Toronto CDAO Community
Executive Summit

With the modernization of digital business, data sharing and use of data-driven tools is becoming more commonplace across industry. As this becomes the norm, data and analytics leaders should not only focus on security but also on the reliability of data and on building and maintaining trust with citizens, clients and other stakeholders.  

Join this session to learn how the federal government’s Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat is:

• Building trust from the citizen perspective
• Using standards and benchmarks to assess performance across business lines
• Promoting transparency to drive business impact

Amidst a rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are pushed to modernize their master data management programs, keeping the pace with cloud-based advancements. By incorporating AI and ML, data and analytics leaders can unlock efficiency and speed-to-insight.

Join this session to explore:

• Building a use case to incorporate AI & ML into your MDM strategy
• Unveiling market trends and boosting efficiency
• Enhancing decision-making, propelling D&A strategy

Data mesh is becoming increasingly popular as more organizations recognize the limitations of traditional centralized data architectures and the benefits of decentralized, domain-driven approaches. In a fast-paced and highly regulated environment, data and analytics leaders need a way to provide self-service data across data mesh architectures, all while maintaining strong, consistent security.

Join this presentation to explore:

• Enabling data democratization and self-service data-as-a-product
• Thinking about federated governance in a data mesh
• Making considerations for data product discovery and access flows

Positioning data governance as enablement rather than restrictive is a tactic more data and analytics leaders are taking to gain buy-in. But as the digital enterprise rapidly evolves, governance frameworks must modernize, maturing to address trust, risk and ethics.

Join this session as CDOs discuss:

• Understanding the baseline for effective governance

• Identifying common pitfalls or challenges within your policies and teams

• Outlining a path to ensure framework scalability 

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: Hallie Epps, Community Program Manager | hallie.epps@evanta.com

Data and analytics are integral to modern business strategy but if the leaders brought on to champion these programs fail to articulate value, they will fail. Chief data and analytics officers must understand the difference between value enablement and value realization and then articulate their strategies effectively.
 
Join this Gartner-facilitated boardroom to explore:

• Understanding the impact of D&A in your organization
• Identifying strategic ways to capture and measure value
• Communicating your value story and promoting a data-centric culture

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: Hallie Epps, Community Program Manager | hallie.epps@evanta.com

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.

Success happens when leaders prioritize, adapt and evolve with the needs of the business. As data and analytics initiatives continue to gain momentum, the need for a thoughtful data literacy approach is increasing. Industry standouts are coming together to share how they're inspiring culture-based approaches to empowering the workforce.

In this session, they'll explore:

• Setting effective data literacy guardrails to ensure data governance
• Inspiring an impactful shift in embracing data culture
• Elevating data literacy approaches to propel innovation

AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 and its evolution leaped forward in 2023 with advances in large language models. This advancement holds the potential to unlock trillions of dollars in economic value over the next decade. But, implementing AI for business has unique requirements – it needs to be open, properly governed, designed for the enterprise and most importantly, create value.

Explore the age of AI including:

• Developing a foundational data fabric architecture to support LLMs
• Delivering a competitive business advantage through strategic use cases
• Deploying governed AI with responsibility

The future of predictive analytics is promising as the pathways to improving business outcomes are becoming more dependable. But as AI implementation evolves based on the tactical, ethical and physical considerations that continue to come up, what do CDAOs need to consider as they continue to grow their investments and capabilities? 

Join this session to discuss:

• Aligning senior leaders to gain enterprise-wide support       
• Leveraging current investments and use cases for greater application
• Pioneering predictive analytics to maximize business outcomes

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: Hallie Epps, Community Program Manager | hallie.epps@evanta.com

To move the business forward with data and analytics, the enterprise must trust data and the insights derived from it. D&A leaders should address trust and demonstrate reliability, not only through data security, but also with leadership buy-in, purpose-driven AI and data sharing.

Join this session to discuss: 

• Establishing a baseline for data quality to build trust in data
• Certifying trust in data sharing and security
• Instituting trust within data-driven decision making

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: Hallie Epps, Community Program Manager | hallie.epps@evanta.com