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First 15 attendees score an exclusive, limited-edition Coalesce bobblehead! The Tampa Bay Rays had a data dilemma—siloed systems, slow reporting, and clunky workflows. But with Snowflake + Coalesce, they hit a home run. At #SnowflakeSummit, hear from Brennan DiChiara and Juan Juan Dominguez of the Rays’ strategy team as they share how they: 🔹 Cut dev time by 75% 🔹 Rebuilt their reporting for scale 🔹 Automated insights across ticketing, marketing & fan engagement 🎟️ Don’t miss it: https://lnkd.in/geB4ckgz

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When your AI gives away a Chevy truck for $1, you don’t have a model problem.. you have an evaluation problem 💸 At the recent Databricks Data + Ai Summit, Chris Borg shared how we’re rethinking LLM evaluation for agentic systems: ⚡️Purpose-built, expert-aligned benchmarks ⚡️Fine-grained views that go beyond accuracy ⚡️Eval that connects directly to data development Full segment here 👉 https://lnkd.in/es46PKBD #GenAI #LLMEvaluation #AgenticAI #SnorkelAI

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Just announced 📢 Conexa™, Adstra’s Composable Identity Solution, is now available through the Databricks Marketplace and Delta Sharing! This integration empowers organizations to seamlessly access Adstra’s industry-leading identity resolution and data connectivity directly within Databricks—enabling secure, real-time collaboration and scalable analytics. Conexa delivers unmatched transparency and superior customer matching, providing full visibility and confidence in your data. Conexa also enables you to maintain ownership and control of your data, ensuring it never has to leave your environment. Explore Conexa on Databricks Marketplace today! https://lnkd.in/gh3Ds9tS Read the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gRiwJu35 #Adstra #Databricks #IdentityResolution #DataAnalytics #DeltaSharing

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🔥 Advancing GraphRAG: Multimodal Intelligence with Amy Hodler & David Hughes at #ODSCEast! Join Amy Hodler, Executive Director of GraphGeeks.org, and David Hughes, Principal Data & AI Solution Architect at Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, for a deep dive into Multimodal GraphRAG (mmGraphRAG) - the next frontier in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI-driven search. With decades of experience in graph analytics, AI, and knowledge graphs, Amy Hodler has co-authored multiple O’Reilly books and contributed to AI on Trial and Massive Graph Analytics. David Hughes brings 10+ years of expertise in graph solutions, with a strong background in healthcare, software development, and cloud architecture. What You’ll Learn in This Session, “Advancing GraphRAG: Text, Images, and Audio for Multimodal Intelligence”: 🚀 Beyond Text-Based RAG: Why vector searches alone aren’t enough and how graphs enhance accuracy & explainability in GenAI workflows. 🖼 Multimodal GraphRAG (mmGraphRAG): Combining text, images, and audio to mimic human-like associative intelligence in AI-driven search and analytics. 🔎 Real-World Integration: How to incorporate vision and audio models into GraphRAG using OpenAI CLIP, LLaVA, LanceDB, and Kuzu database. ⚙ Workflow Architecture: How to orchestrate different AI capabilities & agents in a seamless pipeline using BAML. 💡 Hands-On Concept Search: Live Jupyter Notebook walkthrough demonstrating associative search using embeddings for deeper AI insights. If you're working with GenAI, RAG, knowledge graphs, or AI-driven search, this session will reshape how you think about multimodal data integration and expand the horizons of AI applications. 🔗 Register now: https://hubs.li/Q038cxJX0 #GraphRAG #MultimodalAI #GenerativeAI #KnowledgeGraphs #MachineLearning #AI #RAG #DeepLearning #AIApplications #ODSCEast #TechConference

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The Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) now supports incremental data updates! MTS is the go-to tool for turning custom datasets into fast, scalable tilesets. But until now, keeping that data fresh required reprocessing a full tileset, even for the smallest of data changes. This led to slower update cycles, more operational overhead, and outdated data for end users. MTS incremental updates change this dynamic. Check our launch blog post to see how Paddle Guide, RidePal and CrashCount are using incremental updates for faster tileset processing and more frequent updates and getting the most up-to-date location data available to their users: https://lnkd.in/ggsHmWgc #BuiltWithMapbox #MTSIncrementalUpdates #Datasets

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🛑 LIVE from the Databricks #DataAISummit keynote… Databricks co-founder and CEO, Ali Ghodsi shares how open formats are leading the way. At Atlan, we’re especially excited about open formats for metadata. That’s why our Metadata Lakehouse is built on Apache Iceberg: open, interoperable, and ready to work with your stack.

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The #DataAIWorldTour Dallas keynote spotlighted how organizations are taking control of their data and putting it to work with AI Trinity Industries, Inc.: “Databricks didn’t just modernize our stack — it became the launch pad for what came next,” enabling reasoning agents and apps that bring GenAI into daily work. Ontada: “The reality for us each and every day is how fast can we go?” Faster data insights mean faster action — and better outcomes for cancer patients. Lennox: “AI isn’t a buzzword, it’s a business enabler. If you’re looking at your AI strategy, look at your data strategy first.” The takeaway: organizations across industries are using data + AI to innovate faster, tackle their toughest challenges, and create lasting impact. Thank you to our speakers Harris Thayer, Craig Wiley, Stephen Ecker, Sara Eaton, and Prasad Mecheri Chandravihar! 👏

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IBM just released their Granite 4.0 family of models: new models trained for tool calling and RAG, Apache 2.0. • Micro: transformer, dense 3B https://lnkd.in/gPRuhkKg • Micro H: hybrid, dense 3B https://lnkd.in/gTVbj3aG • Tiny H: hybrid, MoE 7B/1B active https://lnkd.in/gdE4TFpU • Small H: hybrid, MoE 32B/9B active https://lnkd.in/ghe6xnQd Trained for tool calling and RAG. Suitable for further fine-tuning. Requires LM Studio 0.3.28!

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Fantastic presentation by Michael Segner at the Data Science Connect Align AI Executive Summit in Boston yesterday! 🔥 Michael shared why the path to trusted, scalable agents doesn’t start with model tuning — it starts with end-to-end data + AI observability. 👀 Want to learn more? Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eyn9x7wh #AlignAI #observability #dataquality #AIquality #Agents #datamonitoring #datascience #CDO #CDAIO

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