In-Person

Boston CDAO Community

Executive Summit

June 8, 2022 | Renaissance Boston Waterfront

June 8, 2022
Renaissance Boston Waterfront

Governing Body Agenda Location Sponsors Contact

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Genevy Dimitrion

Humana
Head of Enterprise Data Strategy, Management & Governance

Michael McHugh

Biogen
Head of Data Engineering & Analytics

Sears Merritt

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Head of Data, Strategy & Architecture

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Boston CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

June 7, 2022

afternoon

June 8, 2022

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

6:00pm - 8:30pm Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Private Dinner

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm Keynote

Building a Modern Data Strategy

Barry Morris

GM, In-Memory and Emerging Databases

Amazon Web Services

Applying old organizational models and methodologies to modern cloud technology won’t allow companies to achieve the kind of results and agility they expect. Companies need an operating model, organizational model and data literacy approach that enables data-driven decision making throughout an organization.

In this session, we will explore:

The people, process and technology considerations in building a modern data strategy
Methods for driving agility across the business
Getting your teams into a data-first mindset

1:05pm - 1:20pm Break

1:20pm - 2:05pm Breakout Session

Women in Data — Challenging the Status Quo

Genevy Dimitrion

Head of Enterprise Data Strategy, Management & Governance

Humana

Stefanie Costa Leabo

Chief Data Officer

City of Boston, MA

Amanda Davis

SVP, Business Intelligence

Commonwealth Care Alliance

Laura McElhinney

Chief Data Officer

Horizon Media

With growth opportunities on the rise and the demand for data professionals more prevalent than ever, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles. But those with a seat at the table are using their influence to bring a new perspective to data and analytics and to sponsor more women to do the same.

Join this session as a panel of your peers discuss:

Bringing new approaches to existing challenges in the field of D&A
Expanding diversity and inclusion efforts to close the gender gap
Paying it forward for the next generation of female leaders

1:20pm - 2:05pm Executive Boardroom

Driving an Inclusive Data and Analytics Strategy with Agile Governance

Bryon Jacob

CTO & Co-Founder

data.world

Catherine Folkes

Chief Data Officer

RKD Group

Scott Gaul

Chief Data Officer

State of Connecticut

The failed cost of data initiatives continues to challenge enterprises and data governance is often cited as a major hurdle. Organizations often view data as a monolithic undertaking while using an outdated top-down approach. The modern enterprise knows the answer to a successful data strategy lies within agile data governance.

Join this session and discuss:

Defining agile data governance and how it democratizes data access
Uncovering the consistent challenges of top-down data governance
Empowering and providing support to staff who work with 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Tim Bigley / tim.bigley@evanta.com

1:20pm - 2:05pm Executive Boardroom

Deriving Value from Healthy Data

Nava Cretu-Kessel

Director, Enterprise Data Strategy

AlerisLife

Paula Timofeev

VP, Enterprise Data Governance Program Lead

Wellington Management

For data to generate revenue for the digital enterprise, it not only needs to be accessible, but dependable. Data and analytics leaders must make data health a priority, setting standards for data quality and educating the workforce on existing insights and models.

Join this session as CDOs discuss:

Pinpointing organizational knowledge gaps around data and data strategy
Designing, implementing and monitoring standards around data quality
Identifying metrics to track progress of the data quality program

7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast

8:15am - 9:00am Keynote

Driving Data Governance – Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Genevy Dimitrion

Head of Enterprise Data Strategy, Management & Governance

Humana

It takes a village to keep pace with the vast amounts of data accruing within the enterprise. Data stewards are the unsung heroes, defining roles and responsibilities and enforcing the guardrails of governance. In sparking a data movement, what steps should leaders be taking to execute, iterate and learn?

Join this interactive keynote to explore:

Identifying the skill sets and qualifications necessary for your data team
Pinpointing where “data governance activities” currently exists and understanding effectiveness
Removing the stigma around failure and building trust

9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break

9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom

Data Fabric vs Data Mesh — Comparing Data Management Architectures

Justin Borgman

CEO

Starburst

Bhagyesh Phanse

Vice President, Retail Analytics

CVS

Srinivasan Sankar

Enterprise Data Leader

The Hanover Insurance Group

While data management technologies have advanced dramatically over the past 40 years, one challenge remains constant: data is everywhere. To stay ahead of the advent of additional databases and the complexity of cloud and data privacy/sovereignty constraints, new data management strategies have emerged to harness and transform decentralized data.

Join this session as CDOs discuss:

Evaluating current data management architectures; what works and what doesn’t
Defining and distinguishing the differences between data fabric and data mesh
Strategies for governance and optimizing data management across distributed data

9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom

Maximizing Business Decisions With Real-Time Data Analytics

Dominic Sartorio

SVP, Products

Actian

Joshua Glastein

Chief Information and Technology Officer

Berkshire Residential Investments

Niren Sirohi

Head of Clinical, Operations & Business Analytics

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The goal of the modern enterprise is to be 'data-driven,' relying primarily upon quality insights to propel the organization forward. To accomplish this goal, leaders must: evangelize trusted data while embracing advanced analytics to inform decision-making, ensure data delivery is timely and relevant to analysts’ needs, and analyze market opportunities and new revenue streams with predictive models.

Join this interactive roundtable discussion as peers discuss:

Setting data quality standards to ensure clean data
Enabling a culture that trusts, invests and relies upon data
Challenges that compliance introduce into data management and sharing

9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session

Structuring Governance to Keep AI Ethics Front and Center

Kishore Aradhya

Sr. Director, AI & Advanced Analytics

Stanley Black & Decker

Dan Power

Managing Director, Data Governance

State Street Global Markets

Data has become the new gold with an increased emphasis on AI, machine learning and analytics to drive decision making. As inequities reach a boiling point in society at-large, data and analytics leaders are critically evaluating organizational data practices and algorithms to weed out bias and unintended impacts.

Join this session as D&A leaders share how they are:

Creating data practices and mechanisms to improve explainability and understand the conditions of AI's code for processing data
Devising governance methods to change the dichotomy between under-represented groups and data modeling
Deciding the ethical parameters that define success in modeling and outcomes

10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break

10:20am - 10:45am Peer-to-Peer Meetings