Serving Technical and Non-Technical People with Ari Kaplan (Databricks) - Ep 024 Highlight 4

In this clip: Ari Kaplan, Head Evangelist at Databricks, talks through the technical nature of the go-to-market strategy and conversation. Artificial intelligence, large language models, and other tech requires communication with non-technical executives, as well. "The art of the possible" involves explanations and stories shred in simple, non-technical terms.

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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