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IN-PERSON
Houston CDAO Executive Summit
December 2024 | Location Coming Soon
December 2024
Location Coming Soon
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Houston'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:
Revising D&A strategy with a focus on generative AI
Enabling a culture of data fluency through psychological safety
Modernizing data governance with evolving business objectives
Houston CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Co-Chairs
Navin Advani
Sysco
VP IT and Tech Innovation
David Bowlby
Occidental Petroleum
VP, Data & Analytics
Vincent Cen
NRG Energy
Head of IT Data Architecture and Analytics
Sarah Karthigan
Chevron
GM Strategy & Innovation – Data & Insights
Raphael Louvrier
City of Houston, TX
Enterprise Data Officer
Arun Narayanan
RES
Chief Digital 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 Houston 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.
Implementing Adaptive Data Governance to Encompass Generative AI
In a world that values data as an asset, governance is paramount to harness the full potential of organizational insights. With generative AI emerging as a major advancement, data and analytics leaders must consider the risks, benefits and ethics to implement a governance program to address it.
Enabling a Data-Literate Workforce to Enhance Decision-Making
To sharpen decision-making, data and analytics leaders must upskill the workforce to embrace a culture that puts data first. To achieve this, leadership must foster an environment of continuous learning, educating the enterprise about the context of data and the analytics tools available.
Re-aligning Data Strategy to Meet an Evolving Digital Landscape
Augmenting workflows and improving the customer experience through artificial intelligence and machine learning are top of mind for CDAOs. Many are treating data as a product, evangelizing the value of analytics and optimizing operating budgets to do more with less.
Location
Coming Soon
Venue information will be available shortly.
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