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Why Us?
Do you want to connect with C-level AI, analytics, data, and digital decision makers?
Look no further, you’ve come to the right place! We specialize in targeting C-suite decision makers for our sponsors.
The CDO Club, CDO/CDAO Summit, and Chief AI Officer Summit can help you connect with the increasingly influential C-level decision-makers in AI, analytics, data, digital, strategy, technology, and innovation.
- CDO Club (founded 2011): The CDO Club is the world’s first and largest C-suite community of Chief AI, Chief Analytics, Chief Data, Chief Digital, and CISOs.
- Our social profiles include 64k+ LinkedIn connections/followers, 50k+ X followers on BeTheMedia, CDOSummit, CAIOSummit, and 1.5 million cumulative views on our YouTube channel.
- Our email list includes 100k+ global subscribers, with each person tagged for targeted messaging and tracking.
- Back in 2011, our subscriber list was 25,000+ global Chief Digital Officers, Chief Experience Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Strategy Officers, and Chief Transformation Officers.
- Today, our list includes more than 100,000 global subscribers and now also includes Chief AI Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Data Officers, CDAOs, Chief Compliance, Governance, Privacy, and Risk Officers, and Chief Technology Officers.
- CDO/CDAO Summits (founded 2013): We have a 10-year history of convening bespoke events in intimate settings for networking with C-suite decision makers, including delivering the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit in NYC in 2013, London in 2014, then Europe and Australia in 2015.
- CAIO Summit: On December 14, 2023 we will deliver the world’s first-ever summit designed for Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), hosted by the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.
Taken together, our global community and events platform can help you to reach this coveted, C-level demographic both online and off, from targeted campaigns via our website, blog posts, social media, and email list; to intimate roundtables and CDO/CDAO/CAIO Summits, where you can meet these executives face-to-face.
Find out more below, or go directly to our Rate Card now for sponsorship options.
Webinars (2020-Present):
During the 2020-2022 pandemic/lockdown, we produced webinars that consistently delivered targeted leads to meet the desires of our sponsors Alation, Collibra, IBM, Insight Partners, Sumo Logic, and Transmit Security, among others.
Most of these webinars delivered 2-3x the number of targeted registrants we were contractually obligated to provide.
Webinar topics included AI, Analytics, Automation, Cloud Migration, Ethics, Data Fabric, Governance, Privacy, Trust in Data, Hybrid Multicloud, Innovation, Regulation, among many others.
In each case, we (over) delivered. And we can do the same for you.
You can view every single one of those webinars and events below:
ALATION 2021-2022 DATA FOR THE WIN! |
COLLIBRA 2022 UNITED BY DATA |
SUMO LOGIC 2021 COMPETITIVE R/T BUSINESS |
TRANSMIT SECURITY 2021 NEXT-GEN AUTHENTICATION |
![]() 10/28/21: Cloud Migration Roadmap 11/10/21: Speeding Time to Insight 3/2/22: Alation Global CDO Summit |
![]() Data Democratization and Modernization |
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CDO/CDAO Summits:
Previous Event Re-Caps and Websites
In February 2013, we delivered the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit in New York City.
Ten years later in August 2023, we launched the world’s first-ever event specifically designed for Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers (CAIOs), which will be hosted by the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
In between, we have produced and delivered events in Amsterdam, Boston, Istanbul, London, Madrid, New York City, San Francisco, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, and Washington DC, as well as dozens of online, virtual webinars.
Three NYC summits were held at Thomson Reuters, two were hosted by Columbia University, one was held at CNN/Time Warner; our first London event was held at the BBC; and our inaugural Toronto event was held at Thomson Reuters.
See venues, speakers, sponsors, delegates, agendas, re-caps from previous events:
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CAIO Summit Boston Dec 14, 2023 | CDAO Summit Boston Dec 12-13 2023 | IBM NYC June 2023: Re-cap | Website |
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IBM Boston Dec 2022: Re-cap | Website | IBM SF Nov 2022: Re-cap | Website | 2020-2022: Webinar Re-caps | Videos |
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London 2014 at BBC Re-cap | Website | NYC 2014 at CNN: Re-cap | Agenda | NYC 2013 at Reuters: Re-cap | Agenda |
CDO/CDAO Summits:
SPEAKERS at Previous Events
CAIO SUMMIT 2023 | CDAO SUMMIT 2023 | IBM NYC 2023 | IBM BOSTON 2022 | IBM SF, CA 2022 |
![]() Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI Northeastern University See 2023 CAIO Speakers |
![]() Faculty Director, DATA Initiative Northeastern University See 2023 CDAO Speakers |
![]() Senior Vice President & Chief HR Officer IBM See 2023 NYC Speakers |
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![]() Global Chief Data Officer Office of the CDO IBM See 2022 SF Speakers |
TEL AVIV 2019 | NYC 2019 | FUKUOKA 2019 | NYC 2018 | TEL AVIV 2018 |
![]() Founder CDO Club Israel See 2019 Tel Aviv Speakers |
![]() Former President, MGM Resorts International See 2019 NYC Speakers |
![]() Group Chief Digital Officer Sompo Holdings, Inc. See 2019 Fukuoka Speakers |
![]() SVP, Chief Data Scientist Dun & Bradstreet See 2018 NYC Speakers |
![]() CDO Digital & Innovation Clal Insurance See 2018 Tel Aviv Speakers |
TOKYO 2018 | LONDON 2018 | NYC 2017 | TEL AVIV 2017 | TOKYO 2017 |
![]() Chief Digital Officer Mitsubishi Chemical See 2018 Tokyo Speakers |
![]() Chief Data Officer Transport for London See 2018 London Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer IBM See 2017 NYC Speakers |
![]() Principal Analyst Altimeter See 2017 Tel Aviv Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer L’Oréal See 2017 Tokyo Speakers |
TORONTO 2017 | WASHINGTON DC 2017 | SYDNEY 2017 | NYC 2016 | TEL AVIV 2016 |
![]() CDO & Deputy Minister for Digital Government See 2017 Toronto Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer The White House See 2017 DC Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer Seven West Media See 2017 Sydney Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer City of Boston See 2016 NYC Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer Meitav Dash See 2016 Tel Aviv Speakers |
SYDNEY 2016 | AMSTERDAM 2015 | LONDON 2015 | NYC 2015 | LONDON 2014 |
![]() Chief Digital Officer National Rugby League See 2016 Sydney Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer Renault See 2015 AMS Speakers |
![]() Head of Digital Transformation See 2015 UK Speakers |
![]() Chief Digital Officer Metropolitan Museum of Art See 2015 NYC Speakers |
![]() Executive Director, UK Digital Cabinet Office See 2014 UK Speakers |
NYC CNN/Time Warner 2014 | NYC Thomson Reuters 2013 | |||
![]() Chief Digital Officer BBC See 2014 NYC Speakers |
![]() SVP & Chief Digital Officer NBC News See 2013 NYC Speakers |
Demographics:
Who Attends the CDO/CDAO and CAIO Summits?
Delegates at our CDO/CDAO and CAIO Summits are mostly C-level and are just as influential as the speakers on stage.
At our events you will meet some of the world’s leading strategists and practitioners in AI, analytics, data, digital, innovation, customer experience, and cybersecurity, both on stage and in the audience.
A spreadsheet listing all speakers and delegates from every CDO/CDAO Summit to date (title and company) is available here.
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Thanks to our Sponsors!
Since we launched the world’s first-ever CDO Summit in 2013, we have subsequently attracted some of the world’s most prestigious organizations as sponsors and partners, including Accenture Digital, Accenture Strategy, Adobe, BBC, Bloomberg, CapGemini, EY, Harvey Nash, IBM, Informatica, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and Time Warner, among many others.
Click here or on the image below to see a selection of sponsors at our previous events.
Exposure/ROI: Sponsor Impact Report
We provide our partners with targeted reach, impact, and engagement – before, during, and after the Summit itself.
Our proprietary Sponsor Impact Reports summarize your campaign’s effectiveness across all media – traditional, mobile, and social.
The report measures reach from the combined effect of our emailers, blog posts, media coverage, press releases, social media, and our ad campaigns via Google, LinkedIn, and X.com.
We put all the metrics into one report to make it easier to calculate an ROI on your sponsorship investment.
See our Sponsor Impact Report for the NYC CDO Summit on April 29, 2015.
Media And Analyst Coverage
We are one of the LEADING SOURCES for the press and analysts on CDOs, digital transformation, and data-driven culture. We have been quoted by American Banker, CIO .com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, EdTech Magazine, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, I-CIO, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.
See select articles below, and all press mentions in our Media Room.
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Will today’s Chief Digital Officers become tomorrow’s CEOs? |
Strategy, Not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation |
The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer |
Data Can Be Source of Power |
RATE CARD:
What Are Your Options?
We have a wide variety of current options, or we can craft a unique proposal to meet your specific needs.
Sponsorship packages are available for the CDO Club, the CDO Summits, or both.
The most effective strategy combines both options into a strategic, prolonged, multi-channel marketing campaign. The CDO Summits provide intimate, face-to-face connections, while the CDO Club sponsorship gets you beyond the four walls of the event to our thousands of registered CDO Club members, tens of thousands of email subscribers, and our extensive social media platforms.
For maximum global or domestic exposure, we also offer multi-year and multi-city discounts.
See all sponsorship options on the Rate Card here >
260+ Endorsements!
Sponsoring the CDO Summit / CDO Club will help you build relationships, reach your target audience, and grow your business.
But don’t take our word for it, see what more than 260 past speakers, attendees, and sponsors had to say about us!
Check out all of our 260+ Endorsements from your peers here.
“Sometimes a conference comes along that hits the trifecta – hot topic, high-caliber attendees, and stellar location.
The first Chief Digital Officer Summit reached that mark with ease, and I look forward to attending the next one.”
– Eric Hellweg: Former Managing Director, Digital Strategy/Editorial Director at Harvard Business Review
“David, here’s a handy C^3 test for conference value: Did I learn at least three new perspectives? Check. Did I meet at least three interesting people? Check. Did I take back at least three relevant pieces of news I can use? Check. Flying colors for the Chief Digital Officer Summit 2013! Thank you so much, and yes, I’d be very pleased to participate next year!”
– Perry Hewitt: Former Chief Digital Officer at Harvard University
Highlight Videos
For more endorsements, see highlight video reels from select CDO Summits below:
NYC 2016 |
Amsterdam 2015 |
Sydney 2016 |
UK 2015 |
UK 2014 |
NYC 2013 |
Previous CDO/CDAO Summit Videos
Videos of all CDO/CDAO Summit keynotes and panels are available for CDO Club PLATINUM Members here (registration required): https://cdoclub.com/video-archive.
Select videos from our NYC CDO Summits in 2013 and 2014 are also available on our YouTube channel, including this fireside chat from our 2014 NYC CDO Summit at CNN, featuring Rachel S. Haot, then Chief Digital Officer for NYC:
CDO Club: Our Members
Our members include C-suite executives who are responsible for Artificial Intelligence (AI), analytics, data-driven culture, and/or digital transformation at the world’s most prestigious organizations.
You do not have to be a “CDO” to join!
Our registered members and 100k email list subscribers include Chief AI Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Data Officers/Scientists, CDAOs, Chief Digital Officers, CHROs, CISOs, Chief Governance, Information, Innovation, Privacy, Risk, Strategy, Technology, Transformation, and CMOs/Chief Marketing Technology Officers, as well as CEOs/Presidents and Board Directors/Non-Executive Directors.
Members receive access to breaking news, original research, career development support, networking opportunities, and inspirational events like the CDO/CDAO and Chief AI Officer Summits to help them succeed in navigating today’s rapidly evolving, highly complex and competitive AI/analytics/data/digital environments.
One of our most popular CDO Club features is the monthly CDO JOBS Update for Chief Digital Officers and Chief AI/CDAO Officers.
Join, find out more, and see all CDO Club membership benefits here.
CDO Club: CDO/CDAO of the Year
The CDO Club gives the annual “CDO/CDAO of the Year” award to inspiring analytics, data, and digital leaders. The award recognizes both Chief Digital Officers (since 2013) and Chief Data/Analytics Officers (since 2016).
See select recipients below, and all winners of the CDO of the Year award here.
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CDO Club: Hall of Fame
The CDO Club is the only organization tracking the ‘CDO to CEO’ career path – also known as the Hall of Fame – those CDOs who have become CEO/President or Board Director/Non Executive Director (NED).
Since 2011, more than 100 CDOs have made that leap, a startling statistic considering the limited number of executives who hold that exact title, and especially when compared to the much larger number of CIOs, CTOs, and CMOs who have not made that upward move.
In May 2018, we jointly pubished a report with Bain Capital on this trend titled “101 CDOs Who Have Become CEO/President” which can be downloaded here.
See our Hall of Fame page for all those who made this career move.
Bio/Contact
David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the CAIO Summit, CDO Club, and CDO/CDAO Summits.
Mathison is the w 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 others. See Mathison’s full biography here. Contact:
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