Data and AI are so closely tied together that David Mathison, founder and chairman of the CDO (chief data officer) Club, began also tracking the “chief AI officer” (CAIO) title in his monthly jobs updates last year. As the role continues to gain prominence, he just hosted his first CAIO Summit last month.

Chief AI Officer is still not a very common job title. CDO Club CEO David Mathison estimates there are about 250 CAIOs in the world today. The summit brought together a significant portion of those CAIOs along with more than 100 executives with more traditional titles like CEO, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Data Officer, and […]

The CDO/CAIO Summit was held at the EAI facilities and featured industry speakers including past, present, and newly appointed CDOs and CAIOs from leading industry companies and organizations including Bon Secours Mercy Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dell Technologies, Elevance Health, Estee Lauder, Thrivent, T-Mobile, Sanofi, the United States Air Force and Army, and Verizon, among others.

Taking risks is critical to success for the chief artificial intelligence officer, according to government and commercial AI leaders who met at the inaugural Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Summit in Boston last week.

Hundreds of agencies across the federal government are scrambling to find more than 400 chief AI officers by the end of the year. CAIOs from all sectors will gather for the inaugural Chief AI Officer Summit in Boston on Dec. 14.