Name: A Night of Databricks
Start: 2025-11-10T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Awesome Inc

Welcome to our November 2025 meeting! We'll be featuring the session "Building Smarter Solutions with Azure Databricks: A Hands-On Journey" and Joshua Higginbotham will be our presenter. Joshua is making the drive from Louisville so let's welcome him with a good crowd and some good questions!

As always, we'll have food and drinks courtesy of TEKsystems Lexington and use of a great facility courtesy of Awesome Inc.

Matt Gordon

Kristyna Ferris

Jeremy Miller

Lexington Data Technology Group

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Technology

Database Professionals

Software Development

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Big Data

Database Development

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Data Mining

Database Administrator

Data Science

Eli Sutton

Susanne

Elijah Butler

Rohith Patel

Verdie

Vanessa Joy Kesten

Rohit

Joshua's title: Building Smarter Solutions with Azure Databricks: A Hands-On Journey

Joshua's abstract: Get ready to dive into the power of Azure Databricks through a hands-on exploration of its capabilities. This session will guide you from data ingestion and transformation to model training and deployment all within the unified Databricks environment. You’ll learn how Delta Lake improves performance and reliability, how Databricks notebooks enable collaborative data engineering, and how its integration with Azure AI tools can fast-track intelligent applications. Bring your curiosity, you’ll leave ready to apply Databricks in real-world scenarios.

Joshua's bio: Joshua Higginbotham, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is a Senior Architect at Centric Consulting. He's worked in various roles including Software Development, Database Administration, and Business Intelligence. He’s an active speaker within the Data community and the Co-Chapter Leader of the Louisville Data Technology Group on MeetUp.

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