Slice & DAIS 2021 - Data and AI Summit Highlights 🚀

Hi all,

my name is Frank. I am a Developer Advocate for Databricks, based in Munich with a focus on Europe, the Middle East, and all of Africa. My goal is to support the community (that is you guys!) with all kinds of tech-focused events.

Data and AI summit (the former Spark Summit) will took place the last week of May 2021 with keynotes, AMAs (ask me anything expert sessions), free training, online meetups, and lots of amazing product announcements. Expect new open source, improvements for Delta.io, MLFlow, and SQL.

A colleague of mine, Matt, and I decided to kickstart a new event covering the key highlights from Data and AI Summit (DAIS). We named the event Slice & DAIS (because we thought that is funny).

DATA POINTS:
event date: June 17th, 2021
time: 18.30h Berlin time / 17.30 London time
location: online, live streaming (see event link)
level: L250
(on a scale from L100 "marketing product flyer" to L400 "live coding for the audience that already has experience with the product")

AGENDA:

• AI/ML news, Matt Thomson, Databricks UK, 20 mins
• Lakehouse news, Frank Munz, Databricks GER, 20 mins
• Community session: "Degrading Performance? You Might be Suffering From the Small Files Syndrome". Adi Polak, DAIS presenter and Sr. Software Engineer and Developer Advocate in the Azure Engineering organization at Microsoft offered us a slightly shortened version of her session from DAIS. Approx. 30 mins.

Don't miss out on the first Slice & DAIS event ever ;-). There will also be swag. Real swag, not pandemic, virtual swag!

CODE OF CONDUCT:
We want this meetup group to be Dubai community-driven. So ping us, if you'd like to present at a future event. Or if you would like to host the user group. All levels are welcome! We strive to provide a safe environment where everyone feels welcome. Topics can be Databricks or open source. Databricks is multi-cloud. We love to hear about your implementation on AWS, Azure or GCP. Emphasis will be on future in-person events once things a back to normal.