Customer Executive Forum, By Invite Only

Wednesday, November 19th 

10:00
Welcome & Agenda Review
10:10 AM
Executive Keynote
10:30 AM
Strategy, Product, and State of the Market Panel
11:45 AM
Break
12:00 pm
Accelerate Enterprise AI

The Future of Agentic AI 

1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Cloud Anywhere

Discover how a truly hybrid platform can accelerate decision-making and drive growth for your business.

3:00 pm
Data Anywhere

Data Governance in the Age of AI, including key concepts like data fabric and data mesh.

4:00 pm
Customer Executive Forum - Close

 

Main Stage Agenda

Thursday, November 20th

9:15 am
Registration & Networking

Kick off the day by picking up your badge and making valuable connections with fellow attendees, partners, and Cloudera executives.

10:00 am
Opening Keynote

Join us at Cloudera EVOLVE25 to discover how to truly harness the power of data and AI anywhere, accelerating time-to-value and gaining real-time insights. This premier event offers exclusive access to cutting-edge strategies and transformative technologies to drive real-world data and AI transformation.

  • Charles Sansbury: CEO, Cloudera
  • Frank O’Dowd: CRO, Cloudera
  • Abhas Ricky: Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera
  • Leo Brunnick: Chief Product Officer, Cloudera 
  • Sergio Gago: Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
  • Ahmad Shakora: GVP, Cloudera
  • Mike Walsh: Visionary Speaker
  • Wim Stoop: Sr. Director, Product Marketing
  • Chris Royles:  Field CTO EMEA, Cloudera
  • Ghada Elkeissi: Head of Sovereign Cloud, Business Development & Partnerships, AWS
  • Kartik Iyer: Chief Data Officer, Arab Bank
  • Alexey Teplov: Head of Data and Real-Time Platforms, Emirates NBD
  • Gyan Srivastava: Head of Data Analytics, Mashreq
  • Abdullah Saieed: Data Management Lead, Design and Delivery, Du
  • Wonho Chung: Master of Ceremony

 

1:15 pm
Recharge & Connect: Lunch and Sponsor Showcase

Enjoy a complimentary lunch before stepping into the vibrant EVOLVE Expo Hall. This is your chance to engage directly with Cloudera's leading partners, exploring their innovative solutions and real-world success stories that can elevate your data and AI initiatives.

 

Women Leaders in Technology Panel Luncheon

Registration Required - All are Welcome

1:15 pm
Women Leaders in Technology Panel Luncheon, Shaping the AI - Anywhere Future

This session features leading voices from across industries–exploring everything from cutting-edge technical innovation to bold leadership strategies in the age of AI. 

Don’t miss this dynamic opportunity to connect, network, and be inspired by the people shaping the future of technology.

 

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

2:30 pm
Track 1: Accelerate Enterprise and Agentic AI
2:30 pm
Breakout Session 1: Unlocking Enterprise AI Value at Scale for Measurable Business Impact


Join Our Partner Panel Session:

Speakers:

Magnoos: Stefano Rayan El-Khoury, Delivery Director - Data & AI,

Databorn: Eugene Tveritinov, CEO MENA & APAC

Tech Mahindra: Chetan Shah: Business Head - ROW & Global COE Head - Data & Analytics

Moderated by:

Cloudera: Dipti Dash: Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

Learn how organizations are capturing business value from AI—without sacrificing security or compliance. This session spotlights proven approaches to value realization on the Cloudera AI platform, featuring case studies of cost savings, risk reduction, and faster innovation. Discover how to measure, optimize, and communicate AI impact to stakeholders, and see why Private AI is the foundation for sustained ROI in the age of GenAI.

3:05 pm
Breakout Session 2: Operationalising Agentic AI in the Real World: From Assistants to Autonomous Workflows

 

Customer - Arsalan Qureshi: Head of Data Platforms, ADIB
Meeta Dash:
Sr Director, Product Management, Cloudera

Step into the next evolution of enterprise automation with agentic AI. Learn how organizations are designing, building, and deploying intelligent agents using Cloudera AI Studios—including Agent Studio—to orchestrate complex, multi-stage workflows.See real-world agentic use cases, techniques for safe deployment, and how to maximize ROI with governed, composable agent architectures. Discover what it takes to go from simple assistants to transformative enterprise agents.

Highlights:

  • Explore the evolution of enterprise automation with agentic AI.

  • Learn how organizations use Cloudera AI Studios, including Agent Studio, to:

    • Design and deploy intelligent agents

    • Orchestrate complex workflows

    • See real-world use cases, safe deployment techniques, and strategies to maximise ROI with governed, composable architectures.

    • Discover the journey from simple assistants to transformative enterprise agents.

3:40 pm
Breakout Session 3: Track Keynote: See into The Future of Agents with Private AI

 

Speakers:

Manasi Vartak: Chief AI Architect, Cloudera

Robert Hryniewicz: Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

Discover how Cloudera is shaping a new era of private, secure, and scalable AI and empowering organizations to build and run advanced models on their terms. Learn why Private AI is becoming the benchmark for innovation, compliance, and competitive advantage. See real-world examples of enterprises using Cloudera’s unified platform to operationalize GenAI, power agentic workflows, and turn data into action—securely and at scale.

Highlights:

  • Explore Cloudera's role in private, secure, and scalable AI.

  • Understand why Private AI is key for innovation and competitive advantage.

  • See examples of enterprises using Cloudera’s platform to:

    • Operationalize GenAI

    • Turn data into action securely.

Track 2: Experience the Cloud Anywhere
2:30 pm
Breakout Session 1: Track Keynote: Accelerating the Future: Delivering Cloud Anywhere with Cloudera

 

Karthik Krishnamoorthy: VP Product Management, Cloudera

Wim Stoop:  Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

Adam Skotnický: Vice President Engineering, Cloudera

In this session, we'll explore how Cloudera is driving innovation with a cloud anywhere approach, making it easier than ever to manage data, analytics, and AI across environments. Discover how our latest advancements simplify deployment, enhance agility, and future-proof your organization against evolving technological landscapes. We'll highlight key strategies and real-world examples of innovation in our platform so you can not only meet today's challenges but also capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities with a flexible, scalable, and intelligent cloud anywhere architecture.

 

3:05 pm
Breakout Session 2: Power Up Your Cloud Anywhere with Data Services

 

Rahul Sharma: Director, Product Management, Cloudera
Adam Skotnický: Vice President Engineering, Cloudera

Dive into the world of Data Services and discover how they are revolutionizing hybrid cloud architectures. This session will explore what Data Services are and their crucial role in simplifying data management and analytics across diverse environments. Understand how these services facilitate true hybrid functionality, ensuring consistency and efficiency whether your data resides on-premises or in the cloud.

3:40 pm
Breakout Session 3: Data in Motion: Empowering Turkish Banks and Telcos through Real-Time Intelligence and Event-Driven Transformation

 

Customer - Serter Solak: Director of Data Warehouse & BI Analytics, Yapikredi Teknoloji

Customer - Abdurrahim Yıldırım: Database & Opensource Planning and Operations Group Manager, Türk Telekom

Moderated by:

Cloudera: İhsan Yiğitbaşı, Solutions Engineer, Cloudera

Join us to explore how leading Turkish banks and telecom operators are leveraging event-driven transformation to modernize mission-critical operations. Learn how they process millions of events per second across mobile, branch, network, and customer interaction systems to power real-time services, centralized logging, monitoring, and reporting. In this session, you’ll see an overview of Cloudera’s end-to-end Data in Motion platform and hear directly from Turkish enterprises in a fireside chat on their streaming architecture, deployment journey, and lessons learned.

Track 3: Unify with the Open Data Lakehouse
2:30 pm
Breakout Session 1: Track Keynote: AI Agents are Here. But is Your Data Ready?

 

Navita Sood: Product Marketing Director, Cloudera
Bill Zhang: VP, Product Strategies, Cloudera

The rise of AI agents is poised to transform businesses, but their success and effectiveness hinges on the data that fuels them. This session delves into the essential pillars of a data platform designed for the demanding, high-volume, and hyper-reliable needs of AI agents as well as for human consumption. Join us to see how Cloudera's data fabric architecture with the open data lakehouse is embedding AI to deliver contextually rich, trustworthy, governed, real-time data for your AI Agents in the most cost-effective manner.

Highlights:

  • Explore how AI agents can transform businesses, relying on the data that fuels them.

  • Learn about the essential pillars of a data platform designed for high-volume, reliable needs of AI agents and human users.

  • Discover how Cloudera's data fabric architecture and open data lakehouse deliver trustworthy, governed, real-time data cost-effectively.

  • See how Cloudera embeds AI in every stage of the data lifecycle, simplifying usage and enabling seamless, secure information flow for better collaboration and quick AI responses to changing business needs.

3:05 pm
Breakout Session 2: Architecting for Scale and Performance with Open Data Lakehouse

 

Navita Sood: Product Marketing Director, Cloudera

Bill Zhang: VP, Product Strategies, Cloudera

Building a high-performing and cost-effective data lakehouse is critical, yet navigating its complexities can be challenging. Learn how Cloudera simplifies those challenges to deliver well curated, high performant data to power your Analytics and AI initiatives. Discover how Cloudera is helping architects and data engineers transform, orchestrate and optimize their data with ease while also making sure the lakehouse is always performant and cost effective. We will introduce the Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer service and uncover its superpowers so you can focus on your data while we monitor and optimize it for you.

3:40 pm
Breakout Session 3: Unlock the Future of Data Access with Fast and Federated Insights - Powered by Conversational AI

 

J.R. Horton: Snr Director, Product Management, Cloudera

Customer - Ekin Yogurtcuoglu: Senior Cloud Big Data Engineer, Garanti BBVA Technology

  • Discover the integration of Trino, a high-speed SQL query engine, enabling lightning-fast queries across Apache Iceberg tables and multiple data sources.

  •  Explore enhancements to our data visualization tools, featuring AI-powered capabilities that allow business users to ""talk to their data"" for quick answers without complex queries.

  • Learn why these innovations make data more accessible, empowering everyone in your organization to explore, analyze, and gain insights anytime, anywhere.

Data Impact Awards Ceremony & Celebration    4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

EVOLVE26 Pre-Day Agenda at a Glance

Wednesday, November 4
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Customer Executive Forum

By invite only

Workshops
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Workshops

EVOLVE26 Agenda at a Glance  

Thursday, November 5
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Opening Mainstage
 
  • Welcome
  • Today’s Cloudera
  • CRO Keynote
  • Strategy Update
  • Customer Speaker
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Breakout Track: AI Anywhere
Development to Inference with Private AI Session 1 & 2
Breakout Track: Data Anywhere
Data Center to Edge with Full Control Session 1 & 2
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
 
  • Partner Pavilion
  • Tech Talks
1:45 PM - 2:50 PM
Breakout Track: AI Anywhere
Women Leaders in Technology Luncheon

The fourth era of Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) is here and it marks a shift from access to influence, a more inclusive model of leadership. This event convenes a global community to explore how technology is redefining who leads and how, empowering individuals at every level to drive meaningful impact across industries. All are welcome.

Breakout Track: Data Anywhere
Data Center to Edge with Full Control Session 3 & 4
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing Mainstage
 
  • CRO Closing Keynote
  • Customer Speaker
  • External Speaker…to be announced
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Data Impact Awards

Join us as we celebrate organizations driving real business impact through data and AI

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Networking Celebration

DUBAI

Nov 5, 2026 • Atlantis The Royal, Crescent Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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