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Detroit CDAO Inner Circle
October 24, 2019 | Waterview Loft
October 24, 2019
Waterview Loft
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
Detroit CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Yesim Askin
Michigan State University
Chief Data Officer
Sankar Bala
Flagstar Bank
Chief Data Officer, SVP Enterprise Data Management
Swaminathan Seetharaman
Credit Union ONE
Chief Data Officer
Agenda
October 24, 2019
4:00pm - 5:00pm Executive Networking Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
The New CDO – Gatekeepers for Digital Transformation
Odmar Almeida-Filho
Global VP, Big Data & Advanced Analytics
Amway
Yesim Askin
Chief Data Officer
Michigan State University
Steve Brennan
VP, Data Strategy and Analytics
Carhartt
Allen Levenson
Head of Data Strategy & Solutions
General Motors
Kurt Partlo
Director of Enterprise Data Platforms
Dow, Inc.
Saima Sattar
Global Director, Business Intelligence & Big Data Solutions
American Axle Manufacturing
Swaminathan Seetharaman
Chief Data Officer
Credit Union ONE
Tom Thomas
Vice President Data Strategy, BI & Analytics
FordDirect
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?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
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