Join this interactive session to engage with your peers and explore proven methods for demonstrating the value of data and analytics programs. Gain new insights and ideas from the experiences of other leaders to effectively communicate positive impacts and tangible results within your organization.

Join this interactive session to engage with your peers and explore proven methods for demonstrating the value of data and analytics programs. Gain new insights and ideas from the experiences of other leaders to effectively communicate positive impacts and tangible results within your organization.

D&A and AI leaders, including CDAOs, continue to face challenges in demonstrating the value of D&A and AI initiatives. This session will provide a roadmap for gaining stakeholder buy-in, quantifying value and building a robust business case, learning from the successes of other organizations, and continuously measuring results and adjusting.

Prioritizing data and AI literacy programs directly impacts the core measures of a firm’s financial performance. Investing in data and AI literacy is the fastest way for D&A leaders to achieve payback in their D&A maturity journey, especially in early stages of maturity.

AI is drastically changing how organizations do business and operate. As a result, data, analytics and AI must be approached differently, with a focus on value — the organizational capabilities, competencies and processes required to utilize AI and data to redesign workflows and enable decisions orchestrated by both people and machines in near real time. This session gets you grounded on the capabilities of the intelligent enterprise, why it is important and how to pivot toward this model.

Join an interactive executive discussion on emerging trends from the 2026 CDAO Agenda Survey, highlighting cost optimization for D&A, scalable design patterns and the use of AI to improve D&A operations. Discover how these insights can drive efficiency and innovation across your organization.

Chief data and analytics officers play a critical role in driving and overseeing major business changes to deliver enterprise value. Clear and actionable change-management plans are essential for both proactive and reactive data-driven change.

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.

Prioritizing data and AI literacy programs directly impacts the core measures of a firm’s financial performance. Investing in data and AI literacy is the fastest way for D&A leaders to achieve payback in their D&A maturity journey, especially in early stages of maturity.