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June 21, 2018 | St. Regis, Atlanta
June 21, 2018
St. Regis, Atlanta
Get together with Atlanta's top CDAOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
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
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
James Bolles
Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs
Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.
Associate Director - Collaborative Services
John Chastain
Stanley Black & Decker
VP Big Data & Analytics
Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
The Coca-Cola Company
Global IT Head - Data science/AI (Marketing/Strategy & Insights)
Juan Gorricho
TSYS Corporation
Group Executive, Data & Analytics Global Product and Innovation
Rajeev Kapur
Kimberly-Clark
Chief Data Officer
Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Koch Industries, Inc.
Head of Data & Analytics Strategy
Andrew Sohn
Crawford & Company
SVP, Global Digital & Analytics Services
Kenneth Viciana
First Data Corporation
Director Information Risk Manager
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45am - 8:30am Keynote
Hosted by Paxata
Harry Volande
SVP, Finance, Process Industries & Drives Division & Digital Factory Division.
Siemens Industry, Inc.
Using its in-house analytics program as a navigation tool, Siemens broke and rebuilt its proposal model, found new modes of forecasting and mined historical data to plan for the future. By recruiting mathematicians with no economic or business background to draw purer deductions from data, Siemens found a new level of accuracy in its analytics. Join Harry Volande to hear about a truly successful data and analytics program and learn how the monetization of data can help corner the market.
8:30am - 9:00am Networking Break
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
John Chastain
VP Big Data & Analytics
Stanley Black & Decker
How do you create a data and analytics program from scratch so your company experiences the shift as a positive change? In building Stanley Black & Decker’s data program, John Chastain focused on big-ticket items, tackling initiatives that resulted in quick wins centered on a business case and finding places to add value. Join Chastain as he shares how he built out base analytic capabilities while generating a constructive data culture. See the journey from the beginning and explore how data can effectively touch every part of the company.
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
Greg Schutz
Associate Vice Chancellor, Business Intelligence
University System of Georgia
With over 26 higher-learning institutions in its constellation, the University System of Georgia is a complex organization with a sophisticated 2025 digitization plan. Involving a system-wide overhaul, the plan will move the universities from maturity to consistency and beyond. Join Greg Schutz as he examines the heart of the program — a data-governance policy that will require a giant shift in culture to data-informed decision-making. Learn how Schutz and USG are engaging all users to set the organization up for success.
9:00am - 9:50am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by ThoughtSpot
Doug McClure
VP Business Intelligence
Acuity Brands, Inc.
Mark Mullins
Chief Data Officer
United Community Bank
Jay Samonsky
Managing Director
ThoughtSpot
It can be challenging for many organizations to make business decisions based on big-data insights. But hiring external data experts to do this work comes with a long wait time for the right business acumen. How do you evolve into a true self-service enterprise that enables business users to get answers themselves? Join this session to examine the differences between search-based and traditional analytics, and discuss the implications and considerations for analytics leaders as they deploy self-service solutions.
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:
Joe Nattress at 971-222-2379 or joseph.nattress@evanta.com
9:50am - 10:20am Networking Break
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
Hosted by Sisense
Santosh Kudva
VP- Data and Analytics
GE Power
In industrial organizations, the services economy is a major growth driver. The economics revolve around how to utilize assets to achieve the best possible outcomes for your customers and organization. An asset-driven data strategy is a critical enabler and an effective all-compassing approach you can supplement with the standard data services, including architecture, governance, data quality and self-service. Join this session to hear more about how to take an asset-forward view and define a simple framework that can drive widespread adoption by your business-user community.
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
John Thomas
EVP Data Science
Red Ventures
The days of artificial intelligence are here. In many organizations, traditional human-powered analytical tasks are being replaced by machine-learning systems that can do them faster, more consistently and drive better business outcomes. The power of these systems, however, comes down the type, amount, granularity and quality of data available to them. Hear what John Thomas has learned by rebuilding an entire data ecosystem to optimize an AI-powered future.
10:20am - 11:10am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Infoworks
Abe Manasrah
VP - Data & Analytics Officer
Tanner Health System
George Smiley
Sr. Director Enterprise Information and Architecture
Serta Simmons Bedding
Todd Goldman
Vice President
Infoworks
Less than 25 percent of organizations have successfully deployed big data into production. There are many technological and skill set hurdles that contribute to this unfortunately low percentage. How does an organization overcome them and reduce the cost and time it takes to deploy these big projects? Join this session to examine lucrative approaches that can minimize the complexity of big data and make it possible to complete projects in days without an army of Hadoop experts.
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:
Joe Nattress at 971-222-2379 or joseph.nattress@evanta.com
11:10am - 11:40am Networking Break
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
Joseph Nattress
Senior Program Manager – Territory Specialist
971-222-2379
joseph.nattress@evanta.com