CDAO Fall 2025
Presentations
Day 1 - Track A, Financial Services & Insurance
Presentation: The Future of Data Management in Financial Services: How Can you Take Advantage of Emerging Trends?
- Anticipating change and managing uncertainty, a look at five fast growing trends of data management in Financial Services
- Strategies to invest in those trends that are most relevant to your organization
- How data & analytics leaders need to adapt to succeed in the future
Diego De Aragao
Senior Vice President, Balance Sheet and Analytics
CITIGROUP
Day 1 - Track B, Retail, CPG & E-Commerce
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dayeli Manuet
Head of Commercial Intelligence (Spanish-speaking LatAm)
DIDI
Presentation: Building a High-Impact Data Function to Drive Value in Retail and CPG
- Aligning Data Goals with Business Objectives to Maximize ROI in Retail and CPG
- Establishing an Organized Data Foundation to Enable Effective Analytics and AI Implementation
- Building a Culture of Data-Driven Decision-Making Across Teams to Ensure Long-Term Success
Daniela Freitas
Global Data Products Lead
KENVUE
Presentation: From Insight to Impact: How AI & ML in Pyramid Accelerate Analytics Adoption Across the Business
- Driving Adoption at Scale – How Pyramid uses AI/ML to make analytics intuitive and indispensable for every user.
- Value Across the Organization – Who benefits from Pyramid’s AI/ML investments, from executives to everyday decision-makers.
- Smarter Insights, Faster – Leveraging machine learning to uncover patterns and insights hidden in complex data.
- Staying Ahead of the Curve – Using AI/ML to proactively detect anomalies and surface critical issues before they escalate.
- Conversational Analytics in Action – A look under the hood of Pyramid’s chatbot and LLM capabilities.
- Analyst Acceleration – How Pyramid’s chatbot jumpstarts analysis and reduces time to insight.
- Empowering Business Users – Enabling non-technical users to ask questions naturally, explore data, and take action with confidence.
Kevin Kratzer
Solution Engineering Director
PYRAMID ANALYTICS
Day 1 - Track C, CDAO Leadership (Cross-Industry)
Presentation: AI-Powered Intelligence: Redefining Enterprise Analytics for the Next Era
- Exploring how AI empowers organizations to extract deeper, more actionable insights from complex data sets
- Leveraging AI to seamlessly bridge the gap between raw data and real-time, impactful decision-making
- Overcoming hurdles like data integration, quality, and skill gaps to fully realize the benefits of AI in enterprise analytics
Marina Printz
VP of AI
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Day 1 - Spotlight Sessions, Expo Stage
Presentation: Data Without Limits, Teams Without Burnout: A New Way Forward for CDAOs
As data volume and complexity skyrocket, data teams are hitting capacity, business demands keep rising, and silos are holding back progress. In this session, Caroline Meidan explores how CDAOs can break free from these constraints and lead their organizations into the next era of data. Discover how autonomous data connectivity and AI-powered systems are reshaping the way teams deliver trusted, ready-to-use data without burnout and without limits.Caroline Meidan
CEO and Co-founder
BONDATA
Presentation: Turning AI into Real Business Impact
AI should be a superpower. Instead, it’s a struggle. Most AI efforts stall before they scale, blocked by inaccurate results, mounting costs, and poor adoption when solutions fail to deliver real business value. Unframe’s Managed AI Delivery Platform changes that by making AI solutions that actually work: tailored to your business, delivered in days, and deployed securely without sharing data or upfront costs.
Alissa Gilbert
Sr. Solutions Engineer
UNFRAME AI
Day 1 - General Session
Keynote Presentation: From Chaos to Clarity: How Data Contracts Turn Governance into a Growth Engine
When done right, governance is a growth engine. In this talk, Jean-Georges “jgp” Perrin will show how data contracts bring precision, trust, and accountability into your data and AI pipelines—without creating bottlenecks. Using the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) from the Linux Foundation’s Bitol project, you’ll see how organizations can cut downstream defects, accelerate AI model onboarding, lower compliance risk, and reduce firefighting—often in just days.
Jean-Georges Perrin
Senior Product Manager
ACTIAN, a division of HCLSoftware
Keynote Presentation: The Future of MDM
As data volumes grow exponentially and organizations adjust to a new normal of constant AI-fueled disruptions, business and data leaders are increasingly expected move at a pace and dexterity as never before experienced. Sitting at the core of this chaos is the data that’s always mattered the most, master data. In a world of transformation and change, companies that leverage modern, adaptive, and intuitive approaches to MDM processes and technologies will out-pace their competitors, and those who fail to embrace them will be left behind.
In this presentation, Malcolm Hawker, ex-Gartner MDM analyst shares his insights into the future of MDM, including:
- Why MDM will remain relevant in an AI dominated future
- What ‘modern’ MDM will look like in the future
- The future state MDM technical landscape
- What data leaders should start doing to prepare
Malcolm Hawker
Chief Data Officer
PROFISEE
Day 2 - General Session
Keynote Presentation: AI Agents: From Concept to Real-World Impact
- From hype to reality – why many organizations struggle to move from talking about AI agents to actually deploying them.
- Augmentation, not replacement – how combining AI’s speed and scalability with human empathy and judgment creates the best outcomes
- Overcoming key challenges – data quality, hallucinations, compliance, and ensuring reliability in agentic solutions
- Driving business value – real-world lessons on how AI agents can boost efficiency, empower human teams, and scale impact across industries
Nitin Kumar
Director Data Science, GenAI
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL
Keynote Presentation: Data Storytelling- What Stories are Worthwhile and What is Just Noise? How Can you Tell the Most Effective Story Using your Data?
- How to separate valuable data stories from irrelevant noise to focus on what truly matters?
- Turning complex data into a compelling story that resonates with your audience
- Using visuals to simplify data and enhance storytelling effectiveness
- Ensuring your data narrative drives actionable insights and supports strategic decisions
Jean-Georges Perrin
Senior Product Manager
ACTIAN, a division of HCLSoftware
Day 2 - Eco System Track - Data Dive – All things Data
Presentation: Linking Data Strategy to Business Strategy - How Data Projects can be Prioritized Based on their Potential Impact on Key Business Objectives
- Strategies to generate revenue from data, such as through data products, services, insights, or a modern data- and analytics platform
- How a modern data infrastructure and technologies supports the business strategy
- Strategies and experience with fostering a culture where data is valued and used effectively by all employees
Thomas Shola
Executive Director Enterprise Data & Analytics, Technology & Cybersecurity Risk & Controls
FIRST CITIZENS BANK
Day 2 - Eco System Track - AI Wonderland – All things AI
Presentation: From Reactive to Remarkable: The Next Frontier of AI-Driven Customer Experience
- How AI Personalization is Reshaping Customer Engagement
- Chatbots vs. Human Touch: Striking the Right Balance
- AI Ethics in Customer Interactions
Besa H. Bauta
Chief Information Officer
THE JEWISH BOARD