2024 Atlanta CDAO Executive Summit

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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:

Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives

Focusing on foundations of data strategy for AI enablement

Communicating the value of D&A’s impact on the organization

Governing Body Co-Chairs

James Bolles

Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs

Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh

Habitat For Humanity International
Senior Director, Global Integrated Planning – Office of Strategy Management

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Atlanta CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda

Breakout Session

ROI of AI ― Achieving Higher Levels of Profitability and Growth

With AI software spending projected to reach $297.9 billion by 2027, organizations are under pressure to ensure their investments yield substantial returns. Technology leaders must demonstrate exponential ROI in a short timeframe. No matter the industry or size of organization, there are common pillars that help leaders identify business value.

Join this session to learn:

Creating a robust roadmap for AI initiatives
Leveraging the right tools and capabilities for maximum impact
Applications and data management to drive growth and efficiency

Executive Boardroom Sessions

Data Unification for Better Business Outcomes

Companies must modernize to remain competitive in today’s dynamic business environment, but siloed, unreliable data makes digital transformation virtually impossible. Traditional solutions to data fragmentation are failing because they are unable to power business applications in real-time and fail to deliver reliable data where and when it’s needed.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

Implementing a comprehensive data unification framework to improve trust and reusability of data assets and simplify governance
Enabling continuous data integrity and reliability when supporting AI systems
Mitigating security risks in AI-driven data processing and decision-making

Maximizing Your Investment in AI

Generative AI is a great disruptor, shaking up organizations across industry. As businesses race to clench a competitive AI advantage, how can leaders make sure their investments are worth the effort? It’s critical for the enterprise to create a solid data foundation, a culture that breathes D&A and strategic vision for the future to achieve success.

Join this boardroom as your peers discuss:

Ensuring proper governance and quality controls are in place to maximize insights
Cultivating a data-driven culture organization-wide
Developing high-value use cases to show ROI with Gen AI

Keynote Session

Telling Your Data Story

The way we talk about data is holding the industry back so it’s time to rework your “data speak”. Are you struggling with leadership support, craving stakeholder engagement and begging for proper funding? Even though you may create Gen AI wonders with your data, it won’t matter unless you explain the value in practical business terms.

Join The Data Whisperer’s rollicking and riotous review of current buzzwords and some practical tips and tricks on what you can do about it including:

Differentiating between a data management narrative and other data storytelling and data literacy efforts
Developing strategies to secure sponsorship and funding
Executing a simple storytelling approach