I'm a Power BI developer by trade, and for years I've refused to engage with other data visualization platforms. Every time I did, I just found it was lacking capabilities or had serious deficiencies compared to Power BI.

Then 2025 hit and Databricks invested heavily in improving their Analytics offerings: AI/BI, Metric views and Genie. Now, Databricks AI/BI is ready to be a legitimate challenger in the Data Visualisation space.

In this talk I will show you how you can use AI/BI, metric views and Genie to get the most out of your data. We will start from basics, building a metric view, using it to build a dashboard and then setting up a Genie space. I'll then walk you through my top tips on how you can get the most out of each of them. We'll talk about the types of work where AI/BI thrives and discuss where I see it going in its pursuit of being the next big data visualization platform.

AI/BI is here and it's ready to be taken seriously.