2018 Minneapolis CDAO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Minneapolis'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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Sridher Arumugham

UCare
Enterprise Data Officer

Martha Gschneidner

General Mills, Inc.
IT Director, Data Services

Saiful Islam

Optum Inc.
Vice President – Product & Technology Strategy

Keith Narr

Cargill, Inc.
CTO

Tony Peleska

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
CIO

Agenda

April 4, 2018

4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise

Dwayne Beberg

Director, Business Intelligence

Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Asher Chaudhry

Director Data Engineering

Target

Saiful Islam

Vice President – Product & Technology Strategy

Optum Inc.

Marty Junker

Senior Manager IT, Information Management

Abbott

Keith Narr

CTO

Cargill, Inc.

Tony Peleska

CIO

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Luke Salzwedel

Director of Data Science and Strategy

Optum Inc.

Ronald J. Scherwin

Director, Business Transformation Reporting & Analytics COE

3M Company

Matthew Schrag

VP, IT Revenue Technology and Analytics

Delta Airlines

Ruqayya Shaik

Manager, Enterprise Data Management

Medica

Bill Sjoquist

Sr. Director, Data Mgmt.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Mark Springett

AVP, Finance, Enterprise BI

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

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?