2018 Atlanta CDAO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join Atlanta's top CDAOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

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

Becoming a master change agent and driving data literacy across the enterprise

Governing Body Co-Chairs

James Bolles

Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs

Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh

Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.
Global Director, Operations - Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

John Chastain

Stanley Black & Decker
VP Big Data & Analytics

Steve Einbender

The Home Depot, Inc.
Senior Data Scientist, Network Security Analytics

Vijaykumar Gandapodi

The Coca-Cola Company
Global IT Director - Data Science

Juan Gorricho

TSYS Corporation
Group Executive, Data & Analytics Global Product and Innovation

Rajeev Kapur

Kimberly-Clark
Chief Data Officer

Karthikeyan Ramasamy

Koch Industries, Inc.
Head of Data & Analytics Strategy

Ameet Shetty

SunTrust Banks
Chief Data Officer

Andrew Sohn

Crawford & Company
SVP, Global Digital & Analytics Services

Kenneth Viciana

First Data Corporation
Director Information Risk Manager

Agenda

September 4, 2018

4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics

Leading Digital, Data and Analytics in the Enterprise

Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh

Global Director, Operations - Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.

John Chastain

VP Big Data & Analytics

Stanley Black & Decker

Vijaykumar Gandapodi

Global IT Director - Data Science

The Coca-Cola Company

Sudipto Ghose

Sr. Director - Cloud, CRM, Data & Analytics

BHGE

Austen Onyett

Customer Data Leader

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

Charles Reeves

Sr Manager Business Intelligence and Technology Innovation

Graphic Packaging International

Greg Schutz

Associate Vice Chancellor, Business Intelligence

University System of Georgia

Andrew Sohn

SVP, Global Digital & Analytics Services

Crawford & Company

Siva Thiyagasamudram

Director - Data, Analytics and Innovation

Under Armour

Kenneth Viciana

Director Information Risk Manager

First Data Corporation

Harry Volande

SVP, Finance, Process Industries & Drives Division & Digital Factory Division.

Siemens Industry, Inc.

On the rapidly emerging main stage of data and analytics, the role of the CDO is one of the most challenging positions. CDOs have been evolving into data and analytics champions at a steady pace, with recent acceleration due to analytics programs maturing to include data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Today’s CDO is expected to not deliver on traditional needs, but respond to new and innovative opportunities. In this dinner, you’ll have a chance to talk with your CDO peers about how to put data to work and rethink the way AI and machine learning can change your business.

Putting Data and Analytics Principles to Work

Where are you on the descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics maturity continuum? How are you taking the next step?
In what ways are you monetizing data?
How can you increase the value of data that’s already being created?
How do you measure ROI for a data analytics initiative?

Getting Results With AI and Machine Learning

What tools, methodologies or infrastructures are instrumental in your plans to leverage AI?
What business applications do you or would you use natural language processing for?
In what ways are you using AI?
How are you applying predictive modeling?