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November 29, 2022 | Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
November 29, 2022
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
Get together with Chicago'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:
Aligning people and process to excel at data governance
Adopting a data-centric culture to remain competitive with digital natives
Using and Identifying Analytics for Impactful Decision Making
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
Kristina Chambers
TTX
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Shamsa Jafri
Wells Fargo
Executive, Head of Media & Owned Channel Science
Mike Jennings
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Senior Director, Customer Data Platform & Solutions, Marketing Technologies
Scott Kaufman
Baker Tilly
Chief Analytics and Data officer
Madhav Madaboosi
BP
Head of Digital Transformation, Future Midstream & Strategy
Prasannal Nithyanandam
Volkswagen Group of America
Head of Data and Advanced Analytics
Nalini Polavarapu
Bayer Corporation
Vice President - Enterprise Analytics and Data Science
Sid Raina
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Divisional VP Data and Analytics
Kevin Salzmann
BMO Harris
Head of Digital and Data Architecture, Commercial Banking
7:45am - 8:45am Registration & Breakfast
8:45am - 9:30am Keynote
Prasannal Nithyanandam
Head of Data and Advanced Analytics
Volkswagen Group of America
To modernize business and push for complete digitalization, organizations must understand how a cohesive data strategy provides intrinsic value to the organization. But where do you start? To truly propel the organization forward, data and analytics leaders need to address gaps within the business and optimize with data and analytics.
Join this session to explore ways to:
9:30am - 10:00am Networking Break
10:00am - 10:45am Breakout Session
Amy Bloedorn
SVP, Head of Data Governance
Northern Trust
Vijay Rajandram
Chief Data Officer
Northern Trust Asset Management
According to Gartner, by 2024, most organizations will attempt trust-based data sharing programs, but only 15% will succeed and outperform their peers on most business metrics. To achieve that success, data and analytics leaders must implement a foundational level of trust capable of fostering connection throughout the enterprise and providing valuable ROI.
But what does trust mean and where does this start? Trust is a journey that starts with connecting with people and building great relationships whilst establishing accountability.
Join this interactive fireside chat to learn:
10:00am - 10:45am Breakout Session
Hosted by Dataiku
Doug Bryan
AI Strategist
Dataiku
Mindy Billingham
Sr Product Consultant
Bread Financial
Currently many organizations are on their respective journeys to become more data-driven, with business intelligence and analytics integrated into day-to-day operations. But, many of these organizations struggle to implement new habits and break old behaviors when centering around data.
Join this fireside chat to explore:
10:00am - 10:45am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by ModelOp
Stu Bailey
Chief Enterprise AI Architect and Co-founder
ModelOp
Socrates Krishnamurthy
Principal Data Scientist
The Kraft Heinz Company
Cisco Reyes
Director of Ent. BI, Data & Analytics
SGSCO
Dr. Bhatt Vadlamani
VP of Enterprise Architecture
Jackson
Data and analytics leaders must transition their organizations from decision support‑ inclusive of charts and graphs, to decision automation models at scale. Not only should D&A leaders manage accountability for the amplified value and amplified risk of AI, but they must also govern AI despite unprecedented operational complexity.
Join your peers to discuss ways 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Katherine Williams / katherine.williams@evanta.com
10:00am - 10:45am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Qlik
Joe DosSantos
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Qlik
Srikanth Geedipalli
SVP, Global Analytics and AI Products
Experian
Mani Gunasekaran
VP of Product Engineering
KeHE Distributors
Matthew Kelly
SVP, Digital & Automation
Northern Trust Asset Management
Our goal as CDOs is to enable data literate employees to self-serve data and analytics for quick speed to decisions, but this can have organizational, technical, and people readiness complexities. Come explore ways your peers are using self-service data and analytics tools to strategize, streamline and propel an organization toward data modernization.
Join this roundtable 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Katherine Williams / katherine.williams@evanta.com
10:45am - 11:20am Networking Break
10:50am - 11:15am 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.
Parking
Self-Parking is available at the Rush-Ohio-Wabash Garage, for a discounted rate of $29 per vehicle.
Event Self-Park Instructions:
If you wish to Valet, you may do so at your own expense. Valet charges are $45 for up to 6 hours, and $70 for 6 to 24 hours.
The Valet station for the hotel is located at 541 North Rush Street.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-877-303-0104.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $348 USD (plus tax) is November 7, 2022.
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