
Southern California CDAO Community
Executive Summit
June 16, 2022 | Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills
June 16, 2022
Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Southern California'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:
Evaluating enterprise governance models to increase efficiency and ensure clean data
Accelerating digital business to support data and analytics leaders
Adopting a data-centric culture to remain competitive with digital natives
Southern California 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

Meetali Agarwal
Fidelity Investments
Vice President, Analytics & Insights

Mike Burkes
Ultra, Plum and Mint Mobile
SVP, Enterprise Information Management (CDO)

Prachi Priya
Team One
Chief Data Officer

Matt Smith
Microsoft Corporation
Chief Data Officer - West Enterprise Operating Unit
What to Expect
Agenda
June 15, 2022
June 16, 2022
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
Strengths 2.0 — Applying Design Thinking to Your Strengths and Weaknesses

John K. Coyle
CEO and Founder of "Speaking Design Thinking"
Guest Speaker
John K. Coyle is the founder and CEO of "Art of Really Living" and one of the world's leading experts in innovation and design thinking. Through the metaphor of sport, learn how individuals and teams can use innovation approaches to identify and leverage their unique strengths (and design around weaknesses). Become empowered to solve old problems in new ways and achieve breakthrough results. Understand how to apply the “Design Thinking” process to business and personal challenges.
This will empower you to:
- Achieve breakthrough performance by focusing on what you do best
- Decide what to delegate, quit or outsource, and plan to maximize team resources
- Create higher engagement and more effective collaboration with customers and colleagues
9:00am - 9:30am Networking Break
9:30am - 10:15am Breakout Session
Women in Data — Widening the Table

Zeena Wright
Global Data Governance & Management
HireRight

Helen Li
Sr. Director of Digital Transformation
Eli Lilly and Company

Eva Pereira
Chief Data Officer
City of Los Angeles, CA
With growth opportunities on the rise and the demand for data professionals more prevalent than ever, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles. Hear from your peers on how they've forged the path forward and given further visibility to women in leadership.
Join this session as a panel of your peers discuss:
- Creating strength based professional development plan
- Expanding diversity and inclusion efforts to close the gender gap
- Paying it forward for the next generation of female leaders
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Automating Self-Service Data with a Data Fabric Architecture
Hosted by IBM

Warren Mante
Enterprise Architect, Data and AI
IBM

Sujay Kar
VP Strategic Analytics & Business Insights
Dollar Shave Club

Fauzia Saeed
Director Analytics and Market Insight
Thermofisher Scientific
Data is increasingly dispersed, dynamic, diverse and difficult to manage. To simplify data management within hybrid and multicloud landscapes, a data fabric architecture can increase accessibility and intelligently organize data for self-service delivery to consumers. Once unlocked, the value of your data increases and additional AI capabilities are possible.
Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:
- Enabling self-service data consumption and collaboration
- Enhancing automation of governance, data protection and security with AI
- Automating data engineering tasks and augment data integration
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:
Program Manager Casey Tomooka, casey.tomooka@evanta.com
9:30am - 10:15am Executive Boardroom
Driving an Inclusive Data & Analytics Strategy with Agile Data Governance
Hosted by data.world

Ryan Cush
Chief Revenue Officer
data.world

Rajeev Mehrotra
VP of Business Systems, Engineering, Analytics, & Big Data
Western Dental Services

Qinghua Song
Head of Data and Statistical Science
Kite Pharma
The failed cost of data initiatives continues to challenge enterprises and data governance is often cited as a major hurdle. Organizations often view data as a monolithic undertaking while using an outdated top-down approach. The modern enterprise knows the answer to a successful data strategy lies within agile data governance.
Join this session and discuss:
- Defining agile data governance and how it democratizes data access
- Uncovering the consistent challenges of top-down data governance
- Empowering and providing support to staff who work with data
Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-doord iscussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees(seating priority is given to CDOs).
To reserve your seat, please contact:
Program Manager Casey Tomooka at Casey.tomooka@evanta.com
10:15am - 10:45am Networking Break
10:20am - 10:45am 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.
10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Data Quality and Observability — Most Embarrassing ‘Data’ Moments
Hosted by Collibra

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
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Empowering the Business through Self-Service Data
Hosted by Qlik

Joe DosSantos
Chief Data Officer
Qlik

Jon Neill
Sr Information Technology Specialist, ISD Data Program
County of Los Angeles, CA

Sid Ramesh
VP - Data Program Management
CAA
Our goal as CDOs is to enable data literate employees to self-serve data and analytics for quick speed to decisions, but this can have organizational, technical, and people readiness complexities. Come explore ways your peers are using self-service data and analytics tools to strategize, streamline and propel an organization towards data modernization.
Join this roundtable session to discuss:
- Identifying gaps in a company culture that hinder self-service models
- Ideal business models
,data service definitions and customer alignment - Selecting and adopting the tools needed to enable data efficiency amongst business users
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 at casey.tomooka@evanta.com
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Building an Empathy — Centric Culture with Data
Hosted by Quantum Metric

Bryce Winkelman
Chief Business and Strategy Officer
Quantum Metric

Savitha Anantharaman
SVP Data & Analytics
Bank of America

Olga Beregovaya
Vice President, AI Innovation
Welocalize
A data-first mindset is paramount for organizations in a rapidly growing, digitally-focused world. But, to affect true culture change throughout the enterprise, leadership must inspire the workforce to incorporate empathy into the purpose and context of every data-driven decision.
Join this interactive roundtable conversation as CDOs discuss ways to build empathy by design into your data-driven strategies and learn how to:
- Understand and alleviate existing gaps and misalignment in your data strategy
- Infuse data with empathy to derive the most business value
- Establish a true customer-centric workforce
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:
Program Manager Casey Tomooka, Casey.tomooka@evanta.com
June 15, 2022
June 16, 2022
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Southern California 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
Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly HillsA block of rooms has been reserved at the Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 844-382-2267. Please mention EVANTA to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $199 USD (plus tax) is May 16, 2022.
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