Databricks User Group - St. Louis

Join the Databricks User Group in St. Louis!
Are you passionate about data and analytics? Do you want to connect with like-minded professionals and learn from the best in the industry? Join us for an exciting evening at the Databricks User Group in St. Louis! Share knowledge, network, and discover new opportunities.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Agenda:

• 5:00 Check-in & Mingle

• Presentation #1 - Lakebase: A Live Performance Benchmark Battle. We will run a head-to-head race between Lakebase and AWS Aurora to see which architecture handles the load, the query complexity, and the latency requirements of modern AI applications.
  🗣️ Speaker: Evangelos Pertsinis

• Presentation #2 - An inside look at how a team within a global enterprise became the first to successfully adopt Databricks, and the specific strategies they used to scale the platform.
  🗣️ Speaker: Luke Garzia

• Presentation #3 - How to Measure and Improve LLM Retrieval Accuracy on Databricks. We'll cover practical approaches to evaluating RAG systems, including methods to assess retrieval quality and response accuracy through techniques such as semantic similarity and LLM-based evaluation.
  🗣️ Speaker: Lohit Akkineni

• 6:30 Tearful close and goodbyes

We ❤️ our sponsors!

• Object Computing, Inc. Technology that Empowers
• Koantek The Data & AI Partner