Speakers announced for the IBM CDO Summit NYC
on Tuesday June 20.
Secure your seat - register NOW!

Join us for the upcoming IBM CDO Summit NYC on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at the fabulous 75 Rockefeller Plaza!

Check out the agenda and preliminary speaker lineup below.

Seating is limited to 125 C-level delegates so mark your calendar and register NOW and secure your seat for the price of JUST $595!

Register NOW: https://nyc.cdosummit.com/register

The first 100 attendees to arrive at the IBM CDO Summit NYC on June 20 will receive complimentary apparel including IBM padfolios, umbrellas, pens and tote bags!
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• 10:00-11:00: Registration, Breakfast, and Networking

• 11:00-11:15: IBM Welcome Address and Kick Off
  Liliana Horne: Director, AI Accelerator, Chief Data Office, IBM

• 11:15-12:00: Keynote: Data Strategy - The CDO's role in AI
  Inderpal Bhandari: Global Chief Data Officer, IBM
  One thing is certain—there’s no AI without data. But where does responsibility for AI start and stop within the CDO role and how do you design a data strategy that allows these technologies to thrive? In this session we’ll explore recent AI trends and how they align with the 4 characteristics of the most successful CDOs from the 2023 Chief Data Officer Study: Turning data into value.

• 12:00-1:00: Panel: Data Architecture and Data Literacy. The right data foundation sells itself: How to ensure data users have a clear line of sight from data to value
  Arun Kumar: Chief Data and Marketing Technology Officer, Interpublic Group
  Caroline Arnold: EVP, CDO & CIO for Global Markets, Risk, Finance & Corporate, State Street
  Eric Hirschhorn: Chief Data Officer, BNY Mellon
  Gary Kotovets: Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Dun & Bradstreet
  Some technical users of data want to be able to flex their coding skills, and others prefer more out of the box solutions. Line of business users don’t always care about the brilliant work that makes their day to day seamless, but the tools and software you select to help them action data insights is very much on their radar. In this panel session, explore how you can cultivate a modern data foundation that excites technical teams and entice business users to get data literate.

• 1:00-2:15: Lunch + Networking

• 1:00-2:15: Women in Data Networking Lunch

• 2:15-2:45: Session: Cross functional partnerships - Extremely engaged collaboration
  A successful data strategy means getting buy-in from stakeholders across the organization early on and having true partners in the execution of a data strategy. 

• 2:45-3:30: Panel: Responsible AI - Scale AI responsibly with a strong data foundation
  More and more companies are using data, algorithms and AI to reinvent how decision-making. For these intelligent systems to create economic and societal value for all stakeholders they must be designed and managed responsibly. Data quality, algorithmic safety, board oversight, data and AI governance, and AI architecture are all critical components of scaling AI for business.

• 3:30-4:15: What’s next in AI for business: foundation models, large language models and generative AI
  Innovations like ChatGPT have brought significant attention to the enormous technical advances in the area of foundation models and generative AI. How do businesses harness the power of these advances in an effective and trustworthy manner to power automation and accelerate their digital transformation? Join us for a conversation on the business opportunity of generative AI and foundation models, and how IBM’s next-generation AI and data platform, watsonx, can help multiply the impacts of AI across your business through three powerful components.
  Nicholas Fuller, PhD: Vice President, Automation and Edge, IBM Research, IBM

• 4:15-4:30: Closing remarks
  Liliana Horne: Director, AI Accelerator, Chief Data Office, IBM
   
• 4:30-6:00: Networking Reception

Re-caps from IBM CDO Summit 2022 in Boston/SF,
Plus links to videos from 2022 webinars below:

• 12/06/22: IBM CDO/CTO Summit East: Live in Boston
• 11/09/22: IBM CDO/CTO Summit West: Live in San Francisco
• 08/17/22: Privacy Expanded (webinar)
• 06/15/22: Data Fabric: Delivering Your Data Strategy (webinar)
• 04/13/22: Using AI to Reinvent the Enterprise (webinar)
• 03/09/22: Leadership During Challenging Times (webinar)

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