Toronto CDAO Executive Summit

Companies are becoming more adept at collecting data, however, few are gaining actionable insights that help inform their overall strategy. Today’s Chief Data Officers have the opportunity to combine their legacy assets with revolutionary technologies to develop truly unique strategic differentiators.

In this session, you’ll hear:

• Why the right data strategy is crucial for your company
• Essential principles for driving the data strategy across the enterprise
• How to promote the adoption of the data strategy and begin shifting the company’s data mindset

When it comes to generating value from data and analytics, technology implementation is only half the story; the more complicated half involves organizational buy-in and the evolution of business processes. Discover how bringing data, technology and business teams closer together can help accelerate innovation and development in your company.

In this session, we’ll discuss:

• Strategies for obtaining key stake-holder buy-in
• How to create cross-functional teams that can cooperate efficiently
• Actual implementation challenges and how to overcome them

Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realizing the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.

This session will cover:

• Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
• Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
• Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function

In a world where agile analytics provide a key competitive edge, data leaders need a winning data and analytics strategy that can leverage new cloud-based infrastructures while still accounting for legacy on-premise environments.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Challenges with becoming more agile in data operations
• Strategies for managing data flows across multiple environments
• Solutions that allow you to architect for future infrastructure options

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 your event Program Manager; Bailey Dilocker at Bailey.Dilocker@evanta.com.

What does your body language say about you? What shifts might you make to change how others perceive you? Join this special one-on-one 25-minute session exclusively for Governing Body members with body-language expert, Chris Ulrich for candid feedback on your in-person and online body language. Sessions are 25-minutes and pre-registration is required.

Contact Zack Gallinger-Long, Content Manager (Zack.gallinger-Long@evanta.com) if you're interested in this exclusive session.

Regardless of industry, most companies understand the potential that AI has for impacting their business in a major way. But where to start? Hear how Air Canada approached this challenge and where they're going from here.

In this session, you'll discover:

• Advice for getting started with AI and establishing a 5-year vision
• What lessons have been learned along the AI journey thus far
• Where AI is heading in the future and how to prepare accordingly

AI entering the workplace presents a unique opportunity for CDOs to efficiently leverage data. But how do you empower users, both technical and non-technical, to use AI tools for making data-driven decisions?

In this session, you will learn:

• How BMO overcame challenges in democratizing analytics across the organization
• Best practices when implementing self-service data analytics & machine learning at scale
• Strategies for distributing trustworthy information to empower data scientists, business analysts, and data engineers

Enterprises aspire to maximize their return on investment from data, and to quickly take advantage of the latest innovations in analytics, mobility, cloud, and AI/machine learning. Yet too many organizations struggle with disparate data systems, inconsistent data, closed architectures, and tools that only empower a fraction of the workforce. 

In this peer-driven discussion, discover:

• What industry leaders are doing to overcome these challenges and transform their businesses
• How to apply the right tools and structure to balance counteractive forces, such as agility vs. governance
• How to empower individuals and teams with access to those tools, while establishing a single version of truth

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 your event Program Manager; Bailey Dilocker at Bailey.Dilocker@evanta.com.

Making data ready for analytics and AI is a significant part of modernizing your data architecture however many organizations have data in multiple repositories of different kinds and in different geographies. Data virtualization enables businesses to manage and query data across multiple data sources.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Examples of integrated security and governance, massive parallelism and network optimization
• How to develop a truly data-centric strategy and accelerate data monetization
• Specific actions to take at each step of the analytics and AI journey

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 your event Program Manager; Bailey Dilocker at Bailey.Dilocker@evanta.com.