Trusted Data Today for Tomorrow’s AI

MADRID • DECEMBER 10

Larra Laboratorio de Periodismo
Calle de Larra, 14, Centro, 28004 Madrid, Spain

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 conference 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.

Why Attend?

Gain valuable insights from visionary speakers, and data and AI experts

Learn from the real-world experiences of leading-edge companies

Hear future news on the critical roles of AI in shaping the future of technology and business

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.
Wim Stoop

Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

Wim Stoop

Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

Wim Stoop

Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera
Priyank Patel

Corporate VP, Product Management, Cloudera

Priyank leads Cloudera product teams responsible for Machine Learning, Data Engineering and Data Warehousing. He joined Cloudera through the acquisition of Arcadia Data, a visual analytics software company, where he was co-founder and Chief Product Officer. In prior roles, he was part of the founding engineering team of Aster Data, where he worked on design of core components of Aster Data. Priyank holds a Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Priyank Patel

Corporate VP, Product Management, Cloudera

Priyank leads Cloudera product teams responsible for Machine Learning, Data Engineering and Data Warehousing. He joined Cloudera through the acquisition of Arcadia Data, a visual analytics software company, where he was co-founder and Chief Product Officer. In prior roles, he was part of the founding engineering team of Aster Data, where he worked on design of core components of Aster Data. Priyank holds a Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Priyank Patel

Corporate VP, Product Management, Cloudera

Priyank leads Cloudera product teams responsible for Machine Learning, Data Engineering and Data Warehousing. He joined Cloudera through the acquisition of Arcadia Data, a visual analytics software company, where he was co-founder and Chief Product Officer. In prior roles, he was part of the founding engineering team of Aster Data, where he worked on design of core components of Aster Data. Priyank holds a Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Speakers

Visionaries who Inspire: 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.

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.

Call for speakers:

We invite thought leaders and innovative thinkers to showcase their lessons learned, best practices, and business benefits. Each session is scheduled for 40-60 minutes, which includes time for Q&A.

We are looking for compelling presentations that address the challenges of today’s business environment – stories of modernizing data architectures to deliver data products, accelerating AI for automation and advantage, and delivering business-critical data and analytics via the Cloud and beyond, and many other topics.

Here are a few questions to consider when submitting your session:

How are your projects managing what happens when new-age technology collides with legacy systems?
Do you have an evolving and cutting-edge AI strategy and how is it driving business value?
Does your business trust your organizational data? How did you build that strategy and trust?

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 that 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.