Thank you to everyone who attended. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

Uncover strategies to enhance productivity in the era of Generative AI

This annual event is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of Data and AI. Uncover the infinite possibilities of Trusted Data Today for Tomorrow's AI.

Speakers

  • Charles Sansbury, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera
  • Frank O’Dowd, Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera
  • Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera
  • Ahmad Shakora, Group Vice President, Emerging Markets, Cloudera
  • Venkat Rajaji, SVP, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Wim Stoop, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera
  • Wonho Chung, Master of Ceremony
  • Juno Shaser, Director of Product Management, Cloudera
  • Hannah Smalltree, Senior Director, Customer and Data Leader Advocacy, Cloudera
  • Marco Biaggi, Managing Director, Middle East Data and AI lead, Accenture
  • Chris Royles, Chief Technology Officer EMEA, Cloudera
  • Tariq Salameh, Solutions Engineer Manager, Emerging Markets, Cloudera
  • Karthik Krishnamoorthy, Vice President Of Product Management, Cloudera
  • Ali Rey, Group Head of Technology Platforms, Emirates NBD
  • Tommi Tulisalo, Data & AI Software Sales Leader, EMEA, IBM
  • Atta Ullah Shah, AVP - Head of Data Analytics MEA, Systems MEA
  • Kaya Güvenç, VP, Head of IT Infrastructure Architecture Management, AkBank
  • Jaidev Karthickeyan, Director, Value Management, Cloudera
  • Priyank Patel, Corporate VP, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Jake Bengtson, Technical Evangelism Director, Cloudera
  • Bill Zhang, Senior Director, Product Management, Cloudera
  • Kartik Iyer, CDO, Arab Bank
  • Canan Bahar, System Architect, Isbank
  • Syed Hameed, Solutions Engineer, Cloudera
  • Naveed Memon, Vice President Enterprise Data & Analytics Solutions, Emirates
  • Mohamed Ansari, Technology Director, Magnoos
  • Mohammed Ahmed, Smart City Delivery Director, KAFD
  • Mohamed Youssef, Sr.Partner Development Specialist, Data & AI, AWS
  • Ihsan Yigitbasi, Cloud Big Data Technologies Manager, Garanti BBVA Technology
  • Mohsin Raza Khan, Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect, Red Hat
  • Manoj Bhojwani, Chief Information Officer, ADIB

Visionaries who inspire

Chad Foster portait

Chad Foster

We are excited to welcome Chad Foster an award-winning business leader, international keynote speaker, and author of Blind Ambition™. Chad explains the anatomy of resilience—providing tried and tested tools that empower people to emerge from setbacks stronger, sleeker, and resolute to succeed. Chad Foster is a:

  • Harvard-educated Executive Dealmaker, Billion$ Generator, Job Creator
  • Change-Disruption-Mindset-Transformation
  • Grit-Resilience-Accountability-Growth Through Adversity

Chad shares the insights gained from going blind at 21, and bouncing back to build massive enterprise value at key organizations like Red Hat and Accenture —enabling your team to embody the mindsets for success, adopting narratives that change the meaning of the challenges they face. They’ll learn how to get comfortable with discomfort, equipping your organization to turn disadvantages into advantages, and obstacles into opportunities — creating a more resilient leadership culture and inviting diversity to drive business innovation.


Ray Wang portait

R "Ray" Wang

R “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research Inc. He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org. Ray is an expert on AI, Web3, and software. His ground-breaking best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray's recent best selling book Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released in 2021.  Wang is frequently quoted and interviewed by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Fox Business, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg.

Nominations open for Cloudera's Data Impact Awards

These prestigious awards recognize outstanding data-driven projects that have made a significant business impact within their organizations, across industries, and globally.

Nominate your team for a Data Impact Award!

We will recognize organizations in the following five categories: 

AI Acceleration
 


Organizations making an innovative business impact using Cloudera for trusted data powering Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, and more.

Cloud (Native)
Innovation


Organizations 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 & Pipelines


Organizations that have excelled in designing and implementing innovative data architectures that effectively support the full data lifecycle – from ingestion to analytics.

Leadership & Transformation


Teams and/or data leaders 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, with initiatives extend beyond organizational walls and financial impact. Whether through community engagement, environmental sustainability, or public health initiatives, they highlight data’s positive influence on the world at large.

Agenda at a glance

EVOLVE24 - Museum of the Future

Welcome and Keynotes

9:30 AM Welcome to EVOLVE24 Dubai

  • Wonho Chung: Emcee

  • Ahmad Shakora: GVP Sales, Cloudera

  • Frank O'Dowd: Chief Revenue Officer, Cloudera

9:45 AM The Cloudera Vision

  • Charles Sansbury: CEO, Cloudera

10:05 AM Visionaries Who Inspire

  • Chad Foster, Special Guest Keynote Speaker

10:35 AM EVOLVE24 “Unveiling” & Customer Speaker

  • Abhas Ricky: Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera
  • Manoj Bhojwani: Chief Information Officer, ADIB

11:20 AM Cloudera Product Strategy Announcement, Demos & Customer Story

  • Dipto Chakravarty: Chief Product Officer, Cloudera
  • Jeff Healey: SVP - Product Marketing, Cloudera
  • Customer: Ali Rey, Group Head of Technology Platforms, Emirates NBD

12:10 PM Customer Panel

  • Moderator: Abhas Ricky: Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera (TBC)

  • Customers:

    • Naveed Memon: Vice President Enterprise Data & Analytics Solutions, Emirates

    • Mohammed Ahmed: Smart City Delivery Director, KAFD KSA

    • Kaya Güvenç: VP, Head of IT Infrastructure Architecture Management, AkBank

12:40 PM External Analyst Speaker

  • Ray Wang

Lunch Reception & Partner Pavilion

Enjoy local cuisine while visiting the Partner Pavilion Expo, presented by global sponsors AWS, IBM, Red Hat & Nvidia.

Breakout Session 1: Accelerate Enterprise AI

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.

  • 2:00 PM GenAI Track Keynote: A Visionary Future with Enterprise GenAI
  • 2:30 PM Infuse AI With Cloudera: AI Assistants in Action
  • 3:00 PM IBM: Empower your AI strategy with trusted data and governance with watsonx and Cloudera
  • 3:30 PM Build AI With Cloudera: Accelerating AI Innovation
  • 4:00 PM Scalable Pipelines for RAG: From Unstructured Data to Structured Insights
  • 4:30 PM Magnoos: Transforming the Future: Modernizing Data Platforms for Enhanced Business Agility

Breakout 2: Architecting for Trusted Data

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.

  • 2:00 PM  Cloudera Data Lakehouse: Accelerating the Adoption of Open Data Lakehouse for Actionable Insights
  • 2:30 PM Accenture: How to boost Gen AI in the Sovereign and Regulated Environments
  • 3:00 PM Lower your Analytics spend with Apache Iceberg and Cloudera Data Lakehouse
  • 3:30 PM Building a Data Fabric to Break Down Silos
  • 4:00 PM The Streaming-Enabled Data Lakehouse
  • 4:30 PM AWS: Data is the Differentiator for Generative AI

Breakout 3: Deliver True Hybrid

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.

  • 2:00 PM Hybrid Track Keynote: The Advantage of True Hybrid
  • 2:30 PM Customer Panel
  • 3:00 PM Red Hat: Infusing AI/ML into YOUR SUCCESS: Red Hat and Cloudera
  • 3:30 PM Why Regulation Needs Hybrid
  • 4:00 PM Systems Limited: Revolutionize Enterprise Processes with AI: Customer Use Cases
  • 4:30 PM True Hybrid Future

Data Impact Awards Ceremony

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, analyticsand 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.

Join us for the Big Prize Draw: Your Chance to Win!!

Closing Remarks

Executive networking opportunity.

Welcome to our Sponsors

Global Cloud Sponsor

Global Sponsor

Red Hat

Global Sponsor

NVIDIA

Global Sponsor

Systems

Premier Sponsor

Pue

Spotlight Sponsor

MDS

 Spotlight  Sponsor

Databorn

 Spotlight  Sponsor

Magnoos logo

Premier Sponsor

Emdad logo

Spotlight Sponsor

IDC logo

Premium Sponsor

Ingram logo

Spotlight Sponsor

Gtech logo

Spotlight Sponsor


Strategic Partner

Accenture

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