Southern California CDAO Executive Summit

In today’s fast-moving tech and security landscapes, disruption is inevitable — but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy, 30-minute keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to get stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

• Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it
• The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results
• How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable and willing to learn from failure

This keynote offers actionable strategies and real-world insights to help teams navigate change, unlock innovation and perform at their best when it matters most.

High-quality data is critical to business success, yet traditional MDM solutions are costly, slow to implement and often fail to deliver real value. AI-native MDM offers a different approach, enabling businesses to quickly and cost-effectively turn data into a dynamic, trusted asset. By leveraging AI, organizations gain greater speed, agility and results — but MDM still remains a journey requiring continuous refinement to unlock its full potential.

Join this session to hear real-world lessons at each stage of the MDM journey, including the need to:

• Assess data quality and align with clear business goals
• Unify, clean and enrich data to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Integrate trusted data into key business systems for maximum benefit

More details coming soon.

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

casey.tomooka@gartner.com

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

Connect with like-minded peers in a 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.

Organizations face exponential growth in data volume and complexity, with data in diverse locations, formats and quality levels. Its value depends on usability, requiring real-time decisions and insights. To scale accurate, performant generative AI, organizations must unify data access, management and preparation of high-quality unstructured and structured data.  

Join this session to explore how to: 

• Face the challenges presented by unstructured data in your AI initiatives 
• Deliver superior AI accuracy and performance with your data to unlock ROI 
• Build on your hybrid and open data foundation to get to the next stage of AI

Traditional gatekeeping of information is rapidly becoming an obsolete and counterproductive strategy that undermines organizational agility and collective intelligence. Despite significant technological advancements, most organizations still treat data as a privileged resource, creating significant barriers that limit innovation, restrict strategic insights and perpetuate hierarchical knowledge structures. To address these challenges, forward-thinking leaders must develop comprehensive strategies that democratize data access that balance accessibility with security and compliance. How can data leaders transform data gatekeeping from a fortress to a flexible, empowering ecosystem?

Join this roundtable discussion as peers discuss:

• Overcoming challenges in existing data access paradigms strategically
• Empowering teams through transparent, inclusive data practices
• Designing adaptive governance models balancing accessibility and security