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Call for Nominations: Cloudera Data Impact Awards at EVOLVE25 London
Cloudera Customer Advocacy Marketing seeks great stories for our annual Data Impact Awards and Evolve event series! This is an incredible opportunity to share great work, impressive outcomes and innovation in action. Finalists and speakers will be offered complimentary travel and accommodations to London.

The Data Impact Awards recognize data leaders and teams using Cloudera to champion innovation. We invite nominations of customers delivering business value and impact to organizations, industries, and the world. Judges, comprised of industry analysts and Cloudera leadership, value succinct storytelling vs. deep technical detail. 

Event Details:
  • Event: EVOLVE25 London
  • Date: October 9, 2025
  • Venue: Old Billingsgate, London

Data Impact Award categories:

  • Analytics, ML and AI Advantages - Recognizing organizations harnessing Cloudera to power analytics, BI, ML, AI, LLMs, and RAGs. 

    • Share key business use cases showcasing how trusted, transparent data drives analytics to AI success – and shapes the future. 

    • Mention Cloudera capabilities including: Cloudera AI/ML, AI Inference and Registry service(s), if used – or describe custom use cases built with Cloudera Professional Services or partners.   

  • Hybrid and Infrastructure Modernization - Recognizing organizations with impressive impacts on infrastructure for data and AI – from public cloud migrations to hybrid expansions or “private” on-premises flexibility. 

    • Showcase how Cloudera enabled this journey—whether migrating, expanding, or optimizing on-premises. 

    • Please highlight key benefits (reducing costs, improving scalability) and outcomes. 

    • If applicable, mention benefits from hybrid (workload portability, etc.), Ozone and key Cloudera partners (AWS, Azure, Google, Dell, IBM, etc.).  

  • Open Data Lakehouse and Iceberg Innovation - Recognizing organizations that leverage Cloudera (on-premises, hybrid or cloud) to create an open, scalable and high-performance data lakehouse.  

    • By embracing - especially with Apache Iceberg and open table formats, these businesses unlock seamless data interoperability and analytics, driving smarter decision-making and innovation. 

    • Please highlight any specific use cases empowered by the data lakehouse architecture, and specific benefits (if applicable) from Apache Iceberg, Cloudera Data Warehouse, Operational Database or Cloudera Data Engineering.

  • Data Governance and Fabric Excellence - Recognizing excellence in building seamless, data governance into an intelligent data fabric that transforms outcomes and operations.  

    • Share how your organization has used Cloudera’s capabilities - including security, governance, lineage, observability – to deliver a unified data fabric for enterprise-wide data and metadata control. Highlight new outcomes or use cases enabled by better governance and seamless self-service access. 

    • Please mention capabilities, if applicable, such as Cloudera SDX, Observability and Octopai. 

  • Data in Motion and Streaming Success - Recognizing excellence in harnessing the power of data in motion to drive faster responses. 

    • This award honors organizations that process and analyze data across all environments, enabling agile, data-driven applications and actions. 

    • Whether it’s streaming data, self-service data pipelines or data sharing, detail new business outcomes and successes. 

    • Please highlight how you used Cloudera Data Flow or other Data in Motion technologies, including NiFI, Kafka and Flink.

Please complete your submission via the form below. Nominations will close by July 11, 2025. Finalists will be asked to participate in publicity related to the Data Impact Awards (social media, press release, cloudera.com).

Contact Michele Kalin, Customer Advocacy Marketing Team, mkalin@cloudera.com with any questions.
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Your Name and Title (Submitter) *
Nominations accepted from Cloudera customers or their account teams (with customer knowledge). Customer Advocacy Marketing may contact you for additional details or next steps. All submissions considered NDA - standard approval processes followed for content and customer speakers. 
Account Team Name (if applicable)
Company/Organization *
Email Address (Submitter) *
Data Impact Award Categories *
Please choose the category that best applies to this nomination.
Nomination Summary *
Provide a short description of the project, including its scope of implementation, size and resources required, and the project's roll-out and completion date.
Key Challenges *
Elaborate the key technological challenges that either necessitated the commissioning of the security and trust project or were overcome during the implementation of the project. Provide qualitative and quantitative data on the challenges.
Impact: Business Value and Outcomes *
Explain how the project has improved the organization's performance or business outcomes. This may be % improvements, time or cost-savings.
Relevant Cloudera Technology (Select all that apply) *
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Professional Services and Partners (Optional)
Please describe relevant work with Cloudera professional services or partners. 
If shortlisted as finalist, will you require Cloudera to book your flight and hotel? *
Other Potential Activities *
At the Evolve series or future events - there are additional opportunities to share stories. Please check all that may apply to this submission. 
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