Executive Summit

The Governing Body of Boston CDAOs and invited guests are welcome to join us for a fun, interactive spin on the annual Governing Body Welcome Reception. Casino Night at The Westin Seaport will feature table games, food and drinks to kickoff our “By CDAOs, For CDAOs” executive gathering.

To produce good intelligence and AI, data executive leaders need the right balance of offensive and defensive data strategies, a diversified skill set, and agility to deliver business value.  However, recruiting and retaining your organization’s talent can be a major hurdle.
Join this session to discuss:

• Understanding the skill requirements of each function within the data analytics organization
• Strategies to gain stakeholder and leadership buy-in
• Lessons learned from growing a data analytics team

AI adoption is increasingly used to beat the competition, release innovative products and services, better meet customer expectations, and drive revenue growth. However, AI is not straightforward. With disruptors like generative AI, novel use cases to serve customers, and emerging regulations, effective governance is a challenge needing to be solved. Stakeholders, customers, and government entities are demanding responsible and explainable AI.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Operationalize AI with confidence in your organization
• Better manage AI risk to avoid brand degradation
• Scale while complying with the growing AI regulations

The first step to achieving successful self-service analytics is to strive for an agile analytics environment. Empowering business users to create their own reports and queries without data team support allows insights to be shared with decision makers at faster speeds.
Join CDO’s as they discuss:

• Identifying gaps in company culture that hinder self-service models
• Strategizing use of all data assets to deliver self-service tools
• Selecting and adopting the tools needed to enable data efficiency amongst business users

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: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

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 CDOs 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: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

AI has taken an exponential leap forward over the past two years, generating equal amounts of excitement and concern from corporate offices to dining room tables. As organizations work to incorporate these transformational capabilities, many struggle with core questions and constraints: How can we trust the results? Does the existing data governance program align to the new capabilities of the technology? Can our organizations effectively scale at the same pace as the Open-Source community releasing new features into the market?

Join this keynote to hear:

• How best-of-breed organizations are adapting to the ever-changing technology AI landscape
• How to assess your data governance program with an AI lens
• Practical recommendations on how to scale these capabilities within your enterprise

To deliver exceptional customer service at scale, D & A leaders must implement solutions to match customers needs to the associates best equipped to address those needs. This led to the creation of a robust, intent-based routing platform capable of dynamically adjusting routing decisions in real-time. Utilizing ML and NLP techniques, Wayfair has transformed its CX operations to deliver greater value to customers.
Join this session to learn how Wayfair is:

• Enhancing efficiency and customer satisfaction through innovation
• Managing data quality and availability to improve accuracy and reduce costs
• Understanding customer needs and delivering value

Empowering the enterprise to embrace self-service is a challenge for many data and analytics leaders, requiring an agile approach to unlock data-driven growth and support an increase in demand from data consumers. When met with this challenge, Hubspot recognized the critical importance of data accessibility and comprehensive democratization, which has led to the successful adoption and implementation of self-service at scale.

Join this fireside chat with Stephen Moseley, Senior Director of Product Analytics, Hubspot, to understand ways to:

• Operationalize self-service analytics to enable team-driven analysis
• Implement a robust governance strategy to support speed to scale
• Leverage core principles of data platform to serve needs of data consumers

The importance of data and analytics governance continues to grow with the expanding capabilities of the digital enterprise. According to Gartner, 80% of organizations seeking to scale digital business will fail without a modern approach to governance. Data and analytics leaders are challenged to build a robust governance framework that can meet the evolving needs of the business.
Join this roundtable as CDOs discuss:

• Eliminating barriers between business and IT to propel governance initiatives
• Assessing the maturity of governance within your organization
• Remaining agile with growing economic pressures

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: 

Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

To keep up with the evolution of digital business, chief data and analytics officers are investing in strategies to help employees build on their skills and competencies. But in order for the workforce to take advantage of new tools and derive value, they must first achieve data literacy.

Join this session as CDAOs discuss:

• Creating a culture that values continual learning and development
• Establishing a foundation of data literacy and upskilling initiatives
• Showcasing and measuring the ROI of the digital workforce

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: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

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.

While the role of the CDAO continues to evolve, a few core responsibilities remain constant – creating value with data, crafting data strategy, enabling the workforce to utilize data and establishing a governance framework. But in addition to maintaining these foundational pillars, data and analytics leaders must also remain vigilant of data ethics, sourcing the right talent and staying ahead of emerging trends.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Defining data ethics to mitigate unintended bias
• Developing strategy to attract and retain talent
• Anticipating and preparing for the art of the possible

Technical and analytical capabilities are growing each day, both for organizations internally and with external partners. To successfully integrate data and leverage data sharing via disparate sources, leaders must create data hubs to establish a flow of usage that incorporates governance and sharing demands.

Join this session to explore:

• Promoting and adopting a common data language
• Assessing governance and security of data sharing capabilities
• Establishing D&I strategies that improve processes and efficiencies

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: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

To be successful in any industry, organizations must be able to transform their data into actionable insights. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide an advantage via automation and augmented decision making. For data and analytics leaders, incorporating AI and ML into strategic planning, increases the possibility for greater efficiency and speed-to-insight.

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining buy-in and demonstrating the need for advanced tools
• Leveraging AI/ML to automate processes and increase efficiency
• Optimizing existing processes and fueling innovation

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: Community Program Manager, Hallie Epps at Hallie.Epps@Gartner.com

Adrianne Haslet is an exemplar of resilience, a world-renowned professional ballroom dancer at the peak of her career, she was spectating the Boston Marathon when terror struck. Adrianne lost her left leg on impact, along with all hope of dancing again.Yet she pulled from the strength of the city of Boston to not only dance but finish in fourth place at the Boston Marathon this year. Adrianne shares the life lessons she had to learn and relearn with unparalleled strength over adversity.

Join Adrianne Haslet as she shares her story in:

• Finishing the race in every corporate and personal challenge
• Learning to face challenges with a renewed mindset
• Facing adversity with a renewed perspective