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Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024: Keynote Day 1: Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks

Ali Ghodsi · Jun 12, 2024 · 28m · San Francisco, California

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Summary

Ghodsi laid out the data intelligence platform: an open lakehouse where formats and governance stop locking data to one vendor, plus AI that understands a company's own data. The week's news included the Tabular acquisition to unify Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, open-sourcing Unity Catalog, and all of Databricks going serverless.

Key themes: Data platforms, Open source, Governance · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said28:01
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  1. 12:31

    Databricks confirmed it is acquiring Tabular, founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg

  2. 13:33

    Delta Lake UniForm, which serves Delta tables as Iceberg too, was announced as GA that week

  3. 15:59

    Databricks said it is open-sourcing Unity Catalog, its governance layer

  4. 20:53

    Data intelligence means the platform understands company-specific jargon so anyone can ask questions of the data

  5. 24:19

    All of Databricks becomes available serverless from July 1, and future products may be serverless only

Announced

1 available the same day
AnnouncedTabular acquisitionThe company behind Apache Iceberg, to unify Iceberg and Delta
GADelta Lake UniFormOne table readable as Delta and Iceberg
AnnouncedUnity Catalog open sourceGovernance catalog open-sourced
ComingServerless for all of DatabricksServerless compute across the platform from July 1

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dt7eJ3cMs

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Photos: Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Tabular, Databricks

Last changed 2026-09-24.