2025 Houston CDAO Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Houston'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:

Linking Data, Analytics and AI Initiatives to Business Value

Maturing D&A Culture with Data Democratization and Self-Service Analytics

Maturing Data Governance to Adopt and Scale Advanced D&A and AI Capabilities

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Navin Advani

Sysco
VP, Global Supply Chain, Enterprise Applications & Innovation

Vincent Cen

Direct Energy
Head of Digital Usage & Data Analytics

Partha Chatterjee

Shell USA
Principal, Data Analysis

Sarah Karthigan

Chevron
GM, Data & Insights, Strategy & Innovation

Raphael Louvrier

City of Houston, TX
Enterprise Data Officer

Arun Narayanan

RES Group
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Solutions

Quang Ton

SLB
Head of Business Intelligence

Hema Yalamanchi

The Kraft Heinz Company
Global 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 Houston 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

Coming Soon

The CDAO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ‘by CDAOs, for CDAOs,’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.

Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness

CDAOs must explore the potential of AI while still ensuring proper data foundations are in place to execute effectively at scale. As AI and other emerging technologies continue to disrupt industries, CDAOs need to regularly assess their organization's readiness, evaluate current analytics skills, strengthen governance and understand the real impact of generative AI across the business.

Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI

CDAOs face more pressure than ever before to demonstrate ROI and establish D&A as a strategic business driver rather than a support function. To achieve this, CDAOs are concentrating on aligning D&A and AI projects with business results, setting success metrics and collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the organization.

Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives

A strong data culture is crucial for the success of any D&A strategy . CDAOs are working to manage the human aspect of technological change by fostering data literacy and steering behavioral change to reach the end goal of business value informed by data-driven decisions.