San Francisco CDAO Community
Executive Summit
November 6, 2025 | Grand Hyatt at SFO
November 6, 2025
Grand Hyatt at SFO
Collaborate with your peers
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:
Scaling AI and Establishing Value
Developing a Data-Driven Culture From the Top
Ensuring Trust and Reliability in Data for AI Initiatives
San Francisco 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
Sharad Mathur
Zoom
Global Head of Data & Analytics
Christopher Paskins
McKesson
Data and AI Governance Leader
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
Executive Boardroom Session
Accelerating AI Value — Transforming Data Debt Into Strategic Assets
Today, maximizing the strategic impact of AI hinges on how effectively we leverage our data, converting existing data challenges into powerful enablers for AI-driven outcomes. We'll explore collective experiences and share actionable insights on building a data foundation that truly fuels enterprise AI initiatives.
Join your peers to discuss and share perspectives on:
- From data debt to AI dividend
- Architecting for intelligence
- Bridging the AI-data gap
Breakout Session
Nine Months to Smarter Insights — A CDAO’s Journey
Sutter Health’s data and analytics team rapidly advanced the organization’s data and AI capabilities, earning national recognition for innovation. Throughout this transformation, they prioritized maintaining trust with patients and clinicians.
Join Sutter Health’s CDAO as he shares insights on:
- Identifying high-impact data and AI applications and demonstrating ROI
- Leveraging AI governance to distinguish hype from reality
- Preparing teams for success and scaling data and AI implementation
Keynote Session
Powering Progress — PG&E's Inaugural CDAO
As one of the nation’s largest utility companies, PG&E relies on data to ensure the safe, reliable, and sustainable delivery of energy across California. From preparing for severe weather events to monitoring infrastructure assets over a century old, data is central to PG&E’s operational excellence. Improving the customer experience while creating significant value for the customer and business through data and analytics.
Join David Leach, PG&E’s inaugural Chief Data Officer, to explore:
- Strategies for overcoming challenges related to data completeness, accuracy, and accessibility
- Leveraging data, analytics and AI to improve customer experience and create novel solutions to key problems
- Standardizing data roles and processes, and aligning functional data leadership across the enterprise
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the San Francisco 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
Grand Hyatt at SFOYour Community Sponsors
CDAO Thought Leader
Key Sponsors
Program Sponsors
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