Chicago CDAO Community
Inner Circle
March 13, 2025 | The Chicago Firehouse Restaurant
March 13, 2025
The Chicago Firehouse Restaurant
Collaborate with your peers
Join Chicago's top CDAOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Building an Effective D&A Strategy
Demonstrating Business Impact
Chicago CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Kristina Chambers
TTX
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Madhav Madaboosi
bp
Head of Digital Transformation, Future Midstream & Strategy
Prasannal Nithyanandam
Volkswagen Financial Services
Head of Data and Advanced Analytics
Sid Raina
Medline
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Vijay Rajandram
Northern Trust
Chief Data Officer
Agenda
March 13, 2025
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Delivering Results — Crafting a Business-Driven Data, Analytics and AI Strategy
Arindam Mukherjee
Director Data Strategy & Management
Ipsen
Aparna Yarlagadda
Executive Director, Data Engineering and Analytics
KeHE Distributors
Mohammed Khan
Global Director, Data & Analytics
OSI
Vijay Pillai
Head of Machine Learning
CME Group
Ursula Cottone
Chief Data Officer
Huntington Bancshares
Don Fleschut
Chief Data Officer
Ryerson
Bill Mannel
Chief Technologist, Americas HPC & AI Solution Sales
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Many organizations aim to be data-driven, but for CDAOs to contribute effectively, their data, analytics, and AI strategies must be directly linked to tangible business results. While this alignment can be challenging, CDAOs should focus on becoming influential business leaders who can extend their impact beyond the traditional data domain.
Join this discussion to explore how to develop a strategy to effectively leverage D&A and AI capabilities to achieve business outcomes.
- Who are the key stakeholders impacted by your organization's D&A strategy, and how are you involving them in strategy development?
- How are you ensuring that your D&A strategy remains resilient and adaptable to emerging technologies and shifting market conditions?
- How are you communicating the value and purpose of your D&A strategy across the organization?
- How are you aligning your D&A strategy with specific business outcomes, such as revenue growth, cost reduction, or customer acquisition?
- How can D&A leaders evolve to reframe data strategy goals in terms of business outcomes rather than projects or milestones?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Chicago CDAO Community Inner Circle.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
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.
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Hosted Valet Parking provided. Please be sure to mention that you are attending the Evanta event.
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