Boston CDAO Executive Summit

MITRE is deploying innovative capabilities that intelligently leverage its enterprise information and digitally deliver it to users when it is most useful to them. To better assist overwhelmed staff, the non-profit designed and developed a system to push knowledge and action notifications to employees based on various trigger events. MITRE’s Donna Cuomo and Krista Groenwoldt share multiple “anticipatory knowledge delivery” use cases, including “role onboarding,” “project leadership operations,” and “enhancing findability.” With digital assistance and actionable intelligence, employees can learn and execute corporate processes more efficiently and understand what resources are available to them sooner, while management have insight into service utilization and knowledge attainment. They share lessons learned on their journey and explain the design and evaluation of these knowledge-assistance campaigns.

The intelligent enterprise is the ultimate data-driven organization. It harnesses traditionally counteractive forces – agility and governance, convenience and security, ease of use and enterprise functionality – to go beyond business intelligence and deliver transformative insights to every user, constituent and partner. Today, every forward leaning company is racing to become an intelligent enterprise. Why? Because organizations that build this intelligent edge over competitors will be the dominant force of tomorrow. Hear from MicroStrategy founder and CEO Michael Saylor, and map out how to transform your organization into an intelligent enterprise.

Dr. Prakriteswar Santikary is chartered with driving the vision and execution of ERT’s global data strategy, encompassing data architecture, database technology, master data management, data governance, real time analytics and AI-driven smart data products. He shares how his team at ERT is building data products at scale by using modern data architecture, database technologies and messaging framework in coordination with employing cloud services, Serverless computing techniques and Microservice architecture. Since data is streaming into this platform from devices from patients participating in clinical trials around the globe, this is a classic big data use case with compliance, data privacy and data security included as part of designing the modern data platform.

Vistaprint needed to transform and revamp its data warehouse, with the end goal of enhancing the experience for its end users – its customers. But first it had to look inward at the people who were managing the data warehouse and all of the technologies (new and old) tied to it. Erin DeCesare shares how the company brought in new talent and changed the cultural mindset of its business intelligence team, which led to a new methodology and advancement in data science technology. She candidly walks through the pitfalls and successes related to this transformational journey that ultimately leveraged data to power the customer experience.

One thing that all CDOs have in common is data. Huge amounts of data. Today, no matter the company or industry, data is being collected left and right. But why? The goal is to identify ways to monetize this information. However, finding that needle in the haystack or insight in a sea of numbers and figures is not as easy as it seems. What forms and channels should you explore? What are barriers and challenges you might experience? In this interactive session, be ready to share and explore best practices and strategies for monetizing your data for revenue generation and value creation.

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 or equivalent).

To reserve your seat, please contact Alison Topliff at 503-972-4452 or alison.topliff@evanta.com. If you would like to help facilitate the discussion on this topic, please let Alison know, as well.

At Bose Corporation, Mukesh Dalal is charged with improving customer experiences, manufacturing productivity and relationships with wholesale partners. The global head of data science and analytics explains how he and his team are using AI and machine learning to optimize sales, cut costs and enable new, powerful capabilities. Everything is becoming digital and it’s all being optimized, and Dalal shares why he believes AI is poised to have a transformational impact on the bottom lines of every industry – from manufacturing and retail to finance and insurance to healthcare and entertainment.

While some companies are relatively advanced in their utilization of deep learning, others still have questions surrounding this new technology and how to leverage it in their analytics strategy. What is deep learning? Why is it important? How does it work? How can you jump start your organization’s capability? What are some of the most important tools? In what processes should it be implemented? In this peer-to-peer session, we will dive deep into the topic of deep learning in order to shed some light on the benefits this technology could provide for your organization.

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 or equivalent).

To reserve your seat, please contact Alison Topliff at 503-972-4452 or alison.topliff@evanta.com. If you would like to help facilitate the discussion on this topic, please let Alison know, as well.

Any given gesture - a nod, a point of the finger - unconsciously communicates powerful ideas and feelings that have tangible consequences. Top executives are generally proficient in their ability to interact with others. But when the stakes are raised during high-level negotiations, reporting to the board, inspiring and empowering senior managers or dealing with tricky internal matters, then every movement, action or inaction is magnified. To find your leadership differentiator, join body language expert Chris Ulrich as he dives into the practice of reading body language and shares make-or-break tools and techniques to build rapport quickly and communicate more effectively.