San Francisco CDAO Executive Summit

By 2022 125M vehicles will have Internet connectivity leading to a huge influx of data.  With this new data stream on the horizon, the next-generation mobility applications enabled by autonomous vehicles and on-demand services is just around the corner. Find out how the exploitation of data by machine intelligence technologies are key ingredients in this next generation of mobility and how your business can benefit from them.

In this keynote, you’ll learn:

• The three shifts of next-generation mobility and how they’ll disrupt a variety of industries
• The central role of data and AI in every aspect of a future that includes autonomous vehicles and on-demand mobility services
• Which business models to use for data-enabled monetization in on-demand shared mobility

The intelligent enterprise is the ultimate data-driven organization. It harnesses traditionally counteractive forces – agility and governance, convenience and security, ease of use and enterprise functionality – to go beyond business intelligence and deliver transformative insights to every user, constituent and partner. Today, every forward leaning company is racing to become an intelligent enterprise. Why? Because organizations that build this intelligent edge over competitors will be the dominant force of tomorrow.

In this keynote, you’ll hear:

• Strategies to map out your organization into an intelligent enterprise
• Best practices to build data analytics throughout the organization
• Ecosystem solutions to help manage data securely but remain agile

Data democratization is a game changer and, for enterprises, it is an evolution that requires balancing the need for access to data with the appropriate level of controls. In the age of data lakes, Organizations continually strive to make data accessible to their user community in a timely, secure, and reliable manner.

In this session you’ll:

• Learn about Technology frame works that help propel data democratization
• Take away practical steps to adapt your data ecosystem for wider use
• Learn about Interdepartmental communication strategies that prevent data silos

Organizations shouldn’t operate like a collection of fragmented business functions. CDO's have the opportunity to drive alignment by empowering teams to work in an interconnected fashion. An emerging model for BI and analytics, known as Networked BI, can become the technology foundation CDO’s need to connect centralized and decentralized teams, applications, and data across the enterprise.

In this session you’ll learn:

• How to leverage cloud computing, multi-tenancy, virtualization, and web-scale architectures
• Tactics to promote end-user self-service in a well-managed environment
• Strategies that balance business agility and data governance

Privacy regulations do not lend themselves to the traditional compliance approach. In an era of higher public awareness around the institutional uses of personal data, these regulations aim to trigger a change in how organizations handle personal assets.

In this boardroom session, you’ll discuss:

• How companies are using data management and solve for privacy challenges
• Strategies for GDPR compliance and other upcoming regulations
• How to manage data across heterogeneous environments

Join your peers as they explore how to develop predictive and prescriptive analytics practices. In this boardroom you’ll discuss:

• How can you use a predictive analytics model to innovate every part of the business?
• How can artificial intelligence help you effectively utilize data connected with maintenance needs, staffing, supply chain management, compliance concerns, etc.?
• Can CDOs use this type of inspiration to promote data literacy at the same time?

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clayton.gartner@evanta.com.

Empathetic technology can help us interact more richly and successfully with each other and our technology. It can change how we tell our stories. It will change the stories we have to tell and the data that will be collected. Hear from Poppy Crum, PhD, on topics related to the intersection of human experience, artificial intelligence, sensory data-science, and immersive technologies.

Digital and Data Offices are now at the center of client experience and must collaborate more than ever.  Find out how Charles Schwab uses a client centric model to develop solutions, integrate new technology, and accelerate delivery. Hear about the role that data, analytics, and modeling play in digital transformation and the operating model changes required to do so.  

In this session you'll:

• Learn about Schwab’s “Through Client’s Eyes” approach
• Understand the importance and the “how to’s” of a data driven approach
• Benefit from examples of how to communicate change across teams and functions

No matter how smartly your data strategy is crafted, it will fail without the right underlying business culture. Successfully incorporating analytical insights into decisions requires business managers to embrace a data-driven mindset and change their ways of working. As a result, organizations can’t achieve data centricity without winning the hearts and minds of business managers. Hear how Levi Strauss & Co. is navigating cultural change on its way to remaking its digital business. In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to avoid the pitfalls of building a data centric organization
• How to build trust in data and illustrate the power of analytical insights
• Why you should learn to think like a lawyer to frame your analytical questions and drive better outcomes

Every enterprise understands the urgency of digital transformation and the central role that data plays in the process.  In a world where analytics agility is a key competitive edge and big data expertise is scarce, data integration challenges have intensified as digitization proliferates real-time flow of data across a multitude of platforms.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• The pervasive data integration demands for better agility and flexibility within the enterprise
• Different strategies for diverse data management and governance demands
• Eliminating big data complexities on premise and in the cloud

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: Clay Gartner at 503-808-9833 or clayton.gartner@evanta.com.

Privacy regulations are emerging at a rapid pace across the globe and are of increasing interest at the state level in the US.  These laws do not lend themselves to the traditional compliance approach. In an era of ever-increasing public awareness around the institutional uses of personal data and fears of misuse or even loss.  Hear from the CISO, CPO and Data Governance lead from Ancestry.com as they navigate through data privacy and security practices that build long term value and trust.  

You’ll discover:

• How Ancestry.com is preparing for the next set of data privacy challenges
• Which strategies to utilize to prepare for new regulations
• How to practically adapt your data ecosystem for agile data security