Bringing AI to Your Data - Anywhere

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

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 

• Mike Walsh: Visionary Speaker

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.

Choose from three targeted tracks designed to help you accelerate enterprise and agentic AI adoption, revolutionize your data and analytics strategy across any environment, and unify your data with an Open Data Lakehouse for real-time, AI-ready insights.

Unwind and connect with peers, industry leaders, and Cloudera experts. This is your prime opportunity to expand your network, share insights, and foster collaborations in a relaxed setting.

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.

Jaidev Karthickeyan: Global Head, Value Management, Cloudera

JP Player: Field CTO, Cloudera

With Dell & NVIDIA

Boards, executives, shareholders, and competitors are all driving companies to move fast on AI. AI-driven applications can lower costs, improve revenue, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation. However, there are significant challenges keeping companies from moving quickly on AI.

Data privacy is a key factor for many companies, particularly those in highly-regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. Cloud costs are another issue many companies contend with, especially for AI workloads such as model training and scalable inferencing.

Join Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Cloudera for a discussion of how AI can be accelerated within your own data center. We’ll introduce a bundled solution that comprises Dell Technologies servers, NVIDIA accelerated compute and software, and Cloudera software. This integrated offering, “AI-in-a-Box”, provides an optimized architecture, giving you the most cost effective and secure foundation for your Private AI strategy.

Cyrus Katrak: Engineering Director, Financial Services and Data, Experian

Robert Hryniewicz: Director Product Marketing, Cloudera

Experian uses Cloudera to allow financial services clients to perform analytics and model development in a secure and compliant Sandbox environment. Internally generated high-quality synthetic data allows for robust model development, analytics, and AI model training, which in turn accelerates innovation and business growth.

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.

Chris Burns: Principal Engineer, Cloudera

Discover how Cloudera AI Studios empowers teams to rapidly design, build, and deploy advanced GenAI and agentic workflows—all within a secure, governed environment. Explore purpose-built studios for RAG, fine-tuning, synthetic data, and intelligent agents, and see how users of any skill level can accelerate innovation with both low-code and high-code experiences. Real-world demos and customer stories highlight how organizations are streamlining complex AI projects and moving from concept to production faster than ever.

Manasi Vartak: Chief AI Architect, Cloudera

Robert Hryniewicz: Director Product Marketing, 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.

Karthik Krishnamoorthy: VP Product Management, Cloudera

Wim Stoop: Senior Product Marketing Director, 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.

Rahul Sharma: Director Product Management, Cloudera

Explore the core components that enable a truly seamless and unified experience for data, analytics, and AI. This session will delve into the raft of Cloudera innovation that will deliver cloud anywhere. Hear about the Unified Runtime, ensuring consistent operations and performance across both on-premises and cloud environments. Discover how to achieve complete data parity and scalability by deploying Cloudera Object Store powered by Apache Ozone within your data center, mirroring cloud capabilities. This combination empowers organizations to optimize their data strategies, maximize flexibility, and ensure efficiency regardless of infrastructure.

Adrien Chenailler: Global Director, AI Industry Solutions – Financial Services, Cloudera

With IBM & Protegrity

Companies are trying to improve their operations and their bottom lines through the judicious use of AI. But many face challenges in trying to break down data silos while, at the same time, protecting sensitive or proprietary data. Cloudera partners IBM and Protegrity join us in discussing some of the significant challenges that companies, particularly those in the heavily-regulated Financial Services area, face in preparing for widespread AI adoption and how our offerings and the efforts in working together as partners help our joint customers achieve their far-reaching business goals for AI (as well as data management and analytics).

Matt Delaney: Manager, Data Analytics & Engineering, Country Financial

Moderator:

Wim Stoop: Senior Product Marketing Director, Cloudera

This session will delve into the critical role of observability in today's complex hybrid cloud environments, highlighting how Cloudera Observability provides the foundational insights needed for operational excellence. Hear from Country Financial as they share their transformative journey, demonstrating how they leveraged Cloudera Observability, an Open Data Lakehouse architecture with Iceberg, and Cloudera on Azure to evolve from reactive monitoring to proactive forecasting, significantly improving capacity and budget planning. Learn how these strategies can empower your organization to gain deeper insights and drive efficiency in any deployment.

Jaidev Karthickeyan: Global Head, Value Management, Cloudera

This session explores the business impact of strategic workload deployment in hybrid cloud environments, emphasizing TCO optimization through infrastructure flexibility and workload portability. We will demonstrate how the ability to choose where to deploy and move workloads based on business drivers, using examples like Snowflake optimization, leads to significant cost savings and performance improvements. Through TCO studies, we will showcase the value of a true hybrid architecture in maximizing efficiency and minimizing total cost of ownership.

Suri Nuthalapati: Principal Solutions Architect, Cloudera

In an era of fragmented data, organizations can unlock real-time insights and deploy AI at scale with Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse. Powered by Apache Iceberg, this architecture streamlines data workflows and eliminates silos across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Hear how Banco Galicia used Cloudera’s real-time capabilities to re-define and dominate customer loyalty, propelling them to become the top private bank in Argentina.

Anu Mohan: VP Data Strategy, Cloudera

Navita Sood: Product Marketing Director, Cloudera

Sanjeev Mohan: SanjMo

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.

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

Juno Schaser: Product Director, Cloudera

Join us for an exciting session where we’ll show how Cloudera is transforming the way organizations collaborate with their data. We’ll introduce the integration of Trino—a high-speed, distributed SQL query engine—into our platform, making it easy to run lightning-fast queries across your Apache Iceberg tables and connect data from multiple sources without ever moving the data. We’ll also showcase the latest enhancements to our data visualization tools, including new AI-powered features that let business users simply "talk to their data" to get the answers they need—no complex queries required. Together, these innovations make data more accessible than ever, empowering everyone in your organization to explore, analyze, and gain insights—anytime, anywhere.

Yael Ben Arie: GM Data Intelligence, Cloudera

The Wall Street Journal highlights reliability as the top concern for AI adoption—a challenge directly linked to data quality and accessibility. The proliferation of data sources, fragmented silos, and distributed architectures, each with unique security and governance policies, significantly impact data reliability. Join this session to discover how you can restore trust in your data and eliminate quality issues with automated, multi-layer data lineage. We'll show you how to gain end-to-end visibility into your data, empowering you to tackle the data mess and deliver trusted information by intelligently activating your metadata.

Bill Zhang: VP Product Strategies, Cloudera

Unlock true data interoperability and empower your teams with Cloudera's Iceberg REST Catalog. Discover how this API-first service enables frictionless data sharing and collaboration, eliminating costly data movement and replication, and aligning with modern data mesh principles. We'll demonstrate in action how the Iceberg REST Catalog provides open metadata access to third-party engines, accelerating your AI/ML development and boosting overall business agility.

Bill Zhang: VP Product Strategies, Cloudera

Building a high-performing and cost-effective data lakehouse is critical, yet navigating its complexities can be challenging. This session provides architects with actionable best practices and strategies to overcome those challenges and unify all their data to power the analytics and AI initiatives. Discover how Cloudera's unique innovations, optimizations and embedded intelligence simplify management, unify data across cloud and on-premises, enhance metadata management, deliver robust governance, and democratize data for all from business users to data engineers. Learn how Cloudera brings AI capabilities directly to your data, even at the edge, enabling real-time decision-making at scale.