Trusted Data Today for Tomorrow’s AI

Welcome to Cloudera’s Generative AI Impact Hackathon at Evolve in New York City. In this event, we challenge you to harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to create impactful solutions that benefit society. Whether it’s improving mental health access, supporting disaster relief efforts, promoting financial literacy, or advancing climate resilience, you’ll build tools that address some of humanity’s most pressing challenges. Using advanced techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine tuning, your mission is to deliver innovative applications that push LLMs beyond the ordinary—developing solutions that change lives. Get ready to collaborate, innovate, and make a real difference in the world

How to Participate:

1. Following registration, you will receive an email containing information on how to submit your project ideas.
2. Indicate if you are an individual or group submission 
3. Please note, ideas must be submitted by ** Sep 23, 2024
4. Following your submission, our team will conduct an initial assessment of your project and contact you with the next steps.

Save the Dates: 

All hackathon participants must be available to attend the in-person hackathon, evaluation, and awards ceremony October 9–10.

*Space limited

In this discussion, we challenge you to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to create impactful solutions that benefit society. Whether it’s improving mental health access, supporting disaster relief efforts, promoting financial literacy, or advancing climate resilience, you’ll be working to build tools that address some of humanity’s most pressing challenges. Using advanced techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning, your mission is to deliver innovative applications that push LLMs beyond the ordinary—developing solutions that can change lives. Get ready to collaborate, innovate, and make a real difference in the world!

Throughout the day, participants will receive hands-on training from Cloudera experts who will guide you through leveraging Cloudera’s platform and tools to build your projects. You’ll have full access to Cloudera on AWS, enabling you to develop your solutions with cutting-edge software. To keep you fueled and focused, we’ll be providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner, ensuring you can concentrate on innovation while we take care of the rest.

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Building Inclusive Data-Driven Organizations: Leadership Strategies for the Modern Workplace.

Focus on how women leaders are fostering inclusive environments within data and AI-driven organizations. Topics will include leadership approaches that prioritize diversity, strategies to overcome systemic barriers, and the role of data in driving organizational transformation and inclusion.

Enjoy a networking lunch  while visiting the Partner Pavilion Expo, presented by global sponsors AWS, IBM, Red Hat & Nvidia.

This track focuses on the tangible benefits that Enterprise GenAI brings to businesses. By utilizing Cloudera's advanced Enterprise GenAI capabilities, organizations can effectively transform innovative ideas into practical, scalable AI applications. Sessions will cover building and accelerating AI with the Cloudera Machine Learning service, operationalizing and deploying large language models with Cloudera AI Inference service powered by NVIDIA NIM, and converting unstructured data into actionable insights through scalable pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Additionally, learn how a hybrid platform for Enterprise GenAI can enhance flexibility, lower costs, and ensure security. Discover real-world applications of AI assistants in Cloudera services, enhancing productivity and operational efficiency. Hear from industry experts and see how Cloudera's end-to-end GenAI solutions provide technologies essential for thriving in a dynamic business environment.

Trusted data is the foundation for all AI and analytics. This track focuses on strategies for architecting a modern data platform that deploys an Open Data Lakehouse to deliver trusted data. It covers Cloudera’s latest innovations designed to enhance governance, collaboration, interoperability and facilitate seamless data sharing across your organization. Hear from other customers how they accelerated the adoption of the Data Lakehouse and built a Data Fabric with Cloudera unifying disparate data sources into a cohesive, integrated ecosystem.

Apache Iceberg Forum

Join us to immerse yourself in Apache Iceberg innovation. Enjoy talks from Apache Iceberg PMC members, organizations who have deployed Iceberg at scale, and Iceberg contributors and experts. Learn about the latest developments in Iceberg, their use cases and how they are transforming their data architectures with Iceberg. Leave empowered with essential tips and tricks to accelerate your journey, and best practices you can implement right away.

This track emphasizes the importance of 'true' hybrid cloud in deploying modern data architectures like an open data lakehouse and driving innovations like AI. By adopting a 'true' hybrid approach, organizations can enhance visibility, flexibility, and scalability, preparing for rapid future innovation and managing change. Hear from customers that went before you and learn what Cloudera has in store now and in the future to let you take full advantage of true hybrid cloud.

*Space limited

In this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore the latest LLM application architectures and their implementation with Cloudera’s Accelerators for ML Projects. Starting with an overview of Cloudera Machine Learning and its capabilities, participants will delve into the stages of a typical generative AI project and review case study results. You will also get an overview of Cloudera’s partner ecosystem with leading GenAI providers.

Key Benefits:

• Deep Dive into LLM Application Architectures: Gain a comprehensive understanding of current LLM application architectures and their practical applications.

• Hands-On Experience: Build a chatbot application using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, showcasing the modularity and innovation speed of Cloudera Machine Learning.

• Practical Exercises: Connect to data sources, experiment, deploy models, and develop front-end applications within Cloudera Machine Learning.

Highlights Include:

• Overview of Cloudera Machine Learning: Learn about Machine Learning's capabilities and how it supports various stages of a GenAI project.

• Partner Ecosystem: Discover Cloudera’s collaborations with leading GenAI providers to enhance your ML projects.

• Interactive Workshop: Engage in practical exercises to build and deploy a chatbot application, leveraging external services and Cloudera Machine Learning's comprehensive features.

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In this 2-hour  interactive hands-on lab, you will build an Apache Iceberg-powered lakehouse designed for business intelligence (BI) and reporting. Utilizing Cloudera's Data Warehouse solution on Cloudera's platform, you will experience the power of modern data analytics.

Key Benefits:

• Empower Your IT Teams: Provide a cloud-native, self-service analytics experience for BI analysts, enabling rapid querying and insights.

• Cost-Effective Scalability: Cloudera Data Warehouse handles data of all sizes and types, scaling efficiently even into petabytes.

• Comprehensive Analytics: Learn to streamline analytics on large datasets without compromising on speed, cost efficiency, or security, using Cloudera Data Warehouse.

Event Highlights:

• Self-Service Analytics with Real-World Use Case: Dive into a real-world scenario to explore how Cloudera Data Warehouse and Apache Iceberg enable self-service analytics. Participants will analyze new data to answer key business questions, driving insights and strategies for increasing revenue.

• End-to-End Open Data Lakehouse Solution: Experience the process of building a modern Open Data Lakehouse solution using Apache Iceberg. This includes migrating existing tables to Iceberg, creating new Iceberg tables, loading data, and utilizing advanced features like partition evolution and time travel.

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The Critical Role of a Hybrid Cloud Architecture in Ensuring Regulatory Compliance in Financial Services

As we navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, financial institutions face mounting pressure to innovate while safeguarding sensitive data and adhering to stringent compliance requirements. Compliance with privacy and AI regulations in the financial services sector have made a hybrid cloud architecture an imperative.

AI Acceleration: Making an innovative business impact using Cloudera for trusted data powering Artificial Intelligence, machine learning (ML), large language models (LLM).

Cloud (Native) Innovation: 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 & Transformation: Excelling in designing and implementing innovative data architectures that effectively support the full data lifecycle –from ingestion to analytics.

Leadership & Transformation: 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, these initiatives extend beyond organizational walls and financial impact.

Unplug with peers, colleagues, and the Cloudera team as we celebrate together over live music and drinks.