What if you could simply ask your data?
What’s driving growth this quarter?
Which customer segments are performing best?
What are the key trends we should be paying attention to?
Conversational analytics is changing the way people interact with business data. Instead of navigating dashboards, writing queries or waiting for someone to investigate a question, users can ask questions in natural language and get answers directly from their data.
At this Databricks UK Meetup in London, we’ll explore what that looks like in practice with Databricks Genie – and, more importantly, what it takes to make conversational analytics genuinely useful inside an organisation.
Join practitioners from Databricks and Datapao for an evening of live demos, technical insights, real-world perspectives and open discussion, followed by food, drinks and networking with London’s data community.
No previous experience with Databricks or Genie is required.
Beyond the AI demo
Making it possible to ask a question in plain English is the easy part to demonstrate.
Making sure the answer is useful, accurate, trusted and grounded in the right business context is where things get interesting.
Throughout the evening, we’ll explore the practical side of conversational analytics: how Databricks Genie works, what needs to happen behind the scenes, how teams give AI the right business context, and what organisations need to consider around trust, governance and adoption.
You’ll see Genie in action, hear directly from people working with the technology and have the opportunity to put your questions to Databricks and Datapao practitioners.
Featured Sessions
Live Databricks Genie demos
See conversational analytics in action and experience what interacting with business data through natural language actually looks like.
Practical technical insights
Explore what happens behind the interface and what teams need to consider when moving from a compelling demo to something people can reliably use.
Real-world perspectives
Hear different perspectives from Databricks, Datapao and the people putting modern data and AI technologies into practice.
Open discussion and Q&A
Ask questions, challenge assumptions and join the conversation around what works, what remains difficult and where conversational analytics is heading.
Data & Spritz networking
Stay after the sessions for food, drinks and prosecco, and meet other people working across London’s data, analytics and AI community.
Who Should Attend?
This meetup is for people working with (or simply curious about) modern data, analytics and AI.
Whether you’re a data analyst, data engineer, analytics engineer, BI professional, data architect, AI developer, platform engineer, technical consultant, product owner or data and analytics leader, you’ll find something relevant.
You might already be experimenting with Databricks Genie, or this might be the first time you’ve heard of conversational analytics. Both are completely fine.
The goal is to leave you with a clearer understanding of what conversational analytics can do, what it takes to make it work in practice and where it could fit within your organisation.
Participation is intentionally limited to approximately 50 guests to preserve the quality and seniority of the conversation.
Agenda
- 17:30 Doors open, registration & prosecco
- 18:00 Welcome
- 18:10 Conversational analytics and the Databricks perspective
- 18:30 Databricks Genie live demo
- 18:55 Genie in practice: implementation and real-world perspectives
- 19:15 Panel discussion & audience Q&A
- 19:30 onwards Food, drinks & networking
