
Dallas CDAO Community
Executive Summit
June 14, 2022 | Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria
June 14, 2022
Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas'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:
Creating a Data Driven Culture Through People, Processes, and Technology
Democratizing Data for Self-Service Analytics with AI and Machine Learning
Using and Identifying Analytics for Impactful Decision Making
Dallas 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

Jayadev Gopinath
DraftKings
SVP of Data Engineering & Data Science

Suzi Myers
Conduent
Senior Director, Enterprise Business Intelligence

Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
Chief Data Officer

Phanii Pydimarri
Stanley Black & Decker
Sr Director, AI & Advanced Analytics

Latheef Syed
Verizon
Head of Data Architecture & Products - Artificial Intelligence + Data
What to Expect
Agenda
June 13, 2022
June 14, 2022
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
Achieving Business Objectives with Actionable Data
Hosted by Talend

Dalia Soliman-Powers
SVP, CTO of Platform Innovation & Engineering
Humana
Organizations around the globe are collecting mountains of customer data, but to derive value from it, data must be clean and meet quality standards. This is the focus for data and analytics leaders as they work to edge out the competition in the race towards monetization.
Join this session as Dalia shares:
- Strategies to monetize data while achieving key business objectives
- Improving the customer journey by implementing an efficient and agile operating model
- Building a collaborative culture around data sharing and management
9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break
9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session
Data Quality and Observability — Most Embarrassing ‘Data’ Moments
Hosted by Collibra

Brian Mearns
Product Lead, Data Quality
Collibra
Poor data quality is holding back data and analytics leaders from delivering on the promise of business value through their D&A investments. Moving forward with a continuous data quality improvement program is not a question of why — but how. In this session, Collibra's VP of Data Quality runs you through tips and tricks for dealing with data quality.
Join this storytelling session to explore:
- Bad business decisions due to incomplete or bad data
- Mountains of rules that do not scale and are impossible to manage
- Failure to resolve data quality problems, even when they are identified
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Gaining Leadership Buy-In Around Data Governance
Hosted by Amplifi

Shaun Connolly
Strategy Principal
Amplifi

Jason Clark
Sr. Director, Business Intelligence
Brinks Home
To successfully create a data governance strategy, leaders must be able to remain agile in the midst of a dynamic, data-driven workplace. Gaining leadership buy-in is critical to ensuring the maturity and ongoing support the organizational data governance framework.
During this session, we will discuss:
- Aligning data governance to shared goals and objectives of the organization
- Strategies to communicate the value of quality data to the business
- Managing organizational data to unite and align enterprise teams
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 CDOs).
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Connecting the Dots — Building a User-Friendly Data Architecture
Hosted by IBM

Jason Federoff
Principal Data and AI Transformation Executive
IBM

Naren Kumar
EVP, Chief Data Officer
Exeter Finance

Phanii Pydimarri
Sr Director, AI & Advanced Analytics
Stanley Black & Decker
With the explosion of big data, organizations across the globe are in a race to monetize insights. But to be truly data-driven, the enterprise must break down data silos, making it accessible to workers company-wide. Data fabric, an emerging architecture that connects data across various environments, aims to do just that.
Join this interactive roundtable session to explore:
- Enabling self-service data consumption and collaboration
- Implementing new strategies to discover and govern data
- Automate workflow and pipeline creation across distributed data source
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 CDOs).
10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break
10:20am - 10:45am 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.
10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session
The Business Value of Connected Data
Hosted by Neo4J

Michael Moore
Principal, Partner Solutions and Technology
Neo4j
By 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations. Data and analytics leaders are embracing graph technologies to build real-time services that deliver contextually relevant analytics, greater customer engagement, increased revenues and reduced operational costs. Dr. Michael Moore, Principal Partner Solutions and Technology will share how leading brands are leveraging graph technologies to release unprecedented business value through connecting data across the enterprise.
Join this session as we discuss:
- Building data fabrics, digital twins and accelerating ML / AI with enterprise knowledge graphs
- Identifying opportunities to propel key business objectives
- Driving value through improved predictions and decision making
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Myth Busting Data and Analytics Trends
Hosted by Qlik

Drew Clarke
Chief Strategy Officer
Qlik

David Mongeau
Founding Director, School of Data Science
University of Texas - San Antonio

Chintan Shah
Vice President - Data and Business Analytics
Assurant
Over the last few years, we've seen shifts in data and analytics, from centralized IT control to de-centralized business self-service, but is another shift happening with the rise of hybrid cloud and data mesh architecture? What truly are the myths and realities of an ever-changing data landscape?
Join this roundtable conversation to explore:
- Scaling the mesh architecture with self-serve data infrastructure
- Identifying skill gaps when training the workforce
- Strategies to build a governance framework across distributed data sets
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 CDOs).
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Ensuring AI Model and Data Quality for Innovation and Impact
Hosted by TruEra

Will Uppington
Co-Found and CEO
TruEra

Justin Nguyen
Head of CS Data Engineering and Analytics
Chewy

Seemit Sheth
Head of Data Science, Executive Management
USAA
AI represents a huge opportunity for greater effectiveness and market expansion across many industries. How do you reach the level of high-performing, high quality AI? What is required to achieve AI model quality and data quality? For AI efforts to succeed, AI & data leaders have a significant role to play in the development of their organization's ML model lifecycle and how it feeds back into model and data quality efforts.
Join this roundtable session to discuss ways to:
- Address the top challenges relating AI model and data quality
- Ensure your organization has all of the key elements of a ML stack to drive AI model and data quality and hit your AI project KPIs
- Create the process and culture to drive high quality AI model and data quality development
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Deriving Value from Healthy Data
Hosted by Amazon Web Services

Pradeep Vaswani
Global Head of Data & AI Programs
Amazon Web Services

Mano Mannoochahr
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
The Travelers Companies Inc

Rajesh Sharma
Vice-President & GM for Analytics, SI and Interoperability Product Offerings
Gainwell
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
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 CxOs).
11:30am - 11:40am Break
June 13, 2022
June 14, 2022
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
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Health & Safety Guidelines
To ensure the well-being of participants, partners, and associates, we will continue to monitor and adhere to government, venue, and health agency guidelines.
As a part of our commitment to create the safest possible environment, we are requiring all participants, partners, and associates to be fully vaccinated to participate in in-person programs, in addition to completing a health status attestation prior to arrival. Please refer to our COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols for up-to-date local guidelines.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling (888) 236-2427.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $185 USD (plus tax) is June 1, 2022.
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