Zeashan Pappa

Modern data estates are fragmented across clouds and regions, making it difficult to govern, access, and use data and AI consistently. Traditional approaches rely on ETL, duplicated policies, and siloed infrastructure that slow teams down and increase risk. In this session, we’ll introduce Global Unity Catalog, a new approach to unifying your entire data and AI estate across clouds. See how a single control plane enables consistent governance, fine-grained access control, and end-to-end observability across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We’ll demonstrate how users can discover, request, and access data across regions in seconds, and how teams can build and run AI workloads wherever compute is available—without moving data. You’ll also get a look at cloudless compute and intelligent routing that optimize performance and cost behind the scenes. Walk away with a new model for eliminating silos, reducing complexity, and enabling true multi-cloud AI at scale.

In today's data landscape, organizations often grapple with fragmented data spread across various databases, data warehouses and catalogs. Lakehouse Federation addresses this challenge by enabling seamless discovery, querying, and governance of distributed data without the need for duplication or migration. This session will explore how Lakehouse Federation integrates external data sources like Hive Metastore, Snowflake, SQL Server and more into a unified interface, providing consistent access controls, lineage tracking and auditing across your entire data estate. Learn how to streamline analytics and AI workloads, enhance compliance and reduce operational complexity by leveraging a single, cohesive platform for all your data needs.

Struggling to keep up with data governance at scale? Join us to explore how automated data classification, tag policies and ABAC streamline access control while enhancing security and compliance. Get an exclusive look at the new Governance Hub, built to give your teams deeper visibility into data usage, access patterns and metadata — all in one place. Whether you're managing thousands or millions of assets, discover how to classify, tag and protect your data estate effortlessly with the latest advancements in Unity Catalog.

Fragmented governance of data and AI can stifle innovation. This session highlights how Databricks Unity Catalog offers unified discovery and governance for tables, files, ML models, and AI tools while supporting any open table format like Apache Iceberg and Delta.