Minneapolis CDAO Executive Summit

Every company is a data company and the CDO is responsible for guiding all members of the organization to be data-driven. That buy-in must come from the highest levels of leadership, the board of directors and from every employee across the business. Driving this collective data-centered thinking will reap many benefits including better employee understanding of the value of data, how to apply it to decision-making and the widespread commitment to backing up ideas with data, and measuring those outcomes across the board.

Data lake initiatives often remain incomplete due to a high learning curve and the failure to scale the highly specialized processing of data for analytics and data science projects. These factors can inhibit poor data lake adoption and usage in the enterprise. Join this session to hear Thomson Reuters's data lake journey and their lessons learned.

In this session you’ll discover:

• How Thomson Reuters built a large data lake to enable analytics and new products
• The governance and scale concerns they faced when managing a large data lake
• How to optimize your data lake investment

Data monetization is the next competitive weapon on the horizon. Share candid conversation with your peers around the strategies and governance needed to make headway in monetizing your organization’s data.

In this boardroom session, you will:

• Discuss why different organizations are monetizing their data, and the range of methods for doing so
• Learn how organizations are monetizing their own (and others') information assets today
• Prioritize how to get started, who can help, and initial barriers to overcome
  
  

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Sarah Bell at sarah.bell@gartner.com.

The right mix of skills, strong leadership and stretch goals are just a few of the secrets to building a top-notch analytics team primed to derive lasting value from your data. 

In this boardroom, you will:

• Discuss successful frameworks for key business strategies like data management and data governance
• Discover how to motivate the team to maintain a culture of data rock stars
• Learn how to consistently bring value to the organization through your team
  
  

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Sarah Bell, sarah.bell@gartner.com. 

Today, most leaders are simultaneously part of a team while leading teams — but not all good leaders create great results in those positions. Research shows the highest performing teams are bonded together like epoxy — with leaders applying an equal mix of a relational and structural approach to teams. The relational style creates team members who actually care about each other, both personally and professionally. The structural style ensures people are building plans and solving difficult problems together. This engaging session includes a case study, interactive tools and a success story about how to generate positive momentum with teams.

In the coming decades, the confluence of exponentially accelerating technologies is fundamentally changing business, society and us. Marjan Mohsenin introduces frameworks for understanding what exponential growth really means. Learn the different mindset, skill sets and leadership required for successfully navigating this incredible time of change and address the importance of moving from linear to exponential thinking.

In this session, you will:

• Gain a macro view of exponentials and convergences
• Create a toolset to start thinking exponentially
• Understand opportunities in disruption, plus the risks of not changing

A culture of data-based decision making is being recognized as a key enabler of business transformation in many companies. Understanding and changing data culture is easier with a framework for assessing and measuring the various attributes that influence it. Kiran Mysore outlines a workable design and offers participants a checklist to customize their own data culture journey.

In this presentation, Kiran Mysore discusses:

• Making data culture a priority to your organization
• Setting data culture within a company, and showing how it’s not about the data alone
• Creating a framework for building a strong data culture and how it applies to analytics

Helping the Business Help Itself – Leaning into Self-Service Analytics

Like most organizations, Digi-Key needs accurate data to drive decisions across the business and were challenged with little documentation of data sources and scattered information. That was compounded by an increased demand for more useful data. They developed a Self-Service Analytics Center of Excellence to bridge the gap between the data team and the business, allowing them to lean into the demand for self-service and enable the business – and its internal stakeholders – to do more.

Join this session to explore:

• How to promote self-service analytics and work with users of the service
• The challenges and successes faced and progress to date
• Specific business outcomes, from marketing to corporate compliance to user feedback

The most advanced organizations are not only aware of their data, they’re layering in predictive technologies that put them ahead of their competition, as such tools help them optimize their future actions and decisions.

In this boardroom, you will:

• Discuss the evolving, transformative realm of predictive analytics
• Find out how to lay the strategic foundations of a predictive outlook
• Learn how to communicate and implement actionable outcomes
  
  

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Sarah Bell at sarah.bell@gartner.com.