
Dallas CDAO Community
Inner Circle
September 19, 2023 | The Constellation Club
September 19, 2023
The Constellation Club
Collaborate with your peers
Join Dallas'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:
Developing data strategies to support adoption of generative AI
Expanding self-service capabilities with generative AI
Dallas 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

Aamer Charania
Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning

Jayadev Gopinath
DraftKings
SVP, Global Data Engineering

Sanjeev Kumar
Gainwell
Vice President, Data Analytics & AI

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

Suzi Myers
Conduent
Head of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
Chief Data Officer

Phanii Pydimarri
Health Care Service Corporation
Head of Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships

Latheef Syed
Verizon
Head of Data Products, Data Engineering & Architecture
Agenda
September 19, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Enabling Self-Service for Success in the Age of Generative AI
Hosted by Informatica

Amy Horowitz
VP of Data Governance - North America
Informatica

Aamer Charania
Head of Applied Machine Learning
Best Buy

Marcelo Casas
Chief Data Science Officer
GM Financial

Vino Kingston
Head of Data Platforms & Technologies, Sr. Manager
Lockheed Martin

Amarnath Lingam
Head of Enterprise Advanced Analytics & Data Science/AI
CDW

Atul Jain
Head of AI/ML and Data Platform Engineering and Ops
Verizon

Mark Nance
Chief Data Officer
American Fidelity Corporation
In a world being transformed by generative AI, data leaders must enable their teams to adapt and thrive in the midst of rapid change. Self-service models are becoming more popular and are being enhanced with the power of AI, expanding model capabilities. But if augmented self-service tools are deployed and scaled without appropriate guardrails, they will fail. In order to be successful, data and analytics leaders must ensure they can quickly take advantage of expanding self-service capabilities, while modernizing data governance to balance data democratization and the ethical use of data for decision-making.
In this interactive discussion, CDAOs will explore strategies to prepare for the adoption of generative AI and best practices to leverage AI-powered self-service models.
Topic 1: Developing data strategies to support adoption of generative AI
- Are your data teams able to effectively feed data pipelines for AI?
- How do you expect this to change to support new generative AI-powered applications?
- How are you ensuring data privacy and protection of sensitive data? How will this be impacted by generative AI?
Topic 2: Expanding self-service capabilities with generative AI
- Are you planning to expand self-service capabilities leveraging generative AI?
- How are you training teams across your organization to take advantage of these new capabilities?
- How are you building context into data and monitoring quality and privacy requirements to maintain trust?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
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Location
Venue
The Constellation ClubMore Information
Parking
Valet parking will be validated and is located behind the Central Tower.
Dress Code
The Constellation Club is business casual. Although dress jeans are allowed, NO shorts, ball caps, flip flops, etc. are permissible
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