Northern DPaC April Meetup - Robin Lester (Microsoft) & Mike Dobing (Databricks)

** This event is jointly hosted by Manchester, Leeds & Newcastle Data Platform and Cloud User Groups. The event will be hosted in-person at ANS in Manchester, however this is a hybrid event and can be joined online. Register to attend this event and the Teams link will be made available. For the in-person event, join the Manchester event page.**

Join us for a fantastic event with two incredible speakers from Microsoft and Databricks! Come learn about Data Lakehouses and Lakehouse Federation, and how Databases fit in the AI world!

Thank you to ANS for sponsoring and hosting this event. Car parking is available for free on the ANS site car park.

Network, learn, ask a question, meet other folks - these are all things that happen at our user group events. These events are a really great opportunity to socialise in an informal learning experience. Remember to tell your friends and the people you work with; make sure you register as soon as you can.

Hybrid event - Link provided to those who sign up. Not being recorded.

17:45 – 18:00 - Intro and updates

18:00 - 19:00 - Mike Dobing: Lakehouse Federation, Data Virtualisation for your Data Lakehouse. (Abstract to follow)

19:00 - 19:30 Drinks and Pizza

19:30 - 20:30 - Robin Lester: Where do databases fit in the AI revolution?
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with databases presents new challenges and opportunities for enhancing chatbot interactions and information retrieval. This talk addresses the critical aspects of grounding chatbots with information stored in databases, augmenting stored procedures with AI capabilities, considerations for chat data storage, optimal text data storage for efficient searching, and the implications of AI on database security.