Boston CDAO Virtual Executive Summit
June 2, 2021 | 8:00am - 1:30pm EDT
June 2, 2021 | 8:00am - 1:30pm EDT
Collaborate with your peers
Come together with your peers virtually to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Boston CDAO Virtual Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness
Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI
Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Mano Mannoochahr
The Travelers Companies Inc
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Michael McHugh
Biogen
Head of Data Engineering & Analytics
Sears Merritt
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Head of Data, Strategy & Architecture
John Pyhtila, Ph.D
Mass General Brigham
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
What to Expect
Connect with your CDAO community through a variety of different session formats at the upcoming Virtual Executive Summit. You'll have the opportunity to listen, engage and create lasting relationships with like-minded peers.
Agenda
June 2, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm EDT Executive Boardroom
Overcoming AI Mistrust and Bias to Bring Value and Opportunity
Hosted by DataRobot
Andrew Jacobus
VP, Insights and Data Science
Virgin Pulse
Sally Embrey
VP, Public Health and Health Technologies
DataRobot
AI is increasingly used to drive innovation and efficiency; however, concerns remain, largely, how do we trust AI when it comes to decisions that directly impact customers and consumer outcomes? For AI and ML to be successfully deployed, it needs to overcome mistrust and bias.
This session will broadly discuss:
- How usage of AI has advanced and transformed industries
- Ideas and strategies for increasing trust and minimizing bias
- Use cases for strategic AI initiatives throughout the enterprise
12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues
8:00am - 8:45am EDT Keynote
Strategy First: The Key to AI Success
Hosted by Aible
Jonathan Wray
Co-Founder
Aible
Matthew McCarville
Former Chief Data Officer
State of Florida
Alex Aronov
Sr. Director and Head of Data Science
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Matt Griffiths
Vice President, Data-Driven Transformation
Stanley Black & Decker
Studies show that a mere 10% of direct organizations achieve financial benefits with AI. The reason: businesses often unwittingly deploy a set of tactics with their AI that’s in conflict with their overall strategic objectives. That can result in AI that actually destroys value. The solution: Strategy-first AI. To ensure payback, AI must take into account your strategic intent upfront. Deploy a portfolio of AI models that deliver recommendations that align to your overarching strategy, while optimizing your actions and reactions based on market shifts, cost-benefit tradeoffs, and capacity constraints. That way, the AI is always trained on your strategic intent, adjusts to changes, and continuously delivers value.
Join Aible to learn:
- Why 90% of AI projects fail to deliver value and how you can reverse that equation
- How the tactics of an AI can directly contradict the strategy that your organization is trying to pursue and how to prevent that
- How both large and small organizations have successfully gotten to multi-million-dollar benefits in the first month of using strategy-first AI technology
8:45am - 9:00am EDT Break
9:00am - 10:00am EDT Executive Boardroom
Agility & Efficiency for Smarter Decision Making
Hosted by Dataiku
Doug Bryan
AI Strategist
Dataiku
Michelle Hoiseth
Chief Data Officer, Corporate VP
PAREXEL
In the wake of a worldwide disruption, there is a sense of uncertainty for many organizations. Data is moving faster than ever and it is critical for organizations to increase agility and make smarter business decisions to maintain their competitive advantage.
In this session you will discuss:
- Exploiting new business opportunities while focusing on the most valuable investment priorities
- Methods for managing disruptive forces and changing market conditions to better serve customers and collaborate more effectively with strategic partners
- Tactics for moving beyond center-out strategies to create agile data and analytics strategies to deliver a competitive advantage
9:00am - 10:00am EDT Executive Boardroom
Automation for Improved Data Intelligence
Hosted by BigID
Peggy Tsai
Vice President of Data Solutions
BigID
Michal Cenkl
Director of Innovation and Technology
MITRE
Data leaders have immense quantities of data at their fingertips; but the volume, variety and speed of which data sources continue to grow make it impossible to manage manually, leading to necessary automation for effective data management. Enriching traditional data catalogs with automation and machine learning capabilities enable CDOs to champion successful data management strategies.
In this session, you will discuss:
- Empowering collaboration and trust in data through strategic data stewardship
- Best practices for cleaning the data environment to reduce risk and the cost of storing data
- Methods for utilizing ML & AI to create a comprehensive data environment for data intelligence
10:00am - 10:45am EDT Keynote
Striving Toward Comprehensive Data Management
Hosted by IBM
Ed Macko
VP, Industry CTO, IBM Cloud & Cognitive
IBM
Stephen Gatchell
Head of Governance
Bose Corp
Every successful enterprise understands the urgency of digital transformation. 2020 shifted focus to and highlighted the need for improved data management. The influx of new and large volumes of data requires synchronizing legacy systems with emerging technologies for improved data management and increased revenue.
This keynote will delve into:
- Communicating data management and governance demands and strategies
- Leveraging data lakes or warehouses to support the business at scale
- Creating a culture of self-service to develop workflows that generate high performance models
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10:45am - 11:00am EDT Break
June 2, 2021
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