Dallas CDAO Executive Summit

As CDAOs continue to grow in their journeys, it is necessary to ensure your data fabric has a solid foundation on the information as well as the barriers in place accessing it. Governance plays a crucial role in establishing and maintaining these barriers, ensuring data integrity and compliance. When we add GenAI into the conversation, how can we leverage this tool to our advantage, ensuring those barriers aren’t compromised? Effective governance strategies are essential to balance innovation with security and ethical considerations. This complex conversation has many considerations, so let's explore them together.

Join this session to learn more about:

• Overviewing the complexities of Metadata Management
• Challenging aspects of data fabric as GenAI implementation continues
• Improving the process of governance models

 Investing in all of the tools and technology is useless without continuous improvements on your data and analytics strategy. Let's talk about fighting for support for your D&A strategies and making your data governance plans a little more fun.

Join this breakout session to hear about:

• Modernizing data governance to focus on enabling outcomes
• Transitioning from a data-obsessed to a data-driven organization
• Getting executive support and driving business success

 In an era where AI is reshaping industries and redefining competitive advantage, traditional data management strategies no longer suffice. High-performing executives navigating an AI-first world need proactive, intelligent and automated management of data assets.

Join us this boardroom to discuss:

• Harnessing the power of AI to improve data management outcomes
• Transforming data governance, quality and observability with AI reasoning
• Leveraging agentic data management to unlock competitive edge

 In today's data-driven world, organizations must maximize the potential of their data — from building predictive analytics and ML models that power deeper insights into customer behavior, to building GenAI applications. Replicating data across all sources fuels innovation and drives better business outcomes, while modernizing data movement ensures secure and reliable access to centralized data. Join this boardroom to delve into this core topic and learn how technology leaders are modernizing their data platforms and automating processes to get the most value from their data.

During this boardroom, you will discuss:

• Establishing a framework to manage structured and unstructured data
• Improving data readiness for predictive analytics, GenAI applications and ML models
• Building an approach to data management that gives rise to reliable, accessible data

The evolving AI ecosystem presents both opportunities and challenges. Data leaders are navigating the complexities of AI integration while facing an increasingly dynamic regulatory landscape and tasked with ensuring data integrity, scalability and regulatory compliance. In this keynote session, attendees will gain exclusive insights into how Southwest Airlines is leveraging AI to reshape enterprise data strategies, employee and customer experiences and compliance frameworks.

Learn more about:

• Building a scalable AI infrastructure within enterprise data ecosystems
• Mitigating risk and ensuring data accuracy in regulated environments
• Real-world applications of AI-driven products and lessons learned

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Join this session with Arthur Zards — a thought leader, TEDster and provocateur — to:

• Hone your skills in executive influence
• Adopt a more authentic and engaging approach to speaking
• Take your next presentation from “understandable” to “compelling"