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.

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.