CDAOs need to rapidly gain enterprise trust and establish themselves as critical business enablers. They must create a strong, differentiated and successful brand for the D&A function, in order to gain stakeholder buy-in and engagement.

With new pressures coming from AI, CDAOs must be agile in implementing and enabling business innovation. But, with quick adaptation, inevitably comes stress on traditional D&A delivery processes and practices. Join this interactive session to lean how to: clarify strategies to support business innovation, design adaptable and scalable delivery models and collaborate with business units to ensure value of D&A capabilities and services.

CDAOs are making investments daily. Perhaps you're looking to grow your team, or maybe making a technology investment to support GenAI, or another investment where you need to build buy-in and gain funding. This workshop will help you develop personal influence skills while also building a strong story for investment.

D&A leaders and teams are at an AI-driven inflection point. They are crucial to enable business value through AI-readiness but must evolve their strategy and operating model to meet their organization’s AI ambitions. Reporting from the Gartner 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey, this session reveals actions successful D&A leaders have taken to deliver business outcomes from AI, data, and analytics, and what they need to do next year.