CDAO APEX WEST
Presentations
Presentation: Understanding your data to tell a compelling narrative
- Creating a data driven business through generative AI
- Using data to create a compelling narrative to communicate effectively to executives and clients
- Discussing use cases to move beyond the Red Amber Green status
Speakers:
Matthew Kelly, Product, Operations & Intelligent Enterprise Officer P33 CHICAGO
Presentation: The Role of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning to Prepare for the Future
- AI is making data-driven insight more powerful and more accessible, but it also demands better and more massive data.
- AI technology is advancing at warp speed, which calls for new organizational strategies for developing processes and capacities and even rethinking of mission.
- New models of collaboration will be needed between technology users, developers and policy makers, and this means new collaboration models between industry, academia and government.
Speakers:
Jing Liu, Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Happy Hour Strategy Session: Understanding the cooperation between data and security
- Improving the security of data through data governance practices in cybersecurity policies
- Ensuring proper handling, storage and disposal of data
- Keeping data safe in transit and rest
- Understanding the importance safe data has on consumer perceptions of the enterprise
Speakers:
Natalia Bakhtina, Director, Cyber Security & IT Management, BFL CANADA
Presentation: The Human Factor: Driving Vision Forward in the Data Analytics Space
- Delve into the essential yet often overlooked aspect of data analytics: the human element
- Digging deep into the work of a Chief Analytics and Data Officers—discuss how intricately entwined with technology, algorithms, and data the role is in order to understand successful realization of the CDAO vision relies not only on the precision of computations but also on how effectively CDAOs engage teams, customers, and organizational leadership
- Explore strategies for fostering better communication, collaboration, and commitment among these vital stakeholders, demonstrating how the 'human factor' can enhance performance, innovation, and value creation in the data analytics space
- Uncover how, with a forward-looking approach that prioritizes people as much as technology, can unlock the full potential of our data-driven initiatives.
Speakers:
Benjamin Donlon, Chief Analytics Officer, METRO UNITED WAY
Presentation: Creating a successful data-driven culture by having a workforce that understands the value of data
- Unlock the value of data and embrace the power of analytics by upskilling high and strong potential talent with the data skills needed to solve strategic objectives and both complex and everyday business problems.
- Evolve the maturity and adoption of our technology, by investing in a workforce that understands the value of data and is empowered to challenge the norm and think outside the box.
- Create a successful data-driven culture by having a workforce that understands the value of data and feels comfortable using modern methods
- Leverage already-existing enterprise data to proactively make better decisions and draw insights
Speakers:
Stefanie Khan, Director of Business Intelligence & Data Analytics, UPS
Presentation: Unleashing the Power of Custom Generative AI Copilots in Enterprise Environments
This presentation will explore the rapidly-emerging world of generative AI copilots, custom designed for a specific company. A “generative AI copilot” is an advanced artificial intelligence system designed to collaboratively assist and augment human users in various tasks, leveraging generative capabilities to contribute actively to the creative and decision-making processes.
Key topics that will be covered in this session are:
- Recent announcements and emerging trends for these solutions
- Examples of typical use cases
- Hot to lead a generative AI project
Speakers:
Jim Griffin, Business Analytics Faculty
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS