The Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025 (June 9–12, San Francisco) is right around the corner, bringing together some of the world’s most innovative companies to showcase how they’re using Databricks to tackle real-world challenges. From optimizing cloud costs and securing healthcare systems to reimagining supply chains and enabling AI-driven decision-making, these sessions from 7-Eleven, CVS, Warner Bros. Discovery, Toyota, and Estée Lauder highlight how enterprises are modernizing with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Mosaic AI. Here’s a preview of what to watch for.
1 — 7-Eleven: Story of a Unity Catalog (UC) Migration: Using UCX at 7-Eleven to Reorient a Complex UC Migration
June 11 | 11:30am PT
7-Eleven will take the stage to share its journey migrating to Databricks Unity Catalog. In a session led by Ganesh Susarla and Prashanth Subrahmanyam, attendees will learn how 7-Eleven used UCX to navigate legacy code, data sprawl, and infrastructure challenges, creating a practical path to modern data governance.
Also, be sure to join 7-Eleven’s Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, and learn how 7-Eleven built AI agents for marketing using Mosaic AI and LangGraph.
2 — CVS: Real-Time Botnet Defense at CVS: AI-Driven Detection and Mitigation on Databricks
June 11 | 5:20pm PT
Join CVS Health’s Virender Dhiman and Andrew Hinton at the Data + AI Summit 2025 as they reveal how CVS uses Databricks to detect and stop botnet attacks in real time. Learn how their AI-driven system leverages Databricks Workflows and Unity Catalog to process massive HTTP traffic, identify threats, and automate response at scale. A must-attend for anyone securing enterprise or healthcare systems.
3 — Zillow: Scaling Data Quality at Zillow: Migrating and Enhancing Data Quality Systems on Databricks
June 10 | 4:30pm PT
Zillow is raising the bar for scalable, production-grade data quality in the lakehouse. Join Laura Zhou and Caleb Priester as they share how Zillow migrated and enhanced its data quality systems using Databricks. Discover how they leveraged DLT expectations, enforced constraints, and custom queries to strike the right balance between performance, cost, and scalability—resulting in key improvements over their legacy system. They’ll also provide insights into testing the latest Databricks innovations like lakehouse monitoring and the new DQX project, along with actionable lessons from their journeys.
Be sure to join Zillow’s other presentations, Building Dashboards as a Production-Grade Data Product, as well as Tech Industry Forum: Tip of the Spear With Data and AI | Sponsored by: Aimpoint Digital and AWS.
4 — Toyota: Toyota: Maximizing Business Value and Ensuring Data Privacy with Databricks in Connected Vehicles
June 10 | 1:50pm PT
Toyota is setting a new global standard in secure, efficient data use within the mobility space. Join Yoshihiro Oe and Satoshi Kuramitsu at the Data + AI Summit as they share how migrating from EMR to Databricks with Delta Lake significantly boosted data deletion performance and reduced costs by 99%—all while ensuring compliance with strict global privacy regulations. This transformation not only enhances data governance but also unlocks new business value from connected-vehicle data. Learn how Toyota is building a scalable platform that balances regulatory demands with innovation, and invites partners to help shape the future of mobility.
5 — Estée Lauder: Modernizing Value Chain Planning: How Estée Lauder Built Transformative AI & Data Solutions
June 12 | 2:00pm PT
Explore how Estée Lauder modernized its legacy value chain planning with a Databricks-powered platform designed for enterprise business planning. Presented by Robert Durbin, this session dives into how the platform eliminated SaaS costs, unified supply chain data and logic, and integrated with their Data Mesh to support everything from inventory to risk planning. Learn how scaling AI pilots—like a social media trend app—and leveraging LLMs is enabling real-time, AI-driven business decision-making across the organization.
Lovelytics at Data + AI Summit
Our team will be at Data + AI Summit in full force! We also have three sessions our experts will be presenting at, showcasing real-world success stories with Databricks. You can also stop by our booth (#323) to experience our hands-on demos and strategize with our industry experts.
Predict and Mitigate Asset Risk: Unlock Geospatial Analytics with GenAI
June 10 | 8:00am PT
Learn how Xcel Energy is using GenAI and geospatial data to boost wildfire prevention—achieving 3x more coverage, 4x greater accuracy, and 64x faster processing. See how Databricks enables real-time insights from location data to reduce risk, cut costs, and drive innovation in energy and utilities.
From SAP Silos to Supply Chain Superpower: How AI Is Reinventing Planning
June 10 | 3:40pm PT
Today’s supply chains need real-time intelligence—not just hindsight. Learn how leading CPG companies are using Databricks to unify SAP ERP data with external signals like weather and transportation. Alex Wiss, head of Lovelytics Labs, will share how breaking down SAP silos and making data AI-ready improves forecasting, scenario planning, and supply chain agility.
Automating Taxonomy Generation with Compound AI on Databricks
June 12 | 1:40pm PT
Join Sudhir Gajre, Managing Director of AI & GenAI, and Allistair Cota, Lead Consultant of GenAI at Lovelytics, at to learn how a scalable AI architecture on Databricks—combining LLMs, internal data, and external APIs—can deliver smarter, business-ready taxonomies.
These sessions are just a glimpse into the powerful stories and strategies being shared at this year’s Summit. Whether you’re attending in person or virtually, the Data + AI Summit 2025 is your chance to connect with leaders shaping the future of data and AI. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn, get inspired, and accelerate your own transformation journey. We’ll see you there!
