EVOLVE26 Pre-Day Agenda at a Glance

Monday, November 23
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Customer Executive Forum

By invite only

  • Executive Keynote

  • Strategic Product Strategy & Vision Update

  • Executive Panel

  • Analyst Presentation

EVOLVE26 Agenda at a Glance  

Tuesday, November 24
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Opening Mainstage
  • Welcome
  • Today’s Cloudera
  • Product Keynote
  • Enterprise AI & Ecosystems
  • Customer Spotlight: Bank of Spain – Transitioning to a Data Driven Institution
  • CRO Keynote
  • AI Transformation & the Future of Work
  • SICTI Lake – Spain’s National Science Map
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Lunch
  • Partner Pavilion
2:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Breakout Track 1: Sovereign AI Anywhere
2:30 PM
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.

3:05 PM
Enterprise Agentic AI with AMD and Cloudera

Many companies treat all AI applications the same -- all as LLMs that require GPUs. But many AI workloads don't need LLMs and don't need GPUs. Join us and AMD to learn how as we talk about powering your AI applications with more cost-effective and more readily available AMD EPYC CPUs.

3:40 PM
Customer Spotlight: BT and Bank of Ireland – Modernizing Data Architectures for AI

We are in the most consequential transition in enterprise technology. The era of insight is giving way to the era of action, automation and AI. In this session, Cloudera customers share more about the fundamental shifts they’re making for modernization. Get insight into the data architecture and platform capabilities that deliver value - now and in the future. Hear how other organizations handle scale, complexity and compliance challenges. Find out what they’re doing to prepare for the next generation of AI use cases. 

Hear how the Bank of Ireland is using Cloudera to modernize data platforms, migrate to public cloud and optimize customer-facing mobile applications.

Find out more about the BT Group’s next-gen architecture for the BT Network Cloud, and learn how they use Cloudera to manage massive wireless data assets.

4:15 PM
Customer Spotlight: Deutsche Bank

Learn more about Deutsche Bank’s architecture for data and AI. Find out how the team uses Cloudera as a flexible foundation for a variety of use cases at Germany’s central bank. Learn how they’ve handled the challenges of scale and diverse datasets, and find out how they track business value and outcomes.

Breakout Track 2: Data Anywhere
2:30 PM
Deliver Rich, Trusted, 360-degree Context to Agents with Cloudera’s Intelligent Lakehouse

The next frontier of data infrastructure is not just a lakehouse that stores more data — it is a platform that understands more, automates more, 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 your business data. Take a peek inside the agentic lakehouse — how AI-driven optimizations make your platform continuously performant and always optimized for costs. 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.

 

3:05 PM
Customer Spotlight: Orange Spain

Find more about telecommunications provider Orange and its successful migration to Cloudera on Cloud. Learn about the objectives of the project, and discover why Cloudera on cloud aligned  company's strategic direction. Hear how the cloud delivered greater agility and dynamism to business units' requirements, and reduced operational costs.

3:40 PM
Customer Spotlight: Mastercard - Maximizing the Value of Transactional Data

Discover how Mastercard teams get the most value and sustainability of payment card purchase data. Learn more about the economic realities of data monetization and European Data Spaces, and find out why focus is shifting from technical infrastructure to long-term financial sustainability, fair value distribution, and real market demand. Hear Mastercard’s experience transforming aggregated transaction data into predictive, actionable decision-support across public and private sectors.

4:15 PM
Build AI Factories on a Unified Data Foundation: How Cloudera and VAST Data Simplify Enterprise AI Infrastructure

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.

Technology Showcase
2:30 PM
Closing the IIoT Execution Gap: Unlocking Edge-to-Action Industrial AI

Industrial plant data is often trapped behind costly legacy historians, expensive cloud streaming fees, and unmapped sensor tags. In this 15-minute talk, we will showcase how Cloudera can bridge the gap between plant-floor OT and enterprise AI. We will cover how MQTT Sparkplug B and Cloudera Data in Motion instantly add context to sensor telemetry, strip out noise, and route data to an open lakehouse. You'll see how real-time edge streaming combined with AI agents enables sub-second anomaly detection and human in the loop maintenance actions—all without compromising SCADA safety or relying on cloud connectivity.

2:50 PM
From Data to Agents: Building the Foundation for Enterprise AI Anywhere

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.

3:25 PM
Cloudera in Digital Health: Automation, AI, and Data Spaces

The Directorate General of Digital Health has implemented one of the largest healthcare Data Lakehouses in Europe, leveraging Cloudera technology and CGM services.

This session will showcase the ecosystem of custom-built tools and AI agents developed to optimize services for healthcare professionals, researchers, and administrators within the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS), as well as to automate, scale, and manage the healthcare Data Lakehouse. Key capabilities include:

Data Management and Governance Tools: Healthcare data catalog, data growth analysis, auditing and data quality, process performance and planning monitoring, and infrastructure health monitoring.

Artificial Intelligence and Assistance: The interactive Chat OGD agent for support and information queries.

The second part of the session will focus on the strategic evolution of the platform, outlining the roadmap for adapting the Data Lakehouse to support and align with the standards of the European Health Data Space (EHDS).

3:45 PM
Holistic Hybrid Cloud Experience with Cloudera Data Platform: Cloud Bursting, Replication Manager, Ranger Remote Authorization Service (RAZ) and more

This session explores how 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.

4:05 PM
From Intent to Action: Redefining Unified Experience with Cloudera Agents

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.

4:25 PM
From Model to Production: Running & Governing AI Inference at Scale on Anywhere Cloud

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.

 

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Women Leaders in Technology Networking Event: Afternoon Session
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.
5:00 PM -6:40 PM
Closing Mainstage
  • Customer Panel
  • From Hybrid Lakehouse to Private AI in banking: The Journey of Ibercaja
  • The State of the Data and AI Market and What Lies Ahead
6:40 PM -7:15 PM
Data Impact Awards & Celebration

Join us as we celebrate organizations driving real business impact through data and AI

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Closing Celebration

MADRID

Nov 24, 2026 • Green Patio, C. de Salamanca, 23, Tetuán, 28020 Madrid

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