
Minneapolis CDAO Community
Executive Summit
May 24, 2022 | Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
May 24, 2022
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Minneapolis'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
Leading Business Growth and Modernization Through Data Governance
Using and Identifying Analytics for Impactful Decision Making
Minneapolis 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

Greg Albaugh
Synchrony Financial
Senior Vice President, Data Architecture & Analytics

Sky Ammann
Workiva
Head of Product Insights

Jayant Dhamne
Ecolab
Chief Data Officer

Saiful Islam
Optum
VP, Product & Technology Strategy

Teri Kaslow
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics

Jeremy Lembeck
Land O'Lakes
Director, Data and Analytics

Keith Narr
Cargill
VP, Chief Data Officer

Tony Peleska
Kraus-Anderson
VP and Head of Information Techology and Digital Transformation

Anne Pronschinske
Mayo Clinic
Director, Department of Data & Analytics - Center for Digital Health

Ritu Sharma
Securian Financial
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
May 23, 2022
May 24, 2022
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am Keynote
The Leadership Challenge

Jean Briese
Chief Motivation Officer
Guest Speaker
When it comes to leadership, it's time to think outside the box. Challenge your thinking through interactivity and team engagement. We'll divide up to complete a task, with a few twists and turns along the way.
This session should give you a few "aha" moments including:
- Upping your collaboration game with teamwork tips and communication tricks
- Promoting inclusion, defining DEIB moments that matter
- Solidifying your leadership skills, in embracing resiliency and creating high-performing team
9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break
9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session
Advancing the Data-Driven Enterprise

Erik Erickson
Chief Data Officer
Hennepin County Library
Gaps in the use of data and analytics grow wider as organizations continue to struggle with how to translate data insights into impact. Organizational culture, data literacy, effective data and analytics communication are essential for CDOs to support business leaders and their organizations to leverage the true value of information assets.
In this session, Erik will share his strategy to:
- Creating impactful data literacy trainings for the enterprise
- Developing a strong data and analytics communications strategy
- Utilizing frameworks and common language around what it means to be data informed
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Data in Motion
Hosted by WalkMe

Mahadev Dovre Wudali
VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics
Ameriprise Financial

Chris Fitzharris
Senior Director, Data & Analytics
C.H. Robinson

Angie Reynolds
Business Value Officer
WalkMe
Data is reaching new heights in 2022, yet CDOs continue to be hindered by organizational silos and complex data models with high costs of maintenance. Though many companies still lack a single customer view and infrastructures do not support the rapid adoption of digital data needs, there are great strides that organizations are making to tackle these challenges.
Join this session to discuss:
- Data in the digital experience
- Turning data into actionable insights with intelligence and automation
- Building a data roadmap with a strong framework for quality, security and governance
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

Keri Olson
VP, Data and AI Product Management and Development
IBM

Jeremy Lembeck
Director, Data and Analytics
Land O'Lakes

Tony Peleska
VP and Head of Information Techology and Digital Transformation
Kraus-Anderson
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 sources
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
Making Connections with Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Hosted by Neo4J

Jim Webber
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Neo4J
According to Gartner, by 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations. As the complexities and volume of data continue to increase, organizations will turn to enterprise knowledge graphs to determine the connectedness across varied data points.
Join this session as we discuss:
- Building data fabrics, blue printing 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
Actualizing Governance — Implementing Structure to Thrive

Heidi Westfall
Global IT Director Information Management Services
Medtronic

Brandt Vettel
Data Officer
Metropolitan Council
In many cases, data governance was born out of regulatory compliance. But when deployed thoughtfully, the right governance policies can increase efficiency, promote data literacy and ensure clean data, all while mitigating risk.
Join this interactive roundtable discussion as CDO discuss:
- Aligning the enterprise governance model with your D&A strategy
- Evaluating governance maturity
- Establishing teams to define governance and weed out bias
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
Maximizing Business Decisions With Real-Time Data Analytics
Hosted by Actian

Marc Potter
Chief Operating Officer
Actian

Trent Lezer
Chief Data Officer
Greystar

Tom Moore
Director, Analytics Global Materials Supply Management
Medtronic
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 CDOs 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
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).
11:30am - 11:40am Break
May 23, 2022
May 24, 2022
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Minneapolis CDAO Community Executive Summit.
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.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Hyatt Regency MinneapolisParking and Transportation
Information regarding parking and transportation can be found here.
Health and Safety Local 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 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 612-370-1234.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $149 USD (plus tax) is May 2, 2022.
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