
Southern California CDAO Community
Executive Summit
June 6, 2019 | Hilton Los Angeles Universal City
June 6, 2019
Hilton Los Angeles Universal City
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Southern California'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:
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
Southern California CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Mike Burkes
Ultra Mobile
VP, Enterprise Information Management (CDO)

Nona Janssen Walls
Lionsgate Entertainment
Former, SVP, Enterprise Data & Intelligence Technology

Tomas Soderstrom
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
IT Chief Technology & Innovation Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
June 5, 2019
June 6, 2019
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am Networking Break
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
Achieve 100% Analytics Adoption with a New Class of Enterprise Intelligence
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.

Michael Saylor
President, Chairman of the Board & CEO
MicroStrategy, Inc.
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.
This session will cover:
- Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
- Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
- Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
The Life and Risks of a Model
Hosted by Pure Storage
Celeste Fralick
Chief Data Scientist
McAfee
Analytics are becoming ubiquitous in the ever-increasing world of data. Often, those analytics are implemented without thorough consideration of the life and the risks of the model employed.
In this session, you will learn
- What is the lifecycle of a model, especially once it has been implemented?
- What are three risks that should be mitigated to ensure a healthy and prosperous life of a model?
- How do you know when to ditch that model and up your game to something better?
9:00am - 9:50am Executive Boardroom
Agile Data Makeover — Strategies for Data Operations and Data Engineering
Hosted by Infoworks

Tom Mullen
Chief Data Officer
County of Riverside, California

Subash D'Souza
Head of Data Engineering
Headspace

Ramesh Menon
VP Products
Infoworks
Every enterprise understands the urgency of digital transformation and the central role that data plays in the process. In a world where analytics agility is a key competitive edge and big data expertise is scarce, data operations and data engineering challenges have intensified as digitization proliferates real-time flow of data across a multitude of platforms.
In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:
- The pervasive data engineering demands for better flexibility within the enterprise
- Different strategies for diverse data management and governance demands
- Eliminating big data complexities on premise and in the cloud
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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.
9:50am - 10:20am Networking Break
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
Building Transformation Through CDO and CIO Collaboration
Hosted by DataStax

Eric Iverson
CIO
Creative Artists Agency

André Vargas
Executive, Head of Business Technology Solutions
Creative Artists Agency
New revenue models, stringent regulations, and high customer expectations are forcing organizations to evolve or face being overrun by more nimble competitors. Hear how CAA developed a data culture and collaborated to build efficient and business focused strategies.
In this session you’ll learn:
- How to break down silos and communicate data
- What strategies to use to create a center of excellence
- Why privacy solutions need to be from the ground up
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
Preparing for CCPA Through Data and Analytics Governance
Hosted by OrangePeople

Mike Burkes
VP, Enterprise Information Management (CDO)
Ultra Mobile
Raghav Putrevu
CEO
OrangePeople
The past few years have witnessed significant changes in the regulatory landscape. One of the biggest changes concerns the implementation of GDPR and the forthcoming CCPA regulation. The new requirements will impact all data leaders and efficiency to insight. Hear how Ultra Mobile and OrangePeople are partnering to solve this challenge.
In this session you’ll learn:
- Insights into how these changes are likely to impact data leaders and enterprises
- Best practices for compliance and steps companies should consider taking now
- Strategies to communicate across the organization and to leadership
10:20am - 11:10am Executive Boardroom
Journey to the Intelligent Enterprise — A Data Leaders Roundtable
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.

Bruce Yen
Sr. Director of Business Intelligence & Mobile
GUESS?

Vinay Soitkar
Sr. Director, BI, EDW, & Integrations
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
Graham Stroman
Regional VP & GM, West
MicroStrategy
Enterprises aspire to take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet many organizations struggle with disparate data systems and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce.
In this boardroom you'll discuss:
- What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges
- How to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
- How to empower individuals and teams and establish 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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.
10:20am - 11:10am Private Reception
Accelerating and Securing Data Flow to Drive Enterprise Initiatives
Hosted by Delphix

Brendan Aldrich
Chief Data Officer
California State University, Chancellor's Office
Richard Tang
SVP, Global Consumer Insights and Data Analytics
Fox (Film, TV and Sports)
Moe Nwankwo
Business Solutions Director
Delphix
Today’s data leaders are challenged to not only steward enterprise data in the age of GDPR, CCPA, and more, but also ensure that it is made freely available to drive data-driven innovation.
In this boardroom you’ll reflect on:
- Aligning data strategy with organizational and business strategy
- People, process, and technology challenges that prevent access to data
- Approaches for increasing data flow for analytics, AI, and application development
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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.
11:10am - 11:40am Networking Break
June 5, 2019
June 6, 2019
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Southern California CDAO Community Executive Summit.
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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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