EVOLVE 2025 DC | Event

Explore the potential of AI powered by trusted data.

Join us for EVOLVE25 Government Summit, the public sector’s must-attend Data and AI Conference of the year! Connect with government visionaries, data and AI experts, and your peers as we explore the impact of a unified, hybrid data platform. Learn how this platform drives AI and analytical insights to enhance operational efficiency and deliver innovative citizen experiences across federal, state, and local governments.

AI relies on quality and accessible data. Join customer and expert-led sessions to explore best practices for unifying, managing, and leveraging data to drive real-time decision-making and transform operations and citizen services.

What you’ll hear

Abhas speaking on the main stage at Evolve

Strategies to enhance productivity in the era of generative AI
How data and AI revolutionize federal agencies and state and local organizations
Insights from government visionaries and data experts
Real-world experiences and future views on the critical impact of AI

Your AI journey:
Three paths to transformation

1

Enterprise AI

Learn how public sector agencies are scaling AI to transform operations, improve decision-making, drive innovation, and explore the latest tools for productivity, collaboration, security, and governance.

2

Hybrid cloud

Learn strategies for optimizing hybrid and multi-cloud environments to support AI workloads while maintaining security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

3

Modern data architecture

Explore next-generation data architectures designed to support the unique requirements of AI applications and use cases.

Register today to secure your spot at EVOLVE25 Government Summit and help shape the future of AI-powered innovation!

What you can expect from the EVOLVE25 Government Summit experience

A woman and a man speaking about customer successes on stage

Customer sessions

Hear directly from Cloudera customers as they share fresh perspectives on market trends and technologies

A pavilion booth with on of our partners RedHat

Expo zone

Explore the sponsor pavilion to see the industry’s most innovative solutions in action with our partners and Cloudera Government Solutions product leaders

Frank O’Dowd speaking to a small group in a one on one session

1x1 executive meetings

Meet with Cloudera Government Solutions experts so we can work together to ensure you have what you need to succeed in today’s fast-paced environment

Visionary Speakers

The futurist for leaders: Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. For the past twenty years, he has been a leading authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation and new ways of thinking. A global nomad from a diverse ethnic background, futurist and author of three bestselling books, Mike advises some of the world’s biggest organizations on reinvention and change in this new era of machine intelligence. A specialist in AI-powered transformation, he bridges the two worlds of disruptive technology and business leadership, translating deep tech into pragmatic recommendations for leaders to seize new opportunities, transform their organizations, and change their own thinking.

Breakouts

Advance Enterprise AI

Build and Run Models, Apps, and Agents with Private AI

Accelerate adoption with Cloudera’s private, secure, and comprehensive AI platform. Streamline the creation and deployment of intelligent agents with AI Studios (including Agent Studio); quickly deploy and scale AI applications with Cloudera AI Inference, powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices; and use streaming data pipelines and RAG to glean insights from unstructured data.

Unleash True Hybrid Power

Future-Proof Your Agency with a True Hyrbid Platform

Revolutionize your approach to data, analytics, and AI with Cloudera’s true hybrid platform. Get inspired by pioneers who have positioned their agencies for success tomorrow while maximizing their investment today. See exclusive previews of Cloudera's latest and upcoming hybrid innovations to make this possible.

PROACTIVE DATA MANAGEMENT

Securing Your Data

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but vigilance should be every day. Find out how to address risks and mitigation differently, how AI and ML are woven in, and more.

Featured Speakers

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.

Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.

Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.
Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.

Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.

Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.
Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.

Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.

Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS | Showcase your strategies for driving business value with data and AI Submit your proposal

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury shaking hands with Chief Revenue Officer Frank O’Dowd

Speaker Abhas on the main stage at Evolve

Award winner receiving a Data Impact Award

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Nominations are open for Cloudera's Data Impact Awards

These prestigious awards recognize outstanding data-driven projects that have had significant business impact within organizations, across industries, and globally.

Nominate teams who are driving meaningful change by innovating in one of the following categories:

Analytics, ML, and AI Advantages

Spotlighting enterprises that harness Cloudera to power analytics, business intelligence, ML, AI, LLMs, and RAGs.

Hybrid and Infrastructure Modernization

Highlighting the impact of infrastructure on data and AI—from public cloud migrations to hybrid expansions to on-premises optimization.

Open Data Lakehouse and Iceberg Innovation

Championing the use of open, scalable data lakehouses for seamless data interoperability across on premises, hybrid, and cloud.

Data Governance and Fabric Excellence

Recognizing organizations transforming data governance with an intelligent data fabric for enterprise-wide data and metadata control.

Data in Motion and Streaming Success

Celebrating excellence in harnessing the power of data in motion to process and analyze data across all environments to drive faster responses.

Become a sponsor

Become a sponsor of EVOLVE25 Government Summit, Cloudera’s premier customer event - Trusting Data Today for Tomorrow’s AI. Join today for promotional opportunities and to gain access to Cloudera’s most engaged and successful customers.

Agenda

August 6

Ancillary Activities

Customer Executive Forum

Iceberg Workshop

GenAI Immersion Workshop

Analyst Roundtable

APAC Data Impact Awards Dinner

August 7

EVOLVE25

General Session

• Welcome to EVOLVE25 APAC
• The Cloudera Vision
• Inspirational Keynote
• Customer Discussions

Lunch

Breakout 1: Deliver True Hybrid

Breakout 2 - Enable Modern Data Architectures

Breakout 3 - Accelerate Enterprise AI

Welcome to our Sponsors

Global Cloud Sponsor

Global Sponsor

Call for speakers:

We invite thought leaders and innovative thinkers to showcase their lessons learned, best practices, and business benefits. Each session is scheduled for 40-60 minutes, which includes time for Q&A.

We are looking for compelling presentations that address the challenges of today’s business environment – stories of modernizing data architectures to deliver data products, accelerating AI for automation and advantage, and delivering business-critical data and analytics via the Cloud and beyond, and many other topics.

Here are a few questions to consider when submitting your session:

How are your projects managing what happens when new-age technology collides with legacy systems?
Do you have an evolving and cutting-edge AI strategy and how is it driving business value?
Does your business trust your organizational data? How did you build that strategy and trust?

Welcome and Keynotes

Welcome to EVOLVE24 APAC

Frank O'Dowd: Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera
Remus Lim: SVP - Asia Pacific & Japan, Cloudera

The Cloudera Vision

Charles Sansbury: CEO, Cloudera

CSO KEYNOTE

Abhas Ricky: Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera
Featuring Adrien Chenailler: Head of Data Science, OCBC

DATA IMPACT AWARDS PANEL: AI ACCELERATION

Kurnia Rosyada: SVP Enterprise Data Analytics, Bank Mandiri
Skunpoj Thanarojsophon: Assistant Director - Data Analytics, Bank of Thailand
Fredric Fanthome: Head - Customer Success & COO - Enterprise Data Platform, DBS
Adrien Chenailler: Head of Data Science, OCBC
Alvin Eng: Head of Enterprise AI & Analytics, UOB
Facilitator - Priyank Patel: VP - Product Management, Cloudera

CUSTOMER KEYNOTE

"Making AI Work for Enterprises: Unleashing the Power of GenAI in Financial Services and Industrial Sectors"

Dr. David Hardoon: CEO, Aboitiz Data Innovation

CUSTOMER KEYNOTE

Fredric Fanthome: Head - Customer Success & COO - Enterprise Data Platform, DBS

PRODUCT KEYNOTE

Venkat Rajaji: SVP - Product Management, Cloudera
Jeff Healey: SVP - Product Marketing, Cloudera
Priyank Patel: VP - Product Management, Cloudera
Featuring Naoki Kobayashi: General Manager - Data Engineering, SMCC/JRI

FIRESIDE CHAT

Cheolho Choi: Technical Director, Line Yahoo Corporation Japan
Moderator - Bill Zhang, Senior Director, Product Management, Cloudera

Nominations open for Cloudera's Data Impact Awards

These prestigious awards recognize outstanding data-driven projects that have made a significant business impact within their organizations, across industries, and globally.

Nominate your team for a Data Impact Award!

We will recognize organizations in the following five categories:

AI Acceleration

Organizations making an innovative business impact using Cloudera for trusted data powering Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and more.

Cloud (Native)
Innovation

Organizations leveraging cloud-native architectures for innovative data, analytics and AI, using one or more public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or private, on-prem infrastructure.

Modern Architectures & Pipelines

Organizations that have excelled in designing and implementing innovative data architectures that effectively support the full data lifecycle – from ingestion to analytics.

Leadership & Transformation

Teams and/or data leaders driving transformation with Cloudera and programs that promote enterprise-wide impact, data literacy, transparent decision-making, and tools that empower employees to effectively use data.

People & Society

Recognizing data’s broader implications, with initiatives extend beyond organizational walls and financial impact. Whether through community engagement, environmental sustainability, or public health initiatives, they highlight data’s positive influence on the world at large.

DC Government Summit
Oct. 22, 2025 • Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004

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Trusted data today for tomorrow’s AI

Explore the potential of AI powered by trusted data.

What you’ll hear

Your AI journey: Three paths to transformation

Enterprise AI

Hybrid cloud

Modern data architecture

What you can expect from the EVOLVE25 Government Summit experience

Customer sessions

Expo zone

1x1 executive meetings

The futurist for leaders: Mike Walsh

Breakouts

Build and Run Models, Apps, and Agents with Private AI

Future-Proof Your Agency with a True Hyrbid Platform

Securing Your Data

Featured Speakers

Charles Sansbury

Charles Sansbury

Charles Sansbury

Abhas Ricky

Abhas Ricky

Abhas Ricky

Leo Brunnick

Leo Brunnick

Leo Brunnick

Frank O’Dowd

Frank O’Dowd

Frank O’Dowd

Nominations are open for Cloudera's Data Impact Awards

Analytics, ML, and AI Advantages

Hybrid and Infrastructure Modernization

Open Data Lakehouse and Iceberg Innovation

Data Governance and Fabric Excellence

Data in Motion and Streaming Success

Become a sponsor

Agenda

Welcome to our Sponsors

Global Cloud Sponsor

Global Sponsor

Global Sponsor

Global Sponsor

Call for speakers:

Welcome and Keynotes

Nominations open for Cloudera's Data Impact Awards

AI Acceleration

Cloud (Native) Innovation

Modern Architectures & Pipelines

Leadership & Transformation

People & Society

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Your AI journey:
Three paths to transformation

Cloud (Native)
Innovation