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AI is reshaping how sales teams find prospects, build relationships, and close deals. Frank O’Dowd, Cloudera’s Chief Revenue Officer, joins to discuss Cloudera’s approach to AI in the sales function. Frank details his philosophy, which is that rather than replacing the human touch, AI is helping sales professionals work smarter, offering insights, personalization, and efficiency at scale. It’s a complementary tool that can help sales teams make themselves relevant to their target audience. As Frank says in the episode, “The person with the most information always wins.”

Hussein Ragy, CEO of BBI, discusses their strong, four-year partnership with Cloudera. He highlights how Cloudera's leading data, AI, and platform capabilities, including for sovereign data and agentic AI, help BBI provide the best solutions for customers' cloud and hybrid architecture needs, emphasizing a unified approach to service delivery.

Leon Taiman, Global Practice Lead at Dell Technologies, discusses the strategic partnership between Dell, Cloudera, and NVIDIA to accelerate the adoption of Private AI on-premises for customers.

Discover the future of the Data Lakehouse with this deep dive into Apache Iceberg V3 and V4 from the Bengaluru community meetup. Learn how PyIceberg and DuckDB are revolutionizing Python-native data processing by eliminating the need for Spark clusters for 99% of common query sizes. Explore high-performance ingestion benchmarks from Oleg and the Google Dataproc Lightning Engine, achieving over 500k rows/sec through Apache Arrow and C++ vectorization. This session is a masterclass for data engineers on metadata compaction, Rest Catalogs, and building vendor-agnostic data platforms.

The AI Forecast welcomes back John Santaferraro, host of The Digital Analyst Podcast and CEO of Ferraro Consulting, for a candid look at what’s really coming next for AI in 2026.