Dallas CDAO Virtual Executive Summit

Now more than ever, companies are facing increased competition and are seeking ways to stay at the top of their industries. Learn how your peers are leveraging their data and analytics capabilities to maintain a competitive advantage and plan for tomorrow.

In this session you will discuss:

• Best practices for utilizing data as a differentiating asset
• Strategies for effective change management
• Leveraging information to impact enterprise-wide future business strategy

Today’s companies are facing increased competition and seeking innovative ways to remain at the top of their industries. With data at the center of everything, CDOs are challenged to re-envision business models, optimize operations and convert innovations into scalable capabilities with a limited or decreasing budget. 

Join this session to:

• Debate approaches to flexible and agile data management and governance to keep pace with evolving business needs
• Discuss methods for operationalizing cost reduction processes at scale for maximum ROI
• Brainstorm business stakeholder buy-in for data-driven business strategies

As any successful CDO's professional development journey never ends, neither should your data talent's. Research shows data scientists yearn for difficult challenges to grow their experience and knowledge. To attract and retain talent, CDOs must focus on building a continual learning culture to maintain engagement and retain top talent.

In this session, you'll discuss:

• Identifying internal and external talent to strengthen your data teams
• Fostering a learning culture to build a "hire to retire" team
• Implementing tool, technologies and best practices to improve employee engagement and retention

Data literacy is essential for employing self-service analytics, yet many organizations continue to suffer from a lack of strategic prioritization. Learn approaches on how to successfully improve data literacy and self-service analytics throughout your organization.

In this session you will explore strategies for:

• Optimizing business data literacy to achieve an empowered analytics-driven culture
• Expanding data and analytics core competencies to increase self-service capabilities
• Providing quality data in an agile manner that accelerates value delivery

Business leaders struggle with immature data environments and cultural obstacles when shifting to a data-driven organization. Learn how your peers are automating the foundation of trusted data to deliver business value and enable compliance, data privacy and modernization efforts through AI and Machine Learning.

In this boardroom we will discuss:

• Overcoming cultural challenges that inhibit enterprise data transformation
• Building on strong foundational elements to support innovation and disruption
• Measuring and delivering ROI through automated tooling

Join this informal and interactive networking session to connect with your Dallas CDO peers. In this session, the Dallas community will have the chance to share their takeaways from the program in small groups and walk away with at least one new connection.

Data and Analytics leaders have been thrust into the forefront of decision making for the current and future states of their organizations. Faced with the intensifying pressure of accelerated data collection and insights, CDOs are challenged with the dynamic tension between data speed and quality.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• The role and evolution of data nerve centers to meet the real-time data needs of the business
• Approaches to balancing data speed, data quality and data governance
• Adopting a data-driven culture