An organization called the CDO Club tracks new chief AI officer appointments, revealing a consistent uptick in placements for this executive role in recent months. Chief AI officers have already been put into place at some organizations with household names, such as GE HealthCare, UnitedHealth Group, Deloitte, Thoughtworks, Mayo Clinic, Dell Technologies, Intel Corporation and […]

According to David Mathison, founder and CEO of the CDO Club and the world’s first CAIO Summit (which took place in December at Northeastern University), a CAIO in higher ed can: Ensure student success by driving AI initiatives that provide personalized learning experiences, early intervention systems and support for at-risk students…

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.