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November 9, 2023 | The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
November 9, 2023
The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
Get together with Atlanta's top CDAOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Structuring Data Governance to Improve the Digital Enterprise
Transforming Through Trusted and Secured Data
Enhancing Impact of Data and Analytics Initiatives
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
James Bolles
Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs
Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh
Habitat For Humanity International
Senior Director, Global Integrated Planning – Office of Strategy Management
Vijay Gandapodi
Reynolds American
Head of IT - Data, Reporting, Analytics
Sesha Madapoosi
NCR
Exec Director, Data & Analytics Products
Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Georgia-Pacific
Vice President - AI Product Development & Strategy
Kenneth Viciana
TSYS
VP, Global Data & Analytics Products
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Kenneth Viciana
VP, Global Data & Analytics Products
TSYS
Details coming soon.
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Dataiku
Doug Bryan
Field Chief Data Officer
Dataiku
With all the recent hype, it's hard to sift through the noise surrounding Generative AI. But how can your team move beyond the lab and build real and safe GenAI applications at enterprise scale? Discover the key differentiators and relevant nuances this new technology brings to your business and how it can propel your organization forward.
Join this interactive roundtable as CDAOs discuss:
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Actian
Marc Potter
Chief Operating Officer
Actian
When the gates to organizational data are open to all, innovation and business outcomes accelerate across the enterprise as actionable insights are delivered directly to your front-line workers. However, with this vast access comes great responsibility. As companies expand self-service data, how can they ensure that data privileges and data literacy increase at the same rate to ensure success while mitigating risks?
Join this boardroom as CDAOs discuss:
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
10:25am - 11:00am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Ethiraj Purushothaman
Head Data Science – Customer, Marketing, Merchandising & Digital
Best Buy
For CDAOs, providing the right information at the right time to the people who need it is a key driver to solving common business challenges. To tackle transformational action and enable business operations, CDAOs must create positive and impactful engagement that addresses stakeholder needs.
Join this session to learn how Best Buy is:
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Hosted by IBM
Jason Federoff
Principal Data & AI Transformation Executive
IBM
AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 and its evolution leaped forward in 2023 with advances in large language models. This advancement holds the potential to unlock trillions of dollars in economic value over the next decade. But, implementing AI for business has unique requirements – it needs to be open, properly governed, designed for the enterprise and most importantly, create value.
Explore the age of AI including:
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Qlik
Data and analytics are the foundation to a successful digital business. Yet, many data and analytics strategies fail to leverage measurable metrics to account for that success. D & A leaders must remain agile and think critically when making data and analytics investments at scale.
Join this roundtable to discuss:
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Alteryx
Adam Blacke
Vice President of Data Science
Alteryx
Challenges that have traditionally impeded governance efforts also curtail an organization's capacity for innovation on a grand scale. By tapping into cutting-edge data methods, automated analytics, and AI—particularly generative AI—CDAOs can refine processes, drawing upon data from a multitude of sources, to respond to the dynamic requirements of businesses
In this session, we'll delve into:
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Parking Information
Hotel does not offer valet parking. Self- Park only in the Concourse lot directly across from The Westin at a discounted rate of $5/day.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 770-395-3902.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $189 USD (plus tax) is October 16, 2023.
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