EVOLVE Forum Riyadh

September

15

,

2025

9:00AM

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3:30PM

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Bringing AI to Your Data - Anywhere

Explore the potential of AI powered by trusted data.

EVOLVE Forum empowers businesses with transformative strategies for navigating data management in the age of AI. Join customer and expert-led sessions to explore best practices for unifying, managing, and leveraging data to drive real-time decision-making, transform operations, and improve customer experiences.

Why attend?

Hear from our experts about strategies to enhance productivity in the era of generative AI.

Explore how data and AI are revolutionizing businesses and industries while gaining fresh perspectives on market trends and technologies.

Dive into the latest advancements in hybrid data management, private cloud, data lineage, and AI to see how they can revolutionize your business.

Network with industry leaders and peers, sharing insights and best practices.

Who should attend?

EVOLVE Forum Riyadh is designed for data, analytics, and AI leaders and practitioners, including chief data officers, chief technology officers, solution architects, data scientists, developers, data engineers, and data analysts.

Breakouts

Advance Enterprise AI

Build and Run Models, Apps, and Agents with Private AI

Accelerate adoption with Cloudera’s private, secure, and comprehensive AI platform. Streamline the creation and deployment of intelligent agents with AI Studios (including Agent Studio); quickly deploy and scale AI applications with Cloudera AI Inference, powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices; and use streaming data pipelines and RAG to glean insights from unstructured data.

Deliver AI-ready data

Transform Your Data for AI and Self-Service Insights

Deploy an Open Data Lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg to unify data across silos, enable real-time self-service insights, and deliver AI-ready data. Hear from experts and peers how they’re activating metadata, tracking lineage, and building a data fabric—all while maintaining control, compliance, and cost-efficiency.

Unleash True Hybrid Power

Future-Proof Your Enterprise with a True Hybrid Platform

Revolutionize your approach to data, analytics, and AI with Cloudera’s true hybrid platform. Get inspired by pioneers who have positioned their organizations for success tomorrow while maximizing their investment today. See exclusive previews of Cloudera's latest and upcoming hybrid innovations to make this possible.

Breakouts

Advance Enterprise AI

Build and Run Models, Apps, and Agents with Private AI

Accelerate adoption with Cloudera’s private, secure, and comprehensive AI platform. Streamline the creation and deployment of intelligent agents with AI Studios (including Agent Studio); quickly deploy and scale AI applications with Cloudera AI Inference, powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices; and use streaming data pipelines and RAG to glean insights from unstructured data.

Deliver AI-ready data

Transform Your Data for AI and Self-Service Insights

Deploy an Open Data Lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg to unify data across silos, enable real-time self-service insights, and deliver AI-ready data. Hear from experts and peers how they’re activating metadata, tracking lineage, and building a data fabric—all while maintaining control, compliance, and cost-efficiency.

Unleash True Hybrid Power

Future-Proof Your Enterprise with a True Hybrid Platform

Revolutionize your approach to data, analytics, and AI with Cloudera’s true hybrid platform. Get inspired by pioneers who have positioned their organizations for success tomorrow while maximizing their investment today. See exclusive previews of Cloudera's latest and upcoming hybrid innovations to make this possible.

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Visionary speakers

The futurist for leaders: Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. For the past twenty years, he has been a leading authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation and new ways of thinking. A global nomad from a diverse ethnic background, futurist and author of three bestselling books, Mike advises some of the world’s biggest organizations on reinvention and change in this new era of machine intelligence. A specialist in AI-powered transformation, he bridges the two worlds of disruptive technology and business leadership, translating deep tech into pragmatic recommendations for leaders to seize new opportunities, transform their organizations, and change their own thinking.

Special call-out headline could go here

Visionary speakers

The futurist for leaders: Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. For the past twenty years, he has been a leading authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation and new ways of thinking. A global nomad from a diverse ethnic background, futurist and author of three bestselling books, Mike advises some of the world’s biggest organizations on reinvention and change in this new era of machine intelligence. A specialist in AI-powered transformation, he bridges the two worlds of disruptive technology and business leadership, translating deep tech into pragmatic recommendations for leaders to seize new opportunities, transform their organizations, and change their own thinking.

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Speakers

Chris

Royles

Field CTO

Cloudera

Francisco Mateo- Sidron

Senior Vice President

of Sales, EMEA

Cloudera

Hamzeh

Saud Aldraaee

Technical Marketing and Analytics General Manager ZAIN

Mohamed

Ahmed

District Technology

Delivery Director

KAFD

Mohamed

Zeineldin

VP Enterprise

Architecture

SAIB

Saurabh

Kashikar

Senior Manager,

Professional Services

Cloudera

Tariq

Salameh

Senior SE Manager

Cloudera

Wim

Stoop

Senior Director,

Product Marketing

Cloudera

Agenda

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Registrations and Welcome Coffee

10:00 - 10:05 AM

MC Welcome

Wim Stoop, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

10:05 - 10:15 AM

Cloudera Opening Keynote

Francisco Mateo-Sidron, Senior Vice President of Sales, EMEA, Cloudera

10:15 - 10:45 AM

Why Cloud Anywhere is key for future-proof enterprises

Wim Stoop, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Cloudera

10:45 - 11:15 AM

Cloudera Product Innovations [Data Services 2.0]

Chris Royles, Field CTO, Cloudera

11:15 - 11:30 AM

Coffee Break

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Customer Panel: Sovereign Cloud & AI: Powering Saudi Arabia’s Digital Future

Moderator: Wim Stoop
Mohammed Ahmed, District Technology Delivery Director, KAFD
Hamzeh Saud Aldraaee, Technical Marketing and Analytics General Manager, ZAIN
Mohamed Zeineldin, VP Enterprise Architecture, SAIB

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Build and run AI models, applications, and agents—without compromise—with Private AI

Tariq Salameh, Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Cloudera

12:30 - 12:45 PM

Coffee Break

12:45 - 1:00 PM

Partner Session with Ingram Micro

1:00- 1:15 PM

Partner Session with IDC

1:15 - 1:45 PM

Professional Services

Saurabh Kashikar, Senior Manager, Professional Services, Cloudera

1:45 - 2:00 PM

Closing Remarks

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Lunch