Executive Summit

Hear from artist/author, Noah Scalin, on how to sustain innovation in both work and life. During this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to practice key concepts immediately with a high-energy, hands-on workshop and a facilitated discussion to cull insights and applications.

In this interactive session you will:

• Explore personal leadership practices that foster a culture of innovation
• Discover “The Big 7” practices that you can use to continually learn and grow in your work
• Participate in a Creative Sprint® challenge that will keep participants creating and connecting after the workshop ends

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

• Data/analytics strategy
  • What is the next multi-million dollar question you want to answer with your data?
  • What organizational or governance challenges are hindering your next milestone?
  • How is your organization striking a balance between legacy tools and emerging technologies?
• Data-driven culture and communication
  • How are you promoting data literacy within you organization?
  • How are you balancing data governance and the need for self-service access to data?
  • How do you communicate the value of data to different departments within your organization?
• Data democratization and self-service
  • How are you managing the flow of data through your organization?
  • How is your organization weighing self-service with data governance?
  • How can data leaders promote self-service analytics and educate data users?
• Data security and privacy compliance
  • How are you managing data-related risk when working with third-party vendors?
  • When implementing a hybrid (on prem vs. cloud) strategy, how are you managing the data?
  • How are you approaching a global data strategy while also adhering to regional privacy regulations?
• AI and machine learning
  • Prior to AI/ML, what should data leaders be focusing on?
  • What metrics are you using to measure success after deploying AI/ML?
  • What AI/ML challenges do you need to overcome next?
    
    

Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.

In this Keynote you'll discover how to:

• Master the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
• Empower your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
• Use productivity apps to impact every business role and function

Learn about major trends and hear how CDOs can address the demands of digital transformation with new approaches to data integration and machine learning.

This session will address:

• Machine Learning and AI as key drivers for data unification
• Why DataOps is a leading approach for shared data services
• How J&J developed a data harmonization hub to unify data & gain new insights into their sales
  
  

While the CDO office is focused on supporting the organization’s data needs, a key component of enterprise data strategy has been increasing data literacy of employees at all levels, from entry-level staff to executives, in order to enable a culture of data-driven insights and decision making.

In this session, you’ll discuss with your peers strategies for:

• Democratization of data access
• Data training initiatives
• Business adoption of advanced analytics

Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce.

In this peer-driven discussion, discover:

• What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
• How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
• How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth
  
  

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 Alyssa Lutz at Alyssa.Lutz@evanta.com

In a world where agile analytics provide a key competitive edge, data leaders need a winning data and analytics strategy that can leverage new cloud-based infrastructures while still accounting for legacy on-premise environments.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Challenges with becoming more agile in data operations
• Strategies for managing data flows across multiple environments
• Solutions that allow you to architect for future infrastructure options

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 Alyssa Lutz at Alyssa.Lutz@evanta.com

Any business serious about preparing for tomorrow will need to change how they think and talk about creativity in the workplace today. Building on the welcome reception keynote, this hands-on breakout session will back the curtain on the creative practice of artists to explain the real ROI of creativity. 

In this session, you will:

• Learn why creativity is an essential for 21st century leadership.
• Get a creative confidence boost with hands-on activities.
• Identify what enables or hinders creativity at work.
• Learn the keys to strategic creativity with long-term impact
• Identify practical ways they can support a culture of creativity & innovation as a leader.

Data privacy and data security are two separate, but inextricably linked disciplines. We have seen several new compliance regulations in recent years, and with each enacted regulation, data privacy becomes more complex. Data security is often spoken of synonymously with data privacy; though related, data security serves a related, but distinct function. Additionally, the spend for data security tools has been in steady increase over the past several years, but with the increased attention on data privacy, that number has recently increased several fold.

In today’s session, we will examine:

• The fundamental differences between data privacy and data security
• The evolving area of data privacy regulations
• How to best address this new paradigm
• The cost impact of data privacy and data security measures

Many organizations become enamored with AI capabilities, but fail to determine the most strategic value drivers. Integrating AI into an organization is a substantial undertaking for many organizations and true case studies are hard to come by. This discussion will explore real-world examples and how to democratize AI into your organization.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Discover the latest updates and use cases for AI ecosystems
• Find out best practices in democratizing AI in an organization
• Learn how to measure ROI in AI projects

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 Alyssa Lutz on Alyssa.Lutz@evanta.com.

Hear how advances in cloud-based elastic scale-out architectures, algorithmic intelligence, and modern data fabrics are now making it possible to bring data and insights to business consumers at scale.

In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• What kind of infrastructure would be required?
• What would be the biggest challenges and the biggest opportunities?
• When will we see such an enterprise? Or do they already exist in some form?

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 Alyssa Lutz at Alyssa.Lutz@evanta.com

This session will discuss the tactics for data management within the cloud, under new international and domestic rules and how AI could help boost analytics. Benefit from learning of new solutions to data hygiene, security and management that ultimately could boost customer loyalty, revenues and brand reputation.

In this session you’ll learn:

• The story behind value realization from data
• The challenges overcome to internal barriers to success both in technology and people
• The future of pursuing cloud based data platforms that perform for customers