Partner Tech Talk Series

On-Demand Webinars: 

To watch these webinars, visit the Databricks Partner Portal:

January 2024: Unity Catalog Migration Kit

Presented on January 10: The Databricks Professional Services Team provided an overview of the Databricks UC Migration Delivery Kit, which includes templates, checklists, and best practices to help you seamlessly deliver client UC migration projects. 

February 2024: Databricks SQL

Presented on February 7: DB SQL Product Specialist Kyle Hale detailed the benefits of Databricks SQL, including its unified governance model and how to best utilize it to achieve 12x better price/performance with clients.

March 2024: LLM Delivery Kit

Presented on March 3: Director of Machine Learning Brooke Wenig shared the new LLM Delivery Kit, which equips you with best practices, tools, and techniques to help you win and deliver LLM use cases to customers.

April 2024: DBRX Announcement + LLM Evaluation

Presented on April 3: Lead Specialist Solutions Architect Tim Lortz detailed Databricks' new state-of-the-art, open LLM, DBRX. DBRX is a transformer-based decoder-only LLM that was trained using next-token prediction.

May 2024: Brickbuilder Program

Presented on May 1: Global Brickbuilder Partner Solutions Director Christine Gauthier details the Databricks Brickbuilder Program and how it helps us to jointly innovate, grow consumption and services dollars, and penetrate the market.

July 2024: Data + AI Summit Announcements

Presented on July 11: At this year's Data + AI Summit, a number of Databricks product and platform announcements were made including Mosaic AI, Unity Catalog Open Source, Databricks AI/BI and many more! This Tech Talks walked through the announcements plus introduced the new Teradata Migration Delivery Services Kit.

August 2024: LakeFlow Connect

Presented on August 7: Databricks recently announced the launch of Databricks LakeFlow Connect, which allows for simple and scalable data ingestion from every data source. This Tech Talk details the Lakeflow Connect features and teaches you how to use Lakeflow Connect with a no-code UI or an API.

September 2024: Unity Catalog Upgrade Automation

Presented on September 4: UCX, or Unity Catalog Upgrade Automation, is a project developed by the Databricks UC team, which aims to optimize the UC upgrade process. This Tech Talk details how to install and configure UCX and how to use the UCX Assessment Dashboard to reduce upgrade risks.

October 2024: GenAI Product Roadmap + AWS EMR Migration Services Delivery Kit

Presented on October 2: Databricks is making significant updates to Mosaic AI Gateway. Come hear about how it is designed to help your customers accelerate their AI initiatives with even greater simplicity, security, and governance. This Tech Talk also shares best practices and resources for upskilling and delivering AWS EMR Migration projects, from discovery to productionalization. 

November 2024: Advanced RAG Techniques + UC Services Delivery Kit

Presented on November 6: This Tech Talk showcases a demo for how to build a robust, enterprise-grade RAG system using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, including how to integrate third party components with AI Gateway and how to leverage Lakehouse Monitoring for better governance. It also details the latest updates to the Databricks Unity Catalog Service Delivery Kit, which helps you jumpstart your client projects.