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Chief Digital Officers Attracting Attention In Digitalization of Economy

July 24, 2017: By Akutsu Yoshikazu for TechRepublic: “As the economy becomes increasingly digital, a unified digital strategy is required for companies. the “Chief Digital Officer” (CDO) title has been established as the person responsible for promoting the digital strategy. The US-based “C. . . "
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Who Will Drive Digital Transformation In Future?

December 22, 2016: “The tribe of CDOs is growing at a fast clip. In an interview on Forbes.com, David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club, a global community of digital leaders, said, ‘At the end of 2015 there were approximately 2,000 CDOs. CDO hires have been doubling every year and I expect there to be 2,500 C. . . "
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Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer

December 16, 2016: “New York’s emphasis on the CDO as point person for the start-up culture goes back to Haot, the city’s first CDO, who helped foster cooperation between academia and business, notes David Mathison, founder of the New York City-based CDO Club, which runs “CDO Summit” conferences . . . "
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Chief Digital Officers Don’t Stay Long In The Role – Here’s Why

October 1, 2016: “CEO tenure is on the rise, and now stands at about five years for FTSE 100 CEOs & nine years for Fortune 500 CEOs. Equivalent statistics for CDOs are elusive, but anecdotally CDOs have a much shorter life in role. Expect to see CDO turnover remain high for some time. Here’s why. . . "
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Breakthrough Or Buddy-up: Two Strategies For Chief Digital Officers

September 23, 2016: “Growth of the chief digital officer role has been incredibly rapid over the last few years, reflecting the increasing importance of technology to organisational success and survival.. . . "
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Press Releases

ForgeRock and The CDO Club Announce Partnership for Upcoming Identity Summits and CDO Summits in London and Amsterdam

SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK, LONDON and AMSTERDAM, July 30, 2015: ForgeRock®, the leading open platform provider of identity management solutions and the CDO Club, the world’s largest C-Suite community of digital and data leaders with over 1,000 registered members, today jointly announced an alli. . . "
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Number of Chief Digital Officers Doubled Again in 2014, According to the CDO Club

NEW YORK, May 7, 2015: According to new data from the CDO Club, the number of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) doubled from 2013 to nearly 1,000 in 2014, continuing a trend of doubling each year. The CDO Club forecasts that the number of global CDOs will double again in 2015, to some 2,000 CDOs by [&he. . . "
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CDO Club Names Starbucks Coffee Company’s Adam Brotman U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2015

NEW YORK, April 29, 2015: CDO Club, the world’s first and largest community of C-suite digital leaders, with over 1,000 members, today named Adam Brotman, Starbucks Coffee Company’s Chief Digital Officer, the 2015 U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year.. . . "
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3rd Annual Chief Digital Officer Summit, Sponsored by Capgemini, Returns to Thomson Reuters in NYC on April 29, 2015

NEW YORK, April 21, 2015: Organizers for the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit, sponsored by Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, today announced speakers and additional sponsors for the third annual U.S. event on April 29, 2015. . . "
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CDO Club’s David Mathison to Speak at SXSW on ‘How to Prepare for the Tidal Wave of Big Data Jobs’

NEW YORK, March 11, 2015: David Mathison, founder of the CDO Club and curator of the CDO Summit for Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers, will take part in a South By South West panel titled “How to Prepare for the Tidal Wave of Big Data Jobs” on Friday March 13, 2015 at 2 [&he. . . "
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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

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David Mathison Bio and Head Shots

David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the CAIO Summit, CDO Club, and CDO/CDAO Summits.

Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers, Chief Data and Analytics Officers, and Chief Digital Officers.

In 2023 he delivered the world’s first-ever Chief AI Officer Summit. In 2013 he produced the world’s first Chief Digital Officer Summit and published the first CDO Talent Map.

He 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.

He was previously founder and Managing Director of the Digital Media practice at Chadick Ellig, a premiere executive search consultancy named by Business Week as “one of the world’s most influential headhunters”.

Mathison’s book, BE THE MEDIA, 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.

He has given keynote presentations everywhere from Columbia University to the United Nations (3 times in 2010), from Austin, TX (SXSW) and Amsterdam, Holland to Zagreb, Croatia.

From 1999-2001 he was founder and CEO of the Kinecta Corporation where he raised $30 million in under 2 years. Kinecta was acquired and is now part of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL).

From 1994-1999 Mathison was Vice President with Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest news agency, where he pioneered online content syndication.

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

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