Sadhana Bala
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Databricks3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Data + AI Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Data + AI Summit 2026 | Data + AI Summit | speaker | What’s New for FinOps on Databricks as Databricks As your Databricks adoption scales, FinOps teams need full visibility that connects performance, usage, and spend, and tools that turn insight into action. In…Show lessAs your Databricks adoption scales, FinOps teams need full visibility that connects performance, usage, and spend, and tools that turn insight into action. In this session, we’ll show how to operationalize FinOps on Databricks . You’ll see how to enrich workloads with tags, explore cost and performance through dashboards and Genie, and implement proactive alerting across compute types. We’ll also unveil new FinOps-focused features & tools that your team will want to be aware of. | |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Data + AI Summit 2025 | Data + AI Summit | speaker | Cost Management Foundations: The First 100 Days Checklist as Databricks In this session you'll learn how to onboard to Databricks in a way that ensures you can effectively measure and manage ROI of using Databricks down the line. We…Show lessIn this session you'll learn how to onboard to Databricks in a way that ensures you can effectively measure and manage ROI of using Databricks down the line. We will show you how to set-up workspaces and compute, decide on a tagging strategy and how to utilize policies to enforce best practices and make future you a happy camper. | |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Data + AI Summit 2025 | Data + AI Summit | speaker | FinOps at Scale: Best Practices for Cost-Efficient Growth on Databricks as Databricks This session is repeated. You’ve seen your usage grow on Databricks, across departments, use cases, product lines and users. What can you do to ensure your…Show lessThis session is repeated. You’ve seen your usage grow on Databricks, across departments, use cases, product lines and users. What can you do to ensure your end-users (data practitioners) of the platform remain cost-efficient and productive, while staying accountable to your budget? We’ll discuss spend monitoring, chargeback models and developing a culture of cost efficiency by using Databricks tools. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piyush Singh | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Youssef Mrini | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Abhinav Bhatnagar | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Bhagwat | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Narang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Crown | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Gurary | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Komisarek | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Adriana Ispas | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ahmed Bilal | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ajali Sen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Akram Chetibi | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alan Jackoway | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aleksandar Dragojevic | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Lichen | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.