Conferences / CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits
CDAO Fall 2026
Oct 26–27, 2026 · Renaissance Boston Seaport District, Boston, MA, United States
- Conference
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 26, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026
- Venue
- Renaissance Boston Seaport District
- Place
- Boston, MA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Recorded
- 27 sponsors · 62 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 15th edition of CDAO Fall, co-located with CAIO Fall (Chief AI Officer) at the same venue. Sponsors as listed under "2026 Sponsors" on the home page after the event; speakers from the speakers page; talk titles matched from the published agenda where shown. Prices were not shown on the 2026 registration pages.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 27
Gold 8
- Capgemini · Gold Sponsors
- Perforce Delphix · Gold Sponsors
- Portal26 · Gold Sponsors
- Precisely · Gold Sponsors
- PromptQL · Gold Sponsors
- Prophecy · Gold Sponsors
- Pyramid Analytics · Gold Sponsors
- Qualytics · Gold Sponsors
Silver 4
Other 12
- Affine AI · Networking Sponsor
- Cube · Exhibitors
- Data & AI Literacy Academy · Exhibitors
- dbt Labs · Corinium Associate Partners
- Fivetran · Corinium Associate Partners
- Google · Corinium Associate Partners
- Huwise · Exhibitors
- QueryStory · Exhibitors
- romb.ai · Exhibitors
- Spitfyre · Exhibitors
- SqlDBM · Exhibitors
- TigerData · Exhibitors
Speakers and talks 62
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Shola | Citizens Bank | Keynote | Keynote Presentation: The Fraud Arms Race: How Financial Institutions Are Fighting AI-Powered Threats With AI-Powered Defences | — |
| Aaron Chang | Novartis | Speaker | — | — |
| Achuth Rao | New York Life Insurance Company | Speaker | — | — |
| Adem Albayrak | Alzheon | Speaker | Two Titles, One Mission: What CDAOs and CAIOs Are Finally Figuring Out About Each Other | — |
| Aiswarya (Ammu) Menon | NYC Health + Hospitals | Speaker | — | — |
| Alexander Shvets | Ipsen | Panelist | From Strategy Deck to Business Reality: What It Actually Takes to Scale Data and AI Across an Enterprise | — |
| Andrew Gallagher | Fivetran + dbt Labs | Speaker | — | — |
| Anjali Arora | Perforce | Speaker | — | — |
| Anu Sundaram | Rue Gilt Groupe | Panelist | From Strategy Deck to Business Reality: What It Actually Takes to Scale Data and AI Across an Enterprise | — |
| Art Gilliland | DELINEA | Speaker | Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: A new Model for AI Governance | — |
| Ash Dhupar | Honeywell | Speaker | — | — |
| Besa Bauta | New York University | Speaker | Presentation: Human in the Loop is not a Strategy - Rethinking Oversight for Systems that Move Faster than People Do | — |
| Bharat Lingam | [x]cube LABS | Speaker | — | — |
| Bill Carey | Liberty Mutual | Speaker | — | — |
| Brian Henry | DELINEA | Speaker | — | — |
| Christopher Chen | Simba | Speaker | — | — |
| Colleen Tartow | Capital One | Speaker | — | — |
| Dartanion Williams | City of Baltimore | Panelist | The CDO and the CFO Walk into a Meeting: Making the Financial Case for Long-Term Data Investment | — |
| David Blaszkowsky | EDM Association | Moderator | The CDO and the CFO Walk into a Meeting: Making the Financial Case for Long-Term Data Investment | — |
| David Krauza | Comcast | Speaker | Presentation: Presentation: Every Data Strategy and AI Problem You Have Is a Business Choice Nobody Made: How to Force the Choice Before the Money Moves | — |
| David Woods | Precisely | Moderator | AI: What's Next? Hype Cycle to Hard Reality | — |
| Derek Bates | Alteryx | Chair | Chairperson Opening Remarks & Icebreaker | — |
| Dr. Tarun Sood | American Century Investments | Panelist | The CDO and the CFO Walk into a Meeting: Making the Financial Case for Long-Term Data Investment | — |
| Elena Alikhachkina | — | Speaker | Presentation: The Trust Deficit: Why Employees, Customers, and Regulators Are All Asking the Same Question About Your AI | — |
| Elio Qarri | romb.ai | Speaker | — | — |
| Emma McGrattan | Actian | Speaker | — | — |
| Erin Fidyk | Johnson & Johnson | Speaker | — | — |
| Ewa Kozlowska | Citi | Speaker | — | — |
| Fariha Chaudry | GE Healthcare | Speaker | — | — |
| Gayathri Balachandra | Boston Scientific | Speaker | — | — |
| Gorkem Sevinc | Qualytics | Speaker | — | — |
| Greg Freeman | Data & AI Literacy Academy | Speaker | — | — |
| Haroon Abbu | Bell & Howell | Moderator | From Strategy Deck to Business Reality: What It Actually Takes to Scale Data and AI Across an Enterprise | — |
| Isa Terzi | Ergo Next Insurance | Speaker | — | — |
| Jon Toland | EY | Speaker | — | — |
| Justin Heller | Synchrony Financial | Panelist | The CDO and the CFO Walk into a Meeting: Making the Financial Case for Long-Term Data Investment | — |
| Kamal Distell | Travelers Insurance | Speaker | — | — |
| Kevin Kratzer | Pyramid Analytics | Speaker | — | — |
| Manajit Barman | United States Air Force | Speaker | — | — |
| Michael Mangione | W. L. Gore & Associates | Panelist | From Strategy Deck to Business Reality: What It Actually Takes to Scale Data and AI Across an Enterprise | — |
| Mireia Rojo Arribas | MAPFRE | Speaker | — | — |
| Mitch Holt | MetLife Investment Management | Speaker | AI: What's Next? Hype Cycle to Hard Reality | — |
| Moshmi Sanagavarapu | Omnicom Media Group Malaysia | Panelist | From Strategy Deck to Business Reality: What It Actually Takes to Scale Data and AI Across an Enterprise | — |
| Nicole Perreault | Alteryx | Speaker | — | — |
| Nirav Parikh | Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) | Speaker | — | — |
| Nirranjana Jaiswwal | Speaker | — | — | |
| Nondas Sourlas | CloseKnit | Speaker | — | — |
| Polina R. Ware | PPG INDUSTRIES - PA | Speaker | — | — |
| Ravi S. Chaudhary | Watts Water Technologies | Speaker | Presentation: From AI Strategy to Enterprise Execution: Prioritizing What to Automate, What to Augment, and What to Leave Alone | — |
| Richard Inserro | Merck | Speaker | — | — |
| Sakat Sankhla | Schneider Electric | Speaker | — | — |
| Santiago Ibanez | MAPFRE | Speaker | AI: What's Next? Hype Cycle to Hard Reality | — |
| Sarthak Jain | Trail | Speaker | — | — |
| Shawn McCabe | DELINEA | Speaker | — | — |
| Sneha Uppal | Capgemini | Speaker | — | — |
| Suku Krishnaraj | PromptQL | Speaker | When Every Minute Counts: Putting AI to Work in FSI | — |
| Tasneem Nipplewala | MassMutual | Speaker | — | — |
| Trang Nguyen | Prudential Financial | Speaker | — | — |
| Vikas Marwaha | Prophecy | Speaker | Equipping Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot for Enterprise Data Work | — |
| Vikas Sachdeva | HealthDrive Corporation | Speaker | Presentation: AI in the Boardroom: Governing Risk, Driving Innovation, Delivering Value | — |
| Wanchin W. Chou | State of Connecticut Insurance Department | Speaker | — | — |
| Yogesh Bhardwaj | Sensata | Speaker | — | — |