2019 Chicago CDAO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Chicago'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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Agenda

March 13, 2019

4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

The New CDO – Gatekeepers for Digital Transformation

Jorge Balestra

Director - Advanced Analytics Center of Excellence

Kraft Heinz Company

Neil Bahroos

VP Data Analytics & Chief Data Officer

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Krishna Iyer

Chief Data Officer

State of Illinois

Madhav Madaboosi

Head, Data & Analytics, Corporate & Functions

BP

Nalini Polavarapu

Enterprise Data Science Strategy Lead

Bayer

Pula Reddy

Head of Global Data and Analytics

CNH Industrial

Marilyn Richards

Director, IT

Smithfield

Tim Suther

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Solutions

Change Healthcare

While data governance, data quality, and regulatory drivers maintain to be critical areas of business for data and analytics leaders, the new CDO is one who extends beyond these foundational underpinnings of the office to spearhead data-driven organizations. With an increasing dependence on data and insights as enterprises move to a digital-first mindset, it is up to the CDO to create or modernize their data and analytics programs and embrace value creation over risk mitigation. In this dinner discussion, CDOs discuss how to effectively usher their organizations into a digital business environment through stronger data literacy, data integration, and advanced analytics campaigns.

Topic 1: Taking the Lead to Improve Data Literacy

How are you helping people develop a new mindset that establishes a new culture and set of behaviors around data and analytics?
What areas of your business derive the most value from analytic insight, and how are you tracking the outcomes and benefits?
Have you established ethical guidelines for your program? Do themes like transparency, data protection, and analyst integrity figure in to your ethical code?

Topic 2: Moving From Digital Transformation to Intelligence Transformation

How are you defining advanced analytics in your organization?
Where is your focus in advanced analytics and why? What best practices can you share in your journey around advanced analytics (e.g. chatbots, recommendation engines, personalization, NLP, etc.)?
How are you measuring and communicating the confidence in your advanced analytics (e.g. AI models) to the business?