Data Engineering Lessons from the Field
2026-04-21 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Event Details:

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 21st 5:30-7:00 PM CST
Location: MSOE 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, WI 5320
Room Number: 445

Agenda:

5:30-6:00: Networking with User Group and Professionals + Food, Drinks and Prizes
6:00-7:00: Data Engineering Panel

Description:

Join us on April 21 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus for an energizing evening with the Milwaukee Databricks User Group from 5:30–7:00 PM. We’re bringing together top data engineers and architects from across the region for a fast-paced, no-fluff panel discussion on what it really takes to build, scale, and modernize today’s data platforms. From architecture decisions and governance to performance, cost optimization, and real-world production lessons, this conversation is all about practical insight you can apply immediately. The panel will feature Kent Maxwell, Maggie Schweihs, Ryan Shiva, and Karthik Kadapa. Come early to network with Milwaukee’s growing data community, stay for a dynamic discussion, and leave with new connections and actionable ideas to elevate your data strategy.

WI Databricks User Group - Lakehouse Secure Reference Architectures
2026-05-19 17:30 - 19:00 | MSOE Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall Building, 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Room DH445, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Event Details:

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 19th 5:30-7:00 PM CST
Location: MSOE 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, WI 5320
Room Number: 445

Agenda:

5:30-6:00: Networking with User Group and Professionals + Food, Drinks and Prizes
6:00-7:00: Lakehouse Secure Reference Architectures Presentation

Description:

• Join us for a session on the Databricks Lakehouse Accelerator, a reusable framework designed to rapidly deploy and standardize secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse environments using Terraform, Unity Catalog, and medallion architecture best practices.
• The presentation will showcase a modular Secure Reference Architecture (SRA) featuring networking, private endpoints, RBAC, Azure Key Vault integration, and enterprise deployment automation.
• We’ll also demonstrate how the accelerator enables parameterized data ingestion and scalable Bronze, Silver, and Gold pipelines for BI, analytics, and ML workloads.
• Attendees will gain insight into real-world deployment challenges, governance strategies, and lessons learned while implementing secure Databricks environments.
• The session will include architecture walkthroughs, infrastructure automation concepts, and live demonstrations of the accelerator in action.

Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 Recap: Agents, Engines, and Orchestration
2026-07-21 17:30 - 19:00 | MSOE Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall Building, 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Room DH445, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Event Details:

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 21st 5:30-7:00 PM CST
Location: MSOE 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Room Number: 310

Agenda:

5:30-6:00: Networking with User Group and Professionals + Food, Drinks and Prizes
6:00-7:00: Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 Recap

Description:

Join us on July 21st as Tyler Faulkner breaks down the biggest announcements from this year’s Databricks Data + AI Summit. We’ll walk through the major keynote drops, including Genie One, Genie Ontology, and Omnigent on the agentic side, plus Lakehouse//RT and its new Reyden engine bringing real-time serving directly onto the lakehouse. We’ll also dig into the upcoming orchestration updates landing in Lakeflow Jobs and what they mean for how we build pipelines going forward. Come early to network with Milwaukee’s growing data community, stay for a practical walkthrough of the highlights, and leave with a clear read on where the platform is heading and what to bring back to your own stack.

Designing Scalable Intelligent Document Processing Platforms - WI Databricks User Group
2026-08-18 17:30 - 19:00 | MSOE Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall Building, 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Room DH445, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Virtual Option
Can’t attend in person? No problem, we’ll also be streaming an online webinar from the event. Click below to register:
Virtual Event

Event Details:
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 18th 5:30-7:00 PM CST
Location: MSOE 1025 N Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Room Number: 310

Agenda:

5:30-6:00: Networking with User Group and Professionals + Food, Drinks and Prizes
6:00-7:00: Designing Scalable Intelligent Document Processing Platforms with Andrew McQueen

Description:

Join us on August 18th as Andrew McQueen discusses how to design scalable intelligent document processing platforms. Unstructured data remains one of the largest untapped assets and operational bottlenecks within modern enterprises. Despite meaningful investments in automation, many organizations still rely on manual and error prone processes to interpret documents, emails, and other raw text inputs. Traditional rule based approaches often fail to scale with variability, limiting both efficiency and business impact.
This session positions document processing as a strategic data and AI capability. It compares legacy approaches with modern architectures powered by large language models, retrieval augmented generation, and cloud scale data platforms. Attendees will walk through the design of an end to end intelligent document processing pipeline, from ingestion of emails and attachments to document classification, contextual data extraction, and integration into downstream enterprise systems.
The focus is on building scalable and production ready solutions that improve data quality, accelerate decision making, and unlock operational efficiency.
