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San Francisco · June 15–18, 2026
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"The lakebase architecture makes it easier to operationalize analytics data and use the same governed data across analytics, data science, and e-commerce marketing." - Kevin Haferkamp, Head of Data Platform & Engineering CoE, IT Data & Anal...
Databricks has introduced its storage ecosystem, powered by OpenSharing, to help organizations connect on-premises, private-cloud, and hybrid data to the Databricks platform without copying the underlying data.
Key highlights
Govern data where it alr...
Databricks Academy offers the free AI/BI for Data Analysts course to help data analysts use AI/BI Dashboards and AI/BI Genie for business intelligence on the Databricks platform. It focuses on practical skills for designing dashboards, creating Genie...
The Weekly Digest • June 1 – June 7
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Customer service teams often need to work with large volumes of unstructured data such as call transcripts, chat messages and other text. The Large Language Models (LLMs) for Customer Service Analytics Solution Accelerator shows how NLP, transformers...
Databricks is highlighting how partners are scaling conversational intelligence with Genie beyond industry-specific use cases, bringing ready-to-deploy solutions to functions like sales, marketing, HR, finance, procurement, supply chain, customer ser...
Monthly Recap • May 2026
Community Fellows
Some Bricksters don't just answer questions, they build the infrastructure that makes the whole program run better for everyone. May was that kind of month.
May by the Numbers
The Fellows kept showing u...
Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free Databricks Community sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, June 4! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with dat...
The Weekly Digest • May 25 – May 31
Community Pulse
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This Week's Community Stars
Recognizing the people who kept the community moving forward -- with a new face in the mix ...
"With Databricks’ Genie, our team can ask questions in plain language instead of writing SQL, which has simplified how we access data." - Malav Shah, Director, Data Science, DIRECTV
DIRECTV, a leading video and entertainment provider, bui...
Databricks Academy offers the free Databricks AI/BI for Self-Service Analytics course to help business users and analysts find answers in their organization’s data using Databricks One, dashboards, and Genie spaces. Instead of requiring deep technica...
RFM segmentation helps retail brands use first-party data to better understand their customers based on Recency, Frequency and Monetary value. The Recency, Frequency and Monetary (RFM) Segmentation Solution Accelerator shows how organizations can cal...
Databricks is expanding Apache Iceberg support in Unity Catalog with GA for Managed Iceberg, Iceberg v3, and Foreign Iceberg, plus new capabilities for open sharing, federation, and governance across engines.
Key highlights
Managed Iceberg is GA in U...
Databricks Academy offers the free Machine Learning Operations course to help machine learning practitioners understand how to manage models more effectively across the ML lifecycle on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
As the fourth course i...