Welcome to our Big Data LDN Hub

Our Itinerary
Wednesday 23rd September
9am-6pm
The start of the fun! We'll be at Booth P70 all day - come and ask questions, or try your hand at our infamous clAAw machine!
5pm
Happy hour time! We'll still be at our booth, with drinks in hand - join us for a chat.
6pm-8pm
We'll be hosting the Databricks Meetup on site at BDL - watch this space for more details.
7pm-11pm
Data After Hours - we're sponsoring the Databricks after party! Join us for some drinks on the roof terrace of the Olympia.
Thursday 24th September
9am-5:30pm
BDL Day 2 - we'll be on the booth all day as usual.
2-3:30pm
Our executive workshop - Monetising your data asset: Built on Databricks.
Hosted by Ust Oldfield and Simon Whiteley.
Location TBC.
5:30pm
Head home, having done 20,000 steps each day. Time for a cuppa.
Our Session:
Platforms Don't Make Money. Products Do. The Missing Link in Data Monetisation

Ust Oldfield | Field Chief Data Officer
24th September | 11:20 - 11:50 | Keynote X Theatre
Add it to your plan
While data is widely recognised as a strategic asset, the reality is that platforms alone do not create revenue.
Products do.
Drawing on examples from across industry, using the Built-On Databricks model, we examine how organisations can move beyond implementing technology and begin packaging their expertise, insights and intellectual property into repeatable, scalable products that customers – both internally and externally are willing to use or buy.
- Learn the key barriers preventing organisations from monetising data and AI.
- Discover how leading organisations are turning repeatable expertise into scalable products and revenue-generating intellectual property.
- Explore the Built-On Databricks approach as a practical example of moving from platform implementation to product innovation.
- Gain a framework for evaluating whether an idea is a true product opportunity.
Executive Workshop - Monetising your data asset: Built on Databricks
24th September | 14:00-15:30 | Location TBC
Limited spaces available!
Expanding on the session, this executive workshop focuses on the gap between having a data platform and creating commercial value from it. This gap is something more businesses should be capitalising - and the challenge usually isn't the technology, but how to identify and package expertise, insights, and intellectual property into repeatable, scalable products that people are willing to use, adopt, or buy.
This exclusive workshop will explore how leading organisations are moving beyond platform implementation and using the Built on Databricks approach to create data-driven products that generate value at scale.
Through practical discussion, industry examples and a proven framework, we'll examine what separates successful data monetisation strategies from costly platform investments that fail to deliver a return.
- Why data should be treated as a strategic asset, not just a technology initiative
- The Built on Databricks model and how organisations are turning platform investments into products
- How leading businesses are transforming repeatable expertise into scalable intellectual property
- What successful data monetisation looks like in practice through a real-world use case
- A practical framework for assessing whether an idea has genuine product and commercial potential
Hosted by:

Ust Oldfield | Field Chief Data Officer

Simon Whiteley | Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder
Meet the Team
This is who you'll see on our booth, and who you can book meetings with during the event.
Our Services
LakeForge
Our AI-accelerated Databricks Lakeflow framework. It gives you the speed of vibe-coding, with the guardrails of traditional engineering. LakeForge is designed for teams building dozens or hundreds of pipelines on Databricks, where consistency, structure, and long-term operability matter as much as speed.
LakeForge MDM
LakeForge MDM runs directly inside your Databricks environment, giving you a governed system for managing the data everything else depends on. Reference data, hierarchies, and golden records are owned, versioned, and controlled, not rebuilt downstream in every pipeline, dashboard, or model.
AI Blueprint
Our ready-to-deploy Databricks native LLMOps platform solution that delivers results on day one, while giving you the enterprise controls to scale safely. With proven impact, one organisation cut processing time by >90%. It's designed for scale, with Unity AI Gateway centralising management and governance.
Why stop by our stand?
Everyone's talking about AI. Everyone's modernising their data platform. If you're investing in data, AI and Databricks, the question isn't how do we build it?
It's: What are we actually getting back?
At Big Data LDN, we're sharing how organisations are turning data, expertise and AI capabilities into repeatable products, scalable IP and new sources of value using the Built on Databricks approach.
Come and talk to us about:
- How to get more value from the data and AI capabilities you've already built
- Turning expertise and intellectual property into scalable products and revenue-generating assets
- Modern data, AI and Databricks strategies that accelerate time-to-value and reduce delivery risk
- Building practical AI solutions that move beyond proof of concepts and deliver measurable outcomes
- Real-world examples of organisations moving from platform thinking to product thinking
- How our accelerators, frameworks and specialist expertise can help you move faster, whether you're modernising your data estate, scaling AI, or creating new products and services
No buzzwords. No generic advice. Just honest conversations with people who build this stuff every day. Booth P70.
Logistics & Practicality
Big Data LDN is on the 23rd and 24th September 2026, at the Olympia London.
The nearest tube stations are:
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Barons Court (Piccadilly & District line) - 8-min walk
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Hammersmith (Piccadilly & District line) - 10-min walk
Big Data LDN have a hotel finder on their website, including walking distances to the venue. Group bookings (9+) also get discounted rates.
Check out the full agenda on the BDL website!