Liran Bareket

Many enterprises run their data across multiple platforms — Snowflake, BigQuery, OneLake, AWS Glue, Postgres. In 20 minutes we'll show you how Lakehouse Federation makes Unity Catalog the catalog of catalogs for your entire data estate. You'll see demos on how to connect an external platform to UC, then run Genie across federated data with row-level security applied uniformly across every source.

The Databricks labs project UCX aims to optimize the Unity Catalog (UC) upgrade process, ensuring a seamless transition for businesses. This session will delve into various aspects of the UCX project including the installation and configuration of UCX, the use of the UCX Assessment Dashboard to reduce upgrade risks and prepare effectively for a UC upgrade, and the automation of key components such as group, table and code migration. Attendees will gain comprehensive insights into leveraging UCX and Lakehouse Federation for a streamlined and efficient upgrade process. This session is aimed at customers new to UCX as well as veterans.