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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Databricks - the shows and 55 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Databricks appears across episodes addressing critical infrastructure and operational challenges in AI deployment, from FinOps and AI cost accountability to agentic execution with supervision and orchestration. The platform's role emerges in conversations about how companies actually operationalize AI - managing spending visibility, orchestrating complex workflows, and building reliable systems rather than pursuing theoretical AI benefits in broken organizations.

Best shows on Databricks

Best episodes on Databricks

  1. Freemium at Scale: Why Life360 Protects its Free Users - Giordano Contestabile

    Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2026-05-13

    98 / 100

    …The tools that we use are, I would say tools that most company use, from Databricks to Statsig.…

  2. The Real AI Advantage Isn't What You Think

    AI Proving Ground Podcast · 2026-06-24

    91 / 100

    …And if you've got it in a cloud accessible warehouse, which companies of keyword size certainly do, like that's a Databricks or a Snowflake, you have that ability to scale and have massive parallelization.…

  3. The Data Problem That Kills PE Exit Multiples

    Private Equity Data Guy · 2026-03-06

    90 / 100

    …Snowflake databricks, you know, choose your poison.…

  4. How Databricks Went $1M to $7B+ ARR in 10 Years | Ron Gabrisko, CRO

    The Peel with Turner Novak · 2026-09-10

    89 / 100

    …So you joined Databricks before you guys were.…

  5. How this company lost $2.8M due to three mismatched numbers

    Private Equity Data Guy · 2026-03-12

    88 / 100

    …It can live in aws, Azure, Snowflake, databricks.…

  6. The AI-First Data Engineer: 10 - 50x Productivity and What Changes Next

    Data Engineering Podcast · 2026-04-07

    87 / 100

    …Type a prompt like build me a self-service reporting tool that lets teams query customer metrics from Databricks, and they get a production ready app with the permissions and governance built in.…

  7. Security Data Pipelines: How to Cut SIEM Costs and Noise with Dina Kamal

    Cyber Sentries: AI Insight to Cloud Security · 2026-01-14

    85 / 100

    …I think by having that flexibility, then if you decide to choose a certain SEM technology or a certain data lake like Databricks, Snowflake, or what have you, or the new Sentinel Lake, we can make the data available to that destination in the format it needs very easily, and that really opens up the visibility for the customer.…

  8. AI Meets Data Infrastructure: Cost, Performance, and What’s Coming Next - with Barzan Mozafari

    What's New In Data · 2025-06-05

    84 / 100

    …There's so much incredible stuff going on in terms of the implementations with Snowflake , Databricks , Data Lakes in general , and it's growing to such a massive scale , and we're going to talk about that today .…

  9. Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead

    Adventures in DevOps · 2026-05-15

    83 / 100

    …And then you have to make a very important decision, right? And, but if you sort of optimize for kind of batchish kind of things, like, I would suggest just making, like, a data lake or running in Databricks or something like this, because that's, a good kind of open place to put stuff.…

  10. Liquidity Without Selling: Ian Leisegang on 3Spoke Capital's Structured Secondaries Playbook

    ATLalts · 2026-05-12

    83 / 100

    …portfolio, companies like Canva, which has arguably been one of the biggest and most successful Australian venture backed companies and if not one of the biggest marketings, we have businesses like Databricks in the portfolio for the audience.…

  11. From Compliance to Catalyst: How Parexel’s CIO Builds for Impact

    What's New In Data · 2025-06-26

    82 / 100

    …Then finally, once you bring in the, the, the real production data, you know, John, that's a, a great point and, and you know, a little, a little pat on the back around Striim, Databricks, uh, Kafka, some of our other partners that we're working with, you know, and I would even point in this case to strain our ability now to get at data.…

  12. Balancing Risk and Reward: The Realities of AI in Business - Ken Pickering

    SphereCast · 2025-10-20

    82 / 100

    …like, how do you enable data scientists to test algorithm in production? Easily, right? And we, you know, now there, now there's plenty of tooling for that that you can use like, like SageMaker and Databricks.…

  13. Crafting Data Solutions: Shrinking Pie and Leveraging Insights for Optimal Data Learning - ML 176

    Adventures in Machine Learning · 2024-11-28

    81 / 100
  14. 225: The Fall of CRM gravity (The Dungeon of martech architecture, part 1)

    Humans of Martech · 2026-06-23

    80 / 100

    …Just because like a, a data warehouse, um, or a data lake, or whatever you wanna call it, Databricks or Snowflake, essentially is the only play, the only place I see right now that can handle all that data.…

  15. The Future of Data Teams in the AI Era: Insights from Alex Welch, dbt Labs' Head of Data and Analytics

    Data Hurdles · 2024-11-01

    80 / 100
  16. Coding Agents and the Inevitable AI Bubble with Eric Anderson

    Screaming in the Cloud · 2026-02-12

    80 / 100

    …We get the proprietary databases Snowflake and Databricks and Clickhouse.…

  17. Treat Metering Like Finance: Building Data Platforms for Consumption Economics

    Data Engineering Podcast · 2026-03-29

    79 / 100

    …Type a prompt like build me a self-service reporting tool that lets teams query customer metrics from Databricks, and they get a production ready app with the permissions and governance built in.…

  18. Democratizing AI? Not Without Data Intelligence & Synthetic Data - Ari Kaplan on the Biggest Roadblocks to Scaling AI

    AI & Data Democratization Podcast · 2025-02-20

    79 / 100

    …My guest today is nobody else than Ari Kaplan, the Head of Technical Evangelism at Databricks.…

  19. Combating Burnout in Machine Learning: Strategies for Balance and Collaboration - ML 178

    Adventures in Machine Learning · 2024-12-12

    78 / 100
  20. OK30: How to Build a High-Performing Outbound Team in 2026 (Elric Legloire on Cognism's Prospect Podcast)

    Outbound Kitchen · 2026-04-26

    77 / 100

    …And now on top of that they also have databricks who just surpass them in terms of revenue and company size.…

  21. Corporate Finance Explained | AI in Corporate Finance

    FinPod · 2026-06-04

    77 / 100

    …Which is why we hear so much about cloud data platforms like Snowflake or Databricks.…

  22. Benjamin van der Maas: Using AI to Scale FinOps

    FinOpsPod · 2025-12-16

    77 / 100

    …Public cloud, private cloud, data cloud, Snowflake and databricks.…

  23. From Data Pipelines to Agentic Applications: Deploying LLM Apps That Actually Work

    What's New In Data · 2025-05-01

    77 / 100

    …In this episode , I'm joined by Spencer Cook , senior Solutions Architect at Databricks .…

  24. EP 104 - Future Proof Your Career in 2025

    Digital Value Creation · 2024-12-09

    77 / 100

    …But probably equally or even more importantly invest in understanding the role of data platforms like Snowflake DataBricks and either AWS's.…

  25. Godard Abel - G2 - Software Buying In The Age of AI

    Cloud Radio · 2025-09-03

    77 / 100

    …peaker A: or opportunity Opportunity and I think both the data infrastructure obviously companies like DataBricks, Snowflake and AI only works on good data and so I think now every enterprise, every business is realizing they need a centralized data lake data warehouse where they can have all their data and also most importantly…

  26. Barry Russell - The open-source foundation of every AI partnership

    Partnerships Unraveled · 2026-06-04

    76 / 100

    …to look after uh building out their partnership business, which really included the work that we do with the public cloud hyperscalers, the partnerships that we have with companies like Snowflake, Databricks, certainly our work with Nvidia, and also uh how we engage the channel, so the traditional VAR, as well as a growing group of SIs.…

  27. The First Wave of AI Is Over - What's Next for Enterprise AI? | Clint Chao

    Liftoff with Keith · 2026-07-07

    76 / 100
  28. Integrating Business Needs and Technical Skills in Effective Model Serving Deployments - ML 184

    Adventures in Machine Learning · 2025-02-13

    76 / 100
  29. Clean Data, Business Context, and the Future of Analytics - Featuring Noy Twerski, Sherloq Co-founder & CEO

    Data Hurdles · 2025-02-17

    75 / 100

    …So I joined Databricks as a solutions architect and I'm loving it.…

  30. What I wish I'd Known About Sales With Andy Laws

    B2B Sales Playbook · 2026-05-12

    74 / 100

    …I'm Martin from Lead Forensics, and today's guest is Andy Laws, sales development leader at Databricks and founder of RevRocket, where he helps companies design and scale sustainable pipeline generation systems.…

  31. DeepSeek's Cost-Efficient Model Training ($5M vs hundreds of millions for competitors)

    Data Hurdles · 2025-02-22

    73 / 100

    …My, my daughter had a cold last day, so it's been a little rough, but doing well, excited about a lot of the things I've been learning at Databricks.…

  32. SpaceX Surges, Anthropic Stumbles, and Bezos Bets $12B

    trading places · 2026-06-23

    72 / 100

    …peaker A: And then Stripe and Databricks definitely valued north of 100 billion, I believe.…

  33. EP 77: Justin McBroom, Operations Data Specialist

    Energy Bytes · 2025-11-28

    72 / 100

    …let the drilling and completions departments kind of have access to some of these tools, 18:13 either coding agents or whatever, but they're able to quickly solve their problems and stuff like our Databricks and something like, why not give them a sandbox environment like this?…

  34. From Data Projects to Data Products: Essential Skills for AI Leaders

    Data Analytics Chat · 2026-02-04

    71 / 100

    …is that like a massive implementation of the 238 00:10:24,615 - > 00:10:27,885 data product architecture started and it's actually driven 239 00:10:27,885 - > 00:10:32,186 by major hyperscalers like Databricks, Microsoft Fabric 240 00:10:32,875 - > 00:10:33,895 snowflake, right?…

  35. Tech Transforms: Episode 6

    ATARC Federal IT Newscast · 2026-06-02

    68 / 100

    …Um, and it's just, you know, it's built, it's built on a data platform with databricks and we're just building off of that incrementally.…

  36. #53 - Scaling AI from experimentation to real impact

    Talking Industry · 2026-05-19

    68 / 100

    …All of our machine learning uh, AI um is through uh, databricks, uh, which is an enterprise grade machine learning AI platform.…

  37. The Future of AI Pricing: From Human-in-the-Loop to Fully Automated Decisions with Alex Halkin

    Pricing Heroes · 2026-03-26

    67 / 100

    …Then another wave with Databricks appeared, that gives you the ability to speak with the data and transform the data quicker amongst all the different infrastructure.…

  38. 2,000 AI Apps in One Year: When Users Build Without Limits

    The Scale Up Show · 2025-06-04

    67 / 100

    …so many, many, many, many companies, tens of thousands of companies have moved from some sort of premises based data architecture and warehousing to the cloud, right? So this is the advent of the databricks, the snowflakes, the big queries.…

  39. The AI Portfolio Dilemma: Why Most Companies Can't Account for What They're Spending | CDO Matters Ep 104

    CDO Matters Podcast · 2026-06-26

    67 / 100

    …I mean you see databricks, uh, and even Snowflake and I mean they're actually continuing to grow and they're not, you know, they didn't experience that SaaS apocalypse moment because people know these foundations are needed and you kind of have…

  40. Episode 4 - Why your next great enabler might already be sitting on your sales floor. With Varun Desai

    The Enablement Optimization Podcast · 2026-05-14

    66 / 100

    …Chris and I are ah, back today with Varun Desai, a senior sales enablement program manager at Databricks.…

  41. AI won't save a broken organization

    Conversations with MarTech · 2026-05-27

    63 / 100

    …And you know, there's a broader, I mean, you look at, let's say, uh, an organization like Databricks or Snowflake and the hyperscalers like AWS and Azure, I mean they're, they're being built for use cases that go way beyond marketing.…

  42. Series 6 Episode 11 - Experimentation for retention: Can you test your way to reduced subscription churn?

    #THEBIGLIFT · 2025-11-02

    63 / 100

    …But even smaller companies will have either in their CRM or in warehouses like databricks, which we've just started looking at, uh, um, integrating with, will have these propensity, these, these models to, to look about what is the likelihood of someone churning.…

  43. Is the Data Migration Nightmare Finally Over? w/ Pradnesh Patil

    Data Unchained · 2026-05-29

    62 / 100

    …Also on different platforms like databricks, Snowflake or Bigquery, that requires a lot of human work as well.…

  44. AI Unicorns, $3 Trillion VC Deals & 9 Must-Do Steps to Start Your Business | Scrushy on Business

    Scrushy on Business · 2025-12-11

    62 / 100

    …Um, this company Databricks.…

  45. FinOps and AI

    Next in Tech · 2026-06-23

    61 / 100

    …So that brings SaaS into the picture like how do you account for your spending on Snowflake and Databricks and some of those other software platforms and how do you do on premises infrastructure cost, how do you bring that into the mix?…

  46. I Used Claude to Pitch Sponsors (Easy Prompt)

    Sponsor Magnet · 2026-05-25

    57 / 100
  47. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, June 30, 2026

    DX Today · 2026-06-30

    51 / 100

    …Databricks and NVIDIA unveiled Genesis Workbench, a modular environment that pulls the scattered stages of computational biology under one roof.…

  48. Episode 28- How Should Supply Chain Teams Frame Their AI Deployment Strategies

    The Supply Chain Matters Podcast · 2026-01-27

    51 / 100

    …So when you look at organizations like a snowflake or a databricks, and you hear terms like ontology, layers and data fabrics, and it's all centered around doing exactly what you're talking about, breaking down these silos, understanding how you bring large swaths of data, disparate…

  49. Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Distillation Attack on Claude

    Machine Learning Podcast · 2026-06-25

    50 / 100

    …A story I'm super excited about is that Naveen Rao, so he is the ex AI chief at Databricks, he left and he launched his own company which is called Unconventional AI and he said that an oscillator based chip architecture can cut inference power by up to 1000x versus a uh, GPU.…

  50. The Leadership Health Crisis: Rich Williams, Senior VP at Hexaware Technologies, Shares His Wake-Up Call

    Data Hurdles · 2025-05-15

    48 / 100

    …But yeah, I'm really excited about the role I have today too, which is really leading the relationships between my company and companies like Databricks, which is where Michael is.…

  51. How AI is increasing Middle Market Company Value

    Business Valuation... Real Talk · 2026-06-22

    47 / 100

    …There's a Databricks which is a major, major AI power analytics firm.…

  52. Claude Code Will Stop Asking Permission Next Week

    Stacked Podcast · 2026-08-09

    45 / 100

    …And then we've got some interesting stuff that's kicking off with databricks.…

  53. Agentic Execution with Supervision & Orchestration - S2 E11

    Frankly, By Design · 2026-05-23

    44 / 100

    …Plus we're looking at deep dives into agent evaluation frameworks from MLflow and Databricks.…

  54. AI Business Strategy for CIOs with Naveen Zutshi of Databricks

    CIO Classified · 2024-10-24

  55. The State of Lakehouse Architecture: A Conversation with Roy Hassan on Maturity, Challenges, and Future Trends

    Data Engineering Weekly · 2025-02-26

    …So I would say in particular, like databricks, pretty much every customer who is using databricks is already using a lakehouse.…