Explore the Potential of Bringing AI to Your Data - Anywhere.

Join us at EVOLVE25, the industry's must-attend Data and AI Conference of the year. See why Bringing AI to Your Data - Anywhere empowers you to unlock the full potential of enterprise and agentic AI for your organization without limits or compromises! Connect with industry visionaries, data and AI experts, and your peers as we explore real-world use cases and newly announced product innovations made only possible by the industry’s only unified, hybrid data platform that Delivers the Cloud Experience - Anywhere.

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 customer experiences.

What you’ll hear

  • Strategies to enhance productivity in the era of generative AI

  • How data and AI revolutionize businesses and industries

  •  Insights from industry visionaries and data experts

  • Real-world experiences and future views on the critical impact of AI

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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.

 

Wednesday, September 24

Customer Executive Forum

By Invite Only

10:00 AM
Welcome & Agenda Review
10:15 AM
Executive Keynote
10:30 AM
Strategy, Product, and State of the Market Panel
11:45 AM
AI in a Box - exclusive discussion
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:15 PM
Welcome back to Customer Executive Forum
1:20 PM
Customer Forum Spotlight
5:00 PM
Welcome Reception

Workshops

Open to All
(Please register for one of the following sessions)

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Unlock the Future of AI - Build and Deploy AI Agents in minutes with Cloudera Agent Studio

Are you ready to revolutionize your AI development? Join us for an exclusive hands-on lab where you’ll master the art of building and deploying powerful AI agents with Cloudera Agent Studio! Dive into our versatile low-code to high-code tools and gain practical experience in real-world scenarios Don't just keep up with rapid technological advancements—lead the charge! Space is limited, so secure your spot now and transform the way you build AI.

What to expect:

  • Build simple and complex agentic workflows in Cloudera Agent Studio.

  • Gain hands-on experience with key Agent Studio features and different agentic workflow architectures (simple single-agent crews, sequential workflows, and multi-agent hierarchical workflows).

  • Learn how to customize agents and tools for individual use cases using Agent Studio.

  • Understand MCP and harness it to equip your agents with a vast arsenal of tools.

The labs covered are:

  •  Welcome & Introduction to Labs: Get to Know Cloudera

  • Lab 1. Build an AI Agent in 10 minutes!

  • Lab 2. Build a Sequential-Agent Workflow

  • Lab 3. Build a Multi-Agent Squad

Location:

  • The Dominick, 246 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, United States

Space is limited, secure your spot now and transform the way you build AI.

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Unlock the Future of AI - Build and Deploy AI Agents in minutes with Cloudera Agent Studio

Are you ready to revolutionize your AI development? Join us for an exclusive hands-on lab where you’ll master the art of building and deploying powerful AI agents with Cloudera Agent Studio! Dive into our versatile low-code to high-code tools and gain practical experience in real-world scenarios Don't just keep up with rapid technological advancements—lead the charge! Space is limited, so secure your spot now and transform the way you build AI.

What to expect:

  • Build simple and complex agentic workflows in Cloudera Agent Studio.

  • Gain hands-on experience with key Agent Studio features and different agentic workflow architectures (simple single-agent crews, sequential workflows, and multi-agent hierarchical workflows).

  • Learn how to customize agents and tools for individual use cases using Agent Studio.

  • Understand MCP and harness it to equip your agents with a vast arsenal of tools.

The labs covered are:

  •  Welcome & Introduction to Labs: Get to Know Cloudera

  • Lab 1. Build an AI Agent in 10 minutes!

  • Lab 2. Build a Sequential-Agent Workflow

  • Lab 3. Build a Multi-Agent Squad

Location:

  • The Dominick, 246 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, United States

Space is limited, secure your spot now and transform the way you build AI.


Thursday, September 25

Main Stage Agenda

8:00 AM

Registration & Networking

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

9:00 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 

  • Brian Rosso: SVP, America, Cloudera

  • Patrick Moorhead: Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy

  • Mike Walsh: Visionary Speaker
  • Brian Martin: Chief AI Product Owner, ACOS Senior Research Fellow, AbbVie

  • Giuliane Paulista: Head of Data & AI Culture, Governance, and Strategy, Banco do Brasil
  • IQVIA

  • Tucker Durman: Senior Advisor, AI & Modern Data Strategy, AWS

  • Manasi Vartak: Chief AI Architect, Cloudera

1:00 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.

Track 1: Accelerate Enterprise and Agentic AI

2:00 PM

Breakout Session 1: Track Keynote: See into The Future of Agents with Private AI

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.

2:40 PM

Breakout Session 2: AI-in-a-Box: Your Path to Private AI with Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and Cloudera

Jeremy Reams: Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy, Cloudera

Rob Kowalski: Vice President, Enterprise Sales Americas, NVIDIA

Kevin Coulter: AI and Data Solutions, Field CTO, Dell Technologies

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.

3:20 PM

Breakout Session 3: Customer Spotlight with Experian

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.

4:00 PM

Breakout Session 4: Unlocking Enterprise AI Value at Scale for Measurable Business Impact with Customer Spotlight: IQVIA

Learn how IQVIA leveraged Cloudera's Agentic AI to empower its business users to create intelligent agents, solving modern business challenges and enabling advanced global collaboration.

4:40 PM

Breakout Session 5: Streamlining Edge Data for AI Models for Real-time Business Value

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.

5:20 PM

Breakout Session 6: Operationalizing Agentic AI in the Real World: From Assistants to Autonomous Workflows

Peter Ableda: Director, Product Marketing, 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.

Track 2: Experience the Cloud Anywhere

2:00 PM

Breakout Session 1: Track Keynote: Accelerating the Future: Delivering Cloud Anywhere with Cloudera

  • Jagbir Kang, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Gaurav Patel,  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.

2:40 PM

Breakout Session 2: Essential Building Blocks for Delivering Cloud Anywhere

Rahul Sharma: Director Product Management, Cloudera

Shaun Ahmadian: Director Product Management, Cloudera

Shiv Moorthy: 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.

3:20 PM

Breakout Session 3: How to Enable Enterprise AI in Financial Services (and other industries) no matter where your data is

  • Dennis Duckworth, Director of Product Marketing,  Partner Ecosystem, Cloudera
  • Jess Hammond, Senior Director, Product Management Gen AI, Protegrity
  • Christopher Zobler, Vice President, Software, Financial Services, IBM
  • Soumya Mohan, Head of Product at Galileo

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).

4:00 PM

Breakout Session 4: Proactive Insights with Cloudera Observability: A Country Financial Success Story

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

Tej nadh Reddy Paila: Observability PM, Cloudera

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.

4:40 PM

Breakout Session 5: Tokenomics of Hybrid AI: The Real Economics of Enterprise Workloads

Jaidev Karthickeyan: Global Head, Value Management, Cloudera

Tokens are the new currency of AI, but the cost of producing them varies dramatically. Cloud APIs look inexpensive on paper, yet once egress, storage, and SLAs are included, enterprise costs often run two to three times higher than published rates. Private AI, by contrast, lets organisations generate tokens wholesale, at predictable costs an order of magnitude lower. This session introduces effective cost per token as the anchor metric for evaluating AI strategies. Using real workload scenarios, we’ll compare Public, Private, and Hybrid models, and show why Hybrid AI delivers both efficiency and elasticity. We’ll also highlight how Cloudera provides the platform and governance to operationalise Hybrid AI, enabling enterprises to anchor workloads on Private AI while bursting seamlessly to the cloud when needed. The outcome: a practical framework to measure not just what AI costs, but the value delivered per token consumed.

5:20 PM

Breakout Session 6: Mastering Real-Time Insights with the Open Data Lakehouse: Improving Customer Loyalty at Banco Galicia

Nicolas Bullrich: Product Manager, Loyalty, Banco Galicia

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.

Track 3: Unify with the Open Data Lakehouse

2:00 PM

Breakout Session 1: Track Keynote: AI Agents are Here. But is Your Data Ready?

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.

2:40 PM

Breakout Session 2: Unlocking the Future of Data Access with Fast and Federated Insights Powered by Conversational AI

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.

3:20 PM

Breakout Session 3: Enhance AI Trust and Reliability with AI-Powered Unified Governance and Metadata Management. with Customer Spotlight: goeasy

Jide Adeoye: Director, Business Intelligence, goeasy

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.

Learn how financial services company goeasy Ltd. uses Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage to boost data quality, speed lending decisions and support AI.

4:00 PM

Breakout Session 4: From Edge to Insight: Streaming Architecture for Data in Motion. Customer Spotlight with T-Mobile & Intendencia de Montevideo

Gary Gaur, Sr. Product Manager, Cloudera

Axel Luft: Member of Technical Staff, T-Mobile

Veronica Orellano, Director, Data Analysis, Intendencia de Montevideo

Viviana Solla, Computer Engineer, Intendencia de Montevideo

Hear highlights of T-Mobile’s real-time architecture, streaming over 10 million events per second from the edge for immediate anomaly detection and comprehensive network health visibility.

Hear highlights from Intendencia de Montevideo on how Cloudera on AWS and Cloudera AI helped transform a city, with AI-driven applications and an Open Data portal improving the daily lives of 1M+ citizens.

4:40 PM

Breakout Session 5: Achieve Effortless Data Collaboration with Iceberg REST Catalog

Bill Zhang: VP Product Strategies, Cloudera

Jeremy Reams: Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy, 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.

5:20 PM

Breakout Session 6: Architecting for Scale and Performance with Open Data Lakehouse

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.

Data Impact Awards Ceremony & Celebration    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Women Leaders in Technology at EVOLVE25

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Each EVOLVE event will feature a Women Leaders in Technology session—all EVOLVE attendees welcome! Under the theme Accelerate Action, Accelerate Innovation, 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.

Featured Speakers

  • Charles Sansbury, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera
  • Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera
  • Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer, Cloudera
  • Sergio Gago, Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
  • Frank O’Dowd , Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera
  • Donna Beasley, Chief AI Enablement Officer, Cloudera
  • Patick Moorehead, Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy
  • Bill Zhang, VP, Product Strategies, Cloudera
  • Wim Stoop, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera
  • Anu Mohan, Vice President, Data Strategy, Cloudera
  • Navita Sood, Product Marketing Director, Cloudera
  • Manasi Vartak, Chief AI Architect, Cloudera
  • Robert Hryniewicz, Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera
  • Karthik Krishnamoorthy, VP Product Management, Cloudera
  • Juno Schaser, Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • J.R Horton, Senior Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Yael Ben Arie, General Manager, Data Intelligence, Cloudera
  • Jess Von Bank, Global Leader, HR Transformation & Technology Advisory
  • Brian Martin, Chief AI Product Owner, ACOS Senior Research Fellow, AbbVie
  • Cyrus Katrak, Engineering Director, Financial Services and Data, Experian
  • Matt Delaney, Manager, Data Analytics and Engineering, Country Financial
  • Viviana Solla, Computer Engineer, City Council of Montevideo
  • Veronica Orellano, Director, Data Analysis, City Council of Montevideo
  • Giuliane Paulista, Head of Data & AI Culture, Governance, and Strategy, Banco do Brasil
  • Teddra Thomas Burgess, Tech Executive,  Board Director, and Founder of Chasing Outcomes™
  • Jess Hammond, Sr Director, Product Management - Gen AI, Protegrity
  • Christopher Zobler, Vice President, Software, Financial Services Market, IBM
  • Nicolas Bullrich, Product Manager, Loyalty, Banco Galicia
  • Jide Adeoye,  Director, Business Intelligence, goeasy
  • Jaidev Karthickeyan, Global Head, Value Management, Cloudera
  • Rameez Chatni, Global Director of AI Solutions - Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, Cloudera
  • Suri Nuthalapati, Data & AI Practice Lead, Americas, Cloudera
  • Rahul Sharma, Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Jagbir Kang, Director of Product Management, Cloudera
  • Gaurav Patel, Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Gary Gaur, Sr. Product Manager, Cloudera
  • Tucker Durman, Senior Advisor, AI & Modern Data Strategy, AWS
  • Jeremy Reams, Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy, Cloudera
  • Rob Wamsley, Senior Director of Data Platforms, IQVIA
  • Kevin Coulter, AI and Data Solutions Field CTO, Dell Technologies
  • Soumya Mohan, Head of Product at Galileo
  • Nicole Casperson, Founder & CEO, Fintech Is Femme
  • Axel Luft, Member of Technical Staff, T-Mobile

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