
Atlanta CDAO Community
Executive Summit
November 9, 2023 | The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
November 9, 2023
The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North
Collaborate with your peers
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:
Structuring Data Governance to Improve the Digital Enterprise
Transforming Through Trusted and Secured Data
Enhancing Impact of Data and Analytics Initiatives
Atlanta CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

James Bolles
Southern Company
Director, Enterprise Solutions COEs

Snorwlor “Sno” Bropleh
Habitat For Humanity International
Senior Director, Global Integrated Planning – Office of Strategy Management

Vijay Gandapodi
Reynolds American
Head of IT - Data, Reporting, Analytics

Sesha Madapoosi
NCR
Exec Director, Data & Analytics Products

Karthikeyan Ramasamy
Georgia-Pacific
Vice President - AI Product Development & Strategy

Kenneth Viciana
TSYS
VP, Global Data & Analytics Products
What to Expect
Agenda
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Establishing Pillars of Transformation to Build Success
Hosted by Unravel Data

Krystine Mahmood
Vice President, Data Science
UnitedHealthcare
The journey to executive leadership is paved with unique challenges, successes and learnings. To thrive in these roles, data and analytics leaders need to build a foundation of trust to catapult meaningful success, beginning with their own.
Join this session to learn how Krystine Mahmood, VP, Head of Data Science, UnitedHealthcare is:
- Championing the customer experience to drive change
- Increasing expertise at scale to impact her team's success
- Transforming business outlook to leverage digital tools
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Data Monetization — Influencing Data Strategy

Kumar Menon
CTO, Data Fabric & Decision Science Technology
Equifax

Kenneth Viciana
VP, Global Data & Analytics Products
TSYS
According to previous Gartner surveys, just 10% of CDAOs have been effective at data monetization. But this year, that number has jumped to 24%, as data and analytics leaders are focused on building a robust digital enterprise with data at the heart of business strategy.
Join this session to learn about:
- Transforming internal and external assets to drive value
- Increasing cloud capabilities to support monetization initiatives
- Overcoming challenges facing an expanding enterprise
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Decoding Generative AI— Essential Insights for Your Enterprise
Hosted by Dataiku

Doug Bryan
Field Chief Data Officer
Dataiku

Satish Bandapati
Director, Marketplace Data & Machine Learning Engineering
Thrivent

Mustafa Nisar
Director, Exploratory Data Science & Analytics
The Home Depot
With all the recent hype, it's hard to sift through the noise surrounding Generative AI. But how can your team move beyond the lab and build real and safe GenAI applications at enterprise scale? Discover the key differentiators and relevant nuances this new technology brings to your business and how it can propel your organization forward.
Join this interactive roundtable as CDAOs discuss:
- How to effectively implement Generative AI
- Ways to use this technology to drive ROI
- Roadblocks in GenAI implementation and ways to overcome them to gain a competitive edge
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 CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Empowering Your Entire Organization with Data-Driven Insights
Hosted by Actian

Robert Ruppel
SVP - Global Sales
Actian

Rashu Garg
Head of Enterprise Data Strategy and Simplification
Wells Fargo

Anand Saokar
Head - Omnichannel, Ethical & Explainable AI, Consumer Analytics & Enterprise Data Platform
WellStar Health System
When the gates to organizational data are open to all, innovation and business outcomes accelerate across the enterprise as actionable insights are delivered directly to your front-line workers. However, with this vast access comes great responsibility. As companies expand self-service data, how can they ensure that data privileges and data literacy increase at the same rate to ensure success while mitigating risks?
Join this boardroom as CDAOs discuss:
- Evolving from a siloed to democratized data model
- Determining data privileges for data owners and users across the enterprise
- Challenging your workforce to become data literate and embrace self-service data
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 CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
10:25am - 11:00am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Leveraging Data to Solve High Impact Business Challenges

Ethiraj Purushothaman
Head Data Science – Customer, Marketing, Merchandising & Digital
Best Buy
For CDAOs, providing the right information at the right time to the people who need it is a key driver to solving common business challenges. To tackle transformational action and enable business operations, CDAOs must create positive and impactful engagement that addresses stakeholder needs.
Join this session to learn how Best Buy is:
- Identifying opportunities to drive business value with data
- Building high performance data culture
- Embedding creative approaches into the decision-making process
11:00am - 11:45am Breakout Session
Putting AI to Work
Hosted by IBM

Jason Federoff
Principal Data & AI Transformation Executive
IBM
AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 and its evolution leaped forward in 2023 with advances in large language models. This advancement holds the potential to unlock trillions of dollars in economic value over the next decade. But, implementing AI for business has unique requirements – it needs to be open, properly governed, designed for the enterprise and most importantly, create value.
Explore the age of AI including:
- Developing a foundational data fabric architecture to support LLMs
- Delivering a competitive business advantage through strategic use cases
- Deploying governed AI with responsibility
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Data Chameleons — The Evolving Role of the CDAO
Hosted by Qlik

Sean Stauth
Global Director AI and Machine Learning
Qlik

Anthony Canitano
Head of Performance Analytics
IHG

Manish Limaye
USIS Chief Architect & Head of Data Engineering
Equifax
Bridging the gap between technology and business has become crucial for CDAOs in driving cross functional collaboration and value creation. But with the continuous evolution of business needs, the role of the CDAO is shifting focus with momentum.
Join this session as CDAOs discuss:
- Strategizing the CDAO role with the emergence of generative AI
- Enabling an optimal organizational structure to drive success
- Determining how data and analytics coexist
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 CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stach, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
11:00am - 11:45am Executive Boardroom
Automated Analytics: Steering Enhanced Governance in the Age of Generative Intelligence
Hosted by Alteryx

Heather Harris
Field Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Alteryx

Shannon Dollerschell
Vice President; Data Architect; Enterprise Data Strategist
Wells Fargo

Jacob Kosoff
Data Science & Model Development Executive
Bank of America

Atuanya Thomas
Director of Analytics Strategy
Koch Industries
Challenges that have traditionally impeded governance efforts also curtail an organization's capacity for innovation on a grand scale. By tapping into cutting-edge data methods, automated analytics, and AI—particularly generative AI—CDAOs can refine processes, drawing upon data from a multitude of sources, to respond to the dynamic requirements of businesses
In this session, we'll delve into:
- Accelerating analytics and AI-driven solutions for optimal value
- Enhancing efficiency in vital business operations through generative AI insights
- Fortifying governance to ensure consistent, scalable precision
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 CDAOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact: Tony Stack, Community Program Manager | Tony.Stach@evanta.com
11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch Service
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Atlanta CDAO Community Executive Summit.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
The Westin Atlanta Perimeter NorthParking Information
Hotel does not offer valet parking. Self- Park only in the Concourse lot directly across from The Westin at a discounted rate of $5/day.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 770-395-3902.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $189 USD (plus tax) is October 16, 2023.
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