
Chicago CDAO Community
Inner Circle
March 13, 2019 | Prime & Provisions
March 13, 2019
Prime & Provisions
Collaborate with your peers
Join Chicago's top CDAOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
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
Chicago CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Mike Jennings
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Sr. Director, Data Architecture, Global Enterprise Architecture
Andrea Marks
OptumRx
Chief Analytics Officer

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

Bernie O'Connor
Anixter International Inc.
Director, Information Technology
Agenda
March 13, 2019
4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
The New CDO – Gatekeepers for Digital Transformation

Jorge Balestra
Director - Advanced Analytics Center of Excellence
Kraft Heinz Company

Neil Bahroos
VP Data Analytics & Chief Data Officer
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Krishna Iyer
Chief Data Officer
State of Illinois
Madhav Madaboosi
Head, Data & Analytics, Corporate & Functions
BP
Nalini Polavarapu
Enterprise Data Science Strategy Lead
Bayer

Pula Reddy
Head of Global Data and Analytics
CNH Industrial

Marilyn Richards
Director, IT
Smithfield

Tim Suther
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Solutions
Change Healthcare
While data governance, data quality, and regulatory drivers maintain to be critical areas of business for data and analytics leaders, the new CDO is one who extends beyond these foundational underpinnings of the office to spearhead data-driven organizations. With an increasing dependence on data and insights as enterprises move to a digital-first mindset, it is up to the CDO to create or modernize their data and analytics programs and embrace value creation over risk mitigation. In this dinner discussion, CDOs discuss how to effectively usher their organizations into a digital business environment through stronger data literacy, data integration, and advanced analytics campaigns.
Topic 1: Taking the Lead to Improve Data Literacy
- How are you helping people develop a new mindset that establishes a new culture and set of behaviors around data and analytics?
- What areas of your business derive the most value from analytic insight, and how are you tracking the outcomes and benefits?
- Have you established ethical guidelines for your program? Do themes like transparency, data protection, and analyst integrity figure in to your ethical code?
Topic 2: Moving From Digital Transformation to Intelligence Transformation
- How are you defining advanced analytics in your organization?
- Where is your focus in advanced analytics and why? What best practices can you share in your journey around advanced analytics (e.g. chatbots, recommendation engines, personalization, NLP, etc.)?
- How are you measuring and communicating the confidence in your advanced analytics (e.g. AI models) to the business?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Chicago CDAO Community Inner Circle.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
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Prime & ProvisionsCommunity Program Manager
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
Joseph Nattress
Senior Program Manager – Territory Specialist
971-222-2379
joseph.nattress@evanta.com