In-Person

Chicago CDAO Community

Executive Summit

November 6, 2019 | The Westin Michigan Avenue

November 6, 2019
The Westin Michigan Avenue

Governing Body Agenda Location Sponsors Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Jorge Balestra

The Kraft Heinz Company
Director of IT - COE, Analytics Solutions

Tony Cyriac

Bank of Montreal
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, BMO Financial Group

Mike Jennings

Walgreens Boots Alliance
Sr. Director, Data Architecture, Global Enterprise Architecture

Madhav Madaboosi

BP
Head of Data and Analytics for Corporate & Functions

Andrea Marks

OptumRx
Chief Analytics Officer

Gokula Mishra

McDonald's Corporation
Sr. Director, Global Data & Analytics Platform

Plamen Petrov

Anthem Inc.
Chief Data Officer and VP Artificial Intelligence

Nalini Polavarapu

Bayer Corporation
Enterprise Data Science Strategy Lead

Ameet Shetty

McDonald's
Chief Data and Analytics Officer

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 Chicago CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

November 5, 2019

afternoon

November 6, 2019

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

6:00pm - 8:30pm Governing Body Welcome Reception

The Neuroscience of Being Memorable

Carmen Simon

Cognitive Neuroscientist & Author

Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

Success in any industry is a function of influencing others. This is no easy task because modern audiences and decision makers are bombarded with requests for their attention, many of which go ignored.

In this interactive keynote with Carmen Simon, learn how:

Discover strategies for transforming yourself and your message into something worth noticing
Convert neuroscience insights into practical guidelines that will help you resonate with people and spark action
Understand what makes people pay attention, remember you and ultimately act on what you say

11:20am - 11:45am Networking Break

11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch & Comments

12:30pm - 1:00pm Keynote

Achieve 100% Analytics Adoption with a New Class of Enterprise Intelligence

Marge Breya

Senior EVP & CMO

MicroStrategy, Inc.

Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.

In this Keynote you'll discover how to:

Master the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
Empower your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
Use productivity apps to impact every business role and function

1:00pm - 1:20pm Networking Break

1:20pm - 2:10pm Breakout Session

From Farm to “Table” — Agriculture and Analytics

Elizabeth Conzo-Kershner

Analytics Leader

John Deere US

John Deere is ushering in the future of farming by leveraging their established culture to shift from product to platform. Hear how a traditional manufacturing company embedded data analytics and helped revolutionize an age old industry in the process.

In this session, you’ll discover:

How to educate key partners on the language of data
Lessons learned along the data and analytics journey thus far
Why adaptation and appreciation are key ingredients to success

1:20pm - 2:10pm Executive Boardroom

Journey to the Intelligent Enterprise — Data-Driven Best Practices

Tim Suther

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Solutions

Change Healthcare

Mohan Putcha

Vice President - Digital Strategy, Chief Architect

Aon

Marge Breya

Senior EVP & CMO

MicroStrategy, Inc.

Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce. In this peer-driven discussion, discover:

What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth

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

1:20pm - 2:10pm Executive Boardroom

Comprehensive Machine Learning’s Competitive Advantage

Tony Cyriac

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, BMO Financial Group

Bank of Montreal

Dan Pikelny

Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer

Navistar

Justin Sears

VP, Product Marketing

Lucidworks

Emerging technologies like AI, automation and machine learning are often introduced piecemeal throughout the enterprise – automate this task here, AI in that product there. But the truly differentiated organization is fundamentally reshaped through wholesale alignment of business goals and technology-driven insight.

In this roundtable conversation, you’ll:

Discuss enterprise-wide transformation fusing outcomes to computing tools like machine learning and automation
Identify quick-value opportunities for strategic AI throughout the enterprise
Uncover the markers of predictive intelligence within your organization – and learn to leverage them

7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 8:30am Opening Comments

8:30am - 9:00am Keynote

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Data Office

Plamen Petrov

Chief Data Officer and VP Artificial Intelligence

Anthem Inc.

The digital business is marked by constant change and fueled by an increasing appetite for data. AI and machine learning have accelerated these trends, and it falls to the Data Officer to build core capabilities around these differentiators. This demands yet another evolution – to Data Officers themselves.

In this keynote, Plamen Petrov will share:

Strategies for building enterprise capabilities around machine learning and artificial intelligence
Keys to governance and management that maximizes the value of these technologies and creates competitive advantage
A blueprint for the evolving data leader seeking to influence meaningful transformation

9:00am - 9:20am Networking Break

9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session

Leveraging AI to Transform the Core Business

Nalini Polavarapu

Enterprise Data Science Strategy Lead

Bayer Corporation

Leading companies are disrupting the status quo with data science to transform business strategy and create new business models that fuel growth. Learn from a global technology leader how forward thinking companies transforming their bottom line with digital technologies, including AI to accelerate innovation in the cognitive era.

In this session you’ll discover:

How to tackle organizational and political barriers to bring automation to the enterprise
What data quality tactics can be used to improve efficiency and governance
Which strategies work best for AI awareness and education

9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session

Accelerate Innovation With Data

Eric Schrock

CTO

Delphix

Today, every company is a data company. To become a successful data company, CDOs must provide innovators quick and easy access to data, anywhere it’s needed, without compromising compliance or privacy. Unfortunately, most organizations aren’t built around information flow, with legacy systems and processes constantly impeding the ability to get data to those who need it.

In this session you’ll learn:

Strategies to leverage data to accelerate innovation
Practical starting points across people, process, and technology
Tactics to forge a vibrant data culture

9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom

Strategies for Tackling Defensive and Offensive Data Management

Mike Jennings

Sr. Director, Data Architecture, Global Enterprise Architecture

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Krishna Iyer

Chief Data Officer

State of Illinois

Sue Laine

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

9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom

Avoiding Pitfalls Along Your AI / ML Journey

Pula Reddy

Head of Global Data and Analytics

CNH Industrial

Joe DeCosmo

Chief Analytics Officer

Enova International

Matt Maccaux

Global Field CTO

HPE BlueData

Enterprises in every industry are striving to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). However, with so much hype around these technologies it can be challenging to chart a clear path forward.

In this session, you’ll discover:

How to avoid common mistakes as you build AI / ML solutions
Which foundational elements are required for success with AI/ML
What it takes to develop solutions that drive competitive advantage

10:10am - 10:30am Networking Break

10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session

Transformation Unplugged — Data and Analytics Strategy at Scale

Madhav Madaboosi

Head of Data and Analytics for Corporate & Functions

BP has been one of the pioneers in digital technology in the Energy industry. While their technology journey was previously focused on building environments that enable innovation, converting innovations into scalable capabilities were challenged in terms of organizational change factors and gravitational pull of collective beliefs and behaviors. Hear how one of BP’s segments inspired its businesses to experiment in unchartered territories, adopt an investment mindset towards Data and Analytics, all the while inculcating change behaviors.

In this session you'll learn:

Lessons learned from digital transformation
Challenges of organizational change
Bi-Modal strategies of how industrial and innovation converge

10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session

A Journey of Data Democratization and Collaboration at GE Transportation

Ulysses David

Principal, Customer Success

Dataiku

Ajay Jillellamudi

Director - Data and Analytics

GE transportation a Wabtec Company

Despite the hype around AI in the media, very few businesses have managed to execute on incorporating the fundamental processes that enable these data insights at scale, much less automating them to enable AI services. This session presents the story of GE Transportation and the organizational setup that enabled their transformation, built use cases and how they handled data education.

In this session David and Jillellamudi will discuss:

Key drivers for data democratization strategy
Data democratization a.k.a self service analytics program
Technological stack and organizational setup

10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom

Make Your Data Ready for AI

John Hassman

Vice President, Commercial Analytics

CIT

Seth Dobrin

VP Data and AI, Chief Data Officer Cloud and Cognitive Software

IBM

Guru Rao

Chief Analytics and Data Officer

FBAlliance Insurance

In this session, you’ll discover:

How to avoid common mistakes as you build AI / ML solutions
Which foundational elements are required for success with AI/ML
What it takes to develop solutions that drive competitive advantage

10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom

Implementing Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments

Jorge Balestra

Director of IT - COE, Analytics Solutions

The Kraft Heinz Company

Don Fleschut

Chief Data Officer

Ryerson

Todd Goldman

Vice President, Marketing

Infoworks

In a world where agile analytics provide a key competitive edge, data leaders need a winning data and analytics strategy that can leverage new cloud-based infrastructures while still accounting for legacy on-premise environments.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

Challenges with becoming more agile in data operations
Strategies for managing data flows across multiple environments
Solutions that allow you to architect for future infrastructure options

2:10pm - 2:30pm Networking Break

2:30pm - 3:20pm Breakout Session

Challenges Overcome on the Master Data Journey

George Skordilis

SVP, Head of Master Data Management

Northern Trust

Executing a comprehensive data management and governance strategy can be a herculean task. For George Skordilis and his team of Hercules-es, the continuing journey to master data management is eight year strong. In this session, Skordilis shares the lessons of this incredible, ongoing story.

Join this session to learn:

The necessity of making your MDM strategy about more than software and IT
What it takes to start strong with a multi-project approach
Tactics for continuous engagement with your business partners throughout the journey

2:30pm - 3:20pm Executive Boardroom

The New Standards for Data Protection in the Trust Economy

Raul Poma

Director, Master Data Management

Baxter

Anil Choudary

Managing Director | Head of Enterprise Architecture for US Region

CIBC USA

Stéphane Charbonneau

CTO, Co-Founder

TITUS

Data is derived from virtually every interaction we make online. As a result, consumers have now turned their attention to how companies protect their information. Why? Because along the journey towards digital transformation, globalization, and increased collaboration, something very fundamental was compromised – the trust between customers and the companies they do business with. The message is loud and clear: People expect a standard of reliability and transparency when it comes to how their data is handled.

In this boardroom you'll discuss:

Hear how companies are preparing for the next set of data privacy challenges
Discuss strategies to prepare for new regulations in California on January 2020
Understand how to practically adapt your data ecosystem for agile data governance

2:30pm - 3:20pm Executive Boardroom

Navigating Privacy – Data Leadership for New Regulation

Sid Raina

Divisional Vice President - Enterprise Data and Analytics

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

Sumit Dangi

SVP & CFO, Global Data & Analytics

HSBC USA

Tom Lojko

Head of Solutions Architecture in Success Engineering

Segment

First, GDPR reframed the conversation around privacy on an international scale. Now, privacy regulation in California (and the likely inter-state reciprocity of this regulation) brings a fresh set of obligations. These changes reverberate in all organizations who trade in data and intellectual property – what do they mean for the role of the data and analytics officer?

In this roundtable conversation, you and your peers will discuss:

Strategies for evolving your approach to privacy in lockstep with regulation, and what this evolution means for data leaders
Taking a “privacy by design” approach that builds compliance into the fabric of your data program
What organizations must do differently in terms of vendor compliance, data management and data destruction

3:20pm - 3:40pm Networking Break

3:40pm - 3:50pm Closing Comments

3:50pm - 4:20pm Keynote

Analytics, the Prescription Healthcare Needs

Andrea Marks

Chief Analytics Officer

OptumRx

Tim Suther

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Solutions

Change Healthcare

The life-and-death challenges of healthcare – the opioid crisis, availability and affordability of medication, rising costs for patients – seem daunting, but they are precisely the challenges Andrea Marks and her team at Optum are tackling through their comprehensive analytics approach.

In this conversation, Marks will share perspectives on:

How the fragmented interoperability of healthcare magnifies challenges – and how her focus on better data systems provides a foundation for alleviating it
Utilizing the right data enrichment and machine learning to sync data systems and generate better insight
The life-saving outcomes of her unified approach

4:20pm - 5:00pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

November 5, 2019

afternoon

November 6, 2019

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

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