EVOLVE26 Pre-Day Agenda at a Glance
By invite only
Executive Keynote
Strategic Product Strategy & Vision Update
Executive Panel
Analyst Presentation
Product & Customer Discussion
A Full-Day Hands-On Workshop for Cloudera Technical & Data Leaders
Overview
Generative AI is shifting from passive chat to autonomous action. Join us in NYC for an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to take you from foundational concepts to production-ready enterprise AI agents.
Engineered specifically for Cloudera customers, this day-long immersion delivers the knowledge, environment, and 1:1 coaching needed to build, deploy, and govern Private AI Agents with total confidence.
Work side-by-side with Cloudera product managers, enterprise architects, and applied AI specialists. You will build real-world agents using low-code visual environments and high-code SDKs—all grounded in your enterprise data within a safe, private environment.
Financial Industry Use Case:
Participants will get hands-on with a fraud-detection application on Cloudera AI. You'll learn the modeling approach behind it, why sequence-based foundation models outperform traditional point-in-time features, and how to benchmark them against a classic baseline. You'll score live transactions, retrain a model on GPU and see results update in real time, review diagnostics, and deploy a production-ready REST endpoint. By the end, you'll have walked the full lifecycle from data to deployment and see how the same pattern applies to AML, credit risk, and customer churn.
What You Will Experience & Learn
Cloudera AI & Agent Studio: Explore key capabilities for multi-agent collaboration, contextual engineering, and enterprise control.
Low-Code Agent Construction: Build functional agent workflows for complex healthcare and banking scenarios using sample datasets.
High-Code AI Engineering & Financial Fraud Detection: Spend the afternoon in an advanced coding lab building an end-to-end fraud detection agent powered by NVIDIA blueprints.
Private AI Security & Governance: Master techniques for securing agent tool use, enforcing guardrails, and managing data sovereignty inside private cloud boundaries.
LLM Evaluation & Production Readiness: Learn how to continuously evaluate agent accuracy, minimize token latency, and build trusted AI systems ready for production deployment.
Who Should Attend?
This event is tailored for technical practitioners and domain leaders looking to accelerate agentic workflows inside their organization:
Data Engineers, Data Scientists, & Machine Learning Engineers
Software Engineers & AI/Agent Builders
Data & Business Analysts, Domain Experts, & Enterprise Architects
Why Attend?
Bring AI to Your Data: Experience the unique value proposition of deploying agents directly on the Cloudera Data Platform without exposing sensitive IP.
Direct Access to Experts: Connect 1-on-1 with Cloudera’s core product engineering teams, professional services specialists, and solution architects.
Leave with Code: Gain practical experience building custom agents that you can directly adapt to your organization’s high-value use cases.
EVOLVE26 Agenda at a Glance
- Welcome
- Today’s Cloudera
- Product Keynote
- Enterprise AI & Ecosystems
- CRO Keynote
- Inside ExxonMobil’s Data & AI Transformation
- AI Transformation & the Future of Work
Partner Pavilion
Bringing AI to Your Data in Any Cloud or Data Center
Moving sensitive data to public AI models is a costly, risky compromise. The true enterprise differentiator lies in scaling trusted, autonomous agents for complex workflows—without sacrificing privacy or succumbing to public cloud "token traps." Discover how Cloudera achieves sovereign AI by bringing high-performance AI directly to your data, whether in hybrid clouds, private infrastructure, or air-gapped data centers.
What You Will Learn:
Private, Cost-Predictable Model Serving: Securely host models behind your firewall with Cloudera AI Inference service, lowering TCO compared to public APIs.
Fast-Tracked Agentic Innovation: Rapidly scale autonomous workflows with low-code Cloudera Agent Studio, ensuring safe interaction with production systems.
Centralized AI Governance: Manage, monitor, and route AI usage via a unified control plane that eliminates "shadow AI" and ensures strict compliance.
Join us to see how a data-to-AI strategy minimizes risk, lowers TCO, maximizes operational sovereignty, and accelerates production-grade enterprise intelligence.
Find out how the non-profit is using Cloudera and agentic AI to revolutionize humanitarian response, and adding new use cases every year. Learn how Cloudera AI Studios on AWS has helped to automate crisis research, and turn complex data into localized, life-saving insights.
Enterprise AI demands more than powerful models and GPUs. It requires a data foundation that can continuously support analytics, retrieval, inference, and agentic AI without the complexity of fragmented storage and data movement.
In this session, learn how Cloudera and VAST Data combine enterprise data services with an AI-native data platform to create a unified foundation for AI.
We'll explore how organizations can maximize GPU utilization, reduce operational complexity, eliminate unnecessary data movement, improve AI infrastructure efficiency, reduce TCO and accelerate the journey from analytics to production AI.
Hear how YPF is embedding advanced analytics and AI deep into its internal processes to cement its position as a digital energy leader. By leveraging Cloudera to transform workflows across Upstream, Downstream, Retail, and Logistics, YPF is successfully optimizing core business metrics. Discover how these operational efficiencies are streamlining daily logistics to drive smarter, immediate decision-making across the enterprise.
Put your Data into Action with Trusted Context
You're running five copies of the same data across five platforms so five different tools can each pretend the others don't exist. That's the real reason your AI budget doubled this year while ROI stayed flat. The model was never the hard part; it's a commodity now, improving faster than you can even evaluate it. The hard part is the data layer built on proprietary formats, shadow pipelines, brittle ETL, and duplication that compounds with every new workload. This session makes the case for the alternative: interoperability at scale, open standards, zero-ETL access, federated context, and automation built into the data layer itself, so agents get governed access to enterprise truth without another copy sitting somewhere waiting to go stale. If your AI strategy depends on which model you picked rather than what your data platform can actually deliver, you can never scale your AI. Join industry analyst Sanjeev Mohan to see what a foundation built to power your AI should really look like.
Discover how Marriott International leverages the Marriott Data Exchange to power over 2,000 operational data flows across reservations, Marriott Bonvoy loyalty, finance, and hotel operations. Hear how Marriott orchestrates third-party marketing integrations and automated privacy compliance to deliver trusted, real-time insights across the enterprise.
Discover how Antel is transforming its telco infrastructure into a revenue-generating powerhouse by using Cloudera to build new products and services for B2B and public sector clients. Hear how they architected a multi-tenant, hybrid platform on Cloudera —combining the data sovereignty of an on-premises foundation with the agility of public clouds—to create new business products and realize massive value.
Global AI investment is skyrocketing, yet enterprises worldwide are hitting a critical roadblock: the challenge of translating massive spend into measurable business value. To bridge this gap and win stakeholder trust, leadership must move past theoretical use cases and prove exactly how AI transformations will deliver holistic impact within their own unique business environments, constraints, and data ecosystems.
The strategic barriers to this realization are clear. Recent data shows that 47% of enterprises name poor data quality as their number one obstacle to AI value, while only 43% possess the necessary security, governance, and guardrails to manage it. This session explores how the strategic partnership between AWS and Cloudera addresses these foundational challenges head-on. We will discuss the executive blueprints required to overcome these barriers, mitigate governance risks, and build a trusted data foundation that turns AI investments into a predictable driver of enterprise growth and competitive advantage.
Enterprise AI success starts with the right foundation—not just the right model. As organizations scale from AI pilots to production agents, they need to transform enterprise data into trusted intelligence while running AI wherever their data resides.
Join Cloudera and NVIDIA to learn how hybrid data platforms, accelerated data processing, open models, and NVIDIA AI software come together to power secure, scalable agentic AI. Learn how an optimized AI stack - from data and models to CPUs, GPUs, networking, and secure computing - enables enterprise to build and scale intelligent agents across on-premises and cloud environments.
Gain inspiration and insights into how leading organizations are building the foundation for the next generation of enterprise AI.
Data governance, security, and infrastructure constraints remain primary roadblocks preventing enterprises from moving Al from isolated experimentation into broad production. Research shows that 73% of IT leaders report infrastructure constraints hinder their operational initiatives as enterprise Al outgrows the public-cloud-only model.
In this panel, leaders from Cloudera, IBM, Protegrity, and PhoenixAl explore how organizations can deploy AI applications and govern trusted, AI-ready data required to scale them without disruptive data migrations. Powered by the new Cloudera Anywhere Cloud™ platform, joint solutions bring push-button simplicity, cloud-native agility, and a modular architecture directly to enterprise data wherever it resides-across multi-cloud, sovereign infrastructure, and private data centers. By combining IBM’s enterprise data governance and real-time data streaming capabilities, Protegrity’s data-centric protection, and PhoenixAI’s sub-second database engine available through the Cloudera Anywhere Marketplace, enterprises can establish the trusted, governed data foundation they need to build, deploy, and scale reliable AI applications and agentic workflows, satisfy data sovereignty mandates, and optimize compute costs safely across any environment.
Deep Dive into Cloudera Technologies and its Open Source Foundations
This session explores how to achieve ultimate architectural freedom with Cloudera’s breakthrough hybrid cloud innovations. Learn how to power seamless workload mobility via Compute Bursting, secure data mobility with Replication Manager, and fine-grained security through Ranger Remote Authorization Service (RAZ) and the Iceberg REST Catalog. Experience secure, flexible deployments across any environment.
Deriving real value from your data estate -- from acquiring and preparing data to actively extracting insights -- remains a painstaking hurdle. Because basic chat tools fall short of handling this complexity, we must close the loop between a user’s intent and actual work that leads to the desired outcome. This talk unveils our new agentic copilot experience, an intelligent layer embedded directly into your workflow that brings together specialized agents, business context, and fit-for-purpose compute engines. Whether you are a pipeline builder, business analyst, or operator, learn how to be more productive and get to results faster.
This session shows how financial data moves from raw ingestion to governed, AI-ready consumption on an Iceberg-based lakehouse. Using a real-world finance scenario, we will transform data into trusted tables, enrich it, validate quality, and make it usable for analytics, AI assistants, and responsible decisioning workflows via MCPs.
Hear how a leading manufacturer relied on Cloudera to achieve its goal of delivering a unified cloud experience across public clouds, on-premises, and even at the edge with a fast implementation that covered simplified migration, deployment, LTS, authentication, authorization, and cloud deployment.
As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation, the challenge shifts to deploying and operating models reliably at scale — while keeping data private and costs predictable. In this session, we'll explore how Cloudera AI Inference Service enables organizations to run LLMs on their own infrastructure, bringing the power of open-source models into fully private, on-premises or cloud environments without ever sending sensitive data to a third party. You'll see how Cloudera handles the operational complexity — from model serving and autoscaling to observability — so your teams can focus on building Agents, not managing infrastructure.
Explore how to design and implement an agentic workflow from end to end. We will walk through a real use case, show how the agent creates its own to-do list and plans the work, keeps execution within guardrails, and leaves a complete audit trail along the way. Expect a hands-on, practical look at how governed AI agents actually come together.
Raise the Glass, Raise the Bar
Join us for an afternoon of connection and conversation as part of EVOLVE26, featuring a panel discussion on The Future of Leadership: Anywhere, Anyone, Anytime. As Women Leaders in Technology enters its fourth era, we're shifting from access to influence, a more inclusive model of leadership. Enjoy an hour of networking, light bites, refreshments, and more as we celebrate and learn from leaders driving impact across industries. All are welcome.
The 7 Drivers of Transformation
From Vision to Value: Inside IQVIA’s Data Transformation
The State of the Data and AI Market and What Lies Ahead
Special Guest Speaker…to be announced
Join us as we celebrate organizations driving real business impact through data and AI
NEW YORK
OCT 27, 2026 • Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
