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Toronto CDAO Inner Circle
April 18, 2018 | La Maquette
April 18, 2018
La Maquette
Collaborate with your peers
Join Toronto'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
Toronto 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
Ray Allen
EllisDon Corporation
CTO
Allie Harris
Bank of Montreal
Head of Data Governance & Analytics
Donna Rudnicki
RBC Capital Markets
Managing Dir., Head of Data Mgmt.
Agenda
April 18, 2018
4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise
George Iskenderian
Director, Network Big Data Centre of Excellence
Bell Canada
Imad Jawadi
VP, Data Management and Analytics
Home Trust Company
Patrick McCleary
AVP, Analytics
TD Bank Group
Ramesh Rajasingham
Senior Manager, Business Intelligence
Baxter International Inc.
Eugene Wen
VP, Group Advanced Analytics
Manulife
Eric Whaley
COO & CIO
Wolseley Canada Inc
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, build the optimal team 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?
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?
Putting Together the Right Talent and Teams
- Are you focused on building or buying data talent? What has worked?
- Does moving from a traditional model to a cloud platform change the way you staff or recruit?
- What is the optimal composition of a great analytics team?
- Where does the analytics team fit into your organization?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
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