How is the CDAO Role Changing? What will it look like in 3-5 years?
Come ready to discuss these questions around the future of the CDAO leadership role with your colleagues. The room will be set up for smaller conversations of 7-10 per table, with one facilitator from Gartner. CDAO Circle sessions are not recorded to preserve your confidentiality.
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Brian Foster
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At Gartner, I lead the Peer and Practitioner Research team for the Data & Analytics practice. My team identifies best practices associated with successful D&A functional management and leadership, specifically at the level of the Chief Data & Analytics Officer or Chief Data Officer. Key areas of expertise include aligning D&A strategy with business strategy, organizing the D&A function for business impact and communicating the business value of D&A.
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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.
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Brian Foster
(Gartner)
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Candice Kenney
(Gartner)
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Cameron Roche
(Gartner)
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Michael Gabbard
(Gartner)
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.