
Toronto CDAO Community
Executive Summit
December 11, 2019 | Hilton Toronto Downtown
December 11, 2019
Hilton Toronto Downtown
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Toronto'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:
Adopting D&A strategies and operating models that deliver business value in volatile environments
Generating measurable economic benefits to the business from data assets and advanced analytics
Becoming a master change agent and driving data literacy across the enterprise
Toronto 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

Allie Harris
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Director, Information Governance

Donna Rudnicki
RBC Capital Markets
Global Head of Data Management/Chief Data Officer
John Walsh
Environment Canada and Climate Change
Chief Data Officer

Eugene Wen
Manulife
Vice President, Group Advanced Analytics
What to Expect
Agenda
December 10, 2019
December 11, 2019
7:00am - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45am - 8:00am Opening Comments
8:00am - 8:30am Keynote
Leveraging Data to Maintain a Competitive Edge
Hosted by Talend

Robert Hughes
Chief Data Officer, Global Wealth and Asset Management
Manulife
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
8:30am - 9:00am Networking Break
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
Bringing Data, Technology and the Business Closer Together
Hosted by OmniSci
Jane Moran
SVP, Analytics
LoyaltyOne
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
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
Achieve 100% Analytics Adoption With a New Class of Enterprise Intelligence
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.

Phong Le
Senior EVP & COO
MicroStrategy
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
9:00am - 9:50am Executive Boardroom
Implementing Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments
Hosted by Infoworks
David Arulmani
VP, Data Analytics & Enterprise Architecture
EDC

Peter Serenita
Chief Data Officer
Scotiabank

Todd Goldman
Vice President, Marketing
Infoworks
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.
9:00am - 9:50am Breakout Session
Office Hours With Chris Ulrich
Chris Ulrich
Body Language Expert & Political Consultant
Author & Thought Leader
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.
9:50am - 10:20am Networking Break
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
Launching AI in an 80-Year Old Company
Hosted by DataStax
Richard Hines
Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence
Air Canada
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
10:20am - 11:10am Breakout Session
The Journey Toward Self-Service Analytics and Machine Learning
Hosted by Dataiku
Cody McGee
Senior Product Manager
Bank of Montreal
Jesse Bishop
Senior Solutions Architect
Dataiku
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
10:20am - 11:10am Executive Boardroom
Journey to the Intelligent Enterprise — A Data Leaders Roundtable
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.
Simon Dennison
VP, Strategy, Data & Analytics
Sun Life Canada
Martha Schrader
Vice President Business Intelligence & Analytics
Northbridge Financial Corporation

Phong Le
Senior EVP & COO
MicroStrategy
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.
10:20am - 11:10am Executive Boardroom
Overcome Data Silos Through Data Virtualization
Hosted by IBM
Tudor Morosan
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Bank of Montreal

Della Shea
Vice President, Data Governance & Chief Privacy Officer
Symcor
Sam Lightstone
CTO for Data, IBM Fellow & Master Inventor, IBM Data and AI
IBM
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.
11:10am - 11:40am Networking Break
December 10, 2019
December 11, 2019
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