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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.

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.

In this episode of The AI Forecast, Anu Jain, founder and CEO of Nexus Cognitive, joins host Paul Muller to introduce a transformative idea: AI doesn’t have a last mile problem. It has a first mile problem. While AI models and algorithms can scale instantly through the cloud, their success still depends on the quality, provenance, and readiness of the data that feeds them.

In this discussion, Dipankar - Cloudera’s Director of Developer Relations sits with Navita - Director of Product Marketing to unpack why Apache Iceberg has emerged as the foundation of the open lakehouse - and why it’s increasingly essential for modern Data & AI workloads. Dipankar & Navita walks through how Iceberg became the de facto standard among open table formats, what it's design enables (interoperability, engine-agnostic access, reliable metadata), and why openness matters as organizations move toward multi-engine, hybrid data architectures.

Together, Nixe and Cloudera empower organizations to modernize their data platforms, process data where it lives, and confidently evolve from batch to real-time analytics—without chasing technology trends.

Cloudera Chief Marketing Officer Mary Wells helped spearhead the launch of Cloudera’s Women Leaders in Technology initiative, which recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. To honor this milestone, Mary joins this special edition of The AI Forecast to reflect on the impact of this program so far. Mary Wells and host Paul Muller embark on an inspiring conversation on leadership, allyship, and navigating one of the most transformative moments in technology.

Cloudera Account 360 is designed to resolve this by providing a single pane of glass from which customers can manage their users and accounts. It offers robust, flexible, and secure account as well as user management capabilities, helping you avoid delays by eliminating the need to raise support cases with Cloudera for simple administrative tasks. Foundational Features Available Now Cloudera Account 360 includes two core feature sets.

Discover how Galileo AI: The AI Observability and Evaluation Platform & Cloudera empower enterprises to deploy secure, reliable AI. From evaluation to protection, this partnership ensures compliance, reduces risk, and accelerates ROI; realizing AI’s full potential.

GenAI may have captured the spotlight. But according to Dr. Jake Trippel, co-founder and CTO of Codename 37, the real disruption is still ahead. Jake joins the podcast to explain why today’s LLM-centric stacks will hit architectural limits and how “AI fabrics” and shared memory meshes can unlock agent-to-agent collaboration across data silos.