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    Welcome to the Future of Data & AI at EVOLVE26.

    AI is the key to business growth, but your data resides across your data estate. To unlock real value, your cloud-only solutions force you to move your data to AI in the cloud. There has to be a better way.

    It’s time to bring AI to your data anywhere it resides—across public clouds, on premises and at the edge—so you don’t just grow, you increase market share. Experience the unified cloud platform from Cloudera and start realizing value in under an hour with Cloudera Data Services for data and AI.

    What’s on the agenda

    • Real-world use cases: No more "what-ifs," just "how-tos."

    • Product innovations: Get an exclusive first look at breakthroughs with Cloudera Data Services powered by Cloudera Anywhere.

    • Peer networking: Connect with the experts who are running AI in production.

    • Expert-led tracks: Dive into best practices for managing complex data environments in the Anywhere Cloud Era.

    What you can expect from the EVOLVE26 experience

    Speaking on the main stage.

    Learn what works. Lead what’s next.

    Gain proven strategies from pioneers moving agentic AI from pilot to production. Hear global thought leaders unpack the Era of Convergence, navigating real-world data gravity and sovereignty challenges to build a clear roadmap for smarter decisions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    A pavilion booth & Cloudera Guru Bar with people in discussions.

    Build connections. Grow your expertise.

    Engage a global community of data architects, partners, and AI experts through curated networking and hands-on collaboration. Strengthen your career with expert-led training, certifications, and practical lessons from customers who share what worked, what didn’t, and how they turned technology into competitive advantage.

    Abhas speaking to a in a one and one session.

    Turn vision into results.

    Meet 1:1 with executives and technical specialists to shape a tailored, high-performance data strategy. Leave with fresh perspectives, actionable insights, and lasting relationships that help you scale innovation and deliver measurable business outcomes.

    Don't miss the opportunity to learn from top minds in AI

    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 - 12:00 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.

    1:00 PM - 4:00 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
    • Chetan Yavasani: Global Head of Product, IQVIA

    • Tucker Durmer: 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

    JP Player: Field CTO, 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: Experian: Ascend Analytical Sandbox - Cloudera Journey

    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

    Rob Wamsley: Senior Director of Data Platforms,  IQVIA

    Rameez  Chatni: Global Director of AI Solutions - Pharmaceutical & Life, Cloudera

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

    Peter Ableda: Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

    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.

    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

    Hannah Smalltree: Sr Director, Customer and Data Leader Advocacy, 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

    Jared Thilenius: Strategic Partnerships Lead, Salesforce

    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

    Ying Chen: Product Manager, Cloudera

    Navita Sood: Product Marketing Director, 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.

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

    Visionary Keynote Speakers

    Sol Rashidi

    Sol Rashidi: 4x C-Suite & Amazon Exec

    World’s 1st Chief AI Officer, 10 Patents, Bestselling Author and Forbes Writer, “Top 100 AI Thought Leaders”, “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech”, Harvard Fellow

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    As the world’s 1st Chief AI Officer for enterprise (2016), Sol has 10 patents and is the best-selling author of ‘Your AI Survival Guide’ (‘Top 50 AI’ books). A 3x TEDx speaker with 1M+ views, and voted FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century,” and FORBES “Top 5 Leaders Taking AI to Everyone”, Sol is a former 4x C-Suite exec for Fortune 100 companies and a former Amazon tech exec. Sol is the inventor of The Human Amplification IndexTM (a new way to measure ROI for AI and Automation to determine how well companies are strengthening their business and workforce through AI) and Intellectual AtrophyTM education to ensure we outsource tasks and not critical thinking in the age of AI. Sol played a pivotal role in developing and launching IBM’s Watson in 2011 and now has over 200+ deployments under her belt. As both a practitioner and an executive, she has earned accolades like “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech,” “Top 100 AI Thought Leaders,” and “Top 100 Data & Analytics Leaders.” Sol sits in the intersection of top-tier leadership in AI, technology, and corporate strategy while bridging innovation with business impact. She serves as public educator and thought leader, shaping conversations about AI, business transformation, and preparation of the future workforce. Her mission is to ensure AI and Automation amplify the workforce and does not displace it.

    Mike Walsh

    Mike Walsh: CEO of Tomorrow

    Global Futurist and Best Selling Author

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    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.

    Peyton Manning

    Special guest Peyton Manning

    Two-Time Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback, Five-Time NFL MVP & Member of the Pro Football HOF

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    Legendary quarterback Peyton Manning, the NFL’s only five-time Most Valuable Player and a 14-time Pro Bowl selection, has earned his place among the greatest quarterbacks in league history as one of the leaders in nearly every statistical passing category. A first-ballot Hall of Fame selection, Manning was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021.

    During the 2015/2016 season, Manning led the Denver Broncos to a 24-10 win over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50, making him the first starting quarterback in NFL history to win a Super Bowl with two different teams. Manning entered the NFL in 1998 with the Indianapolis Colts as the first overall draft pick. When he retired in 2016, Manning held numerous records including the most career touchdown passes in league history in addition to ranking first all-time in completions and passing yards. Named a first-team All-Pro selection by the Associated Press on seven occasions, no quarterback in NFL history had more playoff appearances or 300- yard passing games than Manning when he retired. In 2013, Manning was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. In his first year with the Broncos in 2012—and after missing the entire 2011 campaign with a neck injury - Manning finished as the Associated Press NFL Comeback Player of the Year and runner-up for the league’s MVP.

    During his first 14 NFL seasons with the Colts, Manning set club records in nearly every career passing category. He led the franchise to its first World Championship in 36 years during the 2006 season, earning MVP honors in the Colts’ 29-17 win over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. In 2017, the Colts honored Manning by retiring his number 18 at Lucas Oil Stadium.

    In early 2020, Manning was named to the NFL’s 100 All-Time Team, one of only 10 quarterbacks to earn a spot on this iconic list.

    During his time at the University of Tennessee, Manning epitomized the term “student-athlete.” He claimed 43 records at the school, conference and national levels while graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He led Tennessee to an SEC Championship as a senior in 1997 and earned consensus All-America honors. Following his senior season, Manning was honored with the Sullivan Award for the nation’s top amateur athlete based on character, leadership, athletic ability and the ideals of amateurism. In 2005, the Volunteers retired his number 16 and in 2017, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Manning was named to ESPN’s College Football 150: College Football’s 150 Greatest Players list announced in January 2020. Manning endows the Peyton Manning Scholarship at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, awarding fouryear scholarships to four incoming freshmen each year. To date, there have been 45 scholarships.

    Manning attended Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans, where he was named Gatorade Circle of Champions National Player of the Year and Columbus (Ohio) Touchdown Club National Offensive Player of the Year as a senior. A native of New Orleans, he was named the No. 1 greatest athlete to hail from the state of Louisiana by The Times-Picayune and was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. Manning was also inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame (2019) and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (2018).

    He has also received numerous awards for his philanthropic work off the field and was honored as the recipient of the Byron “Whizzer” White Humanitarian Award and the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2005, the Bart Starr Award in 2015, and the Lincoln Medal in 2017. Manning is a longtime supporter of The Pat Summitt Foundation, a non-profit with a mission to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. In 2012, Manning joined The Pat Summitt Foundation Advisory Board and co-chairs several fundraising events throughout the year. He also sits on the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet – lending a hand during disaster relief.

    He and his wife, Ashley, established the PeyBack Foundation in 1999 to promote the future success of disadvantaged youth by assisting programs that provide leadership and growth opportunities for children at risk. Since its inception, the PeyBack Foundation has provided millions of dollars through its grants and programs. In 2020, through the PeyBack Foundation, Manning endowed a total of nine (9) scholarships at three (3) HBCU schools in Tennessee and five (5) in Louisiana. Manning is a champion for the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent (Indiana); serving as an ambassador, advocate and fundraiser. From 2008 to 2026, Peyton and Ashley co-chaired the signature fundraising event for the hospital each spring, which raised money to expand and enhance departments and services offered.

    At the end of 2020, Manning founded Omaha Productions, an entertainment company that produces unscripted and scripted programming as well as documentaries, digital programming, branded content and podcasts. Omaha focuses on developing content that will unify and uplift. In partnership with ESPN, Omaha launched Monday Night Football with Peyton & Eli. The Monday Night Football simulcast airing on ESPN2 and ESPN Plus produced a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Series. Manning also won the 2023 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst for his work on the broadcast. Omaha has since produced alternative telecasts for college football, golf and the UFC. In 2019, Manning debuted as the host and executive producer of Peyton’s Places on ESPN Plus. Omaha’s first project was the expansion of the Places franchise, with Manning serving as executive producer of the series as it spread into other verticals including college football, fight sports, baseball, basketball, tennis, hockey and soccer. Additionally, the company has series at A+E Networks, NBCUniversal, HISTORY and Netflix, including Netflix’s Quarterback, a high-level access documentary series tracking NFL quarterbacks throughout a season. Manning balances these projects while continuing his iconic commercial partnerships, many of which are produced by Omaha, and pursuing various other business relationships.

    Manning’s father, Archie, was an All-American at the University of Mississippi in 1969 and 1970 and had a 14-year playing career in the NFL with New Orleans (1971-82), Houston (1982-83) and Minnesota (1983-84). His brother, Eli, also attended Ole Miss and was named the MVP of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI with the New York Giants.

    Manning and his family reside in Colorado.

    Eli Manning

    Special guest Eli Manning

    Two-Time Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback & Two-Time Super Bowl MVP

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    With an incredible work ethic, iron-man mentality and natural leadership skill as constants throughout his 16 years in the NFL, Eli Manning made a name for himself as one of the elite quarterbacks in the game.

    He led the New York Giants to Super Bowl wins over the New England Patriots in both 2008 and 2012, earning Super Bowl MVP honors each time. Some of his other notable achievements include being named to four Pro Bowls, holding second place for most consecutive starts by an NFL QB, and setting Giants franchise records in numerous offensive categories before retiring at the end of the 2019 season. Manning was inducted into the New York Giants Ring of Honor and had his No. 10 jersey retired during a special halftime ceremony during the 2021 season.

    His hiatus from the New York Giants was short-lived, as he rejoined the organization in 2021 in an off-field capacity helping with initiatives stretching across business development, marketing, fan engagement and community and corporate relations.

    Manning is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where he received numerous academic and athletic honors, including the Maxwell Award as the nation's best allaround player, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete Award, and SEC Player of the Year, to name just a few. He graduated with a degree in Marketing and was the number one selection in the 2004 NFL Draft. During the 2021 season, his number will become just the third in University of Mississippi football history to be retired.

    Manning is involved in numerous charitable organizations. The co-recipient of the 2016 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, Manning demonstrates considerable dedication and commitment to his life off the field as well. He lends his time to numerous charitable efforts, including Tackle Kids Cancer with the Hackensack University Medical Center, March of Dimes, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, American Red Cross and Robin Hood Foundation, where he most recently helped with the organization’s massive fundraising efforts for COVID-19 relief. He has also raised millions for The Eli and Abby Manning Children’s Clinics and the Manning Family Fund in partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

    Manning has continued to shine during his second chapter, forging a successful career as a media personality, analyst, and innovator. He is now a prominent figure in sports media, hosting two shows: Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli and Eli’s Places on ESPN. He also serves as Executive Producer on HULU’s Chad Powers and Amazon’s Undercovers. Manning was nominated for the Sports Emmy category of Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent in both 2022 and 2023.

    In 2024, Manning founded Ten Till Productions, which produces content focused on uplifting and unifying people and communities. He balances these projects with a robust slate of endorsement partners, speaking engagements and other business endeavors, including serving as a partner at Brand Velocity Group and a minority owner of Gotham FC.

    Manning’s father, Archie, was an All-American at the University of Mississippi in 1969 and 1970 and had a 14-year playing career in the NFL with New Orleans (1971-82), Houston (1982-83) and Minnesota (1983-84). His brother, Peyton, attended the University of Tennessee, was a two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback, a five-time NFL MVP and recently inducted into the Pro Football HOF.

    Manning and his family reside in New Jersey.

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    • Itamar Ankorion, Head of Strategic ISV Alliances, VAST Data
      Itamar Ankorion

      Head of Strategic ISV Alliances, VAST Data

    • Javier Kusminsky, Area Manager, Digital Solutions , ANTEL Urugay
      Javier Kusminsky

      Area Manager, Digital Solutions , ANTEL Urugay

    • Sukdev “Suk” Rawat, Senior Director, Data Exchange, Marriott International
      Sukdev “Suk” Rawat

      Senior Director, Data Exchange, Marriott International

    Nominations are open for Cloudera’s Data Impact Awards

    Cloudera is on the hunt for the  most transformative data and AI use case stories for the Data Impact Awards at EVOLVE26 New York. This is your opportunity to showcase your team’s ingenuity, grit, and results.

    We are looking for use case stories that move the needle. Whether you are revolutionizing customer experiences with AI, streamlining realtime data for efficiency or delivering a positive impact to society, we want to celebrate your impact. 

     

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    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.

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