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

Private AI Anywhere: From Edge Data Pipelines to Secure, Enterprise-Grade AI Inference

Robert Hryniewicz, Director of Product Marketing, AI, Cloudera

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to accelerate generative and agentic AI initiatives by streaming real-time data from edge devices directly into your AI pipelines using Cloudera DataFlow.

  • Discover how the Cloudera AI Inference service lets you deploy high-performance LLMs securely across hybrid environments.

  • Understand how to overcome the "token tax" of public cloud costs and protect your intellectual property by bringing compute to your governed data.

Protecting the Crown Jewels: Cloudera's Strategy for Sovereign Cloud and Data Control

Paul Mackay, RVP, Cloud, Cloudera

In this session, you will:

  • Explore the core principles of the Sovereign Cloud and how to address global demand for digital sovereignty, data control, and localization.

  • Learn how Cloudera’s platform enables full governance over data and analytics workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

  • Discover strategies to meet complex regulatory mandates and geopolitical concerns without sacrificing the flexibility and innovation of the cloud.

The Context Problem in AI: Connecting Enterprise Data for Trusted Agents

Ranjan Das, Director, Product Management, Cloudera

Navita Sood, Director Product Marketing, Data and AI, Cloudera

In this session, you will:

  • Learn how to use Cloudera’s Lakehouse Engine, powered by Apache Trino to connect and query scattered data across operational databases, lakehouses, and applications in real time with zero data movement.

  • Discover how to capture end-to-end lineage across structured and unstructured data to provide the transparency and trust required for production-grade AI.

  • Understand Cloudera’s zero-redundancy security model, which ensures consistent governance and access policies follow your data automatically across all connected sources.

The Enduring Architecture: Unifying Data-in-Motion, Lakehouse, and AI on Cloudera Runtime 7.3.2 LTS

Jagbir Kang, Director, Product Management, Cloudera

In this session, you will:

  • Explore the benefits of the 7.3.2 Long-Term Support (LTS) release, with support extended through 2032 serving as a critical bridge for customers looking to trade the risks of aging infrastructure for a modern, high-performance foundation.

  • Learn how to achieve 13x faster query performance with the Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer, access live data from external platforms through Cloudera Data Sharing, and accelerate adoption of IPv6 networking client-side support.

  • Discover how to maximize on-premises investments while unlocking cloud elasticity through Cloudera Cloud Bursting and implement consistent, as well as fine-grained security across deployments through Ranger RAZ.

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

  • Robert Hryniewicz, Director of Product Marketing, AI, Cloudera
  • Paul Mackay, RVP, Cloud, Cloudera
  • Ranjan Das, Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Navita Sood, Product Marketing Director, Cloudera
  • Jagbir Kang, Director of Product Management, Cloudera

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

Not sure? Check out what past attendees have to say about ClouderaNOW

Amazing presentation of some genuinely out-of-the-box feature sets.”

- Independent consultant

Cloudera has made tremendous progress over the past 6-12 months, it was evident in the presentation.”

- Stony Brook Medicine

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