2018 Detroit CDAO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Detroit'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

Yesim Askin

Michigan State University
CDO

Ken Atilgan

Volkswagen Group of America
Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Sankar Bala

Flagstar Bank
SVP, Chief Data Officer - Enterprise Data Management

Yusuf Chowdhury

Health Alliance Plan of Michigan
Associate VP, Business Intelligence

Dr. Peter Lenk

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Professor of Technology and Operations

Salema Rice

GRI, Inc.
Chief Data Officer

Rob Surber

State of Michigan
Director, Enterprise Portfolio Manager Office

Agenda

October 23, 2018

4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise

Yesim Askin

CDO

Michigan State University

Sankar Bala

SVP, Chief Data Officer - Enterprise Data Management

Flagstar Bank

Jon Bentley

Director of Enterprise Applications/Business Intelligence

Little Caesars

Yusuf Chowdhury

Associate VP, Business Intelligence

Health Alliance Plan of Michigan

Patrick Gossman

Deputy CIO, Research

Wayne State University

Erika Janowicz

Business Intelligence & Data Manager

La-Z-Boy

Kurt Partlo

Director of Enterprise Data Platforms

The Dow Chemical Company

Don Steffes

VP Information Technology

GM Financial

Rob Surber

Director, Enterprise Portfolio Manager Office

State of Michigan

Steve Brennan

Vice President, Data Strategy and Analytics

Carhartt

On the rapidly emerging main stage of data and analytics, the role of the CDO is one of the most challenging positions. CDOs have been evolving into data and analytics champions at a steady pace, with recent acceleration due to analytics programs maturing to include data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Today’s CDO is expected to not deliver on traditional needs, but respond to new and innovative opportunities. In this dinner, you’ll have a chance to talk with your CDO peers about how to put data to work and rethink the way AI and machine learning can change your business.

Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work

Where are you on the descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics maturity continuum? How are you taking the next step?
In what ways are you monetizing data?
How can you increase the value of data that’s already being created?
How do you measure ROI for a data analytics initiative?

After the first topic discussion, there will be a short break. Participants will then change tables for the second topic discussion.

Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning

What tools, methodologies or infrastructures are instrumental in your plans to leverage AI?
What business applications do you or would you use natural language processing for?
In what ways are you using AI?
How are you applying predictive modeling?