Microsoft & Databricks in Chicago: Data & AI Executive Evening
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Location
- Microsoft Office - Chicago
- 200 E Randolph St. Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601
Date
- Wednesday 8th July 2026
Time
- 02:00 - 06:00 PM CDT
About the event
AI has moved from answering questions to running on your data, and the platform decisions you make now will define your 2026.
Join Royal Cyber, Databricks, and Microsoft for an executive evening focused on one practical question: how do the data and AI layers work together without becoming a science project?
In three focused hours, we’ll cover Databricks as the data and query layer (Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, AI/BI, Lakebase, MLflow) and Azure AI Foundry as the AI layer for building and managing agents. We’ll also recap the key Data + AI Summit 2026 announcements, including Lakebase as a transactional and analytics alternative to Oracle.
In a 40-minute live demo, you’ll see Genie, AI/BI apps, Lakebase, benchmarking, and MLflow running on Databricks and integrated with Azure AI Foundry, with Genie surfaced directly in Microsoft Copilot Studio through connectors and MCP.
The result is enterprise-ready Genie wherever your teams work, with governance and quality controls across both layers.
No fluff, no 40-slide vendor pitch. Just the architecture, the announcements that matter, and a real conversation with the room.
Who Should Attend
This is an executive-audience session designed for the people making the calls:
- C-Suite and senior leadership (CEO, CTO, CDO, COO)
- Heads of Data, Analytics, and AI
- Enterprise Architects and Platform Owners
- Digital Transformation and Innovation leaders
- Data Engineering and BI leaders evaluating Databricks + Microsoft
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Speakers
Global Head of Evangelism, Databricks
Account Executive, Databricks
Solution Architect, Databricks
Full Agenda
Arrival & Networking
- 3:00–3:20 PM CT
- Grab a coffee, meet the room, and settle in.
Joint Welcome & Context Setting
- 3:20–3:35 PM CT
- Databricks + Royal Cyber
- Databricks + Royal Cyber Why we're all here, and how the data layer and AI layer fit together.
Enterprise AI: The Questions We Keep Hearing
- 3:35–3:45 PM CT
- Royal Cyber
- Royal Cyber The real challenges leaders are bringing to us right now and the ones we'll tackle tonight.
Microsoft Data & AI Foundation
- 3:45–4:00 PM CT
- Microsoft
- Richard Schwarz, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Copilot, and the broader Microsoft AI platform as your enterprise AI layer.
Databricks Stack Overview + Data + AI Summit 2026 Recap
- 4:00–4:45 PM CT
- Databricks + Royal Cyber
- Databricks + Royal Cyber Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, AI/BI, Lakebase, and Agentic AI and exactly what changes on your roadmap.
Industry Challenges: What We're Actually Solving
- 4:45–5:00 PM CT
- Royal Cyber
- Royal Cyber The real-world problems behind the demos, straight from the field.
Live Demo — Databricks as the Data and AI Layer and its interconnectivity with tools on Azure
- 5:00–5:40 PM CT
- Royal Cyber + Databricks
- Royal Cyber + Databricks Genie, benchmarking, AI/BI apps, Lakebase, and MLflow on Databricks, orchestrated and evaluated in MLflow on Databricks, with Genie surfaced through enterprise agent platforms via connectors and MCP
Open Floor Q&A
- 5:40–6:00 PM CT
- All
- All speakers A real conversation with the room and bring your hardest questions.
Happy Hour & 1:1s
- 6:00 PM CT onward
- Informal drinks, deeper conversations, and time with the team.
