IN-PERSON

Boston CDAO Inner Circle

November 6, 2018 | Boston College Club

November 6, 2018
Boston College Club

Collaborate with your peers

Join Boston's top CDAOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:

Adopting D&A strategies and operating models that deliver business value in volatile environments

Generating measurable economic benefits to the business from data assets and advanced analytics

Becoming a master change agent and driving data literacy across the enterprise

Boston CDAO Governing Body


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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Michael Blumberg

Raytheon Company
IDS IT Chief Technologist

Sears Merritt

MassMutual
VP, Chief Data Scientist

David Saul

State Street Corporation
SVP & Chief Scientist

Agenda


November 6, 2018

4:00pm - 5:00pm  Registration & Opening Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm  Discussion Topics

Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise

Michal Cenkl headshot

Michal Cenkl

Director of Innovation and Technology

MITRE

David Dietrich headshot

David Dietrich

VP, Advanced Analytics & Governance

Fidelity

Andrew Jacobus headshot

Andrew Jacobus

VP, Insights and Data Science

Virgin Pulse

Tomek Kozdrowicz headshot

Tomek Kozdrowicz

VP, IS Enterprise Architecture

Hologic, Inc.

Matt Pickering headshot

Matt Pickering

Director, Consumer Analytics Technology

Converse

Dan Power headshot

Dan Power

Managing Director, Data Governance, Global Markets

State Street Corporation

Bappa Roy headshot

Bappa Roy

Enterprise Information Architect

The TJX Companies, Inc.

Srinivasan Sankar headshot

Srinivasan Sankar

Enterprise Data Leader

Hanover Insurance Company

David Saul headshot

David Saul

SVP & Chief Scientist

State Street Corporation

On the rapidly emerging main stage of data and analytics, the role of the CDO is one of the most challenging positions. CDOs have been evolving into data and analytics champions at a steady pace, with recent acceleration due to analytics programs maturing to include data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Today’s CDO is expected to not deliver on traditional needs, but respond to new and innovative opportunities. In this dinner, you’ll have a chance to talk with your CDO peers about how to put data to work, build the optimal team and rethink the way AI and machine learning can change your business.

Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work

  • Where are you on the descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics maturity continuum? How are you taking the next step?
  • In what ways are you monetizing data?
  • How can you increase the value of data that’s already being created?
  • How do you measure ROI for a data analytics initiative?

After the first topic discussion, there will be a short break. Participants will then change tables for the second topic discussion.

Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning 

  • What tools, methodologies or infrastructures are instrumental in your plans to leverage AI?
  • What business applications do you or would you use natural language processing for?
  • In what ways are you using AI?
  • How are you applying predictive modeling?

6:30pm - 7:00pm  Networking Break

7:00pm - 8:00pm  Summary Discussion & Dinner

8:00pm - 9:00pm  Social Hour

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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