Data + AI Summit 2025: Your guide to data and AI governance talks

Data + AI Summit 2025 is back in San Francisco from June 9–12, live at the Moscone Center and streaming globally. If you’re focused on data governance, security, and trust in the era of data intelligence, you’re in the right place. This blog highlights must-see sessions from Databricks, our customers, and partners in the Data and AI Governance track. 

You can explore the full range of Data + AI Summit sessions by visiting our session catalog. 

Data and AI governance breakout sessions

We are excited to have over 30 Databricks-led breakout sessions in the data and AI governance track this year, led by governance and security subject matter experts. These sessions are filling up fast, so reserve your spot today!

Unity Catalog overview for practitioners

If you’re just getting started on your data governance journey, check out Unlocking Data Intelligence: A Beginner’s Guide to Unity Catalog to understand the foundational concepts and how Unity Catalog works as part of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. 

Looking for a comprehensive overview of new features and product updates? Don’t miss the always-popular What’s New in Unity Catalog—with Live Demos, led by the Unity Catalog product team. 

Want to go deeper? Join our advanced practitioners’ session: Unity Catalog Deep Dive: A Practitioner’s Guide to Best Practices and Patterns.

AI governance

We’re also excited to feature new sessions focused on AI governance and AI security—two of the most in-demand topics this year:

• Taming the LLM Wild West: A Unified Governance with Mosaic AI Gateway 
• Building Responsible and Resilient AI: The Databricks AI Governance Framework
• Best Practices to Mitigate AI Security Risks

Access control

If you’re looking to automate policy enforcement and scale your access controls, don’t miss Unleash the Power of Automated Data Governance. You’ll learn how to use data classification and tags to drive attribute-based policies for fine-grained access control. 

Data discovery and lineage 

And if your organization is exploring data discovery or lineage, sessions like AI-Powered Data Discovery and Curation and Tracking Data and AI Lineage will walk through how to make your data estate easier to search, understand, and govern.

Data monitoring and quality

Looking to monitor the health and reliability of your data and models? Monitor Quality and Compliance at Scale with Data Intelligence will walk through how to use Unity Catalog to track and maintain quality across pipelines and ML workflows with Lakehouse Monitoring, anomaly detection, and more. For organizations managing rising cloud costs, we have multiple sessions dedicated to cost management best practices, including FinOps at Scale, Cost Management Foundations, and how to leverage system tables for observability.

Prospective Unity Catalog users

Not on Unity Catalog yet? Don’t worry—we have sessions tailored just for you that will walk you through how to use catalog federation and Databricks Labs UCX to accelerate your migration and avoid common pitfalls.

Business metrics

And new this year: explore how to define and govern business metrics using Unity Catalog with our introductory session on Unity Catalog Metrics and see it in action through a behind-the-scenes look at how the Databricks Data Team built their own Metric Store. 

Data governance best practices

Additionally, there are numerous expert-led sessions covering our data and AI governance best practices, such as:

• Data Intelligence on Unity Catalog Managed Tables Powered by Predictive Optimization

• Fine-Grained Access Control for Unstructured Data With Volume Path Permissions

• Solving Exclusive Data Access With Role-Based Access Control

• Unity Catalog Lakeguard: Secure and Efficient Compute for Your Enterprise

• What’s New in Security and Compliance on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

• Using Identity Security With Unity Catalog for Faster, Safer Data Access

• Unlocking Access: Simplifying Identity Management at Scale With Databricks

Customer talks

At Data + AI Summit 2025, you'll learn directly from organizations that are enabling enterprise-ready AI, modernizing governance, and unlocking real business value with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. This year’s customer talks span industries and use cases, from complex catalog migrations and fine-grained access control to cost optimization and AI governance.

Hear from data leaders at 7-Eleven, Acxiom, Corning, FedEx, Nationwide, American Airlines, T-Mobile, PepsiCo, Atlassian, Amgen, Capital One, and more as they share how they’re using Unity Catalog to scale secure data access, streamline compliance, and enable trusted collaboration across the business. 

Partner talks

Driving effective data governance takes an ecosystem. That’s why we’re proud to feature key partners who bring powerful accelerators, domain expertise, and complementary solutions to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. In this year’s governance track, hear from leading partners like Monte Carlo, Microsoft, Tredence, Actian, Alation, Deloitte, Infosys, and Tealium as they share proven approaches to unify governance, improve data quality, and operationalize trusted AI at scale.

Register for Data + AI Summit 2025 today!

Data + AI Summit 2025 is almost here! Join us in person or virtually to learn how today’s data leaders are modernizing data governance and securing the AI frontier. And don’t forget to tune in on Thursday, June 12, for an action-packed keynote featuring Unity Catalog led by Databricks Co-founder Matei Zaharia. With 700+ sessions, hands-on training, and exclusive networking events, it’s the year’s premier opportunity to level up your skills and dive into the world of data intelligence. 

Register now and explore the full session catalog to start planning your week