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GenAI for Business on the Modern Data Stack

Tue, 23 April, 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM GMT+5:30

GenAI is increasingly becoming a priority for businesses, and for good reason. Learn how organizations are using modern data stacks to efficiently train Language Learning Models (LLMs) on proprietary data, while ensuring speed, security, and governance. This talk will spotlight the most current business use-cases across various industry sectors, focusing on software development practices, pre-trained LLMs, and LLMOps. Regardless of your role—be it a developer, architect, data engineer or tech lead—this session will arm you with actionable strategies for leveraging GenAI on a unified platform, giving you a significant edge in today's fast-paced tech landscape.

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About the speaker

Ari Kaplan

Head of Evangelism, Databricks

Ari is Databrick's Global Head of Evangelism, and a leading influencer in AI, databases, and sports analytics. “The Real Moneyball guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball, and later creating the Cubs and Dodgers analytics departments. He is President of the Independent Investigation into the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's humanitarian hero. His background in data includes having been President of the worldwide Oracle users group when they acquired MySQL, Java, and Peoplesoft. He traveled the world with McLaren Formula 1, assisting the racing strategy team to bring AI models to production. Ari was named Caltech’s “Alumni of the Decade”, Crain Chicago’s “40 Under 40”, and IBM’s “Data Science Celebrity”, and the History Channel made a documentary on one of Kaplan’s analytical investigations.