IN-PERSON

Chicago CDAO Executive Summit

October 17, 2024 | Convene at 233 South Wacker Drive (Willis Tower)

October 17, 2024
Convene at 233 South Wacker Drive (Willis Tower)

APPLY TO PARTICIPATE

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Chicago'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:

Foster a Strong Data and Analytics Function Through Leadership and Influence

Restructuring Data Strategy and Governance to Responsibly Deploy Generative AI

Enhance Data Literacy Across the Organization to Drive Business Value

Chicago 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

Kristina Chambers

TTX
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Shamsa Jafri

Wells Fargo
Analytics Executive, Head of Channel Marketing Science

Madhav Madaboosi

bp
Head of Digital Transformation, Future Midstream & Strategy

Prasannal Nithyanandam

Volkswagen Group of America
Head of Data and Advanced Analytics

Nalini Polavarapu

Bayer Corporation
Vice President - Enterprise Analytics and Data Science

Sid Raina

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Health Care Management Technology Delivery Leader

Vijay Rajandram

Northern Trust Asset Management
Chief Data 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 Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


Coming Soon

The CDAO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ’by CDAOs, for CDAOs,’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.

Foster a Strong Data and Analytics Function Through Leadership and Influence

CDAOs must increasingly demonstrate how D&A can improve business processes, lead to better decisions and support digital transformation. CDAOs must foster critical leadership behaviors such as influencing, communication and building an engaged team to drive a strong data function throughout the enterprise.

Restructuring Data Strategy and Governance to Responsibly Deploy Generative AI

As AI and associated emerging technologies continue to disrupt businesses, CDAOs must continue to assess the organizational readiness, evaluate existing analytics capabilities, ensure effective governance and determine the true implications of generative AI throughout the organization.

Enhance Data Literacy Across the Organization to Drive Business Value

Making data-informed decisions a habit across the enterprise is key to driving digital business. CDAOs must work to enhance data literacy across all business units, making it easier for business users to integrate data and analytics into their workflow and generate business value.

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Christopher Cresci

Community Program Manager

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christopher.cresci@evanta.com