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June 17, 2025 | Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
June 17, 2025
Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
Get together with Dallas'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:
Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness
Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI
Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Aamer Charania
Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning
Jayadev Gopinath
DraftKings
SVP of Data Engineering & Data Science
Murali Kallem
Salesforce
Head of Office of Data
Sonia Khosla
Globe Life
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Sanjeev Kumar
Gainwell
VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Mano Mannoochahr
Travelers
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Suzi Myers
Conduent
Head of Enterprise Business Intelligence
Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
Chief Data Officer
Phanii Pydimarri
Health Care Service Corporation
Head of Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships
Latheef Syed
Verizon
Vice President Data Products & Governance for Data & Analytics/ AI.
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.
Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness
CDAOs must explore the potential of AI while still ensuring proper data foundations are in place to execute effectively at scale. As AI and other emerging technologies continue to disrupt industries, CDAOs need to regularly assess their organization's readiness, evaluate current analytics skills, strengthen governance and understand the real impact of generative AI across the business.
Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI
CDAOs face more pressure than ever before to demonstrate ROI and establish D&A as a strategic business driver rather than a support function. To achieve this, CDAOs are concentrating on aligning D&A and AI projects with business results, setting success metrics and collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the organization.
Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives
A strong data culture is crucial for the success of any D&A strategy . CDAOs are working to manage the human aspect of technological change by fostering data literacy and steering behavioral change to reach the end goal of business value informed by data-driven decisions.
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.