Data foundation

The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks

The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks

Sandipan Bhaumik presents a five-pillar framework for successfully moving AI systems from demos to production, inspired by a retail bank's failed chatbot PoC. The framework covers defining numerical success (Evaluation), tracing every AI decision (Observability), building robust data pipelines (Data Foundation), managing multiple AI interactions (Multi-agent Orchestration), and ensuring accountability and security (Governance). He illustrates these concepts with a banking chatbot case study, emphasizing continuous evaluation, data quality, and a proactive incident playbook.

Why AI Agents Shouldn't Replace Your Fraud Models

Why AI Agents Shouldn't Replace Your Fraud Models

Varant Zanoyan, original author of the Chronon feature platform, introduces 'agentic experimentation'—a pattern where AI agents improve high-stakes ML systems without making live decisions. He explains how Chronon solves key challenges like infrastructure sprawl, safety, and reproducibility through a semantic API, branch-based isolation, and compute reuse, enabling agents to safely create production-ready pipelines for human review.