It’s been a busy 2024 for Databricks already – and its annual Data + AI Summit is sure to bring more news. 

There are hundreds of hours of programming spread across hundreds individual sessions – and parties and happy hours to boot. Most of your time will likely be spent in meetings, but it’s often helpful to drop in on a few relevant sessions to keep track of what customers (and competitors) are doing with Databricks.

We scoured every session at Databricks Data + AI Summit and put together an agenda for the data provider community. It includes sessions worth dropping in on and events worth dropping by – no matter if you sell to financial services, corporates or both.

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Parties 

Bobsled’s Data Marketplace Happy Hour

Host: Bobsled

Why we’re interested: Join us as we bring together the data community this year at Data & AI Summit. If you sell, buy (or otherwise love) data, come have a drink with old friends and make some new ones.

Time: 5-8PM on Wednesday, June 12th

MotherDuck’ing Party After Databricks Data + AI Summit

Host: MotherDuck

Why we’re interested: Our friends at MotherDuck are some of our favorite people in the business – and they’re hosting another great event this year. It should be a great kick-off to the week with games, beers, friends and colleagues.

Time: 8-11PM on Tuesday, June 11th

Sessions 

Accelerating Financial Innovation: Unlock Insights with Databricks Marketplace

File Under: Money, money, money, moneeeey

Companies: RBC Capital, S&P, Stocktwits

Why we’re interested: This is a must-see for any data providers that currently (or want to) sell into financial services. They’ll walk through best practices for using the Databricks Marketplaces 

Deutsche Börse’s New Gateway to Data Across the Group

File Under: The new giant in data

Companies: Deutsche Börse, Deloitte

Why we’re interested: Deutsche Börse is a growing giant in the data business. The company is scaling its data business and platforms like Databricks are a key part of its strategy. Learn more about its strategy and why it chose Bobsled as a key part of its infrastructure.

Transforming Healthcare with Databricks Marketplace: Real-world Sharing Lessons

File Under: Healthcare

Companies: Definitive Healthcare, POCN, Kythera Labs

Why we’re interested: In addition to financial services, healthcare is one of the leading consumers of external data. Modern data sharing techniques dramatically accelerate opportunities for data providers to access this very compliance-oriented market. 

Democratizing Data and AI with Databricks and Salesforce Data Cloud

File Under: Ain’t no party, like a first-party party

Companies: Salesforce

Why we’re interested: Salesforce has made a big bet on zero copy sharing. It’s a massive signal in the market for software companies as they recognize that data access is increasingly becoming a priority factor in buying decisions for enterprise software‍

Best Practices for Architecting Data Collaboration At-Scale Across Clouds, Regions, Platforms

File Under: PET sounds

Companies: Mastercard

Why we’re interested: Clean rooms are an extremely powerful new way for data companies to unlock new use cases for data that previously could not be shared due to privacy concerns. This is a great opportunity to get to understand the basics of clean rooms and how they work.

Unlocking New AI Use Cases with Sharing

File Under: Did I mention AI?

Companies: John Snow Labs

Why we’re interested: The Databricks Marketplace is increasingly being used to not only share data used to train models – but the models themselves. Many data providers are starting to monetize data via trained models. This session will get into the details of how it works.

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