Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How does a global media company move beyond static reporting and into faster, context-aware decisions? Kevin Hill, Senior Vice President, Data Technology and Products at NBCUniversal, shares how his teams use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to scale insights across hundreds of analysts and data scientists.
By investing in data literacy and pairing it with the right tools, NBCUniversal helps teams understand what data exists, how it flows, and how to use it in new ways. The result: real-time savings, lower infrastructure costs, and outputs that drive decisions — without hundreds of hours of manual effort from dozens of team members.
Hill also explains why an AI strategy must follow a data strategy. When business goals, data foundations and AI execution stay aligned, entire organizations move faster.
About the Data + AI Executive Fast 5 series: Five questions. Five answers. Fast takeaways you can apply now — from data and AI executives.
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How does a global media company move beyond static reporting and into faster, context-aware decisions? Kevin Hill, Senior Vice President, Data Technology and Products at NBCUniversal, shares how his teams use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to scale insights across hundreds of analysts and data scientists.
By investing in data literacy and pairing it with the right tools, NBCUniversal helps teams understand what data exists, how it flows, and how to use it in new ways. The result: real-time savings, lower infrastructure costs, and outputs that drive decisions — without hundreds of hours of manual effort from dozens of team members.
Hill also explains why an AI strategy must follow a data strategy. When business goals, data foundations and AI execution stay aligned, entire organizations move faster.
About the Data + AI Executive Fast 5 series: Five questions. Five answers. Fast takeaways you can apply now — from data and AI executives.
✔️Try Databricks for free: dbricks.co/41ha0L7
✔️ Hear more from our customers: databricks.com/customers
✔️ Read the Databricks blog: databricks.com/blog/category/company/customers
✔️ Learn more about NBCUniversal: nbcuniversal.com
