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Friday September 20, 2024

On-Demand AI Leadership: Delivering Scalable and Agile AI Strategy, Innovation, Productivity, and Competitive Advantage -
Without the Full-Time Commitment or Cost

Join the CDAO/CAIO Summits, Tue-Wed Oct 1-2!

AI capabilities are pivotal to organizational success, but demand has far outstripped supply for C-level data and AI talent, leaving most small and medium businesses unable to afford the expense of a full-time Chief AI Officer.

This panel brings together distinguished leaders to discuss the advantages of leveraging the fractional model, aka “Talent as a Service,” for CDAOs and CAIOs.

Panelists will explore the benefits of this approach, how it can deliver your AI/data strategy immediately, amplify your existing teams at lower cost, drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency and productivity, and provide scalable, strategic, top-tier AI talent and leadership without the long-term expense and commitment of a full-time executive.

The goal is to help LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD for AI innovation and deployment at scale for smaller organizations, allowing SMBs, non-profits, startups, governments, and federal agencies alike to leverage the benefits of seasoned AI and data leaders, at a fraction of the cost.

We'll be running a version of this session at BOTH the upcoming CDAO Summit on Oct 1 and the CAIO Summit on Oct 2. Do not miss this one! 

Participants include:
Tanya Dua: Technology Editor, LinkedIn (moderator). Tanya is an experienced reporter, editor and editorial manager with a decade of tech and business coverage. She currently leads tech coverage for LinkedIn News, reaching LinkedIn’s 1 billion+ members focusing on AI, enterprise tech and big tech. She was the founding reporter on Business Insider’s advertising and media team, where she wrote regular news and feature stories, and led and built flagship editorial products like the ‘Most Innovative Chief Marketing Officers’ and the ‘CMOs to Watch’ lists.
Jay Mandal: Former COO, SAP Analytics & AI Business and Guest Lecturer, Stanford Law School. At SAP he led operations and products, providing analytics and intelligence on spend data for SAP’s top SaaS businesses (Concur, Ariba, and Fieldglass). Previously VP of Product Strategy for SAP Ariba (>$1B revenue) and SAP's SMB ERP Business (>$100M revenue), helping lead both to double digit percentage YoY revenue growth. As Apple's head M&A attorney, led key acquisitions behind the original iPad and iPhone. At Stanford University he teaches classes on AI/generative AI, product management and legal ethics.
Eileen Vidrine: Former Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer, US Department of the Air Force, Chief Data & AI Office. She most recently served as the Department of the Air Force Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer, where she developed and implemented strategies for enterprise data management, analytics, digital transformation, and responsible and ethical artificial intelligence to optimize performance and drive innovation in and across all missions and operations. 
Topher Wurts: Chief Marketing Officer, Innovation Exchange AI.  Topher is also a Chief Outsiders Partner and CMO who provides fractional, project, program, and coaching support to executives and companies of all sizes, along with over seventy Chief Outsider partner peers all who’ve previously held C-level titles at mostly fortune 1500 companies. Topher’s been a change agent at the intersection of technology, marketing, and sales for his entire career.
David Mathison: CEO, InnovationExchange.ai. Mathison founded the world’s 1st-ever CAIO Summit in 2023, the 1st-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit in 2013, and the CDO Club in 2012. He is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers, Chief Data and Analytics Officers, and Chief Digital Officers. He has been quoted by American Banker, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, I-CIO, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among many others.
Key takeaways from this session include:
• Strategic Focus: Identify your AI strategy NOW, and help align AI projects with overall business and organizational goals immediately. You can't afford to wait 9-12 months for your CHRO to hire a CAIO.
Immediate Impact: Quickly identify AI opportunities, address challenges, and provide actionable recommendations with seasoned AI professionals and our partner ecosystem.
Accelerated Implementation: Implement AI initiatives and projects NOW with the guidance of experienced AI leaders, reducing the time to achieve significant AI-driven outcomes.
Diverse Experience: Benefit from the diverse experience of a fractional CAIO who has worked with multiple organizations across various sectors, bringing a wealth of knowledge and best practices from different industries.
Flexibility: Fractional talent can be engaged on an as-needed basis, allowing for scalable AI leadership that can adapt to the organization's evolving needs and projects.
Enhanced Innovation: Drive innovation within the organization by leveraging the fractional CAIO's experience in cutting-edge AI technologies and trends.
Reduced Risk: Mitigate the risks associated with hiring a full-time CAIO, such as the possibility of misalignment or underperformance, by initially engaging a fractional CAIO.
Specialized Skills: Access specialized AI skills and knowledge that may not be available in-house, enhancing the organization's ability to tackle complex AI challenges.
Cost-Effective Expertise: Access high-level AI expertise without the financial commitment of a full-time executive, making it more affordable for organizations of all sizes.
Leadership Development: Support the development of internal AI talent by having a seasoned CAIO mentor and guide existing team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
Check out all the speakers and the full agendas via the links below, and register TODAY: 
  • CDAO Summithttps://dc.cdosummit.com/agenda-2024
  • Chief AI Officer Summithttps://dc.caiosummit.com/agenda-2024
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Join our 3rd Chief AI Officer Summit & 11th CDAO Summit!

Delegates, speakers, and sponsors can participate in one or both events.
Elevate your AI strategy with insights from industry and government leaders at the 11th CDAO Summit and 3rd Chief AI Officer Summit, October 1-2.

Whether you're seeking to enhance your AI initiatives or learn from the best, these are the events to attend. They promise to deliver cutting-edge insights and intimate networking opportunities with C-suite decision makers.

Register today to be part of the future of AI and data and to gain exclusive knowledge and important, lifetime connections.
Register NOW at either site below:
Register NOW:
  • 1-day regular registration: USD $795
  • BOTH DAYS regular registration: USD $1,295
    Choose "BOTH DAYS" and SAVE $295! You pay $1,295, a savings of $295 off buying each day separately (2 x $795 = $1,590).
NOTE: Current employees of the U.S Government, Federal Agencies, and the Armed Forces are eligible for the Early Bird discount of $495 for one day and $795 for both days. Email us with a link to your LinkedIn URL to determine if you are eligible for the discount.
 
BONUS: Delegates who buy BOTH DAYS at regular price will get the Chief AI Officer Talent Map 2024 at NO COST = a $995 value!
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Meet these speakers at the DC CDAO/CAIO Summits Oct 1-2:
  • Anthony Scriffignano: Distinguished Fellow, Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council, The Stimson Center
  • Austin Gerig: Chief Data Officer, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Brian Peretti: Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Chris Kraft: Deputy CTO, AI/Emerging Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Daniel Bernard: Chief Product and Technology Officer, Hearst Magazines
  • Danny Brock: Vice President of Customer Success, Fiddler AI
  • David Bray, PhD: Principal & CEO at LeadDoAdapt (LDA) Ventures; Distinguished Fellow, BENS.org
  • David Chivers: Former President, Publisher, CDO at WSJ, Dow Jones, USA Today, Gannett, Des Moines Register, Meredith Corporation
  • David Mathison: CEO, CAIO Summit/CDAO Summit; CDO Club
  • David Salvagnini: Chief AI Officer (CAIO) & Chief Data Officer (CDO), NASA
  • Dr. Delester Brown Jr: Chief Data Officer, National Guard Bureau
  • Diane Staheli: Assistant Director, AI Applications, Office of Science and Tech Policy, The White House
  • Eileen Vidrine: Former Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer, Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office
  • Florin Rotar: Chief AI Officer, Avanade
  • Guy Cavallo: Chief Information Officer and Acting Chief AI Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
  • Iwao Fusillo: Global Head of Data & Analytics - eCommerce, PepsiCo
  • Jacqueline Acker: Deputy Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Jay Mandal: Former COO, SAP Analytics & AI Business and Guest Lecturer, Stanford Law School
  • Kristin Switzer: Senior Advisor to the Chief Data Officer, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) 
  • Marie Falkowski: Deputy Chief Data Officer for the Intelligence Community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • Mark Brady: Deputy Chief Data Officer for TRMC, KBR, Inc.
  • Marc Lavallee: Director of Technology Product and AI Strategy/Journalism, Knight Foundation
  • Michael Boyce: Director, DHS AI Corps, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Michael Krigsman:  Host and Publisher,  CXOTalk video podcast
  • Dr. Mike Horton: Acting Chief AI Officcer; Deputy Chief Data Officer, US Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • Nick Elprin: CEO, Domino Data Lab
  • Paul Evangelista: Chief Data Officer, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
  • Dr. Salima Bhimani: Former Chief Strategist & Director for Inclusive, Responsible Technology, Business and Leaders, Google  
  • Spence Green: CEO, Lilt
  • Sree Sreenivasan: CEO at Digimentors; Former CDO of NYC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbia University
  • Stephanie Hunter: Deputy Director, Defense Digital Talent Management, Development and Training, DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office
  • Tanya Dua: Technology Editor, LinkedIn
  • Teresa Carlson: President, General Catalyst Institute
  • Thomas Sasala: Deputy Director, Office of Enterprise Management, U.S. Army
  • Topher Wurts: Former Area Managing Partner and CMO, Chief Outsiders
  • Vinay Vijay Singh: Chief AI Officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Yudong Cao: Chief Technology Officer, Zapata AI
  • More to come!
Register NOW
LAST CHANCE to speak at the CDAO/CAIO Summits:
 
Don’t Just Attend, Stand Out from the Crowd!
Command the Stage and Seize the Spotlight
  • Last chance to take the stage and lead the conversation on AI and Data.
  • Sponsored speaking slots allocated on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED basis.
  • The venue has a large exhibition area with room for tables and pop-up booths. 
  • Non-speaking and branding sponsorships are still available for each day.
  • Want an inexpensive way to check out our capabilities for next year? Buy a delegate ticket! 
For sponsorship info, contact via email or call +1 516 488-1143
Thanks to our partners for our Washington DC Summits: 
Domino Data Lab empowers the largest AI-driven enterprises to build and operate AI at scale. Domino’s Enterprise AI platform unifies the flexibility AI teams want with the visibility and control the enterprise requires. Domino enables a repeatable and agile ML lifecycle for faster, responsible AI impact with lower costs.
Visit:
https://www.domino.ai
Fiddler is a pioneer in AI Observability for responsible AI. The unified environment provides a common language, centralized controls, and actionable insights to operationalize ML models and GenAI and LLM applications with trust. Monitoring, analytics, and explainable AI capabilities address the unique challenges of building in-house stable and secure LLM and MLOps at scale. Fiddler helps you grow into advanced capabilities over time and build a framework for responsible AI practices. Visit: https://www.fiddler.ai
Lilt is the complete AI solution for enterprise & government translation & content creation. 
Visit:
https://lilt.com
Zapata.ai uses generative AI and quantum techniques to solve complex business problems, enrich business analytics with real and inferred data and customize large language models for customer-specific problems — and make them orders of magnitude more efficient. Visit: https://zapata.ai
govCDOiq.org is a collaborative, non-biased knowledge repository that seeks to accelerate success for federal agency Chief Data Officers and their teams – including data architects, data strategists, data analysts, data stewards, and AI/ML leaders. Visit: https://govcdoiq.org
What can you expect at our CDAO and Chief AI Officer Summits in DC?

Check out these videos of all sessions from our 10th CDAO Summit and the world's first-ever Chief AI Officer Summit from December 2023, hosted by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston MA.

We are embedding the videos from each session on our blog post re-caps below - so stay tuned:
* 10th CDAO Summit re-cap <-- all videos are up.
* 1st Chief AI Officer Summit re-cap <-- videos coming soon.

You can also view the videos on our YouTube channel and playlist for the CDAO Summit Boston 2023.
Thanks to the journalists and analysts for quoting us in the following articles:

• Sept 9, 2024 (Tanium): Do You Need to Hire a Chief AI Officer?
Sept 6, 2024 (Communications of the ACM): The Rise of the CAIO
• Sept 4, 2024 (Global Finance Magazine): Growing Demand For Chief AI Officers
Aug 28 (IDC): 7 Top Skills and Traits of Successful Chief AI Officers 
• July 29, 2024 (Federal News Network): White House says agencies hired 200 AI experts so far through governmentwide ‘talent surge’
• July 20, 2024 (Tanium): Preventing AI Bias Starts at the Top – Just Ask These Female Chief AI Officers
• May 9, 2024 (CIO.com): Essential skills and traits of Chief AI Officers
• May 9, 2024 (Tanium): As Federal Hiring Deadline Looms, Chief AI Officers Are in Demand. Here’s Where to Find Yours
• Apr 15, 2024: (Inc.): One Effect of the AI Revolution: The Number of Chief AI Officers Has Tripled
• Apr 14, 2024 (Financial Times): The Rise of the Chief AI Officer
• Feb 26, 2024 (Dow Jones): Chief AI Officer: A necessity for companies or an expensive impediment?
• Feb 14, 2024 (People Matters): Tech's AI superstars rake in $1 mn: Are you paying enough?
Feb 14, 2024 (HR Executive): These orgs hired a chief AI officer. Does your company need one?
Feb 06, 2024 (EdTech Magazine): What Is a Chief AI Officer, and Should Your University Appoint One?
Jan 26, 2024 (LinkedIn News): AI jobs are among the fastest-growing, even as many people fear the technology. Here's what AI leaders do - and how to become one
Jan 04, 2024 (Inst for Experiential AI): Business Leaders Gather For World’s 1st Chief AI Officer Summit
Jan 02, 2024 (Forbes): From The Classroom to The Economy: Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI Accelerates Real-World AI Transformation 
Dec 18, 2023 (GovCIO): AI Chiefs Need to Experiment to Implement AI Successfully
Nov 27, 2023 (Axios): DC's Hottest New Job: The Chief AI Officer
Nov 15, 2023 (Tanium): The Chief AI Officer is Here. It's Time to Make Room in the C-Suite
Oct 29, 2023 (Forbes): The Case for the Chief AI Officer - A Role Whose Time Has Come
 
On deadline? Send press inquiries via email here or call us on +1 516 488-1143

Say what?! Check out our 287+ Endorsements!

See what previous speakers, delegates, and sponsors had to say about the CAIO/CDAO Summits.
"What a wonderful CDAO/Chief AI Officer Summit in Boston! I'm so grateful and honored to have participated in both days. I got a chance to catch up with peers & friends, see some of my pals like Randy Bean and Michael Krigsman, and I finally got to see you in person and give you a warm big hug and thank you for all that you do, IN PERSON! It was an amazing event. Thank you.”
- Sol Rashidi: Data, AI, & Business Consultant, ExecutiveAI
"This was a great collaboration David Mathison, we should do it more often 🙂 You put on a great program, as always. Thanks for your partnership between the world's 1st-ever Chief AI Officer Summit and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University!"
- Hamit Hamutcu: Senior Advisor at Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University
"Thank you David Mathison for the opportunity to share and highlight the healthcare industry trends at today’s 10th CDAO Summit, and for for putting together such a fantastic Chief AI Officer Summit! BigID is proud to sponsor and support this community."

- Peggy Tsai: Chief Data Officer, BigID
See all 287 endorsements here >

About the Chief AI Officer Summit:

The CAIO Summit is the world's first-ever event specifically for Chief AI Officers and leaders in Generative AI. Brought to you by the producers of the 1st-ever CDO Summit in 2013, our inaugural event is hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston MA. The program includes the best AI strategists and practitioners on earth, in an intimate, collegial, and supportive environment designed to encourage networking, learning, and knowledge-sharing. If you are tasked with mastering the strategies and tactics to surpass your AI business objectives, secure your seat at the CAIO Summit today. Visit the website.

About the CDO/CDAO Summit:

For over a decade, the CDO/CDAO Summits have been addressing the challenges and opportunities arising from AI, analytics, big data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media. Our gatherings include the best data/digital strategists and practitioners on earth, in intimate, collegial, and supportive environments designed to encourage networking, learning, and knowledge-sharing. If you are tasked with mastering the strategies and tactics to achieve and surpass your data/digital business objectives, be sure to join us at a CDO Summit today. Visit the website.

About the CDO Club:

The CDO Club is the world’s first, largest, and most powerful community of C-suite AI, analytics, data, digital, and cyber-security leaders. Our members receive access to advisory services, breaking news, original research, career development support, networking opportunities, and inspirational events. Our high-impact services are designed to help our members improve their capabilities, strengthen their professional networks, openly share insights & strategies, & collaboratively identify the tools essential to help them succeed in navigating today’s rapidly evolving, highly competitive & complex online environment. Visit the website.

The opening keynote at the world's 1st Chief AI Officer Summit hosted by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston MA in December 2023 on "The Chief AI Officer Talent Map" by David Mathison, CEO, CDO Club & CDAO/CAIO Summit. 

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