Data & Analytics Live schedule

Tiankai Feng, Head of Product Data Governance, Adidas (a.k.a. The Data Musician!) 

Although we live in a world where data is ubiquitous, it can be still quite difficult to collaborate with data effectively and efficiently in an organization. Tiankai will explain how these difficulties come down to a tension field of two dimensions: data storytelling and literacy, vs individual motivation & data culture, and outline some actions to take to turn that tension field into an opportunity. Data collaboration doesn’t have to be difficult, and after this session you’ll know why.

Wendy Batchelder, SVP, Global Data Governance & Chief Data Officer, Trust, Salesforce 

Susan Wilson, GVP North America Solutions Leader, Informatica

Finding champions for your data governance program can be hard. Especially when companies are tightening their budgets amid an economic downturn. This session will show you how to do more with less by optimizing your delivery model and better managing expectations. You'll learn the top five areas you should focus on to drive better business outcomes when your business is hit by economic fallout. It will also show you how you can secure a community of business leaders who are invested in your data governance program.

Khanh Chau, Enterprise Data Architect, Grainger 

Organizations are facing challenges in selecting suitable data management strategy to drive more values out of data. Cloud data warehouse has accelerated analytics for many organizations. The emerging strategy such as lake house, data fabric and data mesh holds promise for sustainable data management and faster acceleration for analytics and machine learning use cases. However, each approach requires more clarity and guidance. Choosing a viable strategy is crucial to organizational planning and achieving business values. This presentation will help data and analytics leaders to extract salient points and invest in foundation components that can evolve with time.

Moderator: Avinash Triphathi, VP, Analytics, Marketing Sciences, University of Phoenix

Pranav Patil, Customer Analytics Manager, 
Nextdoor

Ana Garcia, Director of Data Science, Zip Recruiter

Boris Kerzhner, Principal Data Scientist, Aetna, a CVS Health Company 

Aleksandar Lazarevic, VP, Analytics, HelloFresh 

How do successful organizations leverage advanced insights to understand customers’ needs, attitudes, and behaviors? What are the key steps in building a customer-centric data strategy to create a seamless, frictionless, and connected experience? How can leaders align data and AI initiatives with CX priorities? These are some of the questions this panel of experts will be addressing.

Jean Roberts, Field CTO, Financial Markets, DataRobot

AI/ML leaders have been given mandates to rapidly scale their organizations. But most organizations do not have the infrastructure necessary to support these efforts. Attend this session with DataRobot to learn how to assess your current architectural needs, determine where to focus your team's efforts within the AI/ML value chain, and engage in change management as you scale AI/ML across your organization.

Randy Bean, CEO, New Vantage Partners 

Join Randy Bean to hear the top 10 highlights from the annual 2023 CDAO Executive Survey.

Moderated by: Randy Bean, CEO, New Vantage Partners 

Jim Tyo, Chief Data Officer, Invesco

JoAnn Stonier, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard

Ryan Swann, Chief Data Analytics Officer, Vanguard

How are successful CDAOs taking advantage of the disruptive force of change to drive data and AI innovation at scale and cope with fluctuations in global markets? What are the foundational elements needed to nurture business partnerships and deliver insights at the speed of business? How can CDAOs become experts in change management and data communication to secure buy-in and infuse data into the organizational DNA? Join this dynamic live panel to hear how leading-edge CDAOs are impacting their businesses with value-driven data strategies.

Ansar Kassim, Head of Financial Analytics, Verizon

How do successful organizations treat data as a strategic asset? Join us as we learn from our speaker on how to implement a purpose-driven data management strategy and transform your company and your operations by framing how you see and use your data.

Christopher J Hutchins, VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Enterprise Data Information & Intelligence, Northwell Health System

One of the most important questions any CDO has to answer, how much is their data products worth; what are they bringing into the business? It may be one of the most important, but at times it can also be one of the most challenging. We sit down with a data leader to talk about how he converts data into dollars. 

Zhongcai Zhang, Chief Analytics Officer, New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (NYCB) 

While everyone talks about how useful data is, analytics is busy walking the walk. We sit down with an executive who has been championing Analytics as pure business value for many years.  

Asha Saxena, CEO, Women Leaders in Data &AI

Through the pandemic, there is an acceleration of digitalization resulting in more data than ever and the importance of information has never been greater. Organizations are thinking about how they can harness the power of data analytics, artificial intelligence and ‘big data’ and how they can make significant investments. But you can’t start with data, you need to start with where and how you want to create value in your business, then move to data. Join our speaker Asha Saxena CEO at Women Leaders in Data and AI [WLDA.TECH] and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, to discuss the best practices, frameworks and how-to build strong, sustainable data organization for tangible outcomes.

Bobbi Jo Allan, VP, NF Digital Product Management and Innovation, Nationwide

How can leaders encourage the mindset shift of “legacy thinking” within organizations and industries which have significant history compared to their digitally native competition? We’re joined by an executive who has been working through this challenge and has great insights to share.

Dr. Tom Chittenden, Chief Scientific Officer, President of R&D, BioAI Health 

Everyone within the data & analytics community is aware of the hype of AI and ML - it certainly seems to be everywhere. We sit down with a thought leader who is working beyond the hype and into the realities of what AI can achieve.  

Dr. Serena Huang, Global Head of People Analytics, Visualization & HR Technology,
PayPal

For many organizations, people analytics, and HR are vastly underutilized and underappreciated. We’re joined by an executive who is harnessing their power to innovate the way talent is recruited, retained, and mentored, and thus building a world-class function within PayPal.   

John Adamo, VP, Chief Product Owner, Master Data Management, Global Technology Chief Data Office, Prudential Financial 

The journey of product ownership can be extremely complex, so we welcome a thought leader who has been on this journey a number of times, to talk us through the process, biggest challenges, and successes.

Kimberly Napier, Executive Coach & Founder, Elevate Your Extraordinary

Transformational leaders are instrumental in individual development and in helping teams and organizations to thrive and innovate, while building engagement and collaboration. Leadership that builds engagement is a critical business skill – recent surveys show that companies that rank in the top quartile for employee engagement are 23% more profitable than those in the bottom quartile.  

In this interactive workshop, Kimberly Napier will guide you through the following steps to envision and develop your transformational leadership goals for 2023. Kimberly is a certified executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author with over thirty years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. Join us in this exciting 1h30 journey to: 

• Reflect and expand your understanding of what makes an effective leader 
• Practice self-assessment to see what areas you are thriving in and where do you still have opportunity for growth 
• Understand how you can bring conscious leadership practices to your team 
• Discuss experiences and perspectives in small breakout groups with like-minded peers going through a similar journey 
• Explore the concept of conscious communication and how this can make your leadership style more effective 
• Receive a guided visualization to help you define your leadership goals for 2023