Ep 101 | Private AI: Who Owns Your Secret Sauce? | Heard from EVOLVE26 New York

Cloudera, Inc.

Nov 12, 2026

Your company’s secret sauce is becoming part of the AI equation.

Marjorie Janiewicz, Chief Revenue Officer at Mistral AI, says enterprises are increasingly asking what happens when proprietary data and intellectual property are used to customize AI running in environments they don’t fully control. For companies operating mission-critical systems, that question is moving from an IT concern to a board-level issue.

For this special EVOLVE26 New York edition of The AI Forecast, guest host Laura Blewitt sits down with Marjorie to explore why enterprises are rethinking how they deploy AI and how much control they need over the technology.

Marjorie explains why general-purpose AI can fall short when models lack the proprietary context that makes a business unique. She makes the case for open-weight and private AI as a way for organizations to customize models to their own data while maintaining greater control over sensitive information and business continuity.

Laura and Marjorie get into:*
Why proprietary data is becoming central to enterprise AI strategy
When private or sovereign AI makes more sense than public cloud
How open-weight models enable deeper customization
Why data sovereignty and business continuity are becoming board-level concerns
How model efficiency can change the economics of enterprise AI

When AI touches mission-critical systems and proprietary data, the question of who controls the technology becomes impossible to ignore.

To hear more of the conversation around economics of enterprise AI from EVOLVE26 New York, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch

Stay in touch with Marjorie:*
Marjorie Janiewicz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorietoucas/

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