
Marcus Borba
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Global Thought Leader: Data & AI
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Why Unity Catalog is the best Apache Iceberg™ catalog: - Only catalog with governed reads + writes from any engine - Predictive Optimization - Seamless cross-organization sharing Matei Zaharia discusses unified governance at #DataAISummit



On Day 2 of #DataAISummit, Databricks announces the public preview of Iceberg Managed Tables for Unity Catalog. For whatever data, whatever engine.




Today, at #DataAISummit Matei Zaharia introduced major innovations that expand Unity Catalog to business users! - Unity Catalog Metrics: A single source of truth for business metrics across data engineering, ML and BI - Unity Catalog Discover: New curated internal marketplace



In 2025, we reached 4,000+ Apache Spark™ contributors! Databricks Distinguished Engineer Michael Armbrust takes the #DataAISummit keynote stage to chat about Spark momentum and the latest updates.






I gave our update on Unity Catalog at #DataAISummit, covering two big launches: 1. Full support for Apache Iceberg, making UC the best catalog for Iceberg. 2. Business concepts like metrics, certification and curation in Unity Catalog, for unified governance.


.Ali Ghodsi walks through what we’re adding to Databricks SQL. With the launch of Predictive Query Execution and Photon Vectorized Shuffle, queries get up to 25% faster on top of the existing 5x gains, bringing that 20-second dashboard down to around 15 seconds. All this with a





.Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, and Databricks CEO and Co-founder Ali Ghodsi discuss a new strategic partnership, the latest Gemini models, and how organizations can build and scale AI agents tailored to their specific domains and data. “Our partnership is another critical


The European Commission released a report with an in-depth analysis of the technological and social impacts of #GenAI bit.ly/4jS8AN4 #GenerativeAI #AI Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #CES2025 Eveline Ruehlin Anita M. Jovic Catherine Adenle Françoise Morvan Antonio Vieira Santos Jean-Baptiste Lefevre Tony Moroney Kevin O'Donovan, done here ... see ye on Bluesky. Dev Khanna
