Cloudera

    • ClouderaNOW, our quarterly virtual event, is for all data practitioners, including data scientists, data engineers, and analytics professionals who want to learn about our latest and future product innovations.

    Through comprehensive demos, customer use cases, and interactive Q&A sessions, attendees will gain new skills and knowledge to apply to their data, analytics, and AI initiatives.

    Join us for early access to products and sneak previews of new technologies. Can’t make it? You can access all content on demand and view it at your convenience.

    Agenda

    Getting Your Data Ready for AI and Agentic Outcomes with Anywhere Cloud

    Jeff Healey, Sr. Vice President, Product Marketing, Cloudera

    Karthik Krishnamoorthy, SVP, Product Management, Cloudera

    In this session, you will:

    • Hear from our experts, Jeff and Karthik will discuss how Cloudera brings AI Inference and Agentic AI to anywhere your data lives, across the entire data estate with end-to-end security and governance. 

    • Learn what is in Anywhere Cloud that helps you (our customers) build and run agents anywhere the data lives across the entire data estate.

    • Discover how  Cloudera’s Unified Data Fabric gives agents context, not just tables.

    • See how Cloudera delivers the entire architectural stack open at every layer with full optionality and interoperability, with key support for Apache Iceberg, Polaris catalog, open models, multiple clouds and sovereign infrastructure, and much more.

    Where Anywhere Cloud Makes the Difference

    Blake Tow, Product Marketing Manager, Cloudera

    In this session, you will:

    • Identify the enterprise challenges where Anywhere Cloud can have the greatest impact.

    • Explore how organizations can activate distributed and protected data for AI without forcing it into one location.

    • See how a simpler, more consistent approach can help accelerate AI from idea to production.

    Empowering AI Agents with Graph-Powered Knowledge

    Dennis Duckworth, Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

    Zhenni Wu, Co-Founder, PuppyGraph

    In this session, you will:

    • Learn how to equip your AI agents with the necessary context, entities, and relationships to reason more effectively beyond simple table queries to help you accelerate AI Performance.

    • Discover how to instantly run knowledge graph queries on your trusted, Iceberg-based data across cloud, data center, and edge environments without moving your data through Zero-ETL Simplicity with Cloudera.

    • Gain insights into how PuppyGraph leverages Cloudera’s existing fabric, security, and governance to deliver an "instant-on" user experience right from the Cloudera Anywhere Cloud marketplace with Seamless Integration.

    Customer Story

    In this session, you will:

    • Hear early customer feedback and plans for  Anywhere Cloud. 

    • Find out the top five use cases enterprises are prioritizing and why.   

    Eager to dive into our action-packed agenda?

    The Anywhere Cloud Future of Data & AI with our CTO & CPO

    • Sergio Gago Huerta, Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
    • Leo Brunnick,  Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

     In this session, you will: 

    • See the Cloudera Anywhere Cloud vision brought to life with Chief Technology Officer Leo Brunnick and Chief Product Officer Sergio Gago Huerta

    • Get a glimpse into the Cloudera roadmap

    • Learn about the latest innovations to derive greater value from your entire data estate with analytics and AI

    Customer Spotlight: Sky

    • Christian Schurk, Head of Engineering, Sky

    In this session, you will learn:

    • How Sky leverages Cloudera to deliver content and services to millions of viewers across Europe

    • Real-world insights into high-impact business use cases and how the engineering team utilizes AI and real-time capabilities

    • Strategies for preparing for a public cloud migration, including the critical role of Cloudera Data Lineage

    Dynamic Cloud Bursting: Scale on Demand

    Jagbir Kang, Manager, Product Management, Cloudera

    In this session, you will learn:

    • How to instantly extend your private infrastructure with public cloud processing power to handle sudden demand spikes

    • Ways to avoid the costs of idle hardware and eliminate the complexity of moving data during peak times

    • Best practices for maintaining consistent security and governance while scaling across hybrid environments

    Unified Data Fabric: Foundational Architecture for AI

    Zinette Ezra,  Sr. Director, Product Management, DI, Cloudera

    In this session, you will learn:

    • Why a Unified Data Fabric is essential for AI at scale, as it unifies metadata, lineage, and policy to deliver trusted, explainable data.
    • How data products and contracts govern consumption. They define trusted interfaces and expectations for both human and AI consumers.
    • How active metadata enables proactive governance. It detects change and drift early, reducing risk before data is consumed.

    AgentTAM: From Firefighting to Flight Control with Agentic AI

    Niel Dunnage, Principal Strategic Customer Success Manager, Cloudera

    In this session, you will learn:

    • How to move beyond simple chatbots by orchestrating a "crew" of specialized AI agents for complex workflows

    • Why running specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) locally is often superior to public LLMs for sensitive diagnostic data

    • A production-grade blueprint for reducing technical account review times from weeks to days using Agentic AI

    Open by Design: Building Lakehouses on Open Foundations

    Dipankar Mazumdar, Director of Developer Relations, Cloudera

    In this session, you will learn:

    • How open standards and open table formats like Apache Iceberg shape modern data architectures

    • The internals behind design patterns like ACID properties, concurrency models, and scalable metadata

    • Cloudera’s strategic direction for open lakehouses and insights from the new book, Engineering Lakehouses

    Speakers

    • Jeff Healey, Sr. Vice President, Product Marketing, Cloudera
      Jeff Healey

      Sr. Vice President, Product Marketing, Cloudera

    • Karthik Krishnamoorthy, SVP, Product Management, Cloudera
      Karthik Krishnamoorthy

      SVP, Product Management, Cloudera

    • Blake Tow, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Cloudera
      Blake Tow

      Associate Product Marketing Manager, Cloudera

    • Dennis Duckworth, Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera
      Dennis Duckworth

      Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

    • Zhenni Wu, Co-Founder, PuppyGraph
      Zhenni Wu

      Co-Founder, PuppyGraph

    Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from top minds in IT.

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