Southern California CDAO Executive Summit

If you or your organization is afraid of what’s next and feel that there are forces at work that drain your market share, Ben Hammersley is here to help. A futurist, he explains the inherent disconnect between business leaders and the world we live in today. He reveals the extreme interconnectedness between seemingly disparate entities, and how technology is at work in everything you do, whether you realize it or not. 

In this session you'll discover:

• How technology can give you super powers 
• How you can take advantage to not just survive, but conquer
• How to communicate and lead in an age of data and digital transformation

Data Leaders are increasingly looking to use data and analytics to grow their footprint, enhance returns, digitize their employee and client experience, achieve efficiencies, and manage risk. The role is rapidly evolving to include look for ROI and the value of data. In this session, we will hear about the successes, and challenges related to ROI, and realizing data monetization at Ford Smart Mobility.

In this keynote you’ll discover:

• Forms data monetization can take
• Characteristics of data that could make it more valuable to external parties
• Key considerations in making data products available including IP and data privacy

The value of data is getting increasing attention from boards and the C-Suite as digital technologies disrupt entire industries. Hear from a variety of case study examples of how you can lead your enterprise with collaboration and communication.

In this session you'll discover:

• How to deliver foundational programs that provide timely, high quality data to fuel analytics
• How to communicate the data you have and the gaps you want to fill
• How to be the bridge between the IT and the business

Many organizations become enamored with AI capabilities, but fail to determine the most strategic value drivers. Integrating AI into an organization is a substantial undertaking for many organizations and true case studies are hard to come by. This discussion will explore real-world examples and how to democratize AI into your organization.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Discover the latest updates and use cases for AI ecosystems
• Find out best practices in democratizing AI in an organization
• Learn how to measure ROI in AI projects

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.

California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is driving urgency for solutions that help organizations build and maintain a defensible data privacy strategy.

In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• Data privacy challenges around data in motion, data lakes, data sharing agreements, and machine learning projects
• Automation opportunities to enable continuous defensibility to meet CCPA and GDPR compliance requirements
• Privacy management solutions that increase protection and enable data innovation

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.

Organizations today are built on data and it’s more important than ever to leverage data and analytics as strategic drivers to improve business processes and customer experiences. In this talk, Jaya Kolhatkar, Hulu’s first ever Chief Data Officer will share Hulu’s story of how it’s used data and analytics to create viewer-first entertainment experiences and transform business processes and outcomes.

Data Leaders have an opportunity to rethink data infrastructure and the analytics stack. However, challenges remain to make the cloud data lake accessible, performant, and useful to business analysts and data scientists. In this talk we explore a next-generation approach to building cloud data lakes, enabling users to analyze data across disparate data sources with well governed self-service.

In this session keynote you’ll hear:

• How to ensure your architecture is flexible and scaleable
• How to provide efficient query performance
• How to ensure self-service governance and data lineage

Proper privacy protection is about much more than mere sanction avoidance. As multiple states move to mature their privacy requirements, it pays to implement best practices. In this session, Ingram Micro’s Chief Data Privacy Officer will review GDPR myths and how technology and CDOs functions can aid Privacy Officers in their privacy management program.

In this session you’ll discover:

• Preparations Ingram Micro undertook for new and upcoming privacy regulations
• Tactics to evaluate the risk and what the CDO role can do
• Strategies to implement privacy impact assessments

To date, despite the hype around AI in the media, very few businesses have managed to execute on incorporating the fundamental processes that enable these data insights at scale, much less automating them to enable AI services. This session presents the story of GE Aviation, and the organizational setup that enabled their transformation, built use cases and how they handled data education.

In this session you'll learn:

• How GE Aviation developed a Self-Service data program
• Which technological stack and organizational setup GE Aviation utilized
• How to handle data governance and data education

Hear how advances in cloud-based elastic scale-out architectures, algorithmic intelligence, and modern data fabrics are now making it possible to bring data and insights to business consumers at scale

In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• What kind of infrastructure would be required?
• What would be the biggest challenges and the biggest opportunities?
• When will we see such an enterprise? Or do they already exist in some form?

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.

This session will cover a discussion around the building blocks of an analytics operating model and what makes it truly effective in delivering business results. Discussion will focus on what it takes to build and sustain the Analytics Operating Model, key lessons learned, and relevant case studies.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• The current bottlenecks for insights-driven business
• The gaps and definitions of an Analytics Operating Model
• The roadmap to set up the right people, processes, and technology

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clay.gartner@evanta.com.