Southern California CDAO Virtual Executive Summit

As organizations accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, they are simultaneously on a quest to improve data-driven decision-making, while also reducing cost and complexity in their data architecture. Learn how companies are modernizing their data infrastructure using a decoupled architecture of low cost storage along with different processing engines for query execution. This approach provides flexibility, reduces costs, and gives business teams faster and more accurate access to more data.

Join this session to discuss:

• Controlling costs by separating where you store data from how you analyze it
• Embracing open data formats to set yourself up for future flexibility
• Creating a layer of abstraction for consuming data that can work with whatever systems store your data

You’ve pursued cloud modernization for your infrastructure, applications, and analytics to capitalize on growth opportunities as pent up demand gets unleashed. Today’s data leaders are challenged to re-envision business models, optimize operations with finite budgets, and convert innovations into scalable capabilities. Now more than ever, companies are facing increased competition and seeking innovative ways to remain at the top of their industries. In a cloud-first world the only thing you own to drive competitive differentiation is your data. How you manage and use it determines whether you become an industry disruptor, or get left behind.

Join this session to:

• Brainstorm business strategies for diverse data management and governance demands in tight financial environments
• Debate organizational approaches to flexible and agile data operations to keep pace with evolving business needs
• Discuss methods for operationalizing cost reduction processes at scale for maximum ROI

If your organization is like most, more time goes into finding and preparing enterprise data than deriving actionable intelligence from it. As data landscapes become more extensive and complex, so does the CDO challenge of flipping this paradigm. In this session, we’ll discuss how Petco implemented enterprise data governance to drive competitive differentiation, transformation and intelligence efforts to manage its volcanic growth. 

You’ll learn about: 

• Overcoming top IT challenges in developing, managing and documenting data pipelines 
• Opportunities to close the data intelligence gap between technical and business stakeholders 
• Automating data governance processes for greater visibility and more insightful, meaningful analysis 
• Establishing a foundation to reduce risks while delivering major digital transformation initiatives more quickly 

Lack of data literacy is one of the largest inhibitors to organizations becoming more data-driven according to Gartner, and one of the largest challenges to becoming data literate is cultural change. CDOs must work daily as change agents in the organization; their strategy to leadership must stand-firm against resistance, challenge old processes, and embrace stewards.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Understanding archetypes for change acceptance within your organization
• Using storytelling to influence stakeholders to embrace data-decision making
• Best practices for empowering data stewards to build change

As companies accelerate digital transformation, governance of data and analytics needs to shift from being compliance centric to business value centric. CDOs are the key persona to help organizations evaluate the balance between risk mitigation and data democratization.

Join in this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Adapting the operating and governance models to balance data sharing and value with compliance and control
• How to leverage new curation techniques to increase understanding and trust
• How to leverage new consumption techniques to accelerate transformation and innovation

Machine learning tools are more important than ever, as they are increasingly embedded in customer analytics and digital experience platforms. Learn how your peers are leveraging new technologies to improve customer experience and maintain a competitive advantage.

In this session we’ll discuss:

• Use cases for augmented analytics, segmentation, personalization
• Benefits from these technologies and how to measure their success
• Personalization and privacy issues to avoid along your AI/ML journey

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CDO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the Southern California community. 

Connected, informed, intelligent and responsive digital business processes are the aspiration of an organizational digital transformation, yet data siloes, disconnected systems, and incongruent data inhibit this organizational nirvana. In this session, CDOs will discuss environmental strategies to unify a data estate regardless of the business unit, system or cloud that it resides.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Creating the most effective ecosystem and adopting new platform capabilities
• Quantifying business value and prioritizing/scaling efforts based on impact
• Driving agile wins while enabling organizational re-use

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues