Texas CDAO Virtual Executive Summit

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues

Digital business requires a flexible and adaptive governance approach. Many governance programs inhibit value generation by attempting to govern data use, overly restricting data usage and subsequently stifling value creation. With an increase in data consumers, governance is as much about enabling digital transformation as it is compliance and control.

This session will cover:

• Identifying KPIs and KRIs impacting business processes while balancing risk and ROI within enterprise guardrails
• Educating and empowering users to make data-driven decisions that create value for the business
• Disbanding disparate siloes impeding the success of business initiatives

As data & analytics leaders, it's your role to work consistently and relentlessly to get data explicitly onto the business and personal agendas – stakeholder group by stakeholder group. Leading by example, leveraging storytelling to build business cases, and encouraging data fanatics are some philosophies around building a data literate and data-drive enterprise.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• Philosophies on educating your organization to become data literate
• Approaches to mitigate cultural challenges resistant to change
• Tactics to develop data literacy

As companies accelerate digital transformation governance of data and analytics needs to shift from being compliance centric to business value centric. CDOs are the key persona to help organizations evaluate the balance between risk mitigation and data democratization.

Join in this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Adapting the operating and governance models to balance data sharing and value with compliance and control
• How to leverage new curation techniques to increase understanding and trust
• How to leverage new consumption techniques to accelerate transformation and innovation

You’ve pursued cloud modernization for your infrastructure, applications, and analytics to capitalize on growth opportunities as pent up demand gets unleashed. Today’s data leaders are challenged to re-envision business models, optimize operations with finite budgets, and convert innovations into scalable capabilities. Now more than ever, companies are facing increased competition and seeking innovative ways to remain at the top of their industries. In a cloud-first world the only thing you own to drive competitive differentiation is your data. How you manage and use it determines whether you become an industry disruptor, or get left behind.

Join this session to:

• Brainstorm business strategies for diverse data management and governance demands in tight financial environments
• Debate organizational approaches to flexible and agile data operations to keep pace with evolving business needs
• Discuss methods for operationalizing cost reduction processes at scale for maximum ROI

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CDO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the Houston community.