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Washington, DC CDAO Executive Summit
May 30, 2018 | Marriott Marquis Washington DC
May 30, 2018
Marriott Marquis Washington DC
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Washington, DC'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
Washington, DC 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
Dak Liyanearachchi
Hilton Worldwide, Inc.
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Jodi Morton
Freddie Mac
VP, Data Governance & Mgmt
Scott Richardson
Fannie Mae
Chief Data Officer
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Washington, DC CDAO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
May 29, 2018
May 30, 2018
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45am - 8:50am Keynote
Keys to Succeeding With Agile for Data
Hosted by ThoughtSpot
Scott Richardson
Chief Data Officer
Fannie Mae
Everyone wants to go agile with data, but specific challenges unique to data can derail even the most well-planned transformation. When Scott Richardson joined Fannie Mae, he faced these challenges head on, course-corrected, and ultimately transformed the data organization to be 100% agile. Gain insight from his journey and learn key steps to achieve agile data success. As an added bonus, find out how to scale your agile platform enterprise-wide.
8:50am - 9:20am Networking Break
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Changing How People Use Analytics
Jess Petitt
Vice President, Analytics
Hilton Worldwide, Inc.
One of the greatest challenges organizations face is dealing with change. As companies move toward a more data-focused business model, they are finding that they need to adapt to a new analytics environment. What makes a company invest in hiring data executives? How do we work with the business to create a proper business-structure approach that is able to effectively utilize data in new ways? Join Jess Petitt as he shares Hilton Worldwide Inc.’s change journey. Find out how he helped shift the corporate focus toward being a more data-driven organization can quickly adapt in order to drive growth and successfully face competitors in the digital transformation space.
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
Inspiring Innovation Through Artificial Intelligence
Arash Sadati
Senior Director, Data Science
Capital One
Join your peers as they explore how to develop predictive and prescriptive analytics practices. You will come away with answers to various questions including:
- How can you use a predictive analytics model to innovate how leaders deal with every part of the business?
- How can artificial intelligence or machine learning help you effectively utilize data connected with maintenance needs, staffing, supply chain management, compliance concerns, etc.?
- Can CDOs use this type of inspiration to promote data literacy at the same time?
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:
Jared Bral at +1 971-271-6881 or Jared.Bral@evanta.com
10:10am - 10:40am Networking Break
10:40am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Creating a Culture That Can Pivot and Adjust
Jodi Morton
VP, Data Governance & Mgmt
Freddie Mac
How do you know your business-driven data strategy is still working, especially in a world where nothing stays the same? At Freddie Mac, Jodi Morton pressed pause three years into their data journey to refresh the business-driven data strategy. People, processes and technology had changed. Did the data strategy need to change, too? Fortunately, Freddie Mac has a data-driven culture, so she knew employees could pivot and adjust quickly and nimbly. Listen in as Morton shares why forward-thinking leaders embrace continuous evaluation checks. Learn how to foster a culture that can flex and adapt with your ever-changing business.
10:40am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Remodeling Your Data Centers of Excellence
Tyler Jackson
Vice President - Data Governance
The Carlyle Group
Don't miss this peer-discussion on best practices and new approaches for democratizing data to improve access across the organization. You will come away with answers to various questions including:
- What are the pros and cons of your current data curation methodology?
- What are the business needs of data per department, and how do those needs impact data access and data sharing?
- Which other methodologies are you employing? Hybrid data sharing? Hub and spoke methods?
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:
Jared Bral at +1 971-271-6881 or Jared.Bral@evanta.com
May 29, 2018
May 30, 2018
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