Inaugural launch of Cloudera Data Science Week 2016 in Asia Pacific powers change beyond the ‘Data Revolution’

Singapore – November 23, 2016 – Cloudera, the
global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and
analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source
technologies, today announced the inaugural launch of Cloudera Data Science
Week Asia Pacific 2016. Held
across several markets in Asia Pacific from 3 to 9 December 2016, this
series of events brings together industry experts and distinguished speakers
providing strategic insights around critical public and private sector issues
on big data for senior executives.

Despite
the tremendous growth of businesses utilizing big data, more than 65 percent of
organizations are still at initial stages of experimenting with big data usage,according to IDC.
Harnessing data, however, remains a business imperative, and providing real
world solutions to such business challenges remains Cloudera’s goal through the
establishment of this annual industry event.

Daniel Ng, Senior Director, Asia Pacific, Cloudera commented:
“Cloudera is introducing the first ever Cloudera Data Science Week Asia
Pacific. As organizations transition to life beyond big data and look to
re-engineer their business by utilizing data, topics such as artificial
intelligence come into play. Predicting big data’s future, exploring new
opportunities, harvesting, and leveraging big data for innovation is just the
start of this journey.”

Cloudera Data Science Week Asia Pacific is set to become an
annual industry event, mobilizing organizations to gain competitive advantages
with more meaningful insights, make quicker and sharper decisions, and discover
issues and trends that affect their businesses.

Mike Olson and other senior Cloudera executives such as Amr
Awadallah, Chief Technology Officer, Mick Hollison, Chief Marketing Officer,
and Charles Zedlewski, Senior Vice President of Products will host dialogue
sessions, workshops, and roundtables on data management, down to how government
and public organizations can use analytics to gain a better understanding of
enterprise operations, predict outcomes, and guard against unauthorized data
access.

All events will culminate in the second edition of Strata + Hadoop World
Singapore 2016, the annual big data industry conference co-sponsored by
O’Reilly Media starting on 5 December 2016, where data
scientists, analysts, and business executives address case studies, develop new
skills, share emerging best practices, and build the future of big data.

With Cloudera’s Data Science Week Asia Pacific, companies will
be better equipped to identify the challenges and pitfalls that organizations
may face with data, to prepare their businesses for the year ahead.

Please find below a breakdown of events and conferences which
will be held during Cloudera Data Science Week Asia Pacific 2016:

Cloudera Sessions is a one-day expert forum for customers and
partners to learn to employ Hadoop to build a modern architecture and make data
analytics pervasive across any organization. Past networking and learning
events have been held in key cities such as Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Upcoming sessions will be held in Melbourne and Brisbane on 29
November 2016 and 1 December 2016 respectively.

Data professionals, communities, and students will explore
implications of data science, barriers between data-based and creative decision
making, and the corresponding business impact through workshops and sessions.
Cloudera’s Chief Technology Officer, Amr Awadallah will host this weekend.

Fajar Jaman, Head of Data Science Indonesia, commented: “Data
Science Indonesia is thrilled to be part of Cloudera’s Data Science Week in
Asia Pacific with the upcoming Data Science Weekend in Indonesia. This entire
initiative is part of a larger effort to bring the current and future big data
community together today, for a smarter and more digital tomorrow. The
Data Science Weekend with Cloudera in Indonesia, and all other events
surrounding this inaugural week, is testament to the impact that big data truly
has on businesses and the community in Indonesia and the rest of the Asia
Pacific region.”

The first annual Cloudera Government Forum provides a
collaborative opportunity among the public and private sector to discuss Big
Data analytics and share case studies of how data can be used to improve
decision-making. The forum gathers government professionals – from the front
office to the front line – to implement strategies and optimize processes to
manage, share, and analyse data assets efficiently and cost-effectively. The
event will also build on big data initiatives and fundamentals, such as Hadoop
Essentials, to leverage data for more efficient search, discovery, and related
mission-support capabilities.

Chief Marketing Officers from top organizations such as
CapitaGroup Finance, StarHub, GovTech, Indosat, and Esplanade will come
together to address “Singapore as a data-driven nation,” hosted by Cloudera’s
Chief Marketing Officer, Mick Hollison.

Co-sponsored by Cloudera and O’Reilly Media, Strata + Hadoop
World Singapore is an annual conference that addresses current issues of big
data and new challenges. Keynotes, training sessions, workshops, learning, and
development on Spark and Hadoop foundation courses will be discussed at this
conference.

For the first time, the Wrangle Conference will be held out of
the United States, on 9 December 2016, at Malaysia Digital Economy
Corporation’s (MDEC’s) Knowledge Workers Development Centre (KDC), Tech
Mahindra Studio, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The community-led event, a
collaboration between Cloudera, MDEC, and Wrangle will target 150 data
scientists from countries across Asia Pacific and Japan to share on data
science principles, practices, applications, and solutions.

Dr Karl Ng, Director of Innovation Capital Division at Malaysia
Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), commented: “Part of Cloudera’s Data Science
Week in Asia Pacific, the Wrangle conference in Malaysia is an ecosystem-led
effort to integrate the big data community. Bringing together the region’s top
data scientists, this conference and week will discuss challenges and
opportunities that lie ahead in today’s ever-connected business landscape. All
this is part of Malaysia and the region’s greater efforts to foster a
data-driven culture across organizations and communities.”