Tag: Blog

  • Big Data & Analytics Summit Recap

    Big Data & Analytics Summit Recap

    That’s a wrap on the Big Data & Analytics Canada West Summit 2026! 👏 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, shared their challenges and swapped ideas with the Cavallo team over the past two days. The conversations were the highlight for us. A few themes that stood out: đŸ”č Governance done right…

  • Big Data & Analytics Canada West

    Big Data & Analytics Canada West

    Cavallo is proud to be a sponsor of the Big Data & Analytics Canada West Summit, happening now in Vancouver! 🚀 Over the next two days, Data, Analytics and AI leaders from across Western Canada are coming together to tackle what it really takes to move AI from strategy to scale. Don’t miss our Director…

  • Cavallo’s Databricks Data + AI Lunch Recap

    Cavallo’s Databricks Data + AI Lunch Recap

    A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the first edition of Cavallo’s Databricks Data + AI Lunch in Vancouver and MontrĂ©al! Our behind-the-scenes look at Document Intelligence really struck a chord with the room, showing step by step how unstructured files become business-ready data. Thank you to our friends at Databricks for…

  • ALL IN MontrĂ©al 2026 Takeaways

    ALL IN Montréal 2026 Takeaways

    That’s a wrap on ALL IN MontrĂ©al 2026! 9500 attendees came together at Canada’s largest AI conference, and the Cavallo Technologies Inc. team was proud to be a part of it. As a Databricks-exclusive partner, we spent two days in non-stop conversations about what’s possible with Data and AI, and what we’ve been building with…

  • Fast, Disposable RAG: Session-Scoped Document Q&A on Databricks

    Fast, Disposable RAG: Session-Scoped Document Q&A on Databricks

    Choosing Lakebase over Vector Search for per-chat document upload.

  • The Databricks Feature Store in Practice

    The Databricks Feature Store in Practice

    What we would tell a team starting today.

  • Bowling & Dinner with the Toronto Team

    Bowling & Dinner with the Toronto Team

    This week, the Cavallo Team in Toronto came together after work for bowling and dinner. Great conversations, lots of laughs, and even better food. Moments like these remind us how valuable in-person activities are for helping the team connect and recharge.

  • Deploying AI Agents as Databricks Apps

    Deploying AI Agents as Databricks Apps

    The standard way to deploy agents on Databricks has been the model serving endpoint. However, Databricks now recommends Databricks Apps as the deployment target for new agents, while the model serving endpoint still remains supported for existing agents. 

  • Cavallo Team at Women in AI Career Fair

    Cavallo Team at Women in AI Career Fair

    What a great afternoon at the Women in AI Ontario Career Fair in Toronto! 💙 It was a pleasure representing Cavallo Technologies and being part of such an engaging event. Helping coordinate our team’s participation, getting our booth ready, and then spending the afternoon meeting students, professionals, and experienced engineers made for a rewarding day.…

  • Fix the Foundation: How We Won the Databricks Hackathon 2026

    Fix the Foundation: How We Won the Databricks Hackathon 2026

    Building a trust scoring system for LLM-assembled healthcare data using Databricks By: Praveen Sundaresan Ramesh, Sidhant Guliani, and Amine Jallouli. The Challenge  The Databricks Hackathon for Good, in partnership with OpenAI, was a 36-hour challenge that kicked off on the first day of the Data & AI Summit 2026. The dataset was assembled by Databricks…

  • LTAP + Lakehouse//RT: The Data Layer for the AI Agent Era

    LTAP + Lakehouse//RT: The Data Layer for the AI Agent Era

    Two announcements from DAIS 2026 show how improvements to the data layer can make AI agents faster and more capable, without touching the agent code itself: LTAP and Lakehouse//RT. In the following, we will go into details of those new changes/technologies and show how they can improve Agents’ capabilities. We will use an example that…

  • Cavallo Team Wins Databricks Summit Hackathon

    Cavallo Team Wins Databricks Summit Hackathon

  • Cavallo Team Wins Databricks Summit Hackathon

    Cavallo Team Wins Databricks Summit Hackathon

    Super proud of my team Praveen Sundaresan Ramesh Sid Guliani and Mohamed Amine Jallouli, MSc for winning 1st place at the Databricks Apps & Agent for Good Hackathon 2026 at the Databricks Data & AI Summit! 122 teams, 450 participants, 1 day (and maybe a few extra hours 😁 ) The Challenge:Given 100k rows of…

  • Databricks Data + AI Summit – Day 2

    Databricks Data + AI Summit – Day 2

    🚀 Live from the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 Keynote — San Francisco! The numbers on that screen say it all:100K total attendees. 800+ sessions. 174+ countries. 240+ exhibitors. 350+ customer sessions. And the energy in that room? Absolutely electric. ⚡ This is the largest Data + AI conference in the world — and…

  • Databricks Data + AI Summit – Day 1

    Databricks Data + AI Summit – Day 1

    Badges in hand, and the sign says it all: SUPER EXCITED! Let the fun begin at the Databricks #DAIS. Hackathon, Partner Summit, and Training are some of Day 1 activities- and, of course, all the people that make this such a cohesive ecosystem: Databricks technical, product, AEs, Industry specialists, and Marketing.

  • #BDC2026 Wrapped

    #BDC2026 Wrapped

    That’s a wrap on a couple of action-packed days at the Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada in Toronto. Ran out of Pegasus plushies quickly and went through a ton of socks 😃 Lots of insightful conversations, new connections and familiar faces, all sharing our Data and AI journeys across industries. Just enough time to…

  • Salon Connexion in MontrĂ©al

    Salon Connexion in Montréal

    Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Salon Connexion, one of the most energizing and brilliantly organised events on the digital transformation calendar. 3,000+ experts. One day. Countless conversations about where data, AI, and technology are headed. Having a booth gave us a front-row seat to the questions and challenges that are top of mind…

  • Deploying AI To Production Is Hard

    Deploying AI To Production Is Hard

    Anyone with AI-based products/solutions stuck in prototype mode? Deploying to production is hard, but you might already have everything you need. Yesterday at the Databricks Financial Forum in Toronto, I shared with the audience what we’re seeing (and doing) in the AI/Agentic space in the Financial Industry world, from low-barrier use cases to complex autonomous…

  • Databricks Financial Services Forum Toronto Recap

    Databricks Financial Services Forum Toronto Recap

    Generic AI summarizes noise. Financial intelligence moves capital and faces auditors. That was the throughline at Today’s Databricks Financial Services Forum in Toronto. Four customer talks, every one landing the same point. RBC Capital Markets’ Aiden Research, presented by Michael Tran, is a masterclass in agent decomposition. A suite of specialized agents – QuickTakes, Earnings,…

  • All-In Talks West 2026

    All-In Talks West 2026

    A little late to post my thoughts on attending the ALL IN Talks West earlier this week in Vancouver but here goes. Keynotes from Mayor Ken Sim, FCPA, FCA, BC’s Minister of AI and New Technologies Rick Glumac, TELUS, SCALE AI – Canada’s AI Cluster, brought perspectives and a road map of AI initiatives and…

  • Databricks MontrĂ©al User Group Recap

    Databricks Montréal User Group Recap

    Another action-packed Databricks User Group in MontrĂ©al last night! Amazing to see the growth of the Data and AI community here and the business outcomes and value being driven for Databricks customers. Huge thanks as always to the Databricks team for all their efforts to make these events so worthwhile: Vincent Fortier, Alain Mercier, Eric…

  • Databricks QuĂ©bec User Group Recap

    Databricks Québec User Group Recap

    Databricks QuĂ©bec User Group and SAS Migration session with Cavallo Technologies Inc. was full of great content, conversations, and product/feature road map discussions with the tight knit Data and AI community. Great turnout considering the wind that made all forms of travel “challenging” 😀 Thank you to Alain Mercier, Vincent Fortier and Eric Brien for…

  • Cavallo Hackathon Recap

    Cavallo Hackathon Recap

    What a day at Cavallo Technologies Inc. Databricks Hackathon! The team(s) across Canada got together in #Toronto, #MontrĂ©al, and #Vancouver in full force and collaborated across #DataEngineering, #DataScience, #AI, #ML, across industries and use cases. When all you do is Databricks, with 60 #certified #Data and #AI superstars, the results are pretty outstanding. To quote…

  • Internal Hackathon 2026

    Internal Hackathon 2026

    Databricks Hackathon day is here! Lots of energy across Cavallo Technologies Inc. across the country today: #Vancouver, #Montreal, and #Toronto in-person locations with virtual participants from Victoria, Winnipeg, and Halifax. Great collaboration between Data and AI Engineering, diving deep into various industries’ use cases in Databricks: hashtag#Retail, hashtag#Manufacturing, hashtag#Energy, hashtag#Financial.✅ Ingesting Space Station live sensor…

  • Women in Data+AI Montreal Open House

    Women in Data+AI Montreal Open House

    We had the pleasure of hosting a Women in Data + AI event at our Montreal office as part of its official opening. The event brought together professionals and enthusiasts from across the Data + AI community for an engaging, workshop-style session focused on connection, shared learning, and meaningful conversation. The discussions were so engaging…