Games runs on the Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks at GDC 2025

Summary

Databricks will be at GDC this year, demonstrating how game teams can de-risk their development and better know and grow their player base like never before. We’ll be joined by partners EPAM, Snowplow, Sigma and AWS! We will be right by the front door of South Hall next to registration, you can’t miss us! We will be showcasing advanced data intelligence technologies, as well as how we are making AI more accessible and actionable to game teams.

Book a meeting with Databricks at GDC 2025!

What to Expect

• Industry leaders and technical resources to help you on your games data journey
• Games Data tech talks
• Meaningful demos focused on real life games data use cases
• An ecosystem of partners that can augment what you’re doing today and help you make it a reality

Building a Data Intelligence Platform for Games

There are 3.4 Billion gamers across the globe, projected to grow to 4B in a few years. This creates one of the most exciting opportunities available to serve humanity through play. Here at Databricks, we are helping game companies of all sizes better serve their playerbase and bring more play to the world. We’d like to partner with you to do the same.

We see three key areas where data and AI can help game developers create meaningful gaming experiences for their players:

• Player Centric Experience: Better understand your players, grow your playerbase, grow your revenue through value
• Build better games: De-risk game development, effective live operations
• Efficient business operations: Data democratization 

Building the ecosystem for Data and Games

We have lofty goals that can’t be accomplished alone. To help make these goals a reality we are building an ecosystem of technology solutions and professional services. Together we are building connectors, repeatable solutions and thought leadership that touch on the requirements of game companies of all sizes. As a first step, we are partnering with EPAM, HeroicLabs and Sigma Computing to build a comprehensive real-time data analytics pipeline demo to be presented at GDC. Here, you’ll see how easy it is to get game data out of HeroicLab’s Satori BaaS, processed in Databricks, visualized through Sigma’s dashboards, explored via Databricks’ AI/BI genie and fed back into Satori to impact player experience.

Our Realtime Analytics demo will feature the capabilities of:

• EPAM who is building the data pipelines and models
• HeroicLabs with their Satori LiveOperations solution is generating near real-time data
• Sigma Computing’s dashboards visualize what’s going on

In addition to the above partners we’re excited to be working with:

• Snowplow for Web, Mobile Web and In Game Telemetry
• ActiveFence for trust and safety applications
• Amperity for AI Identity Resolution for Games
• Confluent for managed streaming data ingestion (Event Thursday Night)
• AWS for the underlying infrastructure needed to run your games

Learn from leaders in Game Data and AI!

At our booth, we’ll feature a mini theatre hosting presentations on crucial aspects of game data and AI as it relates to development and operations. GDC attendees can expect insightful talks on understanding and expanding player bases, mitigating risks in game development, and optimizing live operations strategies.

In addition to our own presentations, we’re excited to collaborate with key partners from our ecosystem. Industry leaders from Snowplow, Sigma Computing, EPAM, and AWS will demonstrate how their solutions integrate seamlessly with Databricks to enhance Data and AI capabilities in game studios. These joint presentations will offer valuable insights into leveraging unified data platforms to break down silos, process vast amounts of game data in real-time, and make informed decisions faster.

Let’s Meet at GDC!

Throughout the week we will have a series of game data and AI talks led by our dedicated games experts, our tech and services partners, our product teams and our customers. Check out the schedule when you arrive. If there’s a topic about Data and Games that you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you!

We will also have a series of demos running throughout the week. In addition to the Real Time Game Telemetry Demo mentioned above, we will be showcasing:

• Solving for cold start Problems with Snowplow and Databricks
• Dashboarding for Games made easy with Sigma Computing
• How a data intelligence platform enables player centricity
• Player feedback analysis at scale
• AI powered BI for game studios
• Reinforcement learning based learning agents with Ureal Engine
• LLM enhanced player segmentation
• And much more!

Book a meeting with us here, come visit our booth and/or join one of our games data talks.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Huntting Buckley, GTM Leader

Games @ Databricks