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June 26, 2019 | The St. Regis Atlanta
June 26, 2019
The St. Regis Atlanta
Get together with Atlanta'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:
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
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CDAOs, for CDAOs.
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
Mohammed Chaara
UPS
Enterprise Director of Advanced Analytics, Data Sciences, Machine Learning & AI
Steve Einbender
The Home Depot, Inc.
Senior Data Scientist, CyberSecurity Advanced Analytics
Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
The Coca-Cola Company
Global IT Head – Marketing Analytics and Data Science
Diwakar Goel
General Electric
VP – Global Chief Data Officer
Rajeev Kapur
Kimberly-Clark
Chief Data Officer
Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Koch Industries
Head of Data & Analytics Strategy
Pradipta Saha
Mondelez International
Head of Data & Analytics (Global Supply Chain and Asia Middle East Africa)
Ameet Shetty
SunTrust Banks
Chief Data Officer
Kenneth Viciana
First Data Corporation
Director- Information Risk Management
7:30am - 8:05am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 8:50am Keynote
Hosted by DataStax
Dr. Vijay Gandapodi
Global IT Head – Marketing Analytics and Data Science
The Coca-Cola Company
From utilizing NLP for better self-service analytics to developing recommendation engines that use deep learning algorithms to maximize online customer engagement, Coca-Cola is leveraging the latest technological capabilities. Hear how AI and machine learning have been successfully applied to deliver value that serves both the business and its customers.
In this keynote presentation you’ll learn:
8:50am - 9:20am Networking Break
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Hosted by Collibra
Marsal Gavalda
Head of Machine Learning, Commerce Platform
Square
Hear how Square has adopted a, company-wide, machine learning mindset and engaged the entire workforce to assist with ML and automation initiatives.
In this session, you'll discover:
9:20am - 10:10am Breakout Session
Hosted by Infoworks
Ningyu Chen
VP, Data as a Service
Macy's Inc.
Customer experience is the defining success factor to a 21-century business. At the heart of differentiating customer experience is the business's ability to fully understand its customer. Hear Macy’s journey to establish its 360 view of the customer and how it leverages cloud native data features and capabilities to build out Customer 360 at speed and scale.
In this session you’ll learn:
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by erwin, Inc.
Jeff Crooks
Director - Business Intelligence
RaceTrac Petroleum
Scott Doyne
SVP, Turner Sports Data Strategy and Insights
WarnerMedia
Ameet Shetty
Chief Data Officer
SunTrust Banks
Sam Benedict
Vice President - Solution Strategy
erwin, Inc.
Research shows that more than 80% of analyst time is spent on data collection and only 20% on generating actual results. And for four out of five CDOs, changing this equation is their number one priority.
In this boardroom, we’ll tackle:
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 CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
9:20am - 10:10am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by TigerGraph
Rama Ryali
GVP, Enterprise Data & Analytics
SunTrust
Todd Blaschka
Chief Operating Officer
TigerGraph
In order to more efficiently achieve business objectives, data leaders need a real-time single-view of customer information. But how do organizations move beyond a "store and retrieve" model to arrive at true relationship management?
In this session, you’ll 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 CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
10:10am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session
Hosted by TIBCO Software Inc.
Juan Gorricho
Senior Vice President
TSYS Corporation
Hiring data analysts is a competitive endeavor yet one executive has found success in rounding out his data team by developing a conglomerate of data specialists. Once core functions are identified, learn how to equip your team for deeper skills and greater growth.
In this session you’ll learn:
10:30am - 11:20am Breakout Session
Hosted by Dataiku
Anthony Canitano
General Manager – Advanced Analytics
Delta Air Lines
Kurt Muehmel
VP, Solutions Architecture
Dataiku
Data leaders are responsible for fully leveraging a company’s data assets along the journey to becoming a data-driven organization. However, maximizing efficiency and clearly communicating the business impact of ongoing data initiatives can be a challenge.
In this session, you will discover:
10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by ASG Technologies
Brandie Szuda
Chief Data Officer
MAGMutual
Kenneth Viciana
Director- Information Risk Management
First Data Corporation
Sue Habas
VP of Strategic Technologies
ASG Technologies, Inc.
How are data leaders applying best practices to the supply chain, empowering stakeholders to collaborate, and sharing trusted data throughout the organization? Learn how your peers are successfully automating data lineage and governance, creating transparency to build trust and accessibility, reducing 100 hours of time to find data elements down to minutes – all while staying compliant.
In this boardroom you’ll 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 Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
10:30am - 11:20am Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Infoworks
James Bolles
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs
Southern Company
Krish Das
Head of Enterprise Data
Inspire Brands
Todd Goldman
Vice President
Infoworks
Every enterprise understands the urgency of digital transformation and the central role that data plays in the process. In a world where analytics agility is a key competitive edge and big data expertise is scarce, data operations and data engineering challenges have intensified as digitization proliferates real-time flow of data across a multitude of platforms.
In this boardroom, you’ll 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 CDOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Joe Nattress at Joe.Nattress@evanta.com.
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