
Minneapolis CDAO Community
Executive Summit
May 23, 2023 | Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
May 23, 2023
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:
Leveraging Data as an Enterprise Asset
Building A Data and Analytics Community Through Leadership
Enhancing Impact of Data and Analytics Initiatives
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

Sravan Kasarla
Thrivent
Chief Data Officer

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

Jeremy Lembeck
Land O'Lakes
Head of Data and Analytics

Stephanie Lenzner
Mayo Clinic
Chair, Data & Analytics

Thomas Moore
Xcel Energy
Senior Director, Data and Analytics

Keith Narr
Cargill
VP, Chief Data Officer

Ritu Sharma
Equifax
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
May 22, 2023
May 23, 2023
7:45am - 8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am Keynote
Unleashing Business Growth with Data Mastery

Brian Robran
Senior Director - Analytics Strategy
Ameriprise Financial

Ines Davis
Vice President Marketing Strategy and Analytics, Information Management and Strategy
Ameriprise Financial

Kapil Narang
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Ameriprise Bank
To maximize business growth, companies must be able to combine and analyze both internal and external data effectively. This requires a robust data management strategy that allows for the integration of data from various sources into a "center of truth." By establishing a centralized location for data analysis and decision-making, businesses can gain insights that drive growth and profitability. In today's competitive business environment, the ability to leverage data effectively is essential for success, and companies that can do so will have a significant advantage over their competitors.
Join this session as Kapil and Ines share their partnership toward:
- Developing a robust data management strategy for integration
- Creating a center of truth for analyzing data
- Leveraging data to help enhance business decisions and enable personalized messaging
9:15am - 9:40am Networking Break
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Insights Rich – Outcome Driven Innovation

Sravan Kasarla
Chief Data Officer
Thrivent
Despite the proven benefits of data, many organizations struggle to effectively manage and use it to guide their decision-making. This insights-poor approach leads to ineffective strategies, targets, and lost revenue opportunities. So why are so many organization data rich but insights poor? Is it a data problem or challenge of generating insights?
Join this session as Sravan Kasarla, Chief Data Officer, shares his insights on how to:
- Build an insights strategy that leverages data to drive business outcomes
- Learn from data collected, and use it to improve business insights
- Embrace cross-functional collaboration to create insight culture
9:40am - 10:25am Breakout Session
Powering Business Value with Graph Intelligence
Hosted by Neo4J

Michael Moore
Principal, Partner Solutions and Technology
Neo4j
As AI and machine learning models work endlessly to pull enterprise data, it is vital to have a knowledge base to integrate numerous datasets and show the relationship between different data points. For D&A leaders, understanding and designing their semantic architecture is one of the most fundamental aspects for making sure graph intelligence does not become stale or irrelevant.
Join this session as CDAO’s discuss:
- Ensure data is clean, secure and trustworthy
- Streamline data access and discovery to improve analytics insights
- Empower self-service across the enterprise
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Breaking Down AI Silos to Scale Data-Driven Impact
Hosted by Domino Data Lab

Kjell Carlsson
Head of Data Science Strategy & Evangelism
Domino Data Lab

Pat Brickson
Director, Enterprise Data Systems
Digi-Key

Jon Foltz
VP of Data Science
Optum
To unlock the value trapped in enterprise data, all organizations need to develop and deploy more, new AI/ML applications faster. Doing so requires overcoming siloes that span data, tools, infrastructure and talent. To address these “AI silos” leaders must implement new strategies to grow, unify, and empower data science, analytics, and engineering teams across the business.
Join this CDAO roundtable, moderated by former industry analyst Dr. Kjell Carlsson, for a discussion on strategies to:
- Enable governed access to the growing ecosystem of AI/ML tools and infrastructure
- Scale data science expertise and rationalize AI/ML development and deployment processes
- Unify and arbitrage hybrid- and multi-cloud environments for AI/ML development and deployment
9:40am - 10:25am Executive Boardroom
Data Privacy, Governance and Security at Scale
Hosted by Skyflow

Anshu Sharma
Co-founder & CEO
Skyflow

Brandt Vettel
Chief Data Officer
Metropolitan Council

QingHui Yuan
Senior Director - Data Science, Modeling, and Sensing
Donaldson
Protecting sensitive data and ensuring data assets are properly managed are becoming increasingly important with the sophistication of recent threats. Without the proper data management strategies in place, sensitive organizational and consumer data are more easily exposed to risk. One of the most important elements of data management and security is a robust governance framework.
Join this round table discussion as CDAOs discuss:
- Understanding the baseline for effective governance
- Assessing the maturity of governance within your organization
- Outlining a path to ensure the scalability of governance frameworks
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).
To reserve your seat, please contact:
Community Program Manager Andreina Pelaez at andreina.pelaez@evanta.com
10:25am - 11:00am Networking Break
10:30am - 10:55am 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.
May 22, 2023
May 23, 2023
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.
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. Please mention G-EVMY to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $149 USD (plus tax) is May 1, 2023.
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