Chicago CDAO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

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.

In today’s era of digital transformation, successful Chief Data Officers must be able to drive change while bridging the gap between business and technology teams. Overcoming the challenges of gaining alignment across the organization, balancing short and long term objectives, and connecting data capabilities to business outcomes is critical. This session will share best practices and a strategic framework for addressing these challenges through a comprehensive data strategy to transform your organization’s data and analytics capabilities.

Join your peers for a session focused on:

• Aligning data strategies with desired business outcomes
• Defining clear metrics to help measure the impact of your D&A program
• Overcoming enterprise complexities to gain greater insights and drive value

Over the last four years, Aon has been on a journey to create a cloud-based analytics platform for a global enterprise. As the Global VP – Architecture & Service Strategy at Aon Corporation. Mohan will discuss how the team built a business case and gained stakeholder buy-in through a persona based approach, recreated a funding approach to help scale the platform, and changed the minds of leaders across the enterprise.

Join Mohan as he illustrates his journey:

• Starting small, scaling fast — using a persona-based approach and charging model
• Enabling better results — removing friction in the value chain
• Bringing security along in the journey — building trust and resilience
• Enabling business outcomes — delivering value to clients and colleagues

Organizations are looking beyond traditional strategies to adopt modern, future-proof data architectures to accelerate analytics. And they want to make it happen while keeping costs under control — a strategy Gartner research says is crucial for modern data management programs.

Join this interactive boardroom session to discuss:

• Limitations of legacy and traditional architectures
• Top trends for a successful data and analytics strategy
• Benefits of modern open data architectures

As CDOs continue to develop programs aimed at achieving the goals and objectives set by the business, leaders outside of your data organization must take responsibility for contributing to the success of the programs set before them. Processes that are linked to creating clean data are often out of your control, so having a plan to address those leaders and their teams is an important part of your success.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• Educating key stakeholders around why they should take responsibility for best data practices

• Understanding archetypes for change acceptance within your organization 

• Using storytelling to influence departments to embrace quality data processes

Leveraging, integrating and utilizing data across different parties and channels is critical to gaining meaningful insights about your customers and/or users. In this panel discussion, Mike Jennings with Walgreens, Sid Raina with Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Madhav Madaboosi with BP US discuss the data strategies they’re implementing to build a more personalized experience for the consumer.

Join this panel discussion to learn how your peers are:

• Identifying the customer/user — leveraging digital channels for the best outcomes
• Utilizing automation — personalizing the business lifecycle
• Driving value and insights — enhancing the user experience

Gaps in the use of data and analytics grow wider as organizations continue to struggle with data literacy. The cultural acceptance of D&A is essential to delivering better business outcomes, yet CDOs face the challenge of business leaders not leveraging the true value of information assets.

In this session, CDOs will explore strategies for:

• Creating a data literacy initiative for the entire enterprise
• Expanding data and analytics core competencies to increase self-service capabilities
• Gaining leadership buy-in to effect real culture change

Data leaders understand that strong governance tethers D&A strategy to business value. But rather than facilitate better data usage across the enterprise, many governance approaches falter because they are overly restrictive or lack proper business context and clarity. In this conversation, data officers share tools and techniques for better, value-first data governance.

Come prepared to discuss:

• Key attributes of better governance models for the agile, digital enterprise

• Tools for communicating the ROI of governance in value terms to engage the business

• A standardized approach to governance across the organization

We have reached a point in history where so much beyond our imagination is possible. Today’s technology, tools and data allows us to tackle some of the largest healthcare and economic challenges the globe as ever seen – and enables us to solve them. Join this interactive keynote with Tim Suther, SVP & GM, Data Solutions at Change Healthcare to learn how his organization’s insights and technology have both fueled and inspired the healthcare system during a global pandemic. 

In this session, Tim will tell his story and answer questions about:

• Changing the paradigm – an outcome-based approach to healthcare, health disparities and economics 
• Building cross-industry trust and collaboration – data governance, risk transparency and usage principles to systematically remove contention
• Shaping the possible – Asking ‘how can we?’, and ‘why would we?’