Live Event / Manchester

Lakehouse Day

Tuesday 21 March | 10am

National Football Museum, Urbis Building Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, Manchester M4 3BG

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Discover the power of the Databricks Lakehouse at our live Lakehouse Day in Manchester at the National Football Museum

Join us to find out how the lakehouse architecture unifies your data, analytics and AI, combining the best of data warehouses and data lakes on one simple platform. Built on an open and reliable data foundation that efficiently handles all data types, the lakehouse applies one common security and governance approach across all your data and cloud platforms.

 

Learn from leading global organisations on lakehouse best practices, and how the platform has become the destination for businesses of every size, in every industry and region around the world. There will also be opportunities to participate in technical quickstart training, product walkthroughs and in-depth customer breakout sessions.

 

Agenda

 

09:00 - 10:00

Registration

 

10:00 - 10:10

Welcome

Richard Barber, Northern Europe Sales Director, Databricks


10:10 - 10:30

Discover Lakehouse

Thor List, Senior Field Engineering Manager, Databricks


10:30 - 11:00

Customer Keynote: Making a Lakehouse in an Ocean

Andrew Bowker, Lead Data Engineer, Ocean Finance


11:00 - 11:30

Break

 

11:30 - 12:15

Lakehouse Platform Walkthrough

Matt Slack & Mike Dobing, Field Engineers, Databricks

 

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

 

13:15 - 14:00

Breakout Sessions

  • Digital Twins: Increasing operational efficiency and improving decision-making.
    Bala Amavasai, Global Technical Director, Databricks

  • IoT: Analyze product telemetry data, customer insights and service networks to deliver the highest uptime, quality of service and economic value through the product lifecycle. 
    Lara Rachidi, Senior Solutions Engineer, Databricks

  • Quickstart Lab part 1 with AWS: Master the fundamentals of Databricks with hands-on learning
    Brian McConnell, Senior Solutions Architect, Databricks
     

14:00 - 14:45

Breakout Sessions

  • Supply Chain: Accelerating your time to market by optimising the supply chain with data and AI through demand forecasting and real-time insights.
    Sachin Patil, Solutions Architect, Databricks

  • Migration Lab
    Hosted by Impetus

  • Quickstart Lab part 2 with AWS: Master the fundamentals of Databricks with hands-on learning
    Robert Whiffin, Solutions Architect, Databricks

 

14:45 - 15:15

Break

 

15:15 - 15:45

Keynote panel: Growing and scaling in the current economic downturn.

Tamika Hewitt, Account Executive, Databricks

Brian McConnell, Senior Solutions Architect, Databricks

Ashraf Murtada, Director of Data, On the Beach

Jordan Pierce, Head of Data, CMSPI

 

15:45 - 16:00

Closing comments

Richard Barber, Northern Europe Sales Director, Databricks

 

16:00 - 18:00

Drinks & Networking

 

Speakers

Richard Barber

Northern Europe Sales Director, Databricks

Tamika Hewitt

FinTech Account Executive, Databricks

Bala Amavasai

Global Technical Director, Databricks

Andrew Bowker

Lead Data Engineer,

Ocean Finance

Thor List

Senior Field Engineering Manager, Databricks

Sachin Patil

Solutions Architect,

Databricks

Lara Rachidi

Senior Solutions Engineer, Databricks

Ashraf Murtada

Director of Data,

On the Beach

Jordan Pierce

Head of Data,

CMSPI

 
 

Please access here the list of Databricks partners and be aware that any of them could become a co-sponsor of the event.

 

We'd like to thank our sponsors for their continued partnership

 

DIAMOND SPONSORS

 
 
 
 
 
 

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GOLD SPONSORS

 
 

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Advancing Analytics

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Fivetran

Advancing Analytics leads in global delivery of cutting-edge analytical solutions, pioneering Data Lakehouse architecture and modernizing the data industry.

 

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LeapLogic, Impetus

LeapLogic, Impetus' cloud accelerator, is one of the top Databricks Brickbuilder Solutions for migrating to the Databricks Lakehouse. Impetus is also an Exclusive Partner for data warehouse and ETL migration and a Strategic Automation Partner for Hadoop migration to Databricks. Multiple Fortune 500 enterprises globally have leveraged LeapLogic to migrate mission-critical workloads to Databricks – faster, at lower cost, and with near-zero business disruption.


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