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DATABRICKS

“ HOW DO WE GO FROM AI STRATEGY BEING ON A POWERPOINT TO BEING

ACTUALLY USED IN PRODUCTION?”

Shiv Trisal Global Industrials
GTM Lead Databricks
Making‘ real decisions’ with AI Shiv is clear about what matters most over the next 12 months and beyond: moving AI from the strategy deck into production.
He asks:“ How do we go from AI strategy being on a PowerPoint to being actually used in production, making real decisions alongside humans?
“ That’ s really the goal and the shift we have to make as a company.”
For Databricks, the two organisational priorities are Genie’ s continued rollout to business users and the establishment of Lakebase as the foundation for humanagent collaboration. Underpinning both is a commitment to data governance – ensuring data from IT, operational technology and engineering sources is brought together under a single intelligence engine.
Shiv is candid about the wider challenge, insisting that too much has been promised and too little delivered in the physical world.
“ Frontier models haven’ t really made much of an impact in the physical world,” he says.“ It starts with connecting machines, data and people, and embracing that in how you get work done.” That, for Databricks, is precisely where the hard work begins.
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