Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Organizations are accelerating their digital transformation and moving more of their data infrastructure to the cloud. With data growing at an unprecedented rate, organizations are using more applications than ever. Fragmented data distributed across these disparate systems presents complex business challenges, hinders the ability to deliver consistent experiences to customers, leads to slow and inefficient processes and decisions, and increases risk and cost of compliance.

Join this session to learn:

• Strategies to accelerate data value by creating a single unified view of your data aligned with enterprise programs and business objectives
• Ways to improve security, compliance, and governance in different data environments
• How cloud native architectures deliver the performance and scale needed to support growth

Gartner research shows that by 2025, cloud will serve as the foundation for business innovation. Over time, an organization can improve cloud sophistication to achieve better outcomes and higher ROI – but this requires a cloud strategy that can leverage cloud-based infrastructures while accounting for legacy on-premise environments.

This session will explore:

• Overcoming obstacles associated with different cloud, hybrid and on-prem models
• Practical performance comparisons of select architectures
• How to enable the business and data landscape to drive your cloud strategies

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

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.

In today’s era of digital transformation, successful Chief Data Officers must be able to drive change while bridging the gap between business and technology teams. Overcoming the challenges of gaining alignment across the organization, balancing short and long-term objectives, and connecting data capabilities to business outcomes is critical. This session will share best practices and a strategic framework for addressing these challenges through a comprehensive data strategy to transform your organization’s data and analytics capabilities.

Join your peers for a session focused on:

• Aligning data strategies with desired business outcomes
• Defining clear metrics to help measure the impact of your D&A program
• Overcoming enterprise complexities to gain greater insights and drive value

The demand for accessible data and analytics is growing and consideration for consumer privacy and compliance must not be overlooked. To deliver business value securely, the enterprise must effectively balance regulatory compliance while growing data-driven insights.

Join this roundtable discussion to learn how to:

• Outline a cohesive strategy for automating and governing the data lifecycle in a controlled environment
• Implement proactive controls to protect, detect and respond to threats in real-time
• Empower employees to develop data literacy skills and grow their knowledge

As CDOs continue to develop programs aimed at achieving the goals and objectives set by the business, leaders outside of your data organization must take responsibility for contributing to the success of the programs set before them. Processes that are linked to creating clean data are often out of your control, so having a plan to address those leaders and their teams is an important part of your success.

In this session, we'll discuss:

• Educating key stakeholders around why they should take responsibility for best data practices

• Understanding archetypes for change acceptance within your organization 

• Using storytelling to influence departments to embrace quality data processes

Deploying high-performance, cutting-edge technology doesn't come without its challenges. Artificial intelligence technology and applications require an ethics debate between data and analytics leaders and key organizational stakeholders. At Samsung SDS, Patrick Bangert and his team are putting AI ethics front and center as they navigate the integration of AI into revolutionary health care tools.

Join this session as he shares ways to:

• Start meaningful and productive dialogue around technology and ethics
• Identify and prevent bias from entering AI
• Use an ethical lens for existing organizational projects