Denny Lee

Most developers now use several coding agents at once: one for quick edits, another for long refactors, a third that a teammate recommended. Each lives in its own tool with its own setup, and none of them share what the others know. Switching means rebuilding context by hand.

Hear from Rohan Varma from OpenAI and Ankit Mathur from Databricks, moderated by Denny Lee (Databricks) on what it really takes to build and ship autonomous coding agents at scale. Rohan will dig into the shift from simple autocomplete to full agent development environments, and how teams can balance developer productivity with the governance, verification and controls required for enterprise use.

Want to create AI agents that can do more than just generate text? Join us to explore how combining Databricks' Agent Bricks with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) unlocks powerful tool-calling capabilities.

Join us for an insightful Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Declarative Pipelines — a powerful approach to simplify and optimize data workflows. Learn how to define data transformations using high-level, SQL-like semantics, reducing boilerplate code while improving performance and maintainability. Whether you're building ETL processes, feature engineering pipelines, or analytical workflows, this session will cover best practices, real-world use cases and how Declarative Pipelines can streamline your data applications. Bring your questions and discover how to make your data processing more intuitive and efficient!

Join us for an in-depth Ask Me Anything (AMA) on how Rust is revolutionizing Lakehouse formats like Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg through projects like delta-rs and iceberg-rs! Discover how Rust’s memory safety, zero-cost abstractions and fearless concurrency unlock faster development and higher-performance data operations. Whether you’re a data engineer, Rustacean or Lakehouse enthusiast, bring your questions on how Rust is shaping the future of open table formats!

Two industry veterans have been debating data architecture, tearing apart trends and tinkering with tech for decades and they’re bringing the conversation live — and you’re in control. Got a burning question about lake structures or internal performance? Worried about AI taking over the world? Want straight-talking opinions on the latest hype? Need real-world advice from the people who the experts get advice from? Want to get the juicy behind-the-scenes gossip about any announcements and shockwaves from the Keynotes? This is your chance to have your questions answered! Submit your questions ahead of time or bring them on the day — no topic is off-limits (though there's always a risk of side quests into coffee, sci-fi, or the quirks of English weather). Come for the insights, stay for the chaos.

Apache Flink and Delta Lake together allow you to build the foundation for your data lakehouses by ensuring the reliability of your concurrent streams from processing to the underlying cloud object-store.

Delta lake is an open-source project that enables building a lakehouse architecture on top of existing storage systems such as S3, ADLS, GCS, and HDFS. We - the Presto and Delta Lake communities - have come together to make it easier for Presto to leverage the reliability of data lakes by integratin