Data & Analytics Live schedule

• Why most enterprises still struggle to move beyond dashboards 

• The hard truth: aligning data, culture, and leadership is still the #1 roadblock 

• Where organizations are actually seeing ROI from AI and analytics (vs. hype) 

• What leaders must do in 2026 to avoid being left behind by autonomy, regulation, and disruption 

• Exclusive, interactive dialogue among senior executives 

• How leaders balance innovation, ethics, and organizational alignment 

• Building long-term resilience in an AI-driven economy 

Edgar Nunez, Chief Data Officer – COCA COLA FEMSA 

Troy Howard, Vice President, Data Governance Manager – BANK OF AMERICA 

• Meeting regulatory demands across North America and globally 

• Wrestling with bias, explainability, and transparency under scrutiny 

• Can innovation survive compliance — or is compliance now the innovation? 

Gopal Renganathan, Senior Director, Data & Analytics – ANYWHERE REAL ESTATE INC. 

Navneet Tyagi, Senior Software Engineer- FINANCE OF AMERICA 

Akhil Khunger, VP Quantitative Analytics – BARLCAYS 

Shubhankar Shilpi, Software Engineering Director II – TRUIST BANKS 

• Real deployments across healthcare, finance, and retail: what worked, what failed 
• Risks, costs, and success frameworks for scaling responsibly 
• How leaders should prioritize investment when budgets are tight 

• Federated learning, synthetic data, and privacy-first design under pressure 

• Case studies in healthcare and financial services where risk was highest 

• How leaders can innovate when regulators and customers demand zero mistakes? 

• The evolving role of the CDAO when AI is making decisions faster than humans 

• Bridging the widening gap between business strategy and AI innovation 

• How to get true buy-in from the C-Suite before AI strategy stalls