Steve Jones

Every technological leap forward starts the same way: someone decides to go further than anyone thought possible, trusting the instruments, the training, and the innovations of everyone who came before them. That's as true for database professionals adopting AI today as it was for the first...

The Data API Builder from Microsoft, you can quickly and easily expose your database objects for developers to use without writing a lot of data access layer code. In this session, we will see how to setup, configure, and use the Data API Builder and GraphQL to expose and query data in SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

Every organization can build an agent — almost nobody is ready to manage a million of them. This session lays out what it actually takes, starting with AI Persona definition: how the business delegates to an agent as a team member, not a system. It then breaks apart four disciplines that must scale independently. Integration & Ecosystem spans MCP, Unity Catalog, and the governance of AI through MLflow, grounding agents in trusted data and policy. Development and Discovery use Genie and Databricks Marketplace to build and evolve agents. Business Management, through Mosaic AI and MLflow, drives accountability. AI Resource Management makes IT the HR function for the AI workforce. Underpinning it all is why a streaming Delta Lake architecture is central to an AI future. This is the architecture for a million agents.

The data professional of 2026 might be a career database expert…or simply the closest thing your organization has to a data professional. The database landscape has never been more complex, and the modern data professional is tasked with balancing shifting platform trends and emerging technology...

The data professional of 2026 might be a career database expert…or simply the closest thing your organization has to a data professional. The database landscape has never been more complex, and the modern data professional is tasked with balancing shifting platform trends and emerging technology...

Keeping up with the demands of work and life can be tough, especially with a family. Come learn some tips and techniques for coping with the demands you face while also finding ways to grow your career as a technologist.

The Data API Builder from Microsoft, you can quickly and easily expose your database objects for developers to use without writing a lot of data access layer code. In this session, we will see how to setup, configure, and use the Data API Builder and GraphQL to expose and query data in SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

Join us for an interactive breakout session designed to explore scalable, real-world solutions powered by Partners with Databricks. In this high-energy session, you'll hear from three of our leading partners — Accenture, Capgemini and Wipro — as they each deliver rapid-fire, 5-minute demos of their most impactful, production-grade solutions built for the telecom industry. From network intelligence to customer experience to AI-driven automation, these solutions are already driving tangible outcomes at scale. After the demos, you’ll have the unique opportunity to engage directly with each partner in a “speed dating” style format. Dive deep into the solutions, ask your questions and explore how these approaches can be tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether you're solving for churn, fraud, network ops or enterprise AI use cases, this session is your chance to connect, collaborate and walk away with practical ideas you can take back to your teams.

Keeping up with the demands of work and life can be tough, especially with a family. Come learn some tips and techniques for coping with the demands you face while also finding ways to grow your career as a technologist.

Following best practices during database deployments is essential for the process to run smoothly. During this session, uncover the essential practices for seamless database deployments.

When a company posts a job opening, they are often inundated with dozens, if not hundreds, of applicants. How do they decide which ones are worth pursuing with an interview?

When a company posts a job opening, they are often inundated with dozens, if not hundreds, of applicants. How do they decide which ones are worth pursuing with an interview?

DevOps is transforming software development, with many organizations and individuals adopting lean development practices, implementing Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and performing on-demand deployments to their production environments.

Everyone wants a great job that they enjoy, but few of us know how to take charge of our career. Learn why it’s important to raise your profile in today’s highly competitive world where there are often more candidates than positions for great jobs. This session will help you build a strong brand that allows you to attract potential employers or clients and start to convince them ahead of time that you are the person they want to hire.

One of the fundamental tools for modern DevOps software development is continuous Integration (CI). This process provides an automated independent validation and verification of your code, with quick feedback for developers that are under pressure to write higher quality software at a rapid pace. This session examines how Azure DevOps or TFS can be used to manage this process and run a database CI process inside of your data center, on your own instances.

Learning how to orchestrate your software development process can be a challenge, and many people don't know where to start using the tools available. For Microsoft stack developers, Azure DevOps and TFS provide cloud and on-premises tooling to manage your code.

Containers are dramatically changing the way that application developers design and build their systems. Databases will need to be a part of this revolution as every application needs a data store.

Presented by Redgate DevOps is transforming software development, with many organizations and individuals adopting lean development practices, implementing Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and performing on-demand deployments to their production environments.

Containers are dramatically changing the way that application developers design and build their systems. Databases will need to be a part of this revolution as every application needs a data store.