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San Francisco CDAO 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:
Linking Data, Analytics and AI Initiatives to Business Value
Maturing D&A Culture with Data Democratization and Self-Service Analytics
Maturing Data Governance to Adopt and Scale Advanced D&A and AI Capabilities
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
Shadaab Kanwal
Charles Schwab
MD - Digital, Data, and Analytics
Sharad Mathur
Zoom
Global Head of Data
Christopher Paskins
Solidigm
VP, US Information Technology
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 Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Coming Soon
The CDAO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ‘by CDAOs, for CDAOs,’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.
Focusing on Foundations for AI Readiness
CDAOs must explore the potential of AI while still ensuring proper data foundations are in place to execute effectively at scale. As AI and other emerging technologies continue to disrupt industries, CDAOs need to regularly assess their organization's readiness, evaluate current analytics skills, strengthen governance and understand the real impact of generative AI across the business.
Establishing Measurable Value and Proving ROI
CDAOs face more pressure than ever before to demonstrate ROI and establish D&A as a strategic business driver rather than a support function. To achieve this, CDAOs are concentrating on aligning D&A and AI projects with business results, setting success metrics and collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the organization.
Driving Culture Change to Elevate Data and Analytics Initiatives
A strong data culture is crucial for the success of any D&A strategy . CDAOs are working to manage the human aspect of technological change by fostering data literacy and steering behavioral change to reach the end goal of business value informed by data-driven decisions.
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