SHARE It began as an open-source project incubated by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and today it has become one of the hottest startups in the tech world, with a $28 billion valuation and a highly anticipated initial public offering in the works. Databricks Inc. was founded in 2013 as an AI and data analytics company that pioneered the concept of “lakehouse architecture” for data in the cloud. It takes massive amounts of enterprise data, applies machine learning and data science, and comes up with valuable predictive business solutions. (* Disclosure below.) Blazing new trails Presented by AWS and theCUBE, a number of inventive startups will share their solutions in the fields of security, AI and life sciences. This will be an opportunity for members of the tech community to join the conversation and hear how startups in the AWS ecosystem are making technical advances and building use case in areas such as AI transparency and accountability, automated data security, and healthcare personalization.