The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks
Databricks lead shares a framework for taking AI demos to production, warning model-first thinking causes failures.
“And every conversation started with let's choose the model, right?”
A Databricks technical lead presents a playbook for deploying enterprise AI agents at scale, arguing teams wrongly start with model selection and build demos that break in production. The talk frames common failure patterns where demos impress leadership but underperform on real-world data. It's a useful practitioner perspective on operationalizing AI, though it offers framework guidance rather than a major industry announcement.