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Justin Fenton shared thisWeather data has shown to be such a critical data set for Databricks customers. The Accuweather partnership has been an incredible unlock for many of these customers and now they're showing up and doing some awesome events at the AI Summit this year. Please join us! https://lnkd.in/gUGGq5QxJustin Fenton shared thisAvailability isn't adoption. We learned that the hard way. AccuWeather's weather intelligence has been on Databricks Marketplace for a 3+ years now. Clean. Governed. Continuously refreshed. Scalable. Decades of accuracy before "AI ready data" was a phrase anyone used...and it sat underutilized until the right people leaned in. That's the part I want to talk about. Because the growth we've seen over the past 12 months is a partnership story, not a product story. Taylor Melville and Justin Fenton — thank you for keeping us in the room and pushing the relationship forward at every turn. And to the vertical teams — Tony Gilbert, Tony LaVasseur, Pete Kyriakoulis in Commerce, Media & Entertainment, Julien Debard in Energy & Utilities, Herman Lombard in Manufacturing, and Rob Saker in Retail — I want to say this plainly: you are the reason this partnership is working. You didn't treat us like a vendor. You brought us into your world, challenged us to think in outcomes not features, and invested time that didn't have to be invested. That kind of partnership is rare. It doesn't go unnoticed and it doesn't go unappreciated. Now the conversation is evolving fast. Agentic AI needs context to act. MCP is making that context accessible in real time. Weather intelligence — accurate, governed, forecast-grade — is exactly the kind of signal that turns an AI agent from reactive to anticipatory. That's what we'll be talking about at #DataAISummit 2026. Come find us. 🍸 Happy Hour | Tuesday June 16 | 6–9 PM — The Cavalier, Hotel Zetta 🍽️ Luncheon | Wednesday June 17 | 11 AM–2 PM — Shelby's Rooftop, Canopy by Hilton 👇 Event signup link in the comments below 👇 See you in SF. ☀️⛈️ #DataAISummit #DataAI #AgenticAI #MCP #WeatherIntelligence #DatabricksMarketplace #AccuWeather
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Justin Fenton reposted thisJustin Fenton reposted thisWe're live at AVEVA World in Milan this week - come find us at Booth B23. The future of industrial operations runs on OT + IT working as one system. A great example: SQM one of the world's leading specialty chemicals and lithium producers, paired AVEVA PI System and CONNECT with Databricks via Delta Sharing and turned years of fragmented plant data into a closed-loop, AI-driven operating model. The results speak for themselves: ↗ +1% nitrate yield ↗ 1–3% better raw material efficiency ↗ 10–15% less process variability ↗ ~90% accurate predictive models ↗ Time-to-insight: days → minutes If you're at AVEVA World May 19–21, swing by Booth B24 to talk through how we're helping industrial leaders converge OT and IT on a single data + AI foundation. Read the SQM story → https://lnkd.in/ekQnjxNe #AVEVAWorld #IndustrialAI #DataAndAI #Manufacturing #Mining #OTIT #Databricks
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Justin Fenton reposted thisJustin Fenton reposted thisWOW! Caspar Herzberg knows exactly how to open AVEVA World. Turns out, being “super excited” isn't the only shared commitment between AVEVA and Databricks. 😀 ~2 years ago in Paris, Matei Zaharia and Caspar set a bold direction with a simple idea: radical collaboration. That vision has raised the bar for what industrial AI now delivers across the ecosystem. Today, Rob McGreevy brought that to life with a compelling example from SQM, a global leader in industrial chemicals. The challenge is common: model retraining cycles stretched into weeks, and getting updated parameters back into industrial operations lagged - leaving real economic value on the table. By leveraging Delta Sharing, SQM transformed that cycle - what once took weeks now takes hours, directly contributing to increasing yield by 1%, raw material/feedstock efficiency up by 3% and 15% reduction in performance & off-spec variability. Excited that SQM will go deeper on this at Data + AI Summit in San Francisco next month - highly recommend building this into your agenda! #AW2026 #AVEVA #Databricks #RadicalCollaboration
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Justin Fenton shared thisSo excited to share our new partnership with Stripe. The team has built on Delta Sharing and customers can now seamlessly share data with Databricks using the Stripe Data Pipeline. This is available today in the Databricks Marketplace! Full details: https://lnkd.in/gbT7BR9u. Big thanks to the entire Stripe team and big hat tip to Bryson WebsterJustin Fenton shared thisBig news: Stripe payments data is now available on Databricks Marketplace. Activate the Stripe Data Pipeline in minutes, then query live payment data in Databricks to power models, agents and Genie workspaces • Deploy an agent that monitors transactions continuously • Combine transaction history with behavioral signals to score customers • Ask questions like "Show me MRR by geography" and get instant answers No heavy ETL. Just governed, real-time access to the data that drives your business, and a feedback loop between payments and decision-making. https://lnkd.in/gRgr9GYA
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Justin Fenton reposted thisI'm thrilled to be part of the Adobe Summit energy here in Vegas this week. And in the spirit of agentic solutions, I'm excited to share the launch of Adobe's new Delta Sharing connector and our joint agentic integrations. This Delta Sharing connector enables zero-copy sharing of Databricks data. And through these agentic integrations, marketers can bring the rich enterprise context of Genie into Adobe Marketing Agent, and Databricks customers will be able to incorporate Adobe Marketing Agent into agentic solutions built on Agent Bricks: https://lnkd.in/ecdshPWG Thank you to the Adobe team (Chris Kayes, Sameeksha Arora, Gautam Kowshik, Keerthika Koteeswaran, Ankur Jain, Alex Trifan) for the collaboration and partnership. Justin Fenton, Akram Chetibi, Stephen Orban, Sun Cao, Lin Zhou, Mengxi Chen, David Porter 🙌 🙌
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Justin Fenton shared thisHow do you make your Lakehouse sing with your Adobe MarTech investments? We're here at Adobe Summit with a lot of good news around Delta Sharing and Agentic interop. Read all the news here! https://lnkd.in/g99Wbyi6 Special thanks to a long list of folks who leaned in to make this possible Dan Morris, Dan Zuckerberg, Katy Yuan, Susan Moellenberg Max Fisher and many more Bricksters. The Adobe team Chris Kayes, Ankur Jain, Becky Mendoza & Sahil GuptaBridging data science and marketing: Databricks unveils Delta Sharing integration for Adobe Experience Platform and agentic marketing workflowsBridging data science and marketing: Databricks unveils Delta Sharing integration for Adobe Experience Platform and agentic marketing workflows
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Justin Fenton shared thisFantastic to see our partner HighByte build and deploy a new Zerobus support on Databricks to help with the Industrial AI space and use case! https://lnkd.in/gJegccNw. Thanks for the partnership Jeffrey Schroeder & Carolyn Baron
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Justin Fenton shared thisYes to all of this. Our partnership with AVEVA and team has been incredible. I love the spirit of this so much. Daily, measurable progress over moonshots: "Don’t overcomplicate AI. One year on, our collaboration with Databricks has progressed to hands-on execution with customers. Here's what we've learned: radical collaboration isn't about chasing moonshots or unproven technology. Instead, there is massive value in improving the base environment for the customer— modernizing data platforms and improving governance, while upping scale and speed." Thanks so much for the partnership Guillaume BouéJustin Fenton shared thisAVEVA and Databricks collaboration is breaking new ground. Learn how this is helping companies see actual results: • SQM gained 90% accuracy in predictive models. • EDP Renewables improved decision making with 50x more frequent data updates More info the link in comment 👇 Stephen Orban, Justin Fenton, Mor Hezi, Sarah Branfman, Adrian Bolosan, Herman Lombard, Gautier THIBOUT, Shiv Trisal... #AVEVA #OTIT_Integrations #CONNECT
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Justin Fenton reposted thisJustin Fenton reposted thisThe next CPG margin opportunity isn't in pricing. It's in the supply chain. And capturing it requires a fundamentally different relationship with your retail partners, their data, and how you drive decisions. And there is no bigger opportunity that with Walmart. The shift to collaborative supply chains is already happening, and the CPGs moving first are seeing real results: lower inventory costs, stronger shelf presence, and AI-powered decisions made the moment signals arrive. Leading the charge here is Walmart, which is providing suppliers with daily and even hourly level data via Scintilla. On April 8th, Walmart Data Ventures and Databricks are hosting a live conversation on what this actually looks like in practice, from Delta Sharing enabling cross-cloud, zero-duplication data access, to agentic AI turning demand and POS signals into automated replenishment actions in real time. You'll see how you can go from "zero to hero" in a day. If you're in CPG and serious about what joint planning looks like beyond the PowerPoint, this one's worth an hour of your time. 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e7AFCAkRWebinar: The Future of Data Collaboration Between Retailers and CPGsWebinar: The Future of Data Collaboration Between Retailers and CPGs
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an OG Databricks partner legend - go Sue!
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I predict you'll have a fantastic partnership with Aveva. It's an incredibly important use case and the Aveva team is fantastic to work with. I'd be careful with Guillaume Boué though :)
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We had the great pleasure of getting to work with YOU! Thanks for all you did for Databricks but most of all thanks for being a great human, colleague and friend. I'm so happy you get to have this next great 'role' with Harry. You will be missed but enjoy it all! Love ya buddy.
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Justin Fenton reacted on thisJustin Fenton reacted on thisAvailability isn't adoption. We learned that the hard way. AccuWeather's weather intelligence has been on Databricks Marketplace for a 3+ years now. Clean. Governed. Continuously refreshed. Scalable. Decades of accuracy before "AI ready data" was a phrase anyone used...and it sat underutilized until the right people leaned in. That's the part I want to talk about. Because the growth we've seen over the past 12 months is a partnership story, not a product story. Taylor Melville and Justin Fenton — thank you for keeping us in the room and pushing the relationship forward at every turn. And to the vertical teams — Tony Gilbert, Tony LaVasseur, Pete Kyriakoulis in Commerce, Media & Entertainment, Julien Debard in Energy & Utilities, Herman Lombard in Manufacturing, and Rob Saker in Retail — I want to say this plainly: you are the reason this partnership is working. You didn't treat us like a vendor. You brought us into your world, challenged us to think in outcomes not features, and invested time that didn't have to be invested. That kind of partnership is rare. It doesn't go unnoticed and it doesn't go unappreciated. Now the conversation is evolving fast. Agentic AI needs context to act. MCP is making that context accessible in real time. Weather intelligence — accurate, governed, forecast-grade — is exactly the kind of signal that turns an AI agent from reactive to anticipatory. That's what we'll be talking about at #DataAISummit 2026. Come find us. 🍸 Happy Hour | Tuesday June 16 | 6–9 PM — The Cavalier, Hotel Zetta 🍽️ Luncheon | Wednesday June 17 | 11 AM–2 PM — Shelby's Rooftop, Canopy by Hilton 👇 Event signup link in the comments below 👇 See you in SF. ☀️⛈️ #DataAISummit #DataAI #AgenticAI #MCP #WeatherIntelligence #DatabricksMarketplace #AccuWeather
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Justin Fenton liked thisJustin Fenton liked thisWe are opening a new Tokyo HQ in Shin-Maru Building 🇯🇵. 1) Committed to train 50k as part of Prime Minister Takaichi’s AI reskilling initiative. 2) Partnered with Kyushu University and other leading institutions to help develop Japan’s AI talent pool. 3) Our 🇯🇵 business is booming at 100%+ yoy and we are hiring. 4) Announced that our customers include Aeon, Cosmos, MUFG, SMFG, Mizuho, Tokyo Gas, Toyota Motor. https://lnkd.in/eZmRi8Gu
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Justin Fenton liked thisJustin Fenton liked thisVery excited to share that 𝐀𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 v3 is now GA on Databricks! We paid over $1B to acquire Tabular (now part of Databricks) because we really hoped to get Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg closer to each other. The two open source communities have been hard at work and the two formats are now very close to each other (both now have the same Deletion Vectors, Variant Type, Row Tracking)! Congrats to everyone. Much less headache for every organization to organize its data! https://lnkd.in/gDBZSCU7Advancing Apache Iceberg on Databricks: Iceberg v3 GA, Open Sharing, and Unified GovernanceAdvancing Apache Iceberg on Databricks: Iceberg v3 GA, Open Sharing, and Unified Governance
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Justin Fenton liked thisJoin us at the biggest AI event of the year, globally! Register now to save your spot: to join me click here https://lnkd.in/dCaAhRQf Four days of innovation featuring 800+ sessions on lakehouse architecture, AI/ML and open source but only one Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Forum featuring AI in practice with TK Elevator, Toyota Motor Corporation and Xylem, Wednesday, June 17 from 1:00 - 2:30PM in San Francisco #DataAISummit #DatabricksforIndustrials #Databricks #Data #AI #Manufacturing #Industrials Shiv Trisal Herman Lombard Julien Debard David Rogers Caitlin Gordon Anis Mankada Benedict Titz
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Justin Fenton liked thisJustin Fenton liked thisThe demand for Products that are Built-On Databricks is 🔥🔥🔥 ! We're working with more and more implementation partners that are helping B2B software companies to make their dreams a reality. Ust Oldfield at Advancing Analytics published a brilliant post on how they do it. Worth a read! https://lnkd.in/gJE7zf3eBuilt-On Databricks: Delivering Multi-Tenant AnalyticsBuilt-On Databricks: Delivering Multi-Tenant Analytics
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Justin Fenton liked thisJustin Fenton liked thisI am excited to share that I have joined Databricks as Director of VC Backed Startups! Thrilled to get to join such an amazing team!
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Justin Fenton reacted on thisJustin Fenton reacted on thisIf you know me, I hate cliche. I hate the generic version that lacks human authenticity. But it seems apt for this one... I've had my last Day One at AWS. I am who I am because of Amazon. I went in 9 years ago new to Seattle, new to tech, and new to sales. A single guy that was trying to figure out where I fit into this world. AWS gave me direction, gave me purpose, gave me knowledge, gave me achievement.... but most importantly, it gave me family. Kari Zimmerman (Scott), thank you for coming into my life at the perfect time and making me the person I am today. You were (and still are) the secret to my success and inspire me every day to be the best version of myself. On top of that, adding my brother Eric Zimmerman and sister-in-law Megan Poloskey Zimmerman, AIA to the fold a few years later made it a true family business. But family encompassed more than my literal blood relatives. My colleagues quickly became my chosen family. Micah McCollough saw more in me than I saw in my self, Noel Warner challenged me to always be prepared, Erin Morris Dunlop always kept it real through trials and tribulations, Luqman Wade provided an example of growth mindset, and Taylor Phillippi showed me what true team leadership meant. Morgan Clark taught me a fearlessness to reach for the stars, Peter Walchenbach challenged me philosophically, Jarrod J. Ammons expanded my world view, Akeem Enifeni inspired me to always keep learning, Saurabh Sharma, PMP® showed me how to both work and play hard, Christina (Rokakis) Holmer instilled a passion for ID&E, and Tariro Makoni taught me to follow my heart and success will follow. I owe the person I am to these people and MANY more than the character limits (and attention spans) will allow. You know who you are and you know you mean the world to me. More to come soon on future plans, but I leave this chapter with a full heart in awe of the impact the people of Amazon had on my life.
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