Name: Beyond Basic Text-to-SQL:Enterprise-Grade Conversational AI w/Databricks Genie
Start: 2026-10-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-08T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 8800 Lyra Drive

**Beyond Basic Text-to-SQL: Building Enterprise-Grade Conversational AI with Databricks Genie**

Conversational AI is transforming how business leaders and data teams interact with enterprise knowledge, but translating natural language into reliable, enterprise-grade business intelligence requires far more than standard Text-to-SQL capabilities. In this session, we explore how **Databricks Genie** delivers accurate, context-aware, and secure conversational analytics across the lakehouse platform.
How does it all come together? You'll learn about:

* **Unity Catalog as the Foundation:** Discover why conversational AI is only as good as its underlying governance and metadata. Learn how Unity Catalog provides the granular access controls, lineage, unified metadata, and rich semantic context essential for generating trustworthy, safe, and compliant analytical insights.
* **Genie Agents:** Go beyond single-prompt queries to explore how autonomous Genie Agents handle complex multi-turn reasoning, iterative problem-solving, and workflow orchestration across complex datasets.
* **Genie One:** Experience how Genie One unifies natural language interaction, visualization, and deep enterprise analytics into a seamless, high-performance platform experience.

Whether you are a data leader aiming to democratize self-service analytics or an architect building next-generation AI workflows, this talk will provide actionable insights and practical patterns for leveraging Databricks Genie to make data accessible to everyone across your organization.

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Drew Furgiuele is a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks with 20+ experience as a data professional, including many years as a production DBA, a member of the Customer Architecture Team at Microsoft, and major contributor to the dbatools suite of powershell scripts.

Drew loves building things, spending time with his dog, writing code, working out, and playing video games. He hasn't seen any of the "Avengers" movies so please don't spoil them for him. He's also mildly notorious for putting databases in strange places ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=CDaZdcZUHJY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=CDaZdcZUHJY)) and talking to his friend Paul about technology and life on his podcast, "I'm sure they're doing their best." ([http://doingtheirbest.com/](http://doingtheirbest.com/))."

Outside of work, he enjoys blogging, traveling, speaking, CrossFit, and hearing people try to pronounce his last name. He loves his dog more than he loves anything or anyone else, and isn't ashamed of his Spotify playlist.

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