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In less than a month, we kick off the inaugural Data + AI Summit Europe, with free general admission and expanding upon the Spark + AI Summit to cover all things data -- analytics, science, engineering and AI. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and training courses, covering the latest in SQL on data...

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now available in public preview for Microsoft’s Azure China region, enabling new data and AI use cases with fast, reliable and scalable data processing, analytics, data science and machine learning on the cloud. With availability across more than 30 Azure regions, global organizations appreciate the consistency,...

Data + AI Summit Europe will take place 17-19 November and is now open for registration!  Formerly known as the Spark + AI Summit, this free and virtual event is expanded to bring together the world’s leading experts on data analysis, data engineering, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to explore the convergence...

Developers attending a conference have high expectations: what knowledge gaps they’ll fill; what innovative ideas or inspirational thoughts they’ll take away; who to contact for technical questions, during and after the conference; what technical trends are emerging in their domain of expertise; what serendipitous connections they’ll make and foster; and what theme will resonate across...

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen federal agencies are building...

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have reminded us that there’s much more we can do to bring awareness to racial injustice and drive meaningful change. This year’s theme at Spark + AI Summit was “DATA TEAMS UNITE!” and...

Databricks has a great partner ecosystem of over 450 partners that are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions in the world for our joint customers.  We are proud of this collaboration and know it’s the result of the mutual commitment and investment that spans on-going training, solution development, field programs...

On the closing day of Spark + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized three exceptional data teams for how they came together to solve a tough problem-- delivering impact, innovation, and helping to make the world a better place. These are the inaugural Databricks Data Team Awards, and we were blown away by the...

At today’s Spark + AI Summit 2020, we unveiled the next generation of the Databricks Data Science Workspace: An open and unified experience for modern data teams. Existing solutions make data teams choose from three bad options. Giving data scientists the freedom to use any open-source tools on their laptops doesn’t provide a clear path...

Watch Spark + AI Summit Keynotes here At today's Spark + AI Summit 2020, we announced that MLflow is becoming a Linux Foundation project. Two years ago, we launched MLflow, an open source machine learning platform to let teams reliably build and productionize ML applications. Since then, we have been humbled and excited by the...