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Dallas CDAO Community

Inner Circle

September 2026 | Location Coming Soon

September 2026
Location Coming Soon

Governing Body Agenda Location Sponsors Contact
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Collaborate with your peers

Join Dallas'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:

Scaling AI and Establishing Value

Developing a Data-Driven Culture From the Top

Ensuring Trust and Reliability in Data for AI Initiatives

Dallas 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

Aamer Charania

Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning

Jayadev Gopinath

DraftKings
SVP, Data Engineering & Data Science

Murali Kallem

Salesforce
Head of Office of Data

Sonia Khosla

Globe Life
SVP & CDAO

Sanjeev Kumar

NextGen Healthcare
VP & CDAO

Mano Mannoochahr

Verizon
Chief Data, Analytics and AI Officer

Mark Nance

American Fidelity Assurance Company
Chief Data Officer

Phanii Pydimarri

Health Care Service Corporation
Data & Analytics Transformation Leader

Latheef Syed

Verizon
VP, Data Products & Governance, Data, Analytics and AI

Agenda

Coming Soon

We are currently working with C-level leaders in your community to build the most timely and relevant agenda. All of our sessions, topics and discussions are driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™ to ensure the most valuable experience.

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Apply to participate in the Dallas CDAO Community Inner Circle.

Gartner 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.

Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.

Community Member Criteria

To ensure peer connections and conversations at the highest level, members must meet the following criteria:

- C-level or senior most executive for respective function

- Organization revenue of $500M+

Exceptions are considered.

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

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

Location

Coming Soon

Venue information will be available shortly.

Community Program Manager

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

Mallory Adamson

Community Program Manager

mallory.adamson@gartner.com