2022 San Francisco CDAO Executive Summit

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Get together with San Francisco'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 culture centered around data

Empowering business users and decision makers through education and communication

Managing data through innovative and secure governance

Governing Body Co-Chairs

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your San Francisco CDAO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

December 7, 2022

afternoon

December 8, 2022

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

6:00pm - 8:30pm Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

This special evening is hosted by the Governing Body to launch the following day's events. Join us for an evening of peer networking, food, and drinks at Fang Restaurant.

11:20am - 12:05pm Breakout Session

Data Quality and Observability — Most Embarrassing ‘Data’ Moments

Eric Gerstner

Data Quality Principal

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 Data Quality Principal as he 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

11:20am - 12:05pm Executive Boardroom

Strengthen Data Operations through Data Observability

Vikram Murali

VP of Engineering, Hybrid Data Management

IBM Data and AI

Chitrang Dave

IT Director - Data, Analytics, and Business Intelligence

Medtronic

Manesh Kitanhoth

Sr. Director, Data and Analytics

Willis Towers Watson

Data observability is the natural evolution of the data quality movement and a strategic approach can accelerate an organization’s ability to resolve data issues quickly. How can CDOs integrate activities and technologies into the end-to-end data operations workflow to enhance visibility and propel the business forward?

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

The mix of activities and technologies that create greater data observability
Best practices of incident management applied to data operations
Building end-to-end visibility to accelerate incident response

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

11:20am - 12:05pm Executive Boardroom

Structuring Governance to Keep AI Ethics Front and Center

Srujana Kaddevarmuth

Sr. Director: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Walmart

Manjula Mahajan

Head of IT

Model N

Data has become the new gold with an increased emphasis on AI, machine learning and analytics to drive decision making. As inequities reach a boiling point in society at large, data and analytics leaders are critically evaluating organizational data practices and algorithms to weed out bias and unintended impacts.

Join this session as D&A leaders share how they are:

Creating data practices and mechanisms to improve explain ability and understand the conditions of AI's code for processing data
Devising governance methods to change the dichotomy between under-represented groups and data modeling
Deciding the ethical parameters that define success in modeling and outcomes

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

12:05pm - 12:35pm Lunch Service

12:35pm - 1:10pm Keynote

Leveraging Lessons Learned — Establishing a Governance Foundation

Susan Wilson

Group Vice President, Data Intelligence

Informatica

Cara Dailey

Chief Data Officer

LPL Financial

Cultivating a data-driven culture is one of the most prevalent challenges facing data and analytic leaders today. The gap between having the data and using it lies within data governance. Join Cara Dailey, EVP - Chief Data Officer of LPL Financial as she shares her path in building a strong data governance foundation to support data-driven decisions with stewardship, data quality, and AI-driven automation.

Join this session as we discuss:

Cultivating a council of engaged data leaders
Establishing policies and processes that are collaborative and support data stewardship
Supporting a data-driven culture focused on fueling business value

1:10pm - 1:25pm Break

1:25pm - 2:10pm Breakout Session

Propelling Innovation With Shared Data

John DesJardins

Chief Solutions Officer

Hazelcast

Ralph Blore

Chief Data Architect

Visa

Shadaab Kanwal

MD - Digital, Data, and Analytics Services

Charles Schwab

Anand Sahasram

CDO

Dodge & Cox

Sharing data not only creates new opportunities, it can lend to new business models. As shared data becomes more prevalent, data and analytics leaders are challenged to select the right technologies to keep data secure and trustworthy.

Join this session to learn how to:

Deliver real-time analytics for faster decision-making
Cultivate collaboration across the enterprise, tearing down silos
Invest in technology that fosters innovative business models and ecosystems

1:25pm - 2:10pm Breakout Session

Data Mesh and Data Fabric: Breaking Silos with Data Products

Saket Saurabh

CEO

Nexla

Arun Ganesan

CIO, Data Engineering

Silicon Valley Bank

Successful organizations use data to derive business value. With enterprise growth and complexity, data silos are a natural consequence. Data fabric architecture, often misunderstood as competing with data mesh, can help to create and manage data products spanning disparate systems. For data and analytics leaders like Arun, implementing a data fabric architecture and auto-generated data products can help scale data initiatives at the speed of business.

Join this session to discover how to:

Break data silos with data products
Empower teams to create data products with no-code
Automate workflows and pipeline across silos

1:25pm - 2:10pm Executive Boardroom

Building Trust in Self-Service Data

Susan Wilson

Group Vice President, Data Intelligence

Informatica

William Neil

VP Client Data and Data Architecture

First Republic Bank

Sanjay Sabnis

SVP, Data Engineering & Analytics

Bank of the West

Qinghua Song

Head of Data and Statistical Science

Kite Pharma

Today, CDOs are focused on connecting your organizations knowledge workers with data they can rely on to make decisions. But before you can enable self-service to scale your program, you need to first ensure that data can be trusted.

Join this roundtable session to discuss:

Developing a foundation of trusted data through governance
Supporting a data-driven culture and improve data literacy
Creating a data sharing program through a self-service marketplace

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

7:45am - 8:45am Registration & Breakfast

8:45am - 9:30am Keynote

Setting Data Free Securely – The CISO/CDO Partnership

Zoher Karu

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Blue Shield of California

Eddie Borrero

Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Blue Shield of California

In the right hands, data is one of the most powerful tools an organization has in its toolbox. While in the wrong hands, data can easily become a weapon with detrimental consequences. Intersecting at the midpoint is the powerful partnership between a CISO and CDO, using their strengths to empower the enterprise to protect their most valuable asset – data.

In this session the CISO and CDO from Blue Shield of California will discuss:

Building partnerships within the C-suite
Creating a trustworthy and secure governance framework
Aligning incentives and initiatives across security and data teams

9:30am - 10:00am Networking Break

10:00am - 10:45am Breakout Session

Empowering Stakeholders To Achieve Data Driven Outcomes

Sudeep Kumar

Global Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics

Ciena

To gain tangible business value from their data, organizations must make high quality data readily available to users across functions. Dependency on the IT department or a centralized data team, to provide actionable insights creates missed opportunities for innovation. Join Sudeep Kumar, Global Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics at Ciena, as he shares lessons learned in creating a Center of Excellence that empowers internal and external stakeholders to do self-service analytics to drive business outcomes.

In this session, you will discover ways to:

Identify enterprise processes that hinder self-service models
Upskill business users through data literacy and training
Adopt tools to enable approachable and explainable data analysis

10:00am - 10:45am Breakout Session

Achieving Business Impact with Tangible AI – The Cisco Story

Arijit Sengupta

CEO

Aible

Ted Tsortos

Director, Sales Strategy & Planning

Cisco Systems

The Intel - Aible Benchmark report highlights 20+ Case Studies on how large and small organizations have achieved tangible value from AI - in 30 days.

What is the secret behind such rapid success? Join the founder of Aible, who previously taught AI at the Harvard Business School, and Director of Strategy at Cisco as they share how enterprises are rethinking the way to extract value from data using AI at scale.

In this session, discover ways to:

De-risk and achieve impact from AI projects by getting buy-in from teams and stakeholders
Automatically identify which data is worth analyzing
Enable collaborative open world exploration of data to find the ‘unknown unknowns’

10:00am - 10:45am Executive Boardroom

Self-Service Analytics for an Agile World

Rob Woollen

CTO

Sigma Computing

Kraig Meyer

VP, Product Management

Five Below

Vinay Reddy Ravoola

SVP, Data & Analytics

Elavon

The speed of collecting and analyzing data is faster than ever before, and businesses that fall short lose a competitive advantage. Data and analytics leaders are challenged to centralize data across the enterprise to make strategic business decisions.

Join this interactive roundtable as CDO discuss ways to:

Identify key features of agile analytics to expand new growth opportunities
Build an agile data stack that drives impactful business insights
Support a self-service data access model to reduce bottlenecks and demands on data 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).

To reserve your seat, please contact:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

10:00am - 10:45am Executive Boardroom

Maximizing Data Quality for Business Agility

Doug Bryan

AI Strategist

Dataiku

Gaurav Jindal

Head of Data

Cricut

Nik Kashyap

Sr Director, Data and Insights, US Commercial

Genentech

Data quality management is a crucial part of any data integration process. While integration brings all relevant data of an organization together, data and analytics leaders are challenged to remove inadequate data from the system prior to the integration.

Join this session to discuss:

Identifying the right metrics to measure data quality
Investing in the right technology to share data with agility at scale
Empowering the organization through data literacy

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

10:45am - 11:20am Networking Break

10:50am - 11:15am 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.

2:10pm - 2:40pm Networking Break

2:15pm - 2:40pm 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.

2:45pm - 3:30pm Breakout Session

Propelling Innovation Through Emerging Technology

Christopher Paskins

Director of Enterprise Data Governance

Solidigm

With the explosion of big data, technologies that used to be seen as futuristic, like artificial intelligence, are now creating value for the enterprise. Gartner predicts that over the next year, technologies like advanced analytics, cloud computing and AI will see major investment.

Join this interactive discussion as CDO discuss ways to:

Evaluate current technologies to identify gaps or optimize processes
Select and adopt new technology that propels your organization forward, enhancing your digital landscape
Enable teams to innovate and fail upward

2:45pm - 3:30pm Executive Boardroom

Retaining a Competitive Advantage by Building a Data Literate Workforce

Mae Rogers

Regional Director - West

Multiverse

Manjula Mahajan

Head of IT

Model N

Jacqui Van der Leij-Greyling

Global Head of Tax Technology

eBay

Data is the primary asset for organizations driving innovation. Converting data into insights is a team effort and all employees must play a role to advance organizational objectives. Data and analytics leaders are tasked with creating a data literacy program that streamlines and propels enterprise agility.

Join this roundtable discussion to discover how to:

Identify skill gaps that prevent organizations from achieving critical business objectives
Select and adopt the tools needed to enable data efficiency amongst business users
Design training programs that build organization-wide data literacy and a data-driven culture

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

2:45pm - 3:30pm Executive Boardroom

Accelerating the Business with Analytics-Based Decision Making

Jeremy Welland

CDO

Gusto

Sharad Mathur

Global Head of Data & Analytics

Zoom Video Communications

Salima Yala

Chief Analytics Officer

Bank of the West

More than two-thirds of CEOs view insights, generated from collected data and advanced analytics, as a competitive business advantage. But despite the benefits, data and analytics leaders are challenged by a lack of workforce skills and a siloed operating model.

Join this roundtable as CDOs discuss ways to:

Upskill the workforce to be data-driven and enable self-service models
Evaluate your operating model to allow for cross-collaboration
Generate and communicate business value from analytics-based decisions

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:

casey.tomooka@evanta.com

3:30pm - 3:45pm Networking Break

3:45pm - 4:20pm Keynote

Operating Cloud for Data Driven Transformation

Steve Turk

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Commercial Banking

JPMorgan Chase

Gartner analysts predict that more than 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025. While data and analytics leaders cite poor data quality and data integration issues as the biggest challenges when it comes to managing data in the cloud, there are pathways to success when building a data-driven business.

Join this session as JPMorgan Chase's CDAO of Commercial Banking discusses:

Building a data strategy in stages to achieve tactical aims
Building a winning data team and how to measure and communicate success
How to design a new future with data with executive and employee support

4:20pm - 4:50pm Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

December 7, 2022

afternoon

December 8, 2022

mid-afternoon morning afternoon

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