2025 Atlanta CDAO Community Executive Summit

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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:

Connecting Data, Analytics and AI Initiatives to Measurable Business Outcomes

Building Organizational Agility Through Data-Driven Mindsets and Practices

Transforming Data Governance to Support and Scale Advanced Analytics

Governing Body 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

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 Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

Executive Boardroom Sessions

AI Maturity— Navigating Enterprise Innovation to Impact

AI adoption varies widely across organizations—some are just starting, while others are scaling enterprise-wide. But what defines true AI maturity, and how can companies accelerate their journey?

Join this roundtable to discuss:

How organizations measure progress
What drives successful AI deployments
What trends will shape AI adoption

Future-Proofing Your Data Foundation for AI and Digital Agility

As AI adoption accelerates and digital expectations rise, CDOs face mounting pressure to deliver timely, trusted, and interoperable data. Yet legacy systems, fragmented sources, and governance gaps remain major hurdles.

In this roundtable, data leaders will explore:

Modernizing data foundation for a trusted semantic layer
Balancing latency, performance, and trust
Supporting scalable innovation and transformation

Modern Data Governance — Maturity and Trust

Many organizations struggle with data governance by overlooking business context, leading to wasted investment and missed opportunities. As digital transformation accelerates, CDAOs must shift governance from compliance to business enablement by assessing maturity, building trust, and scaling frameworks.

Join this session to discuss:

Assess governance maturity for targeted improvements
Strengthen trust, risk management, and ethics
Scale governance with adaptive, modern frameworks

Overcoming Barriers to Self-Service Data Success

Data insights are no longer confined to data teams but are essential across all business functions. Achieving this goal requires overcoming not only technical debt and legacy technology but also significant employee adoption challenges. By prioritizing execution and investing in upskilling, organizations can create a culture of data-driven ownership and outcomes.

Join this session to discuss:

Overcoming data democratization challenges
Fostering a culture of data-driven ownership
Developing talent and investing in technology for business impact

Breakout Session

Strengthening Your Data Foundation for AI Readiness

Organizations face exponential growth in data volume and complexity, with data in diverse locations, formats, and quality levels. Its value depends on usability, requiring real-time decisions and insights. To scale accurate, performant generative AI, organizations must unify data access, management, and preparation of high-quality unstructured and structured data.

Join this session to explore how to:

Face the challenges presented by unstructured data in your AI initiatives
Deliver superior AI accuracy and performance with your data to unlock ROI
Build on your hybrid and open data foundation to get to the next stage of AI

Keynote Session

Boosting Success Through Data Governance & Self-Service

In the AI era, data insights must reach beyond data teams to empower all business functions. As organizations strive to keep pace with rapid AI advancements, internal teams need self-service access to trusted data to drive business outcomes. Achieving true data governance and democratization requires more than access—it demands a fundamental shift in how organizations manage and share their data assets.

Join this session to explore:

Evolving governance for trusted, self-service data access
Ensuring data quality and reliability for AI success
Empowering all teams with timely, governed data insights

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