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Atlanta CDAO Executive Summit

November 9, 2023 | The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

November 9, 2023
The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

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Collaborate with your peers

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

Atlanta CDAO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.

Co-Chairs

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

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Atlanta CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


November 9, 2023

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Breakout session

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Kenneth Viciana

VP, Global Data & Analytics Products

TSYS

 Details coming soon. 

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Decoding Generative AI— Essential Insights for Your Enterprise

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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:

  • How to effectively implement Generative AI
  • Ways to use this technology to drive ROI
  • Roadblocks in GenAI implementation and ways to overcome them to gain a competitive edge

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

Empowering Your Entire Organization with Data-Driven Insights

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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:

  • Evolving from a siloed to democratized data model
  • Determining data privileges for data owners and users across the enterprise
  • Challenging your workforce to become data literate and embrace self-service data


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

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

Leveraging Data to Solve High Impact Business Challenges

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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:

  • Identifying opportunities to drive business value with data
  • Building high performance data culture
  • Embedding creative approaches into the decision-making process

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Putting AI to Work

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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:

  • Developing a foundational data fabric architecture to support LLMs
  • Delivering a competitive business advantage through strategic use cases
  • Deploying governed AI with responsibility

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Defining Value — Making an Impact

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:

  • Closing the gap between data and action to shift the cultural needle
  • Identifying use cases where analytics can increase ROI
  • Getting buy-in around D&A strategy from stakeholder

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

Automated Analytics: Steering Enhanced Governance in the Age of Generative Intelligence

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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:

  • Accelerating analytics and AI-driven solutions for optimal value
  • Enhancing efficiency in vital business operations through generative AI insights
  • Fortifying governance to ensure consistent, scalable precision

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

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Generative AI — What’s Your Take?

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Mark Jackson

Executive Director of Business Intelligence

Piedmont Healthcare

Generative AI — oh my! As this topic makes its way to the boardroom and dinner table alike, it’s up to data and analytics leaders to determine the priorities to focus on now.

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

  • Hot topics surfacing across industries
  • Business impacts of emerging trends
  • Key strategies for communicating new trends to stakeholders

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

From Theory to Practice – Successful GenAI Implementation

When it comes to GenAI implementation and application, some CDAOs are in active implementation mode while others are still exploring the theoretical space. What successful approaches are companies using to incorporate GenAI into their data strategy, no matter where they are on the journey? 

Join this deep dive with case studies to examine:

  • Approaches to data governance
  • Embedding a culture of change acceptance
  • Best practices with juggling competing priorities

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Boosting Revenue with Trust-Based Data Sharing

According to Gartner, organizations that are able to participate in more ecosystems via data sharing, will be able to expand revenue generation opportunities. But to successfully do this, data and analytics leaders must first instill digital trust internally and externally.

Join this session as your peers explore:

  • Identifying solid business use cases for data sharing
  • Assessing the trust level of organizational data, overcoming obstacles
  • Creating and promoting trust-based data sharing programs

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

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Executive Boardroom

Details coming soon. 

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

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Serving Up Success – Inspiring Data Fluency

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Colin Coleman

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Inspire Brands

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Meet Patel

Senior Director, Global Advanced Analytics Strategy, Capabilities & Culture

Kellogg Company

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Bin Yu

VP of Data Science

FOCUS Brands

Success happens when leaders prioritize, adapt and evolve with the needs of the business. As data and analytics tools continue to mature at a rapid pace, the need for enhanced data literacy is increasing. Industry standouts from Kellogg, Inspire Brands and Focus Brands are coming together to share how they're serving up success.

In this session, they'll explore:

  • Setting effective governance strategy to enable innovation
  • Streamlining the value creation pipeline
  • Inspiring an impactful shift in embracing data culture

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Building Foundational Trust in Data

To move the business forward with data and analytics, the enterprise must trust data and the insights derived from it. D&A leaders should address trust and demonstrate reliability, not only through data security, but also with leadership buy-in, purpose-driven AI and data sharing.

Join this session to discuss: 

  • Establishing a baseline for data quality to build trust in data
  • Certifying trust in data sharing and security
  • Instituting trust within data-driven decision making

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

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Launching Data Strategy — A Roadmap for Success

For all modern organizations within the digital age, the goal is to build a data strategy that aligns with the goals of the business and creates value. To execute on this, data and analytics leaders should gain buy-in from key stakeholders and showcase measurable impacts of D&A initiatives on the bottom line.

In this session, join your peers to discuss: 

  • Identifying the key focus areas for your D&A strategy
  • Showcasing digestible data use cases for leadership buy-in
  • Scaling digital business and generating new revenue streams

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

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

Executive Presence for Lasting Leadership

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Chris Ulrich

Body Language Expert & Political Consultant

Guest Speaker

Any given gesture -a nod, a point of the finger - unconsciously communicates powerful ideas and feelings that have tangible consequences. Top executives are generally proficient in their ability to interact with others, but the stakes are raised during high-level negotiations, reporting to the board, inspiring and empowering senior managers or dealing with tricky internal matters. 

Join body language expert Chris Ulrich as he shares: 

  • Why every movement and action is magnified in high-level situations
  • Tools and techniques to build rapport quickly
  • How executives can communicate more effectively

4:35pm - 5:00pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

November 9, 2023

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Location


Venue & Accommodation

The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
MORE INFORMATION

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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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Tony Stach

Community Program Manager

3604335583

tony.stach@evanta.com