2018 Southern California CDAO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Southern California'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

Amy Cooper

The Walt Disney Company
Director, Consumer Data Platforms & Architecture

Victor Harris

Harbor Freight Tools
VP, Data Analytics & Technology

Eric Iverson

Creative Artists Agency
CIO

Nona Janssen Walls

Lionsgate
Former SVP, Enterprise Data & Intelligence Technology

Agenda

October 10, 2018

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

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise

Richard Battersby

VP, BI & Analytics

AEG Worldwide

David Buckholtz

SVP Corporate IT

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Ibrahim Debbagh

Executive - Data and Analytics and Emerging Technologies

Toyota Financial Services

Robert Gage

AVP, CDO Entertainment Group Engagement

AT&T

Hanoz Gandhi

Chief Analytics Officer & EVP, Strategy

Omnicom Group Inc.

Punnoose Isaac

VP, Data

Headspace

Bryan Rockoff

Sr. Director, Data Strategy and Analytics

NBC Universal, Inc.

Vinay Soitkar

Sr. Dir., Data Warehouse & BI

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

Chris Fowler

Director- Strategic Accounts

Paxata

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.

Topic 1 - Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work

Where are you on the descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics maturity continuum?
How can you increase the value of data that’s already being created?
What success and/or challenges have you had measuring ROI for a data analytics initiative?
How do we help our organizations effectively use data? Specifically, how do we encourage business leaders to move from gut-based decisions to data-based decisions?
Where does the analytics team fit into your organization? What is the optimal environment to ensure success for your analytics team?

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

Topic 2 - Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning

When it comes to AI and machine learning, where are you in your development process?
How are you applying emerging technologies to understand your customers?
What tools, methodologies or infrastructures are you utilizing or looking at to keep your data in compliance and secure?
How do we remove the fear factor surrounding artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies?
What are you doing to attract and retain AI talent? What has worked?