Southern California CDAO Executive Summit

John K. Coyle is the founder and CEO of "Art of Really Living" and one of the world's leading experts in innovation and design thinking. Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). Become empowered to solve old problems in new ways and achieve breakthrough results. Understand how to apply the “Design Thinking” process to business and personal challenges. 

This will empower you to:

• Achieve breakthrough performance by focusing on what you do best
• Decide what to delegate, quit or outsource, and plan to maximize team resources
• Create higher engagement and more effective collaboration with customers and colleagues

With growth opportunities on the rise and the demand for data professionals more prevalent than ever, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles. Hear from your peers on how they've forged the path forward and given further visibility to women in leadership.

Join this session as a panel of your peers discuss:

• Creating strength based professional development plan
• Expanding diversity and inclusion efforts to close the gender gap
• Paying it forward for the next generation of female leaders

Data is increasingly dispersed, dynamic, diverse and difficult to manage. To simplify data management within hybrid and multicloud landscapes, a data fabric architecture can increase accessibility and intelligently organize data for self-service delivery to consumers. Once unlocked, the value of your data increases and additional AI capabilities are possible.

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss: 

• Enabling self-service data consumption and collaboration
• Enhancing automation of governance, data protection and security with AI
• Automating data engineering tasks and augment data integration

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: 

Program Manager Casey Tomooka, casey.tomooka@evanta.com

The failed cost of data initiatives continues to challenge enterprises and data governance is often cited as a major hurdle. Organizations often view data as a monolithic undertaking while using an outdated top-down approach. The modern enterprise knows the answer to a successful data strategy lies within agile data governance.

Join this session and discuss:

• Defining agile data governance and how it democratizes data access
• Uncovering the consistent challenges of top-down data governance
• Empowering and providing support to staff who work with data

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-doord iscussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees(seating priority is given to CDOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Program Manager Casey Tomooka at Casey.tomooka@evanta.com

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Poor data quality is holding back data and analytics leaders from delivering on the promise of business value through their D&A investments. Moving forward with a continuous data quality improvement program is not a question of why — but how. In this session, Collibra's Data Quality Principal as he runs you through tips and tricks for dealing with data quality. 

Join this storytelling session to explore:

• Bad business decisions due to incomplete or bad data
• Mountains of rules that do not scale and are impossible to manage
• Failure to resolve data quality problems, even when they are identified

Our goal as CDOs is to enable data literate employees to self-serve data and analytics for quick speed to decisions, but this can have organizational, technical, and people readiness complexities. Come explore ways your peers are using self-service data and analytics tools to strategize, streamline and propel an organization towards data modernization.

Join this roundtable session to discuss:

• Identifying gaps in a company culture that hinder self-service models
• Ideal business models, data service definitions and customer alignment
• Selecting and adopting the tools needed to enable data efficiency amongst business users

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: 

Casey Tomooka at casey.tomooka@evanta.com

A data-first mindset is paramount for organizations in a rapidly growing, digitally-focused world. But, to affect true culture change throughout the enterprise, leadership must inspire the workforce to incorporate empathy into the purpose and context of every data-driven decision. 

Join this interactive roundtable conversation as CDOs discuss ways to build empathy by design into your data-driven strategies and learn how to:

• Understand and alleviate existing gaps and misalignment in your data strategy 
• Infuse data with empathy to derive the most business value
• Establish a true customer-centric workforce

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: 

Program Manager Casey Tomooka, Casey.tomooka@evanta.com