Being at the Inflection Point with Ari Kaplan (Databricks) - Ep 024 Highlight 3

In this clip: Ari Kaplan, Head Evangelist at Databricks, explains the lakehouse concept - which draws on the best of data warehouses and data lakes. It increases speed, reduces cost, and employs open source. He personally loves being at the inflection point of new technology and new practices.

In this conversation: Ari Kaplan, Head Evangelist at Databricks. joins Ethan Beute and breaks down AI, machine learning, and LLMs – and shares the unique and powerful role of lakehouses. Ari delivers a brief history of AI and predictive.

Ari also explains how the evangelism role was co-created and shaped within Databricks, as well as his priorities in his first six months in the role. Ari saw success evangelizing data science and AI at DataRobot so, he took a lot of his successes and failures and applied them at a larger scale at his current company.

Links Related to This Episode:
- Ari Kaplan’s on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arikaplan/
- Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/
- Ari Kaplan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arikaplan1

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