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October 23, 2018 | Castle Hall
October 23, 2018
Castle Hall
Join Detroit'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
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Yesim Askin
Michigan State University
CDO
Ken Atilgan
Volkswagen Group of America
Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics
Sankar Bala
Flagstar Bank
SVP, Chief Data Officer - Enterprise Data Management
Yusuf Chowdhury
Health Alliance Plan of Michigan
Associate VP, Business Intelligence
Dr. Peter Lenk
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Professor of Technology and Operations
Salema Rice
GRI, Inc.
Chief Data Officer
Rob Surber
State of Michigan
Director, Enterprise Portfolio Manager Office
4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Yesim Askin
CDO
Michigan State University
Sankar Bala
SVP, Chief Data Officer - Enterprise Data Management
Flagstar Bank
Jon Bentley
Director of Enterprise Applications/Business Intelligence
Little Caesars
Yusuf Chowdhury
Associate VP, Business Intelligence
Health Alliance Plan of Michigan
Patrick Gossman
Deputy CIO, Research
Wayne State University
Erika Janowicz
Business Intelligence & Data Manager
La-Z-Boy
Kurt Partlo
Director of Enterprise Data Platforms
The Dow Chemical Company
Don Steffes
VP Information Technology
GM Financial
Rob Surber
Director, Enterprise Portfolio Manager Office
State of Michigan
Steve Brennan
Vice President, Data Strategy and Analytics
Carhartt
On the rapidly emerging main stage of data and analytics, the role of the CDO is one of the most challenging positions. CDOs have been evolving into data and analytics champions at a steady pace, with recent acceleration due to analytics programs maturing to include data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Today’s CDO is expected to not deliver on traditional needs, but respond to new and innovative opportunities. In this dinner, you’ll have a chance to talk with your CDO peers about how to put data to work and rethink the way AI and machine learning can change your business.
Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work
After the first topic discussion, there will be a short break. Participants will then change tables for the second topic discussion.
Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.