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November 21, 2024 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 21, 2024
Grand Hyatt at SFO
Get together with San Francisco'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:
Elevating your brand as a visionary data leader
Maximizing business impact through ROI driven data initiatives
Harnessing AI for strategic growth
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Shadaab Kanwal
Charles Schwab
MD - Digital, Data, and Analytics
Sharad Mathur
Zoom
Global Head of Data & Analytics
Christopher Paskins
Solidigm
Global Head of Data Strategy, Governance and Quality
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Kristin Moyer
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
In the same way athletes leverage AI to enhance their physical and mental performance, CDAOs can tap into AI’s transformative power to sharpen leadership skills and elevate their impact on the organization.
Join Distinguished VP Gartner Analyst, Kristin Moyer, to learn about:
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Hosted by Immuta
Matt Vogt
VP, Global Solutions Architecture
Immuta
The data landscape is rapidly evolving, with the rise of data marketplaces, AI, and self-service data access creating new challenges for data security and governance. Now more than ever, data teams must quickly and constantly adapt their strategies to ensure data remains secure, compliant, and trustworthy while fostering innovation and data-driven decision making.
In this session, Matt Vogt, will dive into how a unified data security and access controls can help you:
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Twilio
Kalyan Nistala
Senior Director of Product Management
Twilio
Brady Cole
Global Enterprise Data Officer
Equifax
Sudeep Kumar
Global Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics
Ciena
Gupta Maddala
Head of Data Governance
Talkdesk
Effective data governance is crucial for organizations to ensure data quality, compliance, and strategic value. A clear governance framework that aligns with organizational goals and regulatory requirements will ensure organizations can effectively manage their data assets, mitigate risks, and drive better business outcomes.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
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:
casey.tomooka@evanta.com
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Fivetran
Amy Peterson
Director of Product Management
Fivetran
Ashwin Aravindakshan
Associate Professor & Director, Masters of Science in Business Analytics
University of California - Davis
Sandeep Uttamchandani
VP, A2D (Analytics, AI, Data)
Intuit
As organizations collect more data, it’s crucial to empower the enterprise to use this data to ensure better business and customer outcomes. Organizations who want to futureproof their business will think beyond the dashboard to use data for decision making. Learn how technology leaders are modernizing their data platforms and automating processes to get the most value from their data.
Join this session to discuss:
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:
casey.tomooka@evanta.com
10:25am - 11:05am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am 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.
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Hosted by IBM
Steve Moss
Director, Watsonx Americas Client Zero GTM
IBM
With AI software spending projected to reach $297.9 billion by 2027, organizations are under pressure to ensure their investments yield substantial returns. Technology leaders must demonstrate exponential ROI in a short timeframe. No matter the industry or size of organization, there are common pillars that help leaders identify business value.
Join this session to learn:
11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session
Fauzia Saeed
Vice President, Data Product Strategy & Governance
McKesson
Hemant Todi
Vice President, Data Analytics & Insights
Delta Dental
Sophine (Yue) Zhang
Head of Data Science
Meraki, Inc.
In today's fast-paced business landscape, data and analytics leaders must prioritize self-service and data democratization to enable impactful, data-driven decisions. However, challenges such as siloed operations and low employee adoption of self-service tools often stand in the way. By successfully implementing self-service solutions, leaders can transform their organizations into data-driven powerhouses, enabling more informed decision-making at every level.
Join this panel as peers discuss how to:
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Census
Boris Jabes
CEO and co-founder
Census
Chitrang Dave
Senior Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Andrew Tweed
General Manager, Shari's Berries
1 - 800 - Flowers.com
Thanigai Vellore
VP, Engineering
Fanatics
CDAOs recognize the value of centralizing customer data in a single source of truth, oftentimes a cloud data warehouse. These customer insights have massive potential to help business teams improve customer experiences and hyper-personalize engagement — but companies need a way to bridge the gap between data and action.
Join this session to discuss:
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:
casey.tomooka@evanta.com
11:05am - 11:50am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by dbt Labs
Ryan Segar
Chief Customer Officer
dbt Labs
Deep Ratna Srivastav
Global Head of AI & Digital Transformation
Franklin Templeton
Anand Sahasram
CDO
Dodge & Cox
Bala Sahejpal
CDO
DocuSign
Great AI models rely on trustworthy data, but CDAOs face significant challenges ensuring quality and transparency within Enterprise AI systems. Inaccurate data can erode trust and pose operational risks to your business. Fortunately, advanced tools are helping CDAOs accelerate their AI initiatives while maintaining governance.
Join this roundtable discussion to explore how to:
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:
casey.tomooka@evanta.com
11:50am - 12:35pm Lunch Service
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
VALET PARKING:
$25 - up to 2 hours
$35 - up to 6 hours
$48 - 6+ hours and overnight
Hotel does not offer self-parking. However, there is the Garage A airport parking lot, 1.5 blocks away from the hotel that has similar pricing.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Grand Hyatt at SFO at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-402-501-9860.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $309 USD (plus tax) is October 28, 2024.
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