Dallas CDAO Executive Summit

The Governing Body of Dallas CDOs and invited guests are welcome to join us for a fun, casual, interactive spin on the annual Governing Body Dinner. Casino Night at the Hyatt Regency Dallas will feature table games, prizes, food and drinks as we celebrate the start of another “By CDOs, For CDOs” executive gathering.

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.

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

With massive data flowing in at high speeds, Verizon implemented insight mobilization and democratization to achieve instant intelligence across the enterprise.

In this session, you’ll hear:

• Hear how a breakthrough approach and technology allowed for real-time artificial intelligence and machine learning
• How AI and ML can be used to identify friction points, detect anomalies on the fly, and fix issues instantly
• How to proactively adopt new technologies to maintain a competitive advantage

The role of data and analytics is changing, from being a discipline of itself to becoming a set of capabilities in support of the wider digital strategy or transformation.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• Key elements that should be considered in your modern data and analytics strategy
• What areas your existing strategy may need to be updated
• Best practices for maximizing value from data and analytics

The drive to reduce latency in operationalizing analytics has many companies thinking how they could blend the flexibility afforded by the cloud with security and investments made in on-prem solutions.

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Practices to de-couple data location from data access
• Architectural components that are required to support a hybrid solution
• Strategies for managing segmented and/or replicated data to enable consistency in analytics irrespective of the resource

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 your event Program Manager; Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

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 your event Program Manager; Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

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?

Democratizing AI heralds that every company can be an AI company. This is an imperative for the future of every business and organization. Today, there is a race to use AI which will decide the winners and laggards in every industry. With today's AI and machine learning technologies and platforms, every company can now compete, win and become an AI superpower.

In this session, you'll discover:

• What it means to be an AI company
• How to leverage AI for your competitive edge
• Ideas to transform your thinking about the AI race that is underway

How are data leaders applying best practices to the supply chain, empowering stakeholders to collaborate, and sharing trusted data throughout the organization? Learn how your peers are successfully automating data lineage and governance, creating transparency to build trust and accessibility, reducing 100 hours of time to find data elements down to minutes – all while staying compliant.

In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• How to create a data management strategy with transparency and efficiency
• What governance and organizational challenges are barriers to success
• Why technology infrastructure and data governance is necessary

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 your event Program Manager; Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

Chief Data Officers require data management solutions that power the company but which also have ongoing flexibility and the capacity for future growth. However, legacy tools may not map well to modern cloud data solutions. Join this peer-discussion to hear what priorities need to be considered when determining which data goes where and why.

During this session, we’ll discuss:

• Key elements for a successful multi-cloud data strategy
• The impact of data gravity on your data protection strategies
• Practical performance comparisons of select architectures

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 your event Program Manager; Lindsay Kasberg at Lindsay.Kasberg@evanta.com.

The evolution of data and analytics has caused a shift in mindset, from data management to product-centric thinking.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The growing value of data
• How to leverage information as a data asset
• Methods for turning discrete activities into integrated product features