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Fireside Chat Keynote with Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks and Co-Founder of MosaicML

Speaker:
Naveen Rao, Vice President of AI at Databricks and Co-Founder of MosiacML
Moderators:
Kazu Gomi, President and CEO, NTT Research, Inc.
Fay Hazaveh Costa,Partner, NTTVC

Summary

Fireside Chat Keynote with Naveen Rao
 
Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks, observes that current enterprise AI adoption focuses on productivity enhancements—such as coding assistants—rather than full automation, with notable efficiency gains. At Databricks, he drives the development of unified data platforms and natural language tools like Genie, which make AI more accessible and customizable for businesses. Rao believes true autonomous AI agents are still years away, advising enterprises to pursue targeted, measurable AI projects while anticipating major advances in user interfaces, reliability, and self-learning systems in the near future.

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