Boston CDAO Executive Summit

Join your CDO peers and test your data literacy skills at our Data Trivia Night, presented by The Big Quiz Thing. Cement your data hero status and set the tone for what it means to be a data leader while networking with your peers.

With all the market hype on big data, organizations have taken their eye off the ball of the main goal, delivering analytics use cases to support decision making at the pace with which business is evolving. According to feedback from Evanta CDO boardroom sessions in 2018, business models are evolving more rapidly than ever before, and “agile data” is now clearly the priority, whether or not your data is “big.” 

In this keynote you'll hear:

• Industry trends that are making organizations both more and less agile in their data operations
• What approaches organizations are taking to become more agile with their data operations
• How analytics agility is a cornerstone to digital transformation initiatives

Paramount to making an enterprise more data-driven is influencing its organizational culture. Data and analytics leaders must show leadership, business acumen and demonstrate the value of data if they are to foster data-related cultural change.

In this session you’ll learn:

• What ‘data and analytics spokes’ are needed for successful teams
• Which attributes make for good IT stewards
• How to shift the mindset of a company

Modern use cases such as the customer journey and hyper-personalization have blurred the boundaries between operational and analytics systems. Legacy operational databases and enterprise data warehouses find it really challenging to keep up with the demand.

In this session you’ll learn:

• The needs for hybrid data to help scale, standardize and break silos
• The key characteristics of an Agile data warehouse
• The needs of the broader team to solve for hyper personalization requirements

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:

• The pervasive data engineering demands for better flexibility within the enterprise
• Different strategies for diverse data management and governance demands
• Eliminating big data complexities on premise and in the cloud

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 Alison Topliff on 503-972-4452 or alison.topliff@evanta.com.

Organizations are looking to digitally transform and analytics is at the center of this trend. Prioritize the analytics changes you should address and how to prepare for them via training, hiring and gaining executive buy-in.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Creating the right objectives and team for success
• How to establish trust in your data and the analysis it is used for
• Which strategies to use to manage the diversity of data, users and outputs

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 Alison Topliff on 503-972-4452 or alison.topliff@evanta.com.

While the CDO position has clearly arrived, the role of the CDO continues to evolve, with differing views of the mandate and organizational reporting structures. A growing percentage of CDO’s are moving from a defensive stance (regulatory and compliance reporting) to an offensive one (innovation, revenue generation). In this keynote you’ll discover:

• How can you do ‘Shadow IT’ the right way
• What methods to use to go from "order taker" to consultative solution provider and partner
• Why data literacy matters and how to build it into your brand

While the consulting standard of people, process and technology provides some classic pillars for implementing a data strategy, developing a data strategy in your organization is not necessarily so standard or intuitive.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How to use a general data strategy framework to build a data stack that supports multiple stakeholder needs
• How this framework can be applied across all industries
• Why enabling technologies are key components to success

Leading companies are using ML to power innovation across industries. In this session, learn how to build scalable ML solutions, as well as our services for computer vision, language, and analytics. Benefit from real-world use cases for enterprises to get more value from their data and to integrate and manage intelligent systems and processes.

In this interactive session you’ll discover:

• How to separate the promise from the reality?
• Which strategies balance risk and efficiency?
• What talent is needed to get to the next level?

Lack of foundational data quality and risk management creates inefficiency in go-to-market and operational processes for B2B-focused companies. Learn how the most progressive data teams are leveraging new concepts in AI and machine learning to enhance what they're able to accomplish with their data.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Common challenges businesses face along their data journey
• Tactics for using AI to improve foundational data quality
• Examples of how companies are driving meaningful outcomes based on improved foundational data

From the White House lawn to the battlefields overseas, to your backyard, autonomous systems and the data that feeds them are changing the world around us. Technology is changing the world faster than world leaders and governments can align policies, governance, and the rule of law to these new technologies. This presentation will discuss how autonomous systems will change your life and your business.

In this keynote you'll discover:

• How CDOs can align with these changes from operations to communications?
• Which security and data ethics parameters to start thinking about?
• What's on the horizon for automation?