Silviu Tofan

Databricks Serverless helps you be confident that your sensitive data is protected. This talk will walk you through our security posture at every stage of a SQL query’s lifecycle, and how they pass through our Serverless Compute offering. We will discuss the various layers of data & access security, network security, and process security that Databricks employs in order to protect the Control Plane, isolate the Serverless Compute plane using defense-in-depth techniques, and secure your access to data. We’ll go deeper into compute pre-assignment, assignment, and runtime operations, so you get a glimpse into how we’ve managed to build a secure Serverless offering leveraging security best practices on top of existing cloud provider infrastructure, and are able to offer our customers a fast, efficient, and reliable system to run their toughest Data+AI workloads on Databricks.

The keynote will cover the highlights from the Data and AI Summit, as seen through the eyes of four different personas — data engineer, data steward, data scientist, and data analyst—showcased via a compelling end-to-end technical demo. Silviu, the trigger-happy data engineer, will make data ingestion and transformation easier through a simple live demo of automated jobs and serverless compute - demystifying orchestration and requiring little help from any additional cloud platform teams Marius, the slightly paranoid data steward, will show the audience how to ensure adequate data governance controls are in place, without slowing down the other team members, via Attribute Based Access Controls(ABAC) in Unity Catalog Athulya, the Gen AI enthusiast, will demonstrate how to integrate this enterprise data into the AI lifecycle using Mosaic AI, in a secure and cost-effective manner. Liping, the newbie data analyst, will demonstrate a generative BI experience in Databricks using Genie and how to utilize AI functions in SQL. After this keynote, the audience should have a better understanding of what the recently announced Databricks functionality means and how it could impact the day-to-day work of people within their organization.