Name: From Data to Decisions: Accelerating Real-Time AI Outcomes
Start: 2025-07-19T04:30:00.000Z
Location: Cloudera

📢 **Meetup: From Data to Decisions – Accelerating Real-Time AI Outcomes**
🗓️ **Date:** July 19th, 2024
📍 **Venue:** Cloudera Office, Bangalore
🤝 **In Collaboration with IBM**
We’re excited to host a community meetup focused on how modern organizations are unlocking real-time insights and driving AI-powered decisions through cutting-edge data platforms and architectures.
This event brings together data practitioners, AI/ML engineers, and cloud professionals to explore practical approaches, tools, and trends shaping the future of real-time AI outcomes.

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### 🔥 **Agenda**

**🕙 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM**
**Sign-in & Settling In**
**🕥 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM**
**Talk 1 & 2: Unlocking the Open Data Lakehouse: Presto with Iceberg for Modern Data Agility**
**Speakers:** [Reetika Agrawal ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reetikaagrawal/)& [Jalpreet Singh Nanda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjalpreet/)
Reetika will introduce the Presto open-source project, Prestissimo, and its capabilities. Jalpreet will follow with insights on how Presto and Iceberg work together to deliver an open lakehouse solution.
💡 Learn how Iceberg enables ACID transactions and schema evolution on data lakes, and how Presto delivers fast SQL analytics across them. Discover the benefits of Watsonx.data, a managed Presto offering, to simplify and accelerate your modern data journey.
**🕚 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM**
**Talk 3: Cloudera AI – All About Cloudera and AI**
**Speaker:** [Yash Gulati](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-gulati-615b661b3/)
Gain an overview of Cloudera’s AI capabilities – from building to deploying and scaling ML/AI solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
**🕛 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM**
**Talk 4: Cloudera + IBM – Joint Power for Data Modernization**
**Speaker:** [Manick Mehra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmehra90/)
A strategic session showcasing how Cloudera and IBM are driving data architecture modernization and accelerating AI adoption with their integrated solutions.
**🕧 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM**
**Talk 5: TBA**
**🥪 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM**
**Networking & Snacks**

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### 👨‍🏫 **Speakers**

**🔹 [Yash Gulati](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-gulati-615b661b3/)** – **Associate Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloudera**
**Yash** is a Cloud and Big Data enthusiast currently working as an Associate Partner Solutions Engineer at Cloudera. He holds a Bachelors' degree in Computer Science from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, and brings 1.5 years of hands-on experience in cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and big data technologies like Hadoop.
Since joining Cloudera six months ago, Yash has been involved in supporting partners and customers by providing solutions and helping with deployments whether on-cloud, on-premise, or in hybrid environments. He works closely with partners to make Cloudera’s platform easier to set up and use across different use cases, including AI and ML. Yash is also passionate about continuously learning and exploring new developments in the data analytics space.
**🔹 [Manick Mehra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmehra90/)**[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmehra90/)– **Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloudera**
**Manick** is a Partner Solutions Engineer at **Cloudera**, helping partners and customers design and implement modern data solutions using the **Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)**. His work focuses on data engineering, real-time data processing, and analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Manick supports the **APAC region**, regularly leading technical workshops, partner enablement sessions, and building demo environments that showcase how Cloudera’s platform can address real-world business needs. He works with tools like **Apache NiFi, Spark, Hive, and Impala** to support scalable and efficient data workflows.
**🔹 [Reetika Agrawal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reetikaagrawal/)**
**Reetika Agrawal** is a Software Engineer at **IBM**, working on distributed data systems and open-source technologies. Prior to this, she worked at **Ahana** and **Walmart Labs**, where she built large-scale data platform solutions. Reetika is an active contributor to the **Presto** community and is passionate about building high-performance, scalable data infrastructure.
**🔹 [Jalpreet Singh Nanda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjalpreet/)**
**Jalpreet Singh Nanda** is a Software Engineer at IBM, where he contributes to building watsonx.data, IBM’s open lakehouse platform. With over 7 years of experience in distributed systems and data platforms, he has built large-scale data lake and query acceleration systems at Walmart and was an early engineer at Ahana, a managed Presto company acquired by IBM.

He is an active contributor to the Presto open-source community, speaker at data conferences, and passionate about open data architectures, high-performance query engines, and the modern data analytics stack.

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### ✅ Registration Details

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### 🎁 **Why Attend?**

Join us to discover how the powerful trio — **Iceberg, Presto, and Watsonx.data** — empowers organizations to:
✔ Overcome data complexity and cost barriers
✔ Unlock real-time insights
✔ Build agile, open, and future-ready data infrastructures

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Let’s connect, learn, and innovate – together with the community!

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