2025 Dallas CDAO Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Dallas'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:

Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness

Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI

Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Aamer Charania

Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning

Jayadev Gopinath

DraftKings
SVP of Data Engineering & Data Science

Murali Kallem

Salesforce
Head of Office of Data

Sonia Khosla

Globe Life
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Sanjeev Kumar

Gainwell
VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Mano Mannoochahr

Travelers
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Suzi Myers

Conduent
Head of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Mark Nance

American Fidelity Corporation
Chief Data Officer

Phanii Pydimarri

Health Care Service Corporation
Data & Analytics Transformation Leader

Latheef Syed

Verizon
Vice President Data Products & Governance for Data & Analytics/ AI.

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 Dallas 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

Coming Soon

The CDAO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ‘by CDAOs, for CDAOs,’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.

Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness

CDAOs must explore the potential of AI while still ensuring proper data foundations are in place to execute effectively at scale. As AI and other emerging technologies continue to disrupt industries, CDAOs need to regularly assess their organization's readiness, evaluate current analytics skills, strengthen governance and understand the real impact of generative AI across the business.

Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI

CDAOs face more pressure than ever before to demonstrate ROI and establish D&A as a strategic business driver rather than a support function. To achieve this, CDAOs are concentrating on aligning D&A and AI projects with business results, setting success metrics and collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the organization.

Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives

A strong data culture is crucial for the success of any D&A strategy . CDAOs are working to manage the human aspect of technological change by fostering data literacy and steering behavioral change to reach the end goal of business value informed by data-driven decisions.