CEOs in all industries are turning to Chief Data and Chief Analytics Officers (CDOs and CAOs) to build the digital organization of the future and achieve business objectives. As a consequence, data and analytics leaders must lead with purpose. With content focused on topics high on the agenda for strategically-minded CDOs and CAOs – skills development, closing talent gaps, building the right teams, formalizing the right roles, data literacy, diversity and ethics.

Businesses across all industries continue to struggle with the ambiguity of determining the value of data and analytics. To address the ambiguity faced, organizations must form partnerships between business and data and analytics teams to collectively drive strategies. This track discusses how to build a successful data and analytics strategy directly linked to key business outcomes – growth, customer experience, monetization of data and analytics, risk mitigation and innovation.

Digital business calls for analytics to be infused in every role, business process, decision and action. Analytics everywhere is the new digital business imperative. However, with this comes a requirement for trusted data governance practices and processes.  This track addresses how to make analytics scale to all corners of the enterprise without creating chaos. It discusses the latest trends to make analytics pervasive – augmented analytics, embedded analytics and continuous analytics.

Undergoing digital transformation means putting data at the core of the enterprise, transitioning from being data driven to being data centric.  This track discusses how to draw the disparate pieces together including enabling technology components such as cloud, analytics infrastructure, data lakes, integration, blockchain, hadoop, Spark, in-memory, and more.

The hype surrounding data science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is daunting.  Developing an understanding of the strategies and technologies in this space is vital for delivering business value.. This track is dedicated to the technology trends, what’s real, what’s hype, organizational requirements, skills needed for successful deployment and the all-important business impact of these advanced data and analytics capabilities.

Harnessing innovative technologies to change the business and how we serve customers is the only choice for forward looking leaders who want to see their organization be a disruptor. Standing still is not an option. This track reveals the more visionary and pioneering trends and aspects of data and analytics. It is designed to deliver innovative approaches that will change your perspectives by offering insights on the future for data and analytics in your organization.

This spotlight track places MDM in the broader context of data and analytics by virtue of being embedded in each of the primary tracks, addressing both fundamentals and advanced topics within MDM.

The CDO Circle is a members-only senior leadership experience for the top data and analytics leader in an enterprise. Built for both new and experienced CDOs and CAOs (and their equivalents), it is an exclusive set of sessions built within one of the world’s largest and most important Data and Analytics event series.

The CDO Circle offers a unique opportunity to exchange innovative ideas, share experiences and examples of where you and your peers are delivering business value in new and impactful ways, as well as overcoming classic challenges and handling complexity.