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Atlanta CDAO Virtual Executive Summit
December 2, 2020 | 8:00am - 12:30pm EST
December 2, 2020 | 8:00am - 12:30pm EST
Collaborate with your peers
Come together with your peers virtually to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Atlanta CDAO Virtual Executive Summit.
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
Data governance, stewardship and quality as drivers of insight and action
Governing Body Co-Chairs
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James Bolles
Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs
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Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh
Habitat For Humanity International
Global Director for Operations - Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter
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Steve Einbender
The Home Depot
Senior Data Scientist, CyberSecurity Advanced Analytics
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Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
Reynolds American
Head of IT - Data, Reporting, Analytics
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Diwakar Goel
GE Power
VP – Global Chief Data Officer
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Rajeev Kapur
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Chief Data Officer
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Sesha Madapoosi
NCR
Exec Director, Data & Analytics Products
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Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Georgia-Pacific
Advanced Analytics and Strategy Leader
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Kenneth Viciana
Fiserv
Director Information Risk Management
What to Expect
Connect with your CDAO community through a variety of different session formats at the upcoming Virtual Executive Summit. You'll have the opportunity to listen, engage and create lasting relationships with like-minded peers.
Agenda
December 2, 2020
11:00am - 12:00pm EST Executive Boardroom
Data Visualization for Improved Decision Making
Hosted by Exasol
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Ethiraj Purushothaman
Global Head Advanced Business Analytics
Coca-Cola Company
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Mark Jackson
Director of Business Intelligence
Piedmont Healthcare
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Rishi Diwan
Chief Product Officer
Exasol
Visualizing data in an easy to understand and compelling way is critical to communicating value and ensuring stakeholders understand insights and how to act on them. Yet data and analytics teams continue to struggle with delivering relevant, consumable insights for actionable take-aways.
Join this session to discuss:
- Tailoring visualizations for key stakeholder consumption
- Addressing the challenges associated with interpreting data for a persuasive narrative to take advantage of established storytelling principles
- Translating data and analytics into contextual patterns, trends, and easy-to-spot anomalies to drive informed decision-making
11:00am - 12:00pm EST Executive Boardroom
Self Service Analytics Demand Data Literacy
Hosted by Dataiku
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Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
Head of IT - Data, Reporting, Analytics
Reynolds American
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Lalit Thakur
SVP and Chief Data Officer
American Tire Distributors
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Christina Hsiao
Technology Evangelist
Dataiku
Data literacy is essential for employing self-service analytics, yet many organizations continue to suffer from a lack of strategic prioritization. Learn approaches on how to successfully improve data literacy and self-service analytics throughout your organization.
In this session you will explore strategies for:
Optimizing business data literacy to achieve an empowered analytics-driven culture
Expanding data and analytics core competencies to increase self-service capabilities
Providing quality data in an agile manner that accelerates value delivery
12:00pm - 12:30pm EST Networking
Q&A with Ken Viciana, Fiserv
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Kenneth Viciana
Director Information Risk Management
Fiserv
Join this interactive networking session for an informal Q&A with Ken Viciana from Fiserv connect with your Atlanta CDO peers. In this session, the Atlanta community will have the chance to share their takeaways from the program in small groups and walk away with at least one new connection.
8:00am - 8:45am EST Keynote
CDO 4.0
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Mario Faria
VP Program Director, Research Board
Gartner
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Tamer Soliman
SVP Global Data Analytics
Assurant
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Farouk Ferchichi
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
USAA
Gartner Research Board has identified that Data & Analytics executives are beginning to embrace the product management discipline at scale. This session, led by Mario Faria from Gartner, will cover the 2020 state of the CDO market and the trends observed for successful D&A leaders in what Gartner Research Board defines as CDO 4.0, while Tamer Soliman of Assurant and Farouk Ferchichi from USAA will share their journeys.
8:45am - 9:00am EST Break
9:00am - 10:00am EST Executive Boardroom
The Journey to Trusted Data
Hosted by ASG Technologies
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Kyle McNabb
SVP Product Strategy & Marketing
ASG Technologies
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Vimal Zala
VP, Head of Data Services
CRH Americas, Inc.
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Binu Varghese
Global Data & Analytics Leader
Carrier
Business leaders struggle with immature data environments and cultural obstacles when shifting to a data-driven organization. Learn how your peers are automating the foundation of trusted data to deliver business value and enable compliance, data privacy and modernization efforts through AI and Machine Learning.
In this boardroom we will discuss:
- Overcoming cultural challenges that inhibit enterprise data transformation
- Building on strong foundational elements to support innovation and disruption
- Measuring and delivering ROI through automated tooling
9:00am - 10:00am EST Executive Boardroom
Revitalizing Data Performance Through Cloud Applications
Hosted by Lucidworks
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Justin Sears
VP, Product Marketing
Lucidworks
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Rashu Garg
SVP - Head Of Data and Analytics Products
Regions Financial Corporation
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Meenakshi Thanikachalam
Head of Data Strategy, Architecture, Analytics
Ally
CDOs are capturing more data than ever before, using it to train advanced machine learning models and embedding those models in cloud applications to augment the intelligence of employees and customers. The large and rapidly expanding volume of new data requires expansive storage and agile analytical processes which only cloud technologies can make operationally efficient and economically viable.
In this boardroom, you will discuss:
Mitigating risks prior to practical deployment of cloud technologies
Evaluating the challenges of migrating application infrastructure from on-prem to cloud
Strengths and weaknesses of ML applications running in the cloud
10:00am - 10:45am EST Keynote
Driving Digital Transformation Faster with X Analytics
Hosted by Starburst Data
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Justin Borgman
CEO
Starburst Data
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Ivan Black
Director - Big Data Platforms
FINRA
Leaders need faster access to new data to better understand evolving business needs and to accelerate digital transformation. COVID-19 has made historical data obsolete, and many organizations are experiencing a data deficit where their models were trained to recognize behavior patterns that no longer exist. The path forward lies in X Analytics and the ability to improve decision-making with faster access to newer data sources and patterns, uncovering new behavioral patterns and helping ML models refocus on the right data.
This keynote will explore:
- Pain points associated with delays in digital transformation projects
- How X Analytics addresses these, with examples across industries
- Strategies for building an X Analytics architecture that fills data, technical and organizational gaps
10:45am - 11:00am EST Break
December 2, 2020
Community Program Manager
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.
Joseph Nattress
Senior Program Manager – Territory Specialist
971-222-2379
joseph.nattress@evanta.com