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September 24, 2025 | The Standard Highline
September 24, 2025
The Standard Highline
Join New York's top CDAOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Establishing the CDAO as an influential, strategic and visionary driver of business outcomes
Understanding how to articulate the value and quantify impact of D&A and AI investments
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Andrew Foster
M&T Bank
Chief Data Officer
Eric Hirschhorn
BNY
Chief Data Officer
Kyle Pudenz
Cencora
SVP, Enterprise Data & Analytics
Andrew Reiskind
Mastercard
Chief Data Officer
Gaurav Shah
Sanofi
Global Head of Data and AI
Kendell Timmers
CNN
SVP, Head of Data Analytics, Science & Insights
Jim Young
AIG
Global Chief Data Officer
David Zimmerman
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Americas
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Hosted by dbt Labs
CDAOs today face increasingly complex challenges both inside and outside their organizations. Externally, they contend with market disruptions, technological advancements, and evolving regulatory environments. Internally, they are establishing themselves as strategic leaders, driving business results, and quantifying returns on data and analytics investments.
Join this session to explore how CDAOs can balance these demands and position themselves as key figures in guiding organizations toward sustained growth and competitive advantage.
Have you successfully linked AI success to foundational investments in data and analytics?
How can organizations effectively measure and communicate the business impact and ROI of their data, analytics, and AI projects? What strategies help articulate and quantify the value of these investments?
What is your collaboration like with other C-suite and senior executives?
How do you focus on the non-technical skills required for your role, such as vision, empathy, and influence?
What strategies do you use to balance D&A and AI innovation and growth with constraints like compliance, ethics and cost?
How have you articulated the value proposition of data initiatives to secure sustained funding and alignment with senior leadership?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to participate in the New York CDAO Inner Circle.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Parking:
The Standard, High Line partners with Icon Parking Garage located at 111 Eighth Avenue. The entrance is located at 385 W 15th St or 386 W 16th St (between 8th & 9th Ave). This is a self-parking garage and tickets are validated at the front desk of the hotel with no in and out privileges.
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