Your 2025 Data + AI Summit Guide for the Tech Industry Experience

Welcome, Tech Innovators

The world's largest data and AI event is almost here! As your Industry Marketing Leader for Digital Natives, I'm excited to welcome you to Data + AI Summit 2025, June 9-12 in San Francisco and online. With 20,000+ attendees and 700+ sessions, this is your chance to connect with the brightest minds and boldest builders in tech.

This guide highlights the stories and strategies of innovative leaders across the technology sector-organizations shaping the future of data and AI. Some of these are Databricks customers, some are partners and all are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Our focus here is on business, architecture and data platform transformation stories (for deep-dive sessions, see the links at the end).

Why Data + AI Matters for Tech

Tech's pace of innovation is relentless. Industry leaders are building unified data and AI platforms, democratizing analytics and embracing open ecosystems to move faster and smarter. At Summit, see how your peers are breaking silos, accelerating product cycles and delivering real-time intelligence at scale.

Tech Industry Experience: Scaling Impact, Democratizing Analytics and Building Open Ecosystems

Tech Industry Forum: Tip of the Spear With Data and AI | Sponsored by: Aimpoint Digital and AWS

Tue 2:40-3:40p | Join visionaries from Dropbox, Robinhood, ThredUp, Zillow and Jason Reidand Shant Hovsepianfor a forward-looking exploration of how unified data platforms empower organizations to scale real-time analytics, democratize access to data and foster open collaboration.

Tech Industry Session: Optimizing Costs and Controls to Democratize Data and AI
Wed 12:40-1:20p | YipitData and OT Technologies, Inc. will join Miranda Lunato highlight how leading tech companies adopt unified platforms and open architectures to empower thousands of users, from engineers to business teams, with real-time, scalable analytics and AI tools.

Tech Industry Session: Building Collaborative Ecosystems with Openness and Portability

Thu 12:30-1:10p | Adrian Bolosanwelcomes Health Catalyst, Addepar and Tealium to a dynamic session on how companies accelerate growth using open ecosystems and built-on solutions to foster collaboration, accelerate innovation and create scalable data products.

Tech Must-See Stories

Unified Data and AI

Tue 8:00-8:40a | ThredUp's Journey with Databricks: Modernizing Our Data Infrastructure

Tue 10:20-11:00a | DraftKings Building Real-Time Sport Model Insights with Spark Structured Streaming

Tue 11:30a-12:10p | OpenAI Kafka Forwarder: Simplifying Kafka Consumption

Tue 12:40-1:20p | NVIDIA & TwelveLabs Accelerating Model Development and Fine-Tuning on Databricks with TwelveLabs

Tue 12:40-1:20p | Scribd Let's Save Tons of Money With Cloud-Native Data Ingestion!

Tue 3:00-3:40p | Tonal Empowering Progress: Building a Personalized Training Goal Ecosystem with Databricks

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | Anthropic Building Intelligent AI Agents With Claude Models and Databricks Mosaic AI Framework

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | Scaling Real-Time Fraud Detection with Databricks: Lessons from DraftKings

Wed 11:30a - 12:10p | How Skyscanner Runs Real-Time AI at Scale with Databricks

Wed 1:50-2:30p | Netflix Lessons Learned: Building a Scalable Game Analytics Platform

Wed 3:00-3:40p | DoorDash Iceberg Table Format Adoption and Unified Metadata Catalog Implementation

Wed 3:00-3:40p | Scaling Trust in BI: How Bolt Manages Thousands of Metrics Across Databricks, dbt and Looker

Wed 4:30-4:50p | Coinbase Scaling Blockchain ML with Databricks: From Graph Analytics to Graph Machine Learning

Wed 5:20-6:00p | Rivian Optimizing EV Charging Experience: Machine Learning for Accurate Charge Time Estimation

Data and Intelligence for Everyone

Tue 8:00-8:40a | Thumbtack Boosting Data Science and AI Productivity with Databricks Notebooks

Tue 8:00-8:40a | Rivian and Rivian Volkswagen Group Technology Smashing Silos, Shaping the Future: Data for All in the Next-Gen Ecosystem

Tue 11:30a-12:10p | Hinge Health HIPAA Without the Headache: Simple PHI Governance with Fine-Grain Access Control

Tue 12:40-1:20p | Zillow Building Dashboards as a Production-Grade Data Product

Tue 1:10-1:30p | Monte Carlo Building Reliable Agentic AI on Databricks

Tue 2:00-2:20p | LinkedIn ViewShift: Dynamic Policy Enforcement with Spark and SQL Views

Tue 4:30-4:50p | Doordash Customer 360 Data Store and Its Evolution to an Entity Management Framework

Open Ecosystem Approach

Tue 2:00-2:20p | Procore Site to Insight: Powering Construction Analytics Through Delta Sharing

Tue 4:10-4:50p | Health Catalyst A Prescription for Success: Leveraging DABs for Faster Deployment and Better Patient Outcomes

Tue 5:20-6:00p | Block Meet Goose, an Open Source AI Agent

Wed 12:40-1:20p | How Arctic Wolf Modernizes Cloud Security and Enhances Threat Detection with Databricks

Wed 4:10-4:50p | Harnessing Databricks Asset Bundles: Transforming Pipeline Management at Scale at Stack Overflow

Wed 4:10-4:50p | Integral Ad Science How Ad Tech Runs on Databricks

Thu 12:30-1:10p | Health Data, Delivered: How DLT Powers the HealthVerity Marketplace

Thu 1:40-2:20p | Addepar Advanced Governance and Auth With Databricks Apps