Unlocking agentic data engineering with Lakeflow + Genie

Description

Data engineering is a messy process, and the growth of AI apps and agents is adding more complexity. The data that AI needs is stored all over the enterprise. Previously, companies had to rely on brittle, expensive pipelines to move this information. But Lakeflow make it easy to turn raw data stored in these systems into insights and action. At the 2026 Data + AI Summit, Bilal Aslam, Sr. Director of Product Management at Databricks, shared updates to Lakeflow and introduced Genie ZeroOps, an AI agents for data and AI operations. Learn more: https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-genie-zeroops 00:00 —Data engineering and the "messy middle" 02:21 — Simpliyfing the data stack 03:18 — Building an open data foundation for AI with Lakeflow 04:50 — Now available: Lakeflow Designer 05:40 — Lakeflow Connect's growing ecosystem 06:18 — Ditching Kafka with Zerobus Ingest 06:57 — Updates to Lakeflow Jobs 08:47 — Challenges to using AI in data operations 12:34 — Introducing Genie ZeroOps with live demo 17:23 — What Genie ZeroOps means for data engineers Presenters: Bilal Aslam, Sr. Director of Product Management, Databricks