2026 Toronto CDAO Community Town Hall

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Data Management for the Agentic Era

Participate with your CDAO peers in the Toronto community in small, breakout discussions on a mission-critical priority for data leaders. These informal discussions allow you to share your insights and learn from the lessons, approaches and experiences of a diverse group of peers in virtual breakout rooms.

Join fellow CDAOs in the Toronto community to discuss:

Scaling AI for Business Impact

Driving a Data-First Culture

Building Trust Through Governance

Discussion Leaders

Members of the Toronto CDAO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.

Paul Mendes

Sun Life

AVP, Data Enablement & Governance

Discussion Leader

Joe Greenwood

Mastercard

VP, AI & Data Growth

Discussion Leader

Deepak Upadhyaya

Baker Tilly International

Partner - Digital Technology

Discussion Leader

Agenda

February 26, 2026

1:00pm - 2:00pm EST

Data Management for the Agentic Era

As Enterprise AI moves from passive assistants to autonomous agents, the foundation of success has shifted. Leading organizations no longer just manage data, they engineer Agent-Ready environments. This townhall explores the transition from human-centric dashboards to machine-readable context, ensuring that Agentic AI solutions are grounded in high-integrity, multimodal enterprise data.

Come together with your peers to discuss:

The transition from data engineering to context engineering for autonomous decision making
Deploying role-based agentic AI providing end-to-end workflows
The new metrics around productivity relating to ROI and risk mitigation

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Data Management for the Agentic Era

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February 26, 2026

Data Management for the Agentic Era

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