IMPACT26: Cloudera’s Virtual Partner-Exclusive Event

Join us for Cloudera’s premier global partner event. This isn’t just a strategy update—it’s your blueprint for capitalizing on Cloudera’s massive market momentum in successfully addressing some of the world’s most challenging data and AI problems. Discover how to use Cloudera’s true hybrid platform to solve your customers' toughest challenges, expand your service offerings, and close bigger deals, faster.

What You'll Experience

Discover how our advancements in true hybrid data and AI translate into new opportunities, accelerated growth, and shared success for your business.

Executive Insights: Architecting Growth Together

Cloudera CEO Charles Sansbury and CRO Frank O’Dowd share the vision of the opportunity and future for our partners.

Vision & Roadmap + Data Services

Cloudera CPO Leo Brunnick and CTO Sergio Gago share their view of the history of Cloudera and their vision for the future, They will present our product direction, especially around Data Services, Anywhere Cloud, and Private AI, and talk about HOW you as partners can best participate with Cloudera for your benefit and the benefit of your customers.

Cloudera Strategy: Industries & Sales Plays

Cloudera is leaning in on building out a set of practical and compelling industry-specific use cases and sales plays to help our sales team and our partners more easily engage with new customers and offer the kind of solutions our customers are asking for. AI remains a key area of interest, with Sovereign AI, on-premises AI inferencing, and agentic AI all driving deals for us. Listen to our CSO Abhas Ricky talk about what he is seeing regarding AI adoption and what new use cases he is forecasting for the future.

Powering the Pipeline: Fueling Demand through Anywhere Cloud & AI

Cloudera CMO Mary Wells talks about how Cloudera is creating market pull opportunities and pipeline for our partners that will be bigger than ever in 2026. Learn how to take advantage of our Cloud Anywhere and AI Anywhere campaigns to increase leads and opportunities to sell and win together.

Customer Story : Cloudera AI with OCBC

OCBC is an AI leader in the financial services space in Singapore. They have implemented Cloudera AI to significantly improve their customer service capabilities, increasing customer satisfaction and their bottom line. Learn how partners can help their customers and prospects, including complex financial services companies, to replicate the success that OCBC is having in harnessing the power of AI with Cloudera.

Betting on You: Cloudera’s FY27 Partner Strategy & Cloudera Partner Programs for Growth

You have heard from our executives on what Cloudera will be doing for 2026. How can you as a partner take advantage of those motions to improve your success with Cloudera customers? Cloudera’s Partner Program is growing with our partners to ensure you can benefit from Cloudera’s strategies.

Partner of the Year Awards

Each year we celebrate the outstanding achievements, innovation, and dedication of our worldwide partners with our annual global Partner of the Year Awards.

Why this event matters

IMPACT26 gives you early visibility into our most important strategic initiatives, aligning priorities and equipping you to drive growth and success in the year ahead.

Cloudera’s premier global partner event focuses on what matters most: enabling you to seize the enterprise AI opportunity, expand your impact with Cloudera’s platform, and build momentum for the year ahead.

With AI adoption accelerating across industries, now is the time to align on strategy, sharpen your technical edge, and capitalize on growing demand.

This virtual experience features insight from Cloudera executives, product leaders, and global sales teams on where opportunities are emerging, how the platform is evolving, and what you need to succeed right now.

Agenda at-a-glance

90 minutes total

Executive Insights: Architecting Growth Together

Vision & Roadmap + Data Services

Cloudera Strategy: Industries & Sales Plays

Powering the Pipeline: Fueling Demand through Anywhere Cloud & AI

Customer Story: Cloudera AI with OCBC

Betting on You: Cloudera’s FY27 Partner Strategy & Cloudera Partner Programs for Growth

Partner of the Year Awards

Choose the date and time that works for you

Wednesday, March 25

8:30 AM GMT | 2:00 PM IST | 4:30 PM SGT

Thursday, March 26

10:00 AM PDT | 1:00 PM EDT | 1700 GMT

Speakers

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera

Chief Executive Officer Charles Sansbury has more than 20 years experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership roles across the software industry. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2015 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that, Charles was COO and CFO of software holding company The Attachmate Group from 2006 until its acquisition by MicroFocus in 2014 as well as CFO of Vignette from 2001 until 2006. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.

Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.

Frank O’Dowd

Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

As chief revenue officer, Frank leads global sales, solution engineering, demand generation, and partners and is responsible for go-to-market strategy. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has led world-class sales teams with a focus on customer transformation to meet the challenges of the digital age. Prior to Cloudera, Frank was chief sales officer at Guidewire, responsible for the organization’s global sales, sales operations, customer relationship management, and partner alliances. During his leadership, Guidewire had record bookings and accelerated the shift from an on-premises solution to their first releases in the cloud. Previously, Frank was group vice president, North America, at Oracle, where he played a crucial role in the company’s transformation to the cloud. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Miami.
Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.

Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.

Abhas Ricky

Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

As chief strategy officer, Abhas leads the overall corporate strategy for Cloudera and is responsible for creating the company vision, building the business and customer target operating model, communicating that with key stakeholders via clearly defined OKRs, and executing key transformational initiatives to realize that plan. He’s also tasked with driving growth and innovation and making appropriate build/buy partner decisions, including pricing and packaging, corporate development, and Cloudera’s innovation accelerator to launch new products. Previously, he served as chief of staff and vice president for business transformation at the company. Prior to the Cloudera/Hortonworks merger, he helped scale Hortonworks’ go-to-market efforts as global head of customer innovation and value management. A management consultant by training, he is passionate about driving action and change in the society and has led projects with multiple organizations including the World Economic Forum, Founders of the Future, and other nonprofits.
Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.

Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.

Leo Brunnick

Chief Product Officer, Cloudera

Chief Product Officer Leo Brunnick has more than 30 years of experience leading high-performing technology teams. He leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to Cloudera, he served as the Chief Operating Officer at Naviga, a software provider for content development in media, where he led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Previously, Leo held several executive positions at Vignette–including Executive Vice President of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer at Vignette–until its sale to OpenText in 2008. Leo served as an officer in the Marine Corps and received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.
Mary Wells

Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudera

Chief Marketing Officer Mary Wells has 25 years of global marketing leadership experience in the software industry. Prior to Cloudera, she served as CMO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2017 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that she held marketing leadership roles at HPE, Axeda, Kalido, BEA Systems, BroadVision, and Sybase. Mary has extensive experience in strategic marketing initiatives as well as sales alignment, operations, and enablement. She holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing and organizational behavior from Boston College and has attended numerous executive leadership programs. Mary also serves on the board of many organizations associated with animal advocacy, elderly advocacy, and mentoring. She is a frequent guest speaker.

Mary Wells

Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudera

Chief Marketing Officer Mary Wells has 25 years of global marketing leadership experience in the software industry. Prior to Cloudera, she served as CMO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2017 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that she held marketing leadership roles at HPE, Axeda, Kalido, BEA Systems, BroadVision, and Sybase. Mary has extensive experience in strategic marketing initiatives as well as sales alignment, operations, and enablement. She holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing and organizational behavior from Boston College and has attended numerous executive leadership programs. Mary also serves on the board of many organizations associated with animal advocacy, elderly advocacy, and mentoring. She is a frequent guest speaker.

Mary Wells

Chief Marketing Officer, Cloudera

Chief Marketing Officer Mary Wells has 25 years of global marketing leadership experience in the software industry. Prior to Cloudera, she served as CMO of enterprise IT management software provider ASG Technologies from 2017 until its 2021 sale to Rocket Software. Prior to that she held marketing leadership roles at HPE, Axeda, Kalido, BEA Systems, BroadVision, and Sybase. Mary has extensive experience in strategic marketing initiatives as well as sales alignment, operations, and enablement. She holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing and organizational behavior from Boston College and has attended numerous executive leadership programs. Mary also serves on the board of many organizations associated with animal advocacy, elderly advocacy, and mentoring. She is a frequent guest speaker.
Sergio Gago

Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera

Sergio Gago

Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera

Sergio Gago

Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
Michelle Hoover

SVP, Global Strategic Partnerships, Cloudera

Michelle Hoover

SVP, Global Strategic Partnerships, Cloudera

Michelle Hoover

SVP, Global Strategic Partnerships, Cloudera
Adrien Chenailler

Managing Director, Industry Solutions, Cloudera

Adrien Chenailler

Managing Director, Industry Solutions, Cloudera

Adrien Chenailler

Managing Director, Industry Solutions, Cloudera