
Atlanta CDAO Community
Executive Summit
June 26, 2019 | The St. Regis Atlanta
June 26, 2019
The St. Regis Atlanta
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Atlanta's top CDAOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Adopting D&A strategies and operating models that deliver business value in volatile environments
Generating measurable economic benefits to the business from data assets and advanced analytics
Becoming a master change agent and driving data literacy across the enterprise
Atlanta CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

James Bolles
Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs

Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.
Global Director, Operations - Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter
Mohammed Chaara
UPS
Enterprise Director of Advanced Analytics, Data Sciences, Machine Learning & AI

Steve Einbender
The Home Depot, Inc.
Senior Data Scientist, CyberSecurity Advanced Analytics

Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
The Coca-Cola Company
Global IT Head – Marketing Analytics and Data Science
Diwakar Goel
General Electric
VP – Global Chief Data Officer

Rajeev Kapur
Kimberly-Clark
Chief Data Officer

Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Koch Industries
Head of Data & Analytics Strategy
Pradipta Saha
Mondelez International
Head of Data & Analytics (Global Supply Chain and Asia Middle East Africa)

Ameet Shetty
SunTrust Banks
Chief Data Officer

Kenneth Viciana
First Data Corporation
Director- Information Risk Management
What to Expect
Agenda
June 25, 2019
June 26, 2019
7:30am - 8:05am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 8:50am Keynote
Delivering Value With AI and Machine Learning
Hosted by DataStax

Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
Global IT Head – Marketing Analytics and Data Science
The Coca-Cola Company
From utilizing NLP for better self-service analytics to developing recommendation engines that use deep learning algorithms to maximize online customer engagement, Coca-Cola is leveraging the latest technological capabilities. Hear how AI and machine learning have been successfully applied to deliver value that serves both the business and its customers.
In this keynote presentation you’ll learn:
- How to identify priority initiatives
- Strategies for continuous improvement
- Best in class solutions to serve specific needs
8:50am - 9:20am Networking Break
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Adopting a Machine Learning Mindset
Hosted by Collibra
Marsal Gavalda
Head of Machine Learning, Commerce Platform
Square
Hear how Square has adopted a, company-wide, machine learning mindset and engaged the entire workforce to assist with ML and automation initiatives.
In this session, you'll discover:
- Strategies for training technical and non-technical teams on what ML is and how it works
- How Square is improving risk management, internal operations, and customer-facing product features
- Key partnerships with infrastructure, operations, and product teams that can uncover new automation opportunities
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Customer 360 — Macy’s Cloud Journey and Lessons Learned
Hosted by Infoworks

Ningyu Chen
VP, Data as a Service
Macy's Inc.
Customer experience is the defining success factor to a 21-century business. At the heart of differentiating customer experience is the business's ability to fully understand its customer. Hear Macy’s journey to establish its 360 view of the customer and how it leverages cloud native data features and capabilities to build out Customer 360 at speed and scale.
In this session you’ll learn:
- How Customer 360 becomes the foundation for a wide spectrum of business use cases: from personalization, to insight discovery, and to privacy/regulation compliance
- Which tools and techniques can accelerate data ingestion and processing
- What challenges were overcome along the cloud journey
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
Better Data Prep for More Effective Analytics and Governance Outcomes
Hosted by erwin, Inc.
Jeff Crooks
Director - Business Intelligence
RaceTrac Petroleum
Scott Doyne
SVP, Turner Sports Data Strategy and Insights
WarnerMedia

Ameet Shetty
Chief Data Officer
SunTrust Banks

Sam Benedict
Vice President - Solution Strategy
erwin, Inc.
Research shows that more than 80% of analyst time is spent on data collection and only 20% on generating actual results. And for four out of five CDOs, changing this equation is their number one priority.
In this boardroom, we’ll tackle:
- The biggest challenges in generating a reliable data pipeline
- Requirements for every data user across the value chain
- How data mapping and automation are key change agents in this ongoing process
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 Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
Tapping into Deeper Data Insights for Stronger Customer Relationships
Hosted by TigerGraph
Rama Ryali
GVP, Enterprise Data & Analytics
SunTrust
Todd Blaschka
Chief Operating Officer
TigerGraph
In order to more efficiently achieve business objectives, data leaders need a real-time single-view of customer information. But how do organizations move beyond a "store and retrieve" model to arrive at true relationship management?
In this session, you’ll discuss:
- How to associate and connect disparate data points for deeper insights around particular entities
- How knowledge graph architectures can help you better track a customer journey
- How to derive more revenue from existing data infrastructures
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 Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
10:10am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session
Creating an Effective and Diverse Data and Analytics Team
Hosted by TIBCO Software Inc.

Juan Gorricho
Senior Vice President
TSYS Corporation
Hiring data analysts is a competitive endeavor yet one executive has found success in rounding out his data team by developing a conglomerate of data specialists. Once core functions are identified, learn how to equip your team for deeper skills and greater growth.
In this session you’ll learn:
- How to identify core functions that allow for scalability
- The resources data teams need in order to be successful
- Modern approaches to evaluating qualifications and aptitude
10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session
Unlocking the Business Value of Data
Hosted by Dataiku
Anthony Canitano
General Manager – Advanced Analytics
Delta Air Lines

Kurt Muehmel
VP, Solutions Architecture
Dataiku
Data leaders are responsible for fully leveraging a company’s data assets along the journey to becoming a data-driven organization. However, maximizing efficiency and clearly communicating the business impact of ongoing data initiatives can be a challenge.
In this session, you will discover:
- How to quickly assess which use cases to prioritize
- Critical factors for calculating the business impact of your data effort
- Solutions that align your team and resources to execute against data & ML
10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom
Strategies for Tackling Defensive and Offensive Data Management
Hosted by ASG Technologies
Brandie Szuda
Chief Data Officer
MAGMutual

Kenneth Viciana
Director- Information Risk Management
First Data Corporation

Sue Habas
VP of Strategic Technologies
ASG Technologies, Inc.
How are data leaders applying best practices to the supply chain, empowering stakeholders to collaborate, and sharing trusted data throughout the organization? Learn how your peers are successfully automating data lineage and governance, creating transparency to build trust and accessibility, reducing 100 hours of time to find data elements down to minutes – all while staying compliant.
In this boardroom you’ll discuss:
- How to create a data management strategy with transparency and efficiency
- What governance and organizational challenges are barriers to success
- Why technology infrastructure and data governance is necessary
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 Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom
Agile Data Makeover — Strategies for Data Operations and Data Engineering
Hosted by Infoworks

James Bolles
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs
Southern Company
Krish Das
Head of Enterprise Data
Inspire Brands

Todd Goldman
Vice President
Infoworks
Every enterprise understands the urgency of digital transformation and the central role that data plays in the process. In a world where analytics agility is a key competitive edge and big data expertise is scarce, data operations and data engineering challenges have intensified as digitization proliferates real-time flow of data across a multitude of platforms.
In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:
- The pervasive data engineering demands for better flexibility within the enterprise
- Different strategies for diverse data management and governance demands
- Eliminating big data complexities on premise and in the cloud
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 Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
June 25, 2019
June 26, 2019
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Joseph Nattress
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971-222-2379
joseph.nattress@evanta.com