Josue is well known for his practical perspectives on the data and AI landscape. We'll talk about what he is seeing in the market, his take on product feature updates, and some humor mixed in.
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Josue Bogran
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VP of Data + AI Architecture
JosueBogran.com & zeb.co
Josue Bogran is VP of Data + AI Architecture at zeb.co, an outcome-driven consulting firm working across Databricks, AWS, and beyond, where he reverse-engineers business goals into the right technology to deliver measurable outcomes—sometimes even with Excel. He publishes no-fluff content on data platforms and architecture and advises Sigma and Lumel on building products that drive real business value. His experience spans finance, supply chain, and healthcare, and centers on turning technology into tangible business results.
Bio from: Sigma Data Apps Conference 2025
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Databricks announced two new features in 2024: AI/BI Dashboards and AI/BI Genie. Dashboards is a redesigned dashboarding experience for your regular reporting needs, while Genie provides a natural language experience for your last-mile analytics. In this session, Databricks Solutions Architect and content creator Youssef Mrini will present alongside Databricks MVP and content creator Josue A. Bogran on how you can get the most value from these tools for your organization. Content covered includes: Setup necessary, including Unity Catalog, permissions and compute Building out a dashboard with AI/BI Dashboards Creating and training an AI/BI Genie workspace to reliably deliver answers When to use Dashboards, Genie, and when to use other tools such as PBI, Tableau, Sigma, ChatGPT, etc. Fluff-free, full of practical tips, and geared to help you deliver immediate impact with these new Databricks capabilities.
Lakeflow brings much excitement, simplicity and unification to Databricks’ engineering experience. Databricks’ Bilal Aslam (Sr. Director of Product Management) and Josue A. Bogran (Databricks MVP & content creator) provide an overview of the history of Lakeflow, current value to your organization and the direction its capabilities are going toward. The session covers: What is Lakeflow? Differences and similarities between Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines Overview of current Lakeflow Connect, Pipelines and Jobs capabilities How to get started What's Next? The session will also provide you with an opportunity to ask questions to the team behind Lakeflow.
Managing cloud costs requires accurate resource tagging, but maintaining completeness and accuracy is a challenge. In this session, Mitchell Ertle (Senior Partner Solutions Architect) and Josue Bogran (Data & AI Architect) demonstrate how Sigma and Databricks combine to streamline FinOps and resource management with AI-driven cost attribution and workflow automation.
Through a practical demonstration, you'll see:
Identify and classify untagged Databricks pipelines with a cost attribution app Use GenAI from Databricks to suggest tags with human-in-the-loop approval Enable bidirectional data flow between Sigma and Databricks for real-time updates Automate workflows with Sigma’s actions framework Ensure security and governance by inheriting Unity Catalog permissions Discover why this combination is powerful—Sigma provides intuitive application building while Databricks delivers computation, AI/ML capabilities, and data storage. These platforms create solutions business users can interact with directly, without technical expertise.
Whether in data engineering, finance, or operations, learn how Sigma + Databricks can automate workflows, optimize costs, and drive business impact.
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