John OBrien

The energy transition is the defining industrial challenge of our time and data is its most critical infrastructure. Join energy and utilities leaders for an essential forum on how Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform is enabling companies to navigate decarbonization, grid modernization and the rise of distributed energy resources with confidence and speed. Whether you're optimizing upstream exploration, managing a complex grid at scale or building the analytics backbone for a net-zero commitment, Databricks provides the unified, open platform that turns petabytes of operational data into real-time intelligence. This forum explores the imperatives shaping the sector: predictive asset management, emissions monitoring and reporting, energy trading and risk analytics, renewable integration, and AI-powered demand forecasting. Learn how leading energy companies are eliminating data fragmentation and accelerating decision-making from wellhead to wall socket. Gain insights from peers who are already harnessing the power of data to drive the energy transition forward and build lasting competitive advantage. Features leaders from Chevron, Shell, Constellation and Alinta Energy.

Drawing on conversations with leaders at over half of the Fortune 500, this presentation reveals an emerging pattern: software development is changing in ways most businesses aren't prepared for, extending well beyond AI tools and productivity gains into fundamental shifts in who builds software, how decisions get made, and how work happens. As software escapes the boundaries of engineering teams, leaders across finance, operations, product, and strategy are rethinking who can safely build and modify software, how development velocity is governed, and what "good" productivity even means.