Chief AI Officer with Advancing Analytics and a dual Microsoft AI MVP and Databricks MVP. Holding a PhD in Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics, she has spent more than ten years helping teams in aeronautics, automotive, finance, and agritech use data to solve practical problems. A lifelong learner, Gavita enjoys sharing ideas through her blog and talks; away from work, she spends time with her child, goes for the occasional run, and likes trying out new recipes.
Bio from: Databricks London Meetup @ Big Data LDN 2025
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with
Gavi Regunath
(Advancing Analytics)
,
Simon Whiteley
(Advancing Analytics)
,
Holly Smith
(Databricks)
We’re excited to be back at Big Data LDN this year—huge thanks to the organisers for hosting Databricks London once more!
Join us for an evening of insights, networking, and community with the Databricks Team and Advancing Analytics!
🎤 Agenda:
6:00 PM – 6:10 PM | Kickoff & Warm Welcome
Grab a drink, say hi, and get the lowdown on what’s coming up. We’ll set the scene for an evening of learning and laughs.
6:10 PM – 6:50 PM | The Metadata Marathon: How three projects are racing forward – Holly Smith (Staff Developer Advocate, Databricks)
With the enormous amount of discussion about open storage formats between nerds and even not-nerds, it can be hard to keep track of who’s doing what and how this actually makes any impact on day to day data projects.
Holly will take a closer look at the three big projects in this space; Delta, Hudi and Iceberg. They’re all trying to solve for similar data problems and have tackled the various challenges in different ways. Her talk will start with the very basics of how we got here, what the history is before diving deep into the underlying tech, their roadmaps, and their impacts on the data landscape as a whole.
6:50 PM – 7:10 PM | What’s New in Databricks & Databricks AI – Simon Whiteley & Gavi Regunath
Hot off the press! Simon and Gavi will walk you through the latest and greatest from Databricks, including shiny new AI features and platform updates you’ll want to try ASAP.
7:10 PM onwards | Q&A Panel + Networking
Your chance to ask the experts anything—then stick around for drinks, snacks, and some good old-fashioned data geekery.
with
Gavi Regunath
(Advancing Analytics)
,
Simon Whiteley
(Advancing Analytics)
,
Holly Smith
(Databricks)
Get fresh AI updates, expert insights on open formats, and network with the brightest minds in data - all in one evening.
Overview of Agent Bricks with Gavi Regunath, Databricks MVP and Chief AI Officer at Advancing Analytics
In this session, we will share how we are transforming the way organizations process unstructured and non-standard documents using Mosaic AI and agentic patterns within the Databricks ecosystem. We have developed a scalable pipeline that turns complex legal and regulatory content into structured, tabular data.We will walk through the full architecture, which includes Unity Catalog for secure and governed data access, Databricks Vector Search for intelligent indexing and retrieval and Databricks Apps to deliver clear insights to business users. The solution supports multiple languages and formats, making it suitable for teams working across different regions. We will also discuss some of the key technical challenges we addressed, including handling parsing inconsistencies, grounding model responses and ensuring traceability across the entire process. If you are exploring how to apply GenAI and large language models, this session is for you. Audio for this session is delivered in the conference mobile app, you must bring your own headphones to listen.