IN-PERSON

Boston CDAO Executive Summit

May 24, 2023 | Westin Boston Seaport District

May 24, 2023
Westin Boston Seaport District

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Boston'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:

Leading Business Growth and Modernization Through Data Governance

Democratizing Data for Self-Service Analytics with AI and Machine Learning

Achieving key business objectives through data sharing

Boston CDAO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Adam Fox

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Head of Data

Matt Griffiths

Stanley Black & Decker
Vice President, Data-Driven Transformation

Shahidul Mannan

Bon Secours Mercy Health
CDO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Boston CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.

Agenda


May 23, 2023

6:00pm - 8:30pm  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Private Dinner — Casino Night!

The Governing Body of Boston CDAOs and invited guests are welcome to join us for a fun, interactive spin on the annual Governing Body Welcome Reception. Casino Night at The Westin Seaport will feature table games, food and drinks to kickoff our “By CDAOs, For CDAOs” executive gathering.

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Finding the Unicorns — Building a World-Class Data Analytics Team

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Jane Chen

Senior Director, Data & Analytics

Analog Devices

To produce good intelligence and AI, data executive leaders need the right balance of offensive and defensive data strategies, a diversified skill set, and agility to deliver business value.  However, recruiting and retaining your organization’s talent can be a major hurdle.
Join this session to discuss:

  • Understanding the skill requirements of each function within the data analytics organization
  • Strategies to gain stakeholder and leadership buy-in
  • Lessons learned from growing a data analytics team

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

Implementing Responsible and Explainable AI

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Heather Gentile

Executive Director, RegTech Offerings, Data and AI

IBM

AI adoption is increasingly used to beat the competition, release innovative products and services, better meet customer expectations, and drive revenue growth. However, AI is not straightforward. With disruptors like generative AI, novel use cases to serve customers, and emerging regulations, effective governance is a challenge needing to be solved. Stakeholders, customers, and government entities are demanding responsible and explainable AI.

Join this session to learn how to:

  • Operationalize AI with confidence in your organization
  • Better manage AI risk to avoid brand degradation
  • Scale while complying with the growing AI regulations

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Self-Service Analytics For Agile Data

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Matt Curtis

Sr. Director, Field Enablement

Sigma Computing

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Joseph Dery

Vice President – Dean of Data Analytics

Western Governors University

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Kiran Kodali

Head of R&D Data Strategy and Governance & Data Foundations

Sanofi

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Yogesh Shinde

Executive Director, Enterprise Data Strategy

CVS

The first step to achieving successful self-service analytics is to strive for an agile analytics environment. Empowering business users to create their own reports and queries without data team support allows insights to be shared with decision makers at faster speeds.
Join CDO’s as they discuss:

  • Identifying gaps in company culture that hinder self-service models
  • Strategizing use of all data assets to deliver self-service tools
  • 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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Empowering Your Entire Organization with Data-Driven Insights

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Jim Smith

Senior Director, Field Sales

Actian

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David Perko

Senior Vice President, Business Analytics

Pyramid Global Hospitality

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Kelli Pircio

Senior Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Isa Terzi

Senior Vice President, Head of Data and Analytics

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance

When the gates to organizational data are open to all, innovation and business outcomes accelerate across the enterprise as actionable insights are delivered directly to your front-line workers.  However, with this vast access comes great responsibility.  As companies expand self-service data, how can they ensure that data privileges and data literacy increase at the same rate to ensure success while mitigating risks?

Join this boardroom as CDOs discuss:

  • Evolving from a siloed to democratized data model
  • Determining data privileges for data owners and users across the enterprise
  • Challenging your workforce to become data literate and embrace self-service data

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Accelerate AI Adoption Through Organizational, Process and Technology Transformation

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Matt Maccaux

Global Field CTO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

AI has taken an exponential leap forward over the past two years, generating equal amounts of excitement and concern from corporate offices to dining room tables. As organizations work to incorporate these transformational capabilities, many struggle with core questions and constraints: How can we trust the results? Does the existing data governance program align to the new capabilities of the technology? Can our organizations effectively scale at the same pace as the Open-Source community releasing new features into the market?

Join this keynote to hear:

  • How best-of-breed organizations are adapting to the ever-changing technology AI landscape
  • How to assess your data governance program with an AI lens
  • Practical recommendations on how to scale these capabilities within your enterprise

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Out With the Old — Modernizing Legacy Systems

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Veronika Durgin

Head of Data

Saks

According to Gartner, data and analytics leaders say “putting out fires” is a top challenge that hampers productivity. This is especially true for organizations that employ legacy systems and technologies, resulting in inefficiencies, lack of innovation and cultural impediments at scale.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Building a business case for modernization investments
  • Embracing flexible and scalable data models to combat limitations
  • Exploring new methods to maximize data assets

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Model Maintenance — Hidden Cost of Data Science

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Jerry Gupta

Senior Vice President, Digital Catalyst

Swiss Re America Holding Corporation

As AI and ML technologies continue to advance at a rapid rate, the need for improved model maintenance and data quality increases. Often neglected, model maintenance expansion requires CDAOs to take careful consideration of balancing priorities alongside budget to propel a successful implementation.

Join this session to learn about:

  • Strategies to ensure ongoing accuracy and reliability of models
  • Balancing interpretability and accuracy to mitigate the risk of failed AI deployment
  • Expanding collaboration between business and IT teams to ensure success

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

Enabling Data to Navigate Cross Border Challenges

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Dante Malagrino

Chief Technology Officer

Protegrity

With data regulations evolving in each region, country and state, how can you best restore a free flow of data across borders quickly and efficiently while complying with a complex matrix of requirements? Juggling regulations for multiple jurisdictions can be challenging for large multinational organizations.

Join this session to explore:

  • The challenges and risks to data centralization due to increasing complexity in sovereignty, localization, and privacy requirements
  • An analysis of existing data tools that are not built to overcome these issues
  • A powerful new approach to solving expanding data localization problems

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Reducing the Cost of AI — 3 Ways to Make it Happen

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Doug Bryan

Field Chief Data Officer

Dataiku

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Genevy Dimitrion

VP, Data Strategy & Governance

Humana

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Dan Wulin

Head of Data

Noom

The real cost of implementing AI is often an ugly truth. The good news is that there are three key, concrete ways to reduce the costs associated with AI. But how?

Join this interactive roundtable as CDOs discuss:

  • How to gain C-Suite buy-in to implement AI tools in your organization
  • Ways to lay the groundwork to reduce AI costs
  • Creating a data literate workforce to lower the odds of technical debt in the future

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Shoot for the Stars — Implementing a Stellar D&A Strategy

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Colleen Tartow

Director of Engineering

Starburst

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Douglas Clark

Executive Director, Technology, Analytics and Data Insights

Biogen

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Brent Mahan

Sr Director, Data & Analytics Enablement

Moderna

In the era of big data, aligning a sophisticated data strategy to top business objectives is  key to delivering true value across the enterprise. The catalyst for success must stem from a strong, data-driven foundation cultivated by data and analytics leaders.

In this session, join your peers to discuss:

  • Creating a D&A strategy your enterprise can align behind
  • Leveraging key insights to achieve mission critical priorities
  • Scaling analytic capabilities and monetizing data

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Optimizing the Customer Experience Through Intent-Based Routing

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Sunpreet Singh

Head of Customer Experience and Service Strategy

Wayfair

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Chandra Ganduri

Director, Data Science & Machine Learning

Wayfair

To deliver exceptional customer service at scale, D & A leaders must implement solutions to match customers needs to the associates best equipped to address those needs. This led to the creation of a robust, intent-based routing platform capable of dynamically adjusting routing decisions in real-time. Utilizing ML and NLP techniques, Wayfair has transformed its CX operations to deliver greater value to customers.
Join this session to learn how Wayfair is:

  • Enhancing efficiency and customer satisfaction through innovation
  • Managing data quality and availability to improve accuracy and reduce costs
  • Understanding customer needs and delivering value

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Democratizing Analytics — Going Beyond Data Access

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Brian Ivanovick

Head of North America Solutions Consulting

Amplitude

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Stephen Moseley

Senior Director of Product Analytics

HubSpot

Empowering the enterprise to embrace self-service is a challenge for many data and analytics leaders, requiring an agile approach to unlock data-driven growth and support an increase in demand from data consumers. When met with this challenge, Hubspot recognized the critical importance of data accessibility and comprehensive democratization, which has led to the successful adoption and implementation of self-service at scale.

Join this fireside chat with Stephen Moseley, Senior Director of Product Analytics, Hubspot, to understand ways to:

  • Operationalize self-service analytics to enable team-driven analysis
  • Implement a robust governance strategy to support speed to scale
  • Leverage core principles of data platform to serve needs of data consumers

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Data Governance — Defining Maturity and Proficiency

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Todd Pelletier

SVP & GM, Americas

Talend

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Joseph Santos

Sr Director Data Governance

Takeda

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David Smith

Director, Data Governance

New Balance

The importance of data and analytics governance continues to grow with the expanding capabilities of the digital enterprise. According to Gartner, 80% of organizations seeking to scale digital business will fail without a modern approach to governance. Data and analytics leaders are challenged to build a robust governance framework that can meet the evolving needs of the business.
Join this roundtable as CDOs discuss:

  • Eliminating barriers between business and IT to propel governance initiatives
  • Assessing the maturity of governance within your organization
  • Remaining agile with growing economic pressures

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Data Literacy & Culture - Thriving with Agile Upskilling

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Varun Navani

Founder and CEO

Rolai

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Crystal Carcamo

Sr. Business Intelligence Director - Regulatory Reporting, Data Governance & Delivery

Commonwealth Care Alliance

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Brendan Sullivan

Head of Data Literacy

KeyBank

To keep up with the evolution of digital business, chief data and analytics officers are investing in strategies to help employees build on their skills and competencies. But in order for the workforce to take advantage of new tools and derive value, they must first achieve data literacy.

Join this session as CDAOs discuss:

  • Creating a culture that values continual learning and development
  • Establishing a foundation of data literacy and upskilling initiatives
  • Showcasing and measuring the ROI of the digital 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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

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.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Conceptualizing the Future of Digital and Data Ethics

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Nava Cretu-Kessel

Head of Chief Customer Data Office / Data Strategy & Transformation

National Grid

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Prasad Gunda

AVP, Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

The Travelers Companies Inc

While the role of the CDAO continues to evolve, a few core responsibilities remain constant – creating value with data, crafting data strategy, enabling the workforce to utilize data and establishing a governance framework. But in addition to maintaining these foundational pillars, data and analytics leaders must also remain vigilant of data ethics, sourcing the right talent and staying ahead of emerging trends.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

  • Defining data ethics to mitigate unintended bias
  • Developing strategy to attract and retain talent
  • Anticipating and preparing for the art of the possible

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Successful Strategies for Data Sharing and Integration

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David Dietrich

VP, Advanced Analytics & Governance

Fidelity Investments

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Vitaly Shusterov

Executive Director – Architecture, Data & Innovation

Alkermes

Technical and analytical capabilities are growing each day, both for organizations internally and with external partners. To successfully integrate data and leverage data sharing via disparate sources, leaders must create data hubs to establish a flow of usage that incorporates governance and sharing demands.

Join this session to explore:

  • Promoting and adopting a common data language
  • Assessing governance and security of data sharing capabilities
  • Establishing D&I strategies that improve processes and efficiencies

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 CDAOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

AI & ML for Accelerated Discovery

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Joe DosSantos

VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Workday

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Jackie Caraballo

VP, Data and Analytics

Commonwealth Financial Network

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Sathishkumar Balasubramanian

CDO

Bright Horizons

To be successful in any industry, organizations must be able to transform their data into actionable insights. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide an advantage via automation and augmented decision making. For data and analytics leaders, incorporating AI and ML into strategic planning, increases the possibility for greater efficiency and speed-to-insight.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Gaining buy-in and demonstrating the need for advanced tools
  • Leveraging AI/ML to automate processes and increase efficiency
  • Optimizing existing processes and fueling 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 CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:45pm  Keynote

Facing Adversity with Boston Strong Resilience

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Adrianne Haslet

Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor

Guest Speaker

Adrianne Haslet is an exemplar of resilience, a world-renowned professional ballroom dancer at the peak of her career, she was spectating the Boston Marathon when terror struck. Adrianne lost her left leg on impact, along with all hope of dancing again.Yet she pulled from the strength of the city of Boston to not only dance but finish in fourth place at the Boston Marathon this year. Adrianne shares the life lessons she had to learn and relearn with unparalleled strength over adversity.

Join Adrianne Haslet as she shares her story in:

  • Finishing the race in every corporate and personal challenge
  • Learning to face challenges with a renewed mindset
  • Facing adversity with a renewed perspective

4:45pm - 5:15pm  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

May 23, 2023

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Westin Boston Seaport District
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Westin Boston Seaport District at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-888-236-2427. Please mention Boston Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.

Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $399 USD (plus tax) is April 24, 2023.

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contacts.

Hallie Epps

Community Program Manager

9403955198

hallie.epps@gartner.com

Tiffany MacKinnon

Community Program Manager

tiffany.mackinnon@evanta.com