Pamela Pettit

Governance is no longer just about who can see a table — it’s about what an agent can do with your most sensitive data. In this 90-minute hands-on lab, we move past basic permissions to tackle the "Zero Trust" reality of modern platforms. You will build a production-ready perimeter that secures the entire lifecycle, from unstructured data to AI models and autonomous agents. We will provide real-world guidance on preventing data leakage and ensuring your agentic systems remain compliant, secure, and fully auditable at scale.

Join us for a real-world exploration of Databricks Unity Catalog designed for data leaders scaling their platforms. We will tackle the challenge of governance at scale, demonstrating how to balance centralized management with decentralized, domain-driven operating models. Learn field-tested strategies for catalog organization that establish structured guardrails. These patterns will allow your teams to innovate rapidly without traditional bottlenecks. We will also cover how to accelerate metadata curation to empower true data discovery and a frictionless self-service experience. Leave with flexible best practices for cross-boundary collaboration, secure data sharing, and AI readiness that adapt to your organization's unique architectural needs.

Join this deep dive session for practitioners on Unity Catalog, Databricks’ unified data governance solution, to explore its capabilities for managing data and AI assets across workflows. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control, automated lineage tracking, quality monitoring and policy enforcement and observability at scale. Whether your focus is data pipelines, analytics or machine learning and generative AI workflows, this session offers actionable insights on leveraging Unity Catalog’s open interoperability across tools and platforms to boost productivity and drive innovation. Learn governance best practices, including catalog configurations, access strategies for collaboration and controls for securing sensitive data. Additionally, discover how to design effective multi-cloud and multi-region deployments to ensure global compliance.

In the age of generative AI and LLMs, effective data and AI governance have become paramount. Databricks Unity Catalog is a top industry solution that unifies data and AI governance across cloud and data platforms.