Houston CDAO Executive Summit

Hear from artist/author, Noah Scalin, on how to sustain innovation in both work and life. During this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to practice key concepts immediately with a high-energy, hands-on workshop and a facilitated discussion to cull insights and applications.

In this interactive session you will:

• Explore personal leadership practices that foster a culture of innovation
• Discover “The Big 7” practices that you can use to continually learn and grow in your work
• Participate in a Creative Sprint® challenge that will keep participants creating and connecting after the workshop ends

Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce - preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.

This session will cover:

• Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
• Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
• Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function

Organizations need to spend less time sifting through information and more time extracting knowledge. Learn how knowledge graph architecture allows data to flow up and downstream in any organization to maximize its utility. 

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Solutions that allow organizations to cluster and find information
• Methods for developing knowledge graphs across disparate data sources
• Strategies for connecting data silos without combining or moving the information

As organizations build new data warehouses and modernize established ones, they are turning to cloud data warehousing in hopes of taking advantage of the performance, lower cost, concurrency and overall simplicity. Benefit from case study examples to keep up with the real-time data environment.

In this session you’ll explore:

• How to demystify cloud data warehousing by defining it and its goals
• What the real-world benefits of cloud-native data warehousing
• Which key decision factors should you consider to build a cloud data warehouse

Enterprises often struggle to create a unified view of their data due to the increasing variety of data sources, as well as data quality issues. Discuss how machine learning techniques for data cleansing and unifying data sources increase analytics efficiency.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• How to build a business case around data harmonization
• Which strategies assist in implementing the right people and processes
• How to incorporate new datasets with a high level of accuracy

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce.

In this peer-driven discussion, you'll discover:

• What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
• How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
• How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

Gaining a competitive edge through the application of data and analytics is a key differentiator in baseball as much as it is in business. Hear firsthand how the Houston Astros thoroughly embraced this strategy to help them become the 2017 World Series Champion and how they continue to utilize cutting edge technology today. 

In this session, you’ll hear:

• What lessons can be transferred from the ballpark to the boardroom
• How data from nontraditional sources can lead to deeper insights

Allen Wuescher leads business transformation for the largest of Toshiba’s American Group companies. After completing a successful consolidation of independent operating companies into a single ERP instance, he is focused on working with R&D and business partners to create products and services that leverage new technologies. In this session, he shares:

• Why he champions projects that combine flavors of data analytics, IOT, cognitive and blockchain
• His perspective on the future of technological advancement and competitive differentiation
• His unique perspective on high-tech trends based upon historical human and societal trends

The journey to becoming a truly data-driven enterprise involves more than applying Advanced Analytics, Big Data, ML, AI and Data Ops strategies.

In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• The metrics to build data-driven transformation
• The technology that can be used to scale
• The lessons learned from technology-centric companies

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

In order for data leaders to deliver maximum value to the business they need the ability to communicate the value of data and the latest innovations to senior leadership as well as the board of directors. Hear from former Chairman & CEO of BBVA Compass and current Board of Directors member of Fannie Mae on how data leaders can provide senior leadership with the information they need to help lead digital innovation initiatives within any organization.

In this session you'll discover:

• How to partner with your CEO to embed a Data driven culture
• Strategies for gaining buy-in at the Board Level on Data and Analytics initiatives
• The case to be made for future technologies, such as blockchain