AI agent systems hold immense promise for automating complex tasks and driving intelligent decision‑making, but only when they are engineered to be both resilient and transparent. In this session we will explore how Dataiku’s LLM Mesh pairs with Databricks Mosaic AI to streamline the entire lifecycle: ingesting and preparing data in the Lakehouse, prompt engineering LLMs hosted on Mosaic AI Model Serving Endpoints, visually orchestrating multi‑step chains, and monitoring them in real time. We’ll walk through a live demo of a Dataiku flow that connects to a Databricks hosted model, adds automated validation, lineage, and human‑in‑the‑loop review, then exposes the agent via Dataiku's Agent Connect interface. You’ll leave with actionable patterns for setting guardrails, logging decisions, and surfacing explanations—so your organization can deploy trustworthy domain‑specific agents faster & safer.

Think Databricks is just for data and models? Think again. In this session, you’ll see how to build and scale a full-stack AI app capable of handling thousands of queries per second entirely on Databricks. No extra cloud platforms, no patchwork infrastructure. Just one unified platform with native hosting, LLM integration, secure access, and built-in CI/CD. Learn how Databricks Apps, along with services like Model Serving, Jobs, and Gateways, streamline your architecture, eliminate boilerplate, and accelerate development, from prototype to production.

GenAI systems are evolving beyond basic information retrieval and question answering, becoming sophisticated agents capable of managing multi-turn dialogues and executing complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. However, reliably evaluating and systematically improving their performance remains challenging. In this session, we'll explore methods for assessing the behavior of LLM-driven agentic systems, highlighting techniques and showcasing actionable insights to identify performance bottlenecks and to creating better-aligned, more reliable agentic AI systems.

This session will explore how Adobe uses a sophisticated data security architecture built on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, along with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), to enable scalable, real-time threat detection across more than 10 PB of security data. We’ll compare different approaches to OCSF implementation and demonstrate how Adobe processes massive security datasets efficiently — reducing query times by 18%, maintaining 99.4% SLA compliance, and supporting 286 security users across 17 teams with over 4,500 daily queries. By using Databricks' Platform for serverless compute, scalable architecture, and LLM-powered recommendations, Adobe has significantly improved processing speed and efficiency, resulting in substantial cost savings. We’ll also highlight how OCSF enables advanced cross-tool analytics and automation, streamlining investigations. Finally, we’ll introduce Databricks’ new open-source OCSF toolkit for scalable security data normalization and invite the community to contribute.

Nondeterministic AI models, like large language models (LLMs), offer immense creative potential but require new approaches to testing and scalability. Drawing from her experience running New York Times-featured Generative AI comedy shows, Erin uncovers how traditional benchmarks may fall short and how embracing unpredictability can lead to innovative, laugh-inducing results. This talk will explore methods like multi-tiered feedback loops, chaos testing and exploratory user testing, where AI outputs are evaluated not by rigid accuracy standards but by their adaptability and resonance across different contexts — from comedy generation to functional applications. Erin will emphasize the importance of establishing a root source of truth — a reliable dataset or core principle — to manage consistency while embracing creativity. Whether you’re looking to generate a few laughs of your own or explore creative uses of Generative AI, this talk will inspire and delight enthusiasts of all levels.

Enterprises generate massive amounts of unstructured data — from support tickets and PDFs to emails and product images. But extracting insight from that data requires brittle pipelines and complex tools. Databricks AI Functions make this simpler. In this session, you’ll learn how to apply powerful language and vision models directly within your SQL and ETL workflows — no endpoints, no infrastructure, no rewrites. We’ll explore practical use cases and best practices for analyzing complex documents, classifying issues, translating content, and inspecting images — all in a way that’s scalable, declarative, and secure. What you’ll learn: How to run state-of-the-art LLMs like GPT-4, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama 4 on your data How to build scalable, multimodal ETL workflows for text and images Best practices for prompts, cost, and error handling in production Real-world examples of GenAI use cases powered by AI Functions

Storage and processing costs of your legacy Teradata data warehouses impact your ability to deliver. Migrating your legacy Teradata data warehouse to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform can accelerate your data modernization journey. In this session, learn the top strategies for completing this data migration. We will cover data type conversion, basic to complex code conversions, validation and reconciliation best practices. How to use Databricks natively hosted LLMs to assist with migration activities. See before-and-after architectures of customers who have migrated, and learn about the benefits they realized.

Curious how to apply resource-intensive generative AI models across massive datasets without breaking the bank? This session reveals efficient batch inference strategies for foundation models on Databricks. Learn how to architect scalable pipelines that process large volumes of data through LLMs, text-to-image models and other generative AI systems while optimizing for throughput, cost and quality. Key takeaways: Implementing efficient batch processing patterns for foundation models using AI functions Optimizing token usage and prompt engineering for high-volume inference Balancing compute resources between CPU preprocessing and GPU inference Techniques for parallel processing and chunking large datasets through generative models Managing model weights and memory requirements across distributed inference tasks You'll discover how to process any scale of data through your generative AI models efficiently.

Join us as we dive into how Turnpoint Services, in collaboration with DataNimbus, built an Intelligence Platform on Databricks in just 30 days. We'll explore features like MLflow, LLMs, MLOps, Model Registry, Unity Catalog & Dashboard Alerts that powered AI applications such as Demand Forecasting, Customer 360 & Review Automation. Turnpoint’s transformation enabled data-driven decisions, ops efficiency & a better customer experience. Building a modern data foundation on Databricks optimizes resource allocation & drives engagement. We’ll also introduce innovations in DataNimbus Designer: AI Blocks: modular, prompt-driven smart transformers for text data, built visually & deployed directly within Databricks. These capabilities push the boundaries of what's possible on the Databricks platform. Attendees will gain practical insights, whether you're beginning your AI journey or looking to accelerate it.

This in-depth session explores advanced MLOps practices for implementing production-grade machine learning workflows on Databricks. We'll examine the complete MLOps journey from foundational principles to sophisticated implementation patterns, covering essential tools including MLflow, Unity Catalog, Feature Stores and version control with Git. Dive into Databricks' latest MLOps capabilities including MLflow 3.0, which enhances the entire ML lifecycle from development to deployment with particular focus on generative AI applications. Key session takeaways include: Advanced MLflow 3.0 features for LLM management and deployment Enterprise-grade governance with Unity Catalog integration Robust promotion patterns across development, staging and production CI/CD pipeline automation for continuous deployment GenAI application evaluation and streamlined deployment

Whether you're using OpenAI, Anthropic or open-source models like Meta Llama, the Mosaic AI Gateway is the central control plane across any AI model or agent. Learn how you can streamline access controls, enforce guardrails for compliance, ensure an audit trail and monitor costs across providers — without slowing down innovation. Lastly, we’ll dive even deeper into how AI Gateway works with Unity Catalog to deliver a full governance story for your end-to-end AI agents across models, tools and data. Key takeaways: Centrally manage governance and observability across any LLM (proprietary or open-source) Give developers a unified query interface to swap, experiment and A/B test across models Attribute costs and usage to teams for better visibility and chargebacks Enforce enterprise-grade compliance with guardrails and payload logging Ensure production reliability with load balancing and fallbacks

Picture the scene — you're exploring a deep, dark cave looking for insights to unearth when, in a burst of smoke, Genie appears and offers you not three but unlimited data wishes. This isn't a folk tale, it's the growing wave of Generative BI that is going to be a part of analytics platforms. Databricks Genie is a tool powered by a SQL-writing LLM that redefines how we interact with data. We'll look at the basics of creating a new Genie room, scoping its data tables and asking questions. We'll help it out with some complex pre-defined questions and ensure it has the best chance of success. We'll give the tool a personality, set some behavioural guidelines and prepare some hidden easter eggs for our users to discover. Generative BI is going to be a fundamental part of the analytics toolset used across businesses. If you're using Databricks, you should be aware of Genie, if you're not, you should be planning your Generative BI Roadmap, and this session will answer your wishes.

We present a novel framework for designing and inducing controlled hallucinations in long-form content generation by LLMs across diverse domains. The purpose is to create fully-synthetic benchmarks and mine hard cases for iterative refinement of zero-shot hallucination detectors. We will first demonstrate how Gretel Data Designer (now part of NVIDIA) can be used to design realistic, high-quality long-context datasets across various domains. Second, we will describe our reasoning-based approach to hard-case mining. Specifically, our methodology relies on chain-of-thought-based generation of both faithful and deceptive question-answer pairs based upon long-context samples. Subsequently, a consensus labeling & detector framework is employed to filter synthetic examples to zero-shot hard cases. The result of this process is a fully-automated system, operating under open data licenses such as Apache-2.0, for the generation of hallucinations at the edge-of-capabilities for a target LLM to detect.

We present Level Infinite AI Translation, a translation engine developed by Tencent, tailored specifically for the gaming industry. The primary challenge in game machine translation (MT) lies in accurately interpreting the intricate context of game texts, effectively handling terminology and adapting to the highly diverse translation formats and stylistic requirements across different games. Traditional MT approaches cannot effectively address the aforementioned challenges due to their weak context representation ability and lack of common knowledge. Leveraging large language model and related technology, our engine is crafted to capture the subtleties of localized language expression while ensuring optimization for domain-specific terminology, jargon and required formats and styles. To date, the engine has been successfully implemented in 15 international projects, translating over one billion words across 23 languages, and has demonstrated cost savings exceeding 25% for partners.

Elevate your AI initiatives on Databricks by harnessing the latest advancements in Google Cloud's Gemini models. Learn how to integrate Gemini's built-in reasoning and powerful development tools to build more dynamic and intelligent applications within your existing Databricks platform. We'll explore concrete ideas for agentic AI solutions, showcasing how Gemini can help you unlock new value from your data in Databricks.

This intermediate-level presentation will explore the various methods we've leveraged within Databricks to deliver and evaluate guardrail models for AI safety. From prompt engineering with custom built frameworks to hosting models served from the market place and beyond. We've utilized GPU within clusters to fine-tune and run large open sourced models at inference such as Llama Guard 3.1 and generate synthetic datasets based on questions we've received from production.

A production-ready GenAI application is more than the framework itself. Like ML, you need a unified platform to create an end-to-end workflow for production quality applications.Below is an example of how this works on Databricks: Data ETL with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines and jobs Data storage for governance and access with Unity Catalog Code development with Notebooks Agent versioning and metric tracking with MLflow and Unity Catalog Evaluation and optimizations with Mosaic AI Agent Framework and DSPy Hosting infrastructure with monitoring with Model Serving and AI Gateway Front-end apps using Databricks Apps In this session, learn how to build agents to access all your data and models through function calling. Then, learn how DSPy enables agent interaction with each other to ensure the question is answered correctly. We will demonstrate a chatbot, powered by multiple agents, to be able to answer questions and reason answers the base LLM does not know and very specialized topics.ow and very specialized topics.

This session is repeated. Integrating AI into existing data workflows can be challenging, often requiring specialized knowledge and complex infrastructure. In this session, we'll share how SQL users can leverage AI/ML to access large language models (LLMs) and traditional machine learning directly from within SQL, simplifying the process of incorporating AI into data workflows. We will demonstrate how to use Databricks SQL for natural language processing, traditional machine learning, retrieval augmented generation and more. You'll learn about best practices and see examples of solving common use cases such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, forecasting and other common AI/ML tasks.

The rise of GenAI has led to a complete reinvention of how we conceptualize Data + AI. In this breakout, we will recontextualize the rise of GenAI in traditional ML paradigms, and hopefully unite the pre- and post-LLM eras. We will demonstrate when and where GenAI may prove more effective than traditional ML algorithms, and highlight problems for which the wheel is unnecessarily being reinvented with GenAI. This session will also highlight how MLflow provides a unified means of benchmarking traditional ML against GenAI, and lay out a vision for bridging the divide between Traditional ML and GenAI practitioners.

Curious to know how Adidas is transforming customer experience and business impact with agentic workflows, powered by Databricks? By leveraging cutting-edge tools like MosaicML’s deployment capabilities, Mosaic AI Gateway, and MLflow, Adidas built a scalable GenAI agentic infrastructure that delivers actionable insights from growing 2 million product reviews annually. With remarkable results: 60% latency reduction (15.5 seconds to 6 seconds) 91.67% cost savings (transitioning to more efficient LLMs) 98.5% token efficiency, reducing input tokens from 200k to just 3k 20% increase in productivity (faster time to insight) Empowering over 500 decision-makers across 150+ countries, this infrastructure is set to optimize products and services for Adidas’ 500 million members by 2025 while supporting dozens of upcoming AI-driven solutions. Join us to explore how Adidas turned agentic workflows infra into a strategic advantage using Databricks and learn how you can do the same!