Minneapolis CDAO Community
Inner Circle
April 4, 2018 | Minneapolis Club
April 4, 2018
Minneapolis Club
Collaborate with your peers
Join Minneapolis'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
Minneapolis 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
Sridher Arumugham
UCare
Enterprise Data Officer
Martha Gschneidner
General Mills, Inc.
IT Director, Data Services
Saiful Islam
Optum Inc.
Vice President – Product & Technology Strategy
Keith Narr
Cargill, Inc.
CTO
Tony Peleska
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
CIO
Agenda
April 4, 2018
4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise
Dwayne Beberg
Director, Business Intelligence
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Asher Chaudhry
Director Data Engineering
Target
Saiful Islam
Vice President – Product & Technology Strategy
Optum Inc.
Marty Junker
Senior Manager IT, Information Management
Abbott
Keith Narr
CTO
Cargill, Inc.
Tony Peleska
CIO
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
Luke Salzwedel
Director of Data Science and Strategy
Optum Inc.
Ronald J. Scherwin
Director, Business Transformation Reporting & Analytics COE
3M Company
Matthew Schrag
VP, IT Revenue Technology and Analytics
Delta Airlines
Ruqayya Shaik
Manager, Enterprise Data Management
Medica
Bill Sjoquist
Sr. Director, Data Mgmt.
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Mark Springett
AVP, Finance, Enterprise BI
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
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, build the optimal team and rethink the way AI and machine learning can change your business.
Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work
- Where are you on the descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics maturity continuum? How are you taking the next step?
- In what ways are you monetizing data?
- How can you increase the value of data that’s already being created?
- How do you measure ROI for a data analytics initiative?
Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning
- What tools, methodologies or infrastructures are instrumental in your plans to leverage AI?
- What business applications do you or would you use natural language processing for?
- In what ways are you using AI?
- How are you applying predictive modeling?
Putting Together the Right Talent and Teams
- Are you focused on building or buying data talent? What has worked?
- Does moving from a traditional model to a cloud platform change the way you staff or recruit?
- What is the optimal composition of a great analytics team?
- Where does the analytics team fit into your organization?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Minneapolis 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.
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