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title: "Sydney Lakehouse Night 2023 Archive | Data-Driven AI"
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description: "Review the archived September 2023 Sydney Lakehouse Community Night, including its community agenda, event record, and five published speakers."
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Archived community event · September 19, 2023

# Sydney Lakehouse Community Night: _Jackalberry record_

This community night has finished. Its archive preserves the date, agenda themes, and five-speaker lineup published for the Sydney event.

Archive status

## The Jackalberry community night and booking window have closed

Databricks invited Sydney data teams and local groups to an evening of talks and networking.

Date

September 19, 2023

Time

5:30–7:30 pm

Status

Finished

![Sydney Lakehouse Community Night artwork listing the date, time, and speakers](/_astro/Sydney-Lakehouse-Community-Night.DBVhFcWn_2jPKs2.webp)

Original Jackalberry event artwork retained as the primary record.

Published session themes

## Architecture and open source led into applied LLM work

The page framed these as planned topics. It did not include a recording or a measured result.

Lakehouse architecture

Why the architecture was attracting attention from data teams at the time.

Open source and ML

Developments in open-source technology, machine learning, and large language models.

Applied LLMs

A planned contribution from the winning LLM Australia Cup team about production use cases.

Local community

Connections with data professionals, group leaders, and practitioners in the region.

Published speakers

## Five community and Databricks perspectives

Roles match the 2023 event page and may no longer be current.

1.  **Lisa Sherin**, Databricks Solution Architect.
2.  **Angela Kim**, Women in AI Global Chief Education Officer.
3.  **Zivile Norkunaite**, Databricks Solutions Architect.
4.  **Alex Burton**, Databricks Enterprise Account Executive.
5.  **Peter Hanssens**, DataEngBytes founder.

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