Chicago CDAO Community
Town Hall
February 18, 2026 | 11:00am CST
February 18, 2026
11:00am CST
Data Management for the Agentic Era
Participate with your CDAO peers in the Chicago community in small, breakout discussions on a mission-critical priority for data leaders. These informal discussions allow you to share your insights and learn from the lessons, approaches and experiences of a diverse group of peers in virtual breakout rooms.
Join fellow CDAOs in the Chicago community to discuss:
Building Machine-Readable Context for AI
Automating Workflows with Role-Based Agents
Tracking Productivity, ROI & Risk
Discussion Leaders
Members of the Chicago CDAO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.
Sid Raina
Medline
VP & Global Head of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Discussion Leader
Yuan Luo
Northwestern University
Chief AI Officer
Discussion Leader
Karthik Josyula
Kohler Co.
Head of Data and AI platforms
Discussion Leader
Ravi Vemuri
Carrier
Global Leader, Planning, SIOP & MFG Ops, Technology Delivery and Strategy
Discussion Leader
Sayeed Shariff
Hollister Incorporated US
Head of Data, AI and Digital Platforms
Discussion Leader
Agenda
February 18, 2026
11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Data Management for the Agentic Era
Hosted by Google Cloud
As Enterprise AI moves from passive assistants to autonomous agents, the foundation of success has shifted. Leading organizations no longer just manage data, they engineer Agent-Ready environments. This townhall explores the transition from human-centric dashboards to machine-readable context, ensuring that Agentic AI solutions are grounded in high-integrity, multimodal enterprise data.
Come together with your peers to discuss:
- The transition from data engineering to context engineering for autonomous decision making
- Deploying role-based agentic AI providing end-to-end workflows
- The new metrics around productivity relating to ROI and risk mitigation
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Chicago CDAO Community Town Hall.
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