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White House says agencies hired 200 AI experts so far through governmentwide ‘talent surge’

July 29, 2024: “AI.gov late last month added the names of 57 chief AI officers (CAIOs) across the federal government. David Mathison, founder of the first Chief AI Officer Summit last year, said many are already C-suite agency executives who have been dual-hatted into the role — some are dual-hat CIO and C. . . "
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Preventing AI Bias Starts at the Top – Just Ask These Female Chief AI Officers

July 10, 2024: “For those looking to build their network and knowledge, consider these resources: Chief AI Officer Summit – The CDO Club’s second annual CAIO summit will be held October 2 (a day after its CDAO Summit) in Washington, D.C.”. . . "
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Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers

May 9, 2024: “Along with that high-level understanding, a successful CAIO should possess technical expertise to pair with strategic vision and the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and teams, says David Mathison, CEO of the Chief AI Officer Summit, CDO Summit, and CDO Club.”. . . "
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As Federal Hiring Deadline Looms, Chief AI Officers Are in Demand. Here’s Where to Find Yours

May 9, 2024: “Mathison began tracking the CAIO job title in 2021, researching and evaluating LinkedIn profiles in-depth. In 2020, there were some 250 results, and the numbers have been arcing upward ever since, to about 400 (2021), 500 (2022), 600 (2023), and 999 as of this week.”. . . "
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1 Effect of the AI Revolution: The Number of Chief AI Officers Has Tripled

April 15, 2024: “The newspaper quotes David Mathison, an entrepreneur who’s founder and CEO of the world’s first Chief AI Officer Summit, saying the job needs a person with a “deep understanding of AI tech, machine learning, data science, and analytics.” It is, after all, a highly tech. . . "
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Press Releases

IDC Named Exclusive Research Partner to CDO Club & Presenting Analyst Partner of CDO Summit

The CDO Club provides high-impact services designed to help members improve their capabilities, strengthen their networks, share insights and strategies, and identify the tools needed to help successfully navigate today’s rapidly evolving, highly competitive and complex data/digital environmen. . . "
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7th NYC CDO Summit, Sponsored by Globant, Returns to Columbia University on May 8, 2019

NEW YORK, April 30, 2019. /PRNewswire/ — Organizers for the 7th annual NYC CDO Summit, sponsored by Globant, a digitally native global technology services company, today announced speakers and the agenda for the event on May 8, 2019, in the Roone Arledge auditorium at Columbia University in Ne. . . "
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Atif Rafiq, President of Commercial and Growth, MGM Resorts International (former CDO, Volvo Cars) Named U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2019 by CDO Club

NEW YORK, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Atif Rafiq, newly appointed President of Commercial and Growth at MGM Resorts International and former Chief Digital Officer at Volvo Cars, today was recognized as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2019 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest co. . . "
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Linda Avery, Chief Data Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Named US Chief Data Officer of the Year 2019 by CDO Club

Linda Avery, Chief Data Officer and Head of Data and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, today was recognized as the U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2019 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Ms. Avery was presented with the awa. . . "
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Fred Santarpia, Former Chief Digital Officer at Condé Nast, Named U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2018 by CDO Club

NEW YORK, April 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Fred Santarpia, Digital Transformation Expert and former Chief Digital Officer at Condé Nast, was today recognized as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2018 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leader. . . "
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Photo and Video Summary

Welcome
Riley McDonough: Thomson Reuters
Morning Keynote: Vivian Schiller
Morning Keynote: Vivian Schiller
Chief Digital Officer Talent Map 2013
David Mathison: Chief Digital Officer Summit
Chief Digital Officer Talent Map 2013
Participant
Publishing Panel
Joe Bilman and Ellie Hirschhorn
Fred Santarpia: Conde Nast Entertainment
David Kang and Joe Bilman
David Kang: Wenner Media
Michael Smith: Forbes.com and Forbes Media
Participants
Broadcasting Panel
Daniel Heaf: BBC Worldwide
Broadcasting Panel
Albert Cheng and Jason Tafler
Albert Cheng and Jason Tafler
Broadcasting Panel
Broadcasting Panel
Participants
Education Panel
Sree Sreenivasan: MET Museum
Sree Sreenivasan: MET Museum
Perry Hewitt: Harvard University
Perry Hewitt and Bernardo Rodriguez
Bernardo Rodriguez: Kaplan Test Prep
Education Panel
Participants
NonProfit Panel
Elizabeth Scott: Lincoln Center
Elizabeth Scott and Christine Montgomery
Christine Montgomery and Tom Hjelm
Tom Hjelm: New York Public Radio
NonProfit Panel
Ana Serrano: Canadian Film Centre
Participants
Advertising Panel
Jane Barratt: mcgarrybowen
Mayer Danzig: Kantar Retail
Jonathan Sackett: Oglivy & Mather
Advertising Panel
Josh Golden and Angela Wei
Advertising Panel
Jane Barratt: mcgarrybowen
Advertising Panel
Participants
Music Panel
Dick Wingate: DEV Advisors
Music Panel
Eric Garland and Bill Campbell
Eric Garland: LiveNation.com
Brian Lakamp: Clear Channel
Music Panel
Michael Doernberg: ReverbNation
Music Panel
Participants
Entertainment Panel
Rosemary Maggiore: Rachael Ray Digital
Laxmi Wordham: Michael J Fox Foundation
Katerina Markov and Laxmi Wordham
Katerina Markov: Atom Factory
Katerina Markov: Atom Factory
Harriet Seitler: Harpo Studios
Harriet Seitler: Harpo Studios
Entertainment Panel
Participants
Evening Keynote: David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Evening Keynote: David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Closing

Video Highlights

Video Highlights

Video London 2015

Video Highlight Amsterdam 2015

Video Highlight Amsterdam 2015

Video Highlight NYC 2016

Chief Digital Officer Talent Map

Talent Map CDO Growth
Chief Digital Officers by Sector

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Logos: CDO Club and Summit

David Mathison Bio and Head Shots

Short bio:

David Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAOs), and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs). He’s been quoted by CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, McKinsey, MIT Sloan, WSJ & more.

He is the founder/CEO of InnovationExchange.ai, parent of the CAIO Summit, CDO/CDAO Summits, and the CDO Club — the world’s first/largest network of CAIOs, CDAOs & CDOs. A $1B+ influence engine, the CDO Club connects 100K+ global AI/Data/Digital leaders who control billions in hiring, investment & strategic spend.

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Extended bio:

David Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), Chief Data and Analytics Officers (CDAOs), and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), having been quoted by CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, McKinsey, WSJ, and more.

He is the CEO and founder of InnovationExchange.ai, the holding company behind the Chief AI Officer Summit, the CDO/CDAO Summits, and the CDO Club, the world’s first and largest network of CAIOs, CDOs, and CDAOs.

A $1B+ influence engine, the CDO Club offers trusted access to 100,000 global C-suite AI/Data/Digital leaders who control billions in hiring, investment, and strategic spend.

Over the last decade, Mathison has consistently anticipated and defined the most important executive roles and market shifts in enterprise AI, data, and digital transformation.

Pioneering Firsts in AI, Data, and Digital Leadership:

  • 2025: Launched the world’s first Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for fractional/on-demand Chief AI Officers and CDAOs.
  • 2024: Created the world’s first executive search practice dedicated to CAIO and GenAI talent.
  • 2023: Produced the world’s first-ever Chief AI Officer Summit.
  • 2020: Produced a Chief AI Officer/CDAO webinar series for IBM’s Global Chief Data Officer office and AI Client Accelerator team — years before CAIOs went mainstream.
  • 2019: First to identify and track the emerging Chief AI Officer title — when only ~200 existed worldwide — building on a decade of pioneering work defining the CDO role.
  • 2014: Published the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer Talent Map.
  • 2013: Delivered the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit.
  • 2012: Founded the CDO Club, providing trusted access to 100,000+ C-suite AI/Data/Digital leaders across the Fortune 500, venture-backed startups, VC and PE firms, government, military, and the national security and intelligence communities.
  • 2011–2013: MD, Digital Media at Chadick Ellig, named by Bloomberg BusinessWeek one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters,” where he incubated the CDO Club.
  • 2008: Published Be The Media, and was featured by the AP in the NY Times after he pre-sold over 5,000 copies in 11 days via his web site, Twitter, and Facebook. The book was a prescient call to the passion economy that helped creators connect directly with their audiences.
  • 2000: Mathison was a seed investor in Revere Data, which was acquired by Factset Research for $15 million in 2000.
  • 1999–2002: Founder/CEO of Kinecta, raised $30M from Adobe, Canaan, Fidelity & Reuters. Exceeded $1M+ revenue in year one; acquired via Stellent → Oracle ($440M).
  • 1994–1999: VP at Reuters; pioneered online content syndication, years before RSS existed.
  • 1989-1993: Mathison was the 7th person hired at Ovid, which provided natural language interfaces to medical databases such as MEDLINE. Ovid went public and in 1998 was acquired by Wolters Kluwer for $200 million.

Since 2012, Mathison has bootstrapped three verticals — executive search, events, and community — to independent 7-figure ARR with zero CAC, validating their “minicorn” status. He previously built multiple 7-figure products and businesses at Reuters and Kinecta within one year.

Mathison has executed multi-million-dollar GTM and leadership campaigns for the world’s most demanding clients: Accenture, Bain Capital, IBM, Insight Partners, McKinsey, Microsoft, and more.

Trusted by U.S. Government, Federal Agencies, Military, Intelligence, and Security communities, including C-level speakers from the Army, Air Force, CIA, CFPB, Coast Guard, DHS, DNI, DoD, DoT, HUD, NASA, National Guard, Navy, OPM, SEC, Treasury, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and The White House.

He has led executive AI and digital strategy programs at Columbia, Oxford, Northeastern, UTS, and hosted summits on five continents.

He has delivered keynotes on five continents — from Columbia University and the United Nations (three times in 2010) to cities spanning Austin to Zagreb — a literal A-to-Z of global digital leadership.

Recognized as the leading authority on Chief AI, Analytics, Data, and Digital Officers, Mathison has been quoted by American Banker, Axios, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, Dow Jones MarketWatch, EdTech Magazine, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, GovCIO, Guardian, Huffington Post, HR Executive, I-CIO, LinkedIn News, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.

Mathison received his master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1995.

Board of Directors
• Pace University Lubin School of Business (2020–2021)
• HomeAid America (2010–2013)
• Webhood.org, Cambridge, MA (2002–2011)
• Media Freedom Foundation (2008–2011)
• Mountain Play Association, Mill Valley, CA (2008)

Board of Conveners
 • Marin Community Media Center, San Rafael, CA (2007)

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