EVOLVE26 Pre-Day Agenda at a Glance
- Executive Keynote
- Strategic Product Strategy & Vision Update
- Executive Panel
- Analyst Presentation
- Product & Customer Discussion
This workshop equips you to build AI Agents using the latest capabilities of the Cloudera platform, including AI Agent Studio, while exploring the unique value that Cloudera AI offers for deploying private AI models.
Part 1: Getting Started with AI Agent Studio
You will be introduced to the newest features of Cloudera AI Agent Studio and work through guided, hands-on labs to build AI agents based on practical healthcare and banking use cases. The session also gives you dedicated time to build your own agents from the ground up.
Part 2: Industry Workshop with VIAVI (NVIDIA Partner)
As organizations transition from simple chatbots to autonomous agentic AI, the need for secure and governed decision-making becomes paramount. This hands-on lab uses a modified version of NVIDIA’s Intent-Driven RAN Energy Efficiency blueprint to demonstrate how to build an enterprise-grade agentic workflow on Cloudera AI. While the specific use case focuses on telecommunications, these architectural principles apply universally across any industry.
A robust data platform is the foundation for trusting autonomous systems, which is why this lab showcases Cloudera as an Agentic System of Record. We will capture every LLM-driven decision and its underlying logic as immutable records directly within the platform. This guarantees the strict security, transparency, and auditability required to deploy agentic AI in production environments.
To address the practical realities of enterprise AI, we will also evaluate the workflow's performance using two different private AI models. By directly comparing inference latency, operational costs, and overall system efficiency, you will learn how to strategically select models that deliver tangible return on investment. Ultimately, you will leave equipped to bridge the gap between experimental AI and fully governed, cost-effective production systems.
Community Meetups are informal, topic-focused gatherings designed to bring together developers, builders, open source contributors, and technology leaders who share common interests across data, AI, analytics, and open source. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with peers, exchange real-world experiences, hear from panel experts, share best practices, and build relationships with other developers working on similar technologies and initiatives.
Whether you're looking to learn from others, discover new ideas, or simply meet fellow members of the Data/AI community, these sessions offer a unique opportunity to engage directly with the people shaping the future of the ecosystem. Join us the evening before EVOLVE to connect, collaborate, and help strengthen the communities that power innovation across the industry.
EVOLVE26 Agenda at a Glance
- Welcome to EVOLVE26
- Product Keynote
- Enterprise AI & Ecosystems
- Inside ExxonMobil’s Data & AI Transformation
- Enterprise Evolution: Navigating Data Governance, Security, and the Future of AI-Driven Work
- Today’s Cloudera
- Partner Pavilion
- Tech Talks
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.
- Cynthia Lim, Chief Commerical Officer, PCSS
- Monika Thulasi, System Architect, ExxonMobil
- Carol Lim, Data Engagement Lead, Bank of Singapore
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.
Demands for AI are surging at the edge and across the globe as enterprises rush to deploy autonomous agents. However, scaling these intelligent workloads introduces complexities in compliance and infrastructure, because moving massive volumes of sensitive operational data to centralized public clouds triggers strict regional data sovereignty risks and cost-prohibitive "token traps."
Hear how your fellow data leaders are managing the balancing act of delivering AI anywhere by bringing high-performance model serving to their local data infrastructure. Join to learn how by shifting your compute to the data instead of relying on risky, expensive public APIs, you can eliminate "shadow AI" and maximize operational sovereignty while maintaining strict, uncompromised control over corporate privacy, regulatory compliance, and predictable TCO.
Hear insights from:
- Billie Setiawan, CDAO, Head of Data Analytics & AI, CIMB Indonesia
- Rajesh Nair, EVP, Group Head, Platforms & Operations, Axis Bank
The Cloudera data and AI platform, powered by AMD compute, enables enterprises to deliver cost-effective generative and agentic AI use cases with the flexibility to deploy scalable, secure AI across public clouds, data centers, and the edge. Learn how AMD and Cloudera together help organizations deploy hybrid private AI with the governance, data management, security, and performance needed to scale AI workloads efficiently.
In the era of rapid AI adoption, organizations are constrained by the rising costs of public models with unpredictable token fees that make scaling cost-prohibitive. They are also bottlenecked by emerging complexities in data movement, incurring high cloud egress fees and severe latency when shifting sensitive assets. What’s more, organizations need to maintain compliance requirements driven by strict data sovereignty laws that forbid exposing corporate IP to public APIs.
Discover how Axis Bank is navigating these challenges with new architectures, tools, and capabilities that bring AI directly to their data–slashing TCO, eliminating compliance risks, and safely fast-tracking production-grade innovation.
Hear insights from:
Amol Kawale, Vice President, IT, Axis Bank
Put your Data into Action with Trusted Context
The next frontier of data infrastructure is not just a lakehouse that stores more data — it is a lakehouse that understands more, heals itself, and federates context across every boundary to feed your agents. In this session, learn the three pillars of the intelligent lakehouse and how they work together to deliver a complete, governed, 360-degree context layer that makes AI agents more reliable.
With multimodal intelligence — you’ll see how to parse, extract, and vectorize unstructured data, and unify it with structured data. Take a peek inside the agentic lakehouse — how AI-driven optimizations make your platform self-healing, self-tuning, and continuously performant. And finally, learn how Apache Iceberg, Trino, and our connectors with Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP power true interoperability and federated access for context 360. Discover data anywhere, access data from anywhere, share data products, and power your agents anywhere in the cloud, at the edge, or even on premises, giving you complete freedom to choose the architectures, tools, models, and applications that fit your business today and in the future.
Every organization is looking to bridge the gap from insight to action. Their success hinges on a single factor - delivering the right business context to the AI and agents in a secure and protected manner to automate their workflows.
Context goes beyond data. It also includes the metadata, business semantics, relationships, governance, security policies, and lineage. Agents need context to understand the data and use it securely to generate reliable, trustworthy outcomes. Cloudera is building a unified data fabric that delivers the context layer that your agents need.
Hear insights from:
Tushar Garg, Lead Data Engineer, IDFC First Bank
Achal Ananth, VP & Head of Data - Analytics, BI, Data Science & Data Platform, PhonePe
Mohd Marzuq Ikram bin Mohd Helmi, Vice President, Head of Analytics Engineering, Group Data & Analytics, RHB Bank
We are living through the most consequential transition in enterprise technology — not just in how we use data, but in what we expect it to do to improve business. The era of insight is giving way to the era of actions and automation and data has been the cornerstone of this transition. In this session, Cloudera customers share their fundamental shifts in strategy as well as their adoption of key data and AI capabilities to modernize for improved business outcomes.
Hear insights from:
Sanjay Kumar, SVP(II) – Head Data Platform, Axis Bank
Sushil Ostwal, Sushil Ostwal, Chief Data Officer, Bombay Stock Exchange
Haseeb Qureshi, VP Head of Data Architecture & Platforms, Maybank
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.
As public sector agencies pursue digital and AI transformation, the cyber threat landscape is quickly evolving. AI represents both an opportunity and a threat. Attackers are leveraging generative AI to launch sophisticated attacks against critical infrastructure. Public sector leaders can harness the same technology to proactively adapt and respond to threats.
In this session, you will learn how public sector leaders can navigate the modern cybersecurity landscape, and share how agencies can leverage predictive analytics and automation to quickly identify and respond to threats, and transform AI from an emerging threat into a strategic advantage to safeguard your mission.
For public sector leaders, digital sovereignty has quickly become a critical element of national resilience. Agencies must balance the need for modern cloud architectures and AI transformation with digital sovereignty laws requiring absolute control over sensitive public data and AI models.
In this session, we will define what digital sovereignty means for public sector agencies, and how organizations can ensure complete ownership of their data, infrastructure, and AI without sacrificing the need to innovate to efficiently deliver citizen services, maintain national security, and transform operations.
Modern public sector and defense missions require operational intelligence applications that move beyond passive dashboards to deliver real-time, actionable insights. However, deploying advanced AI and analytics is often blocked by strict security, air-gapped, and data sovereignty requirements.
In this technical showcase, learn how agencies can leverage Cloudera AI and existing OSS solutions to bring advanced analytics and AI to their data, powering intelligence applications while maintaining control over their data , infrastructure, and AI. Learn how by extending Cloudera’s capabilities with knowledge graphs and time-series history enables temporal analysis and grounded, contextualized LLM synthesis without compromising data control or operational independence.
PCS Security will share how it built a proof-of-concept data environment into a secure, scalable platform for mission-critical public sector workloads. Through a phased modernization journey, PCS Security introduced real-time streaming, expanded storage, centralized security and governance, improved observability, and adopted open-source technologies like Apache Iceberg. This session will explore the architectural decisions, operational challenges, and lessons learned along the way, as well as PCS Security's plans for the next phase of innovation. Learn how to build a governed data foundation that supports analytics, machine learning, and emerging generative and agentic AI use cases.
Deep Dive into Cloudera Technologies and its Open Source Foundations
Customers and prospects tell us that data governance and security are common roadblocks to the wider adoption and rollout of AI in their businesses. And as AI moves from experimentation and isolated deployment to wider production, enterprises need more than access to just data – they need trusted knowledge that can be used securely, responsibly, and at scale. That is their competitive differentiation. In this panel, leaders from Cloudera, Protegrity, and Tech Data (a TD SYNNEX company) will explore how organisations can enable secure AI adoption, keep their sensitive data private, and turn governed data into actionable knowledge across hybrid, cloud, and regulated environments.
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, it’s imperative to close the loop between a user’s intent and actual work that leads to the desired outcome. An agentic copilot experience, an intelligent layer embedded directly into your workflow, 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 show you how to transform data into trusted tables, enrich the data, validate its quality, and make the data usable for analytics, AI assistants, and responsible decisioning workflows.
Learn how Cloudera AI Inference Service can enable you to run LLMs on your own infrastructure, bringing the power of open-source models into fully private, on-premises and 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. But Private AI is only part of the picture. Experience how Cloudera's new AI Gateway gives you a single control plane to route requests to both private and public models, enforce policies, track usage, and manage costs — all without fragmenting your AI strategy.
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.
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.
Achieve ultimate architectural freedom with Cloudera’s breakthrough hybrid cloud innovations. Learn how to power seamless workload mobility via Cloud 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.
- Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About AI?
- Overcoming the AI Value Realization Challenge: The Strategic Path to ROI with AWS and Cloudera
- The State of the Data and AI Market and What Lies Ahead
Join us as we celebrate organizations driving real business impact through data and AI
SINGAPORE
AUG. 20, 2026 • Sands Expo & Convention Center, Orchid and Melati Ballrooms, Singapore, 018956
