Agenda
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM AEST
Sally Parker, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Adam Ronthal, VP Analyst, Gartner
Data & analytics leaders can deliver increasing value to their organizations. This session will uncover new research and trends which will enable you to find new powerful ways to connect with stakeholders, address skills shortages and build trust to overcome cultural resistance to change. Learn how to attract and retain a world-class D&A team and lead with purpose to ensure the data-driven transformation required for success.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Alan D. Duncan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Presenting key findings of the 2023 Gartner CDAO Agenda Survey. Explore the business impact of the CDAO* role and/or the office of the CDAO. Understand the leadership traits of the most successful CDAOs and what distinguishes them from their peers.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
Sarah Turkaly, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Join CDOs and other data and analytics leaders to share lessons learned and practices for encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion. Discuss how data and analytics teams can take a leadership role to enable DEI improvements on the team and enterprise levels.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Donna Medeiros, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This leadership exchange provides insights from recent research findings, helping CDAOs navigate the road ahead for data and analytics in their organization. The emphasis will be on the exploration of the impact of these findings and how it changes the way CDAOS think about the way they lead.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Kurt Schlegel, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will highlight the optimal data and analytics organization model to help organizations become more data-driven balancing centralized and decentralized functions. It will also help you understand how to support digital business with the must-have roles and emerging skills for your D&A teams. Key issues: What’s happening in data and analytics forcing change? What’s the impact on the DA organization? What’s the impact on DA roles, skills and culture?
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In the disruption-as-usual climate that CDAOs face today, it is difficult to shift the focus of data and analytics teams from delivering insight to discovery of new business value. This research discussion provides an opportunity for CDAOs to discuss case studies that have shown such success, and explore how success could be translated to their organizational context.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 08:00 AM - 08:45 AM AEST
Saul Judah, VP Analyst, Gartner
If CDAOs are to be successful in their organizations, they must engage effectively with their CxO level counterparts. This roundtable enables CDAOs to exchange ideas on what they have done that has worked, and what they can do differently to become better at building stronger relationships with other C-level leaders.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Alan D. Duncan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
CDAOs who effectively employ change management and communication techniques wield more influence and impact with their data and analytics strategies than those who do not. To be successful, chief data and analytics officers must address both data literacy (skills) and data-driven culture (will) among the workforce.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
Sarah Turkaly, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
This leadership exchange will introduce Gartner's new CDAO Effectiveness Model, and explore how it can be used to understand where CDAOs have well developed capabilities, and where there are threats and opportunities that must be addressed. As a leadership exchange, CDAOs can explore with their peers how this model can best be applied to deliver higher levels of performance.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
Tong Zhang, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Data and analytics leaders must effectively scope work and delegate responsibilities for efficiently running projects, teams or disciplines to unleash innovation. This practical workshop demonstrates Gartner's toolkit to create a responsible, accountable, consulted and informed (RACI) matrix that brings certainty to the assignment of people's responsibilities, roles and skills to your D&A activities.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Sally Parker, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Are you a technologist and aspiring CDO? Is someone seeking to hire a CDO? Or an in situ CDO seeking to derive greater organizational impact? This session covers the key traits a CDO must embody (or account for), expectations of the role, selling your particular brand value, managing stakeholders and what to do once you get there.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM AEST
Donna Medeiros, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data literacy is a new business competency and a requirement for digital dexterity. CDAOs must step up their leadership and use data literacy metrics as the basis for communicating the value of fostering a data-literate workforce.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Donna Medeiros, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CDAOs agree that a data driven organization is critical for business success, however organizational culture is a limiting factor in our ability to achieve this. At this roundtable, CDAOs will explore how we can better understand out existing data and analytics culture and what practical steps can be taken to make tangible improvements.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner
We talk about data-driven decisions, but is that really what we want? Combining survey data with broader research in behavioral psychology, this session will provide an overview of how decisions are viewed within organizations, and how they can be improved using a combination of hard data and soft nudges.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM AEST
Alan D. Duncan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Chances are you have encountered human resistance to a data initiative that is common sense. People frequently represent the most challenging aspect in the contributing trinity of people, process and technology. They can derail or block otherwise worthy initiatives: data and analytics strategies, master data management programs, governance and stewardship responsibilities. This session explores lessons learned by taking our peers and stakeholders on the journey with us.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Ankush Jain, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
This workshop walks through practical steps for measuring and improving data quality. Attendees will understand the key objectives and activities of measuring data quality, including how to define and select data quality metrics, develop the actual measurement jobs and identify the benchmark. The workshop will also discuss possible solutions for data quality problems.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Roxane Edjlali, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Data Integration is evergreen — it was always foundational to any resilient data management strategy. This session gives guidance on:
1. What are the key trends guiding the data integration market?
2. How should organizations evaluate and inculcate new data integration technologies in their data engineering portfolio?
3. What impact will these new trends have on their broader data management infrastructure and how to plan for it?
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Adam Ronthal, VP Analyst, Gartner
Data Ecosystems have emerged from the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Independent Software Providers (ISVs) over the past few years. They offer an integrated set of tools for end-to-end data management for all data use cases, such as Analytics, ML, AI, Applications, Edge computing and more. Data Ecosystems will have a profound effect on data and analytics strategy, vendor and product choices and management of systems across clouds and hybrid.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 03:00 PM AEST
Mark Beyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
When technology boundaries covered new grounds, we gave them different names such as Data Catalog, Data Virtualization, Logical Data Warehouse, Knowledge Graph, Data Hub, and Data Fabric. However, there is a great deal of overlapping capabilities and missing gaps. This session will raise awareness of various technology components and eventually enable D&A leaders build their digital enterprise.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM AEST
Ankush Jain, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Data observability as an emerging technology provides the ability to understand the health of an organization’s data landscape, data pipelines, and data infrastructure by continuously monitoring, tracking, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting incidents. Data and analytics leaders need to know what it is and how it can help to build a stronger data landscape, given the modern, complex and distributed data stacks.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Mark Beyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Metadata is generated practically every time data is accessed in any tool, platform or application. This is a largely untapped resource that is real-time documentation of exactly how, when and why any person in the enterprise uses data from any and all assets available to them. Active metadata is the conversion of these otherwise passive observations into ML-enabled, automated data management.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Adam Ronthal, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we'll talk about data management in the cloud. Data and analytics leaders should bring their questions and topics for exploration, including choosing the right service offering, pricing models, financial governance, hybrid cloud strategies and more. (Access to this session is restricted to those that are not part of an organization or company that provides services, products or solutions to professionals in the industry.)
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEST
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner Futures Lab focuses on more futuristic research in areas of high uncertainty. What is it that D&A professionals can expect in the next years? In this fun, exciting and high-energy session, we share our most maverick predictions and their implications. Either you accept them, and get new ideas, or dismiss them and be extra confirmed in how you work today. You always win!
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Roxane Edjlali, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The data mesh is touted as the next-generation data management architecture based on domain-driven, distributed data management. The Data Fabric, on the other hand, does not believe in rip-and-replace and looks to utilize existing data management infrastructure. Organizations looking to evaluate data fabric or the data mesh need practical guidance on the subject. This breakout session will be on an on-stage moderated debate among Gartner analysts who will aim to cover the same.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM AEST
Julian Sun, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Today’s analytics and BI (ABI) platforms must support the needs of IT, business analysts, and analytic content consumers. While tight integration with cloud ecosystems, business applications, and digital workplace tools is a key vendor selection requirement, buyers also need ABI platforms to support openness and interoperability. This research helps data and analytics leaders plan for and select these platforms.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Anirudh Ganeshan, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Data storytelling offers a more engaging means of communicating findings than BI reporting or data visualization alone. This trend is an extension of the now dominant self-service model of BI, combining data visualization with narrative techniques. What is a data story? When and how should data storytelling be used? What new skills and techniques are needed to create compelling data stories?
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Faster and optimal decision making is a competitive differentiator. But silo data, silo decisions and silo mentality are not cutting it in today's global and highly interconnected business ecosystems. A more networked approach is required, bringing together technologies such as optimization, graph analytics and AI. This session will provide practical guidance to bring your decision intelligence to the next level.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 AM - 02:45 AM AEST
Peter Krensky, Director Analyst, Gartner
The cloud changed everything. Now the data fabric concept is rapidly transforming how organizations strategize and design their entire data, analytics and AI stack. What are leading organizations doing to change existing analytics ecosystems to maximize the potential of new technologies? What is the current optimal design for the new analytics ecosystems created in the cloud?
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Georgia O'Callaghan, Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations today are experiencing expanding portfolios of analytics tooling. Tools with overlapping capabilities create opportunities for data duplication, siloes and inconsistencies in metrics. Organizations should simplify their analytics architecture by performing a rationalization and consolidation exercise. This reduces the burden on IT to support multiple tools and govern analytics.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI is not the only thing driving rapid change in D&A. There is a rapid evolution in how and where analysis can be deployed, from the next generation of augmented UXs and beyond; composing and operationalizing D&A at scale; engineering decision intelligence; and relating everything; to enabling D&A at the edge. Understanding the business impact of these changes will allow organizations to resource optimize, accelerate change, drive innovation and transform society over the next three years.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEST
Anirudh Ganeshan, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Self-service analytics are rarely implemented successfully. To maximize its value, data and analytics leaders should certify and catalog D&A assets, promote cross-functional collaboration, optimize their tools portfolio and enable adaptive governance for analytic content in various phases.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEST
Julian Sun, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Analytics capabilities become modular with low- and no-code capabilities introduced into solutions enabled by data fabric. Organizations can compose the building blocks to build tailored analytics experiences rather than monolithic applications. This session will help data and analytics leaders use composable data and analytics to bridge application development, bringing insights into actions.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Saul Judah, VP Analyst, Gartner
Meet the updated and improved "D&A Strategy and Operating Model" (DASOM). It is tried and tested and now includes the most recent insights from thousands of client interactions, such as what a modern D&A strategy looks like and how you can make sure the strategy leads to tangible and measurable business outcomes.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Gareth Herschel, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to learn about some of our favorite examples of how organizations are using analytics to deliver business value.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM AEST
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This workshop introduces the updated toolkit, which can be used to diagnostically connect data, analytics, governance and their impact on business processes, decisions and outcomes.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
D&A has gone full circle. We're back at decision support, discussing more data-driven decisions that are much more concrete than before. It was hard to measure the business impact of a better decision; there is no parallel universe to test another decision. In this visionary session, we will explore how new insights and innovations create a more direct and measurable link between making decisions more data-driven and concrete business outcomes.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM AEST
Sarah Turkaly, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
Gartner's IT Score maturity model provides a framework for measuring and improving the maturity of data and analytics programs. This workshop will enable data and analytics leaders to better understand the components of Gartner's maturity model, how it provides benchmarks for maturity against other organizations and how to get the most value out of the assessment based on lessons learned from other organizations.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM AEST
Kurt Schlegel, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner's top predictions for data and analytics provide a forwarding looking perspective on how markets, skills and organizations will evolve to help you build a data and analytics strategy to return to growth, drive innovation and create value from uncertainty. This session will highlight:
• The market and organizational implications of top data and analytics predictions for 2023.
• How data and analytics leaders should prepare for the top D&A predictions.
• What near term flags will indicate the prediction is on track to being realized.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Kurt Schlegel, VP Analyst, Gartner
As we enter an unprecedented global depression, organizations will be desperate to save every cent, penny and whatever that they can. This session will explain how analytics can help.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Mark Beyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Every AI effort begins with data, uses data, fixes data, and delivers assertive decisions and outcomes. Data engineers are expected to assure that data used in everything from simple recommendation bots to highly sensitive interactions that include significant risk issues. In this session, we cover the top data management concerns that must be covered when deploying AI solutions.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Peter Krensky, Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide a high-level introduction to data science and machine learning (ML) and their proper function in a data-driven organization. It will include key definitions, major trends, data science talent personas and an overview of leading technologies. How do data science and ML fit within the organization’s analytics and AI strategies? What are the early steps D&A leaders should take to invest in data science and ML?
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Tong Zhang, Sr Director, Advisory, Gartner
Due to their massive scale and broad use-case applicability, foundation models, such as ChatGPT, are a significant AI advancement, but the major risks they pose aren’t fully understood. In this session, we evaluate the benefits, risks and opportunities of these models to tap their business value and minimize risk.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM AEST
Georgia O'Callaghan, Director Analyst, Gartner
Productionizing ML models remains a significant challenge for enterprises as they scale ML operations to hundreds or thousands of models. These organizations benefit from implementing a logical feature store to manage data for ML. Logical feature stores accelerate time to production and promote feature reusability, reproducibility and reliability.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will provide a high-level introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and its practical impact on the organization. It will include key definitions, major trends, organizational and governance issues, and an overview of AI techniques. How to pragmatically introduce AI techniques in the organization to solve complex business problems? What are the steps to take (and to avoid) while implementing AI techniques? What are the AI best practices of organizations that are applying AI strategically?
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEST
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
AI software platforms are evolving. The AI operationalization phase is giving way to the next evolution of AI software based on composite AI. Analytics needs process mapping to operationalize its insights; the process needs data to get smarter. To build adaptable and resilient systems, organizations should reassemble their decision mechanisms through practical decision intelligence techniques.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Peter Krensky, Director Analyst, Gartner
Understand key trends influencing the future of ML and data science. Get an insight in emerging ML capabilities that seemed outlandish just a few years ago, but are shaping the future of AI now. Learn about new roles, ideas and paradigms you shouldn't ignore. Plan for the future AI initiatives and improve your current AI solutions.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:15 PM AEST
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In Gartner Futures Lab, we tackle a cross-industry, cross-regional futuristic topic every year. This year, we look beyond today's reality of digital transformation and examine what is next. It is autonomous business! What would that mean for your organization and for D&A? What potential impacts could autonomous businesses have on your industry? What would be different scenarios on how autonomous businesses would even work? Time to sit back, reflect and see how “what if …”
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Guido De Simoni, VP Analyst, Gartner
Dangerous data is data that exposes the company to the threat of serious legal or brand impact, but is unavoidably collected for other business purposes. This ability to identify data liability and not just treat data as a pure asset is critical to managing D&A risk.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM AEST
Sally Parker, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Business agility is afforded by a single, trusted, enterprisewide view of the data that describes the core entities of an organization: its customers, citizens, students, suppliers, products, locations and assets, for example. This session addresses essential considerations across people, process and technology in achieving and articulating tangible business value and sustainable governance.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM AEST
Georgia O'Callaghan, Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations that lack a governance framework for self-service can struggle to maintain control as work becomes chaotic, siloed and inconsistent. This session will allow you to engage with a Gartner expert who will dive into the capabilities and features of popular A&BI tools and provide actionable advice on how these can be leveraged to govern data and analytics within self-service initiatives.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM AEST
Guido De Simoni, VP Analyst, Gartner
The often-difficult territory of initiating a data and analytics governance initiative must be revisited under new compelling perspectives on deployment models and technology. In this session, we address how data and analytics governance can tune its approach, leverage new technology capabilities and connect the objectives to better decision-making for continuous improvement.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Saul Judah, VP Analyst, Gartner
Traditional data and analytics governance that focuses only on policy and compliance is now obsolete for digital business. If organizations wish to make progress toward modern approaches, such as adaptive governance, they must have the right foundations in place. This session discusses what these foundations are, and how they enable the future of data and analytics governance.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The easiest thing to do for any global organization that is subject to crushing, or confusing sovereign data strategies and policies, is to literally duplicate their entire business systems for the same business outcome. Given that it is not a practical response in every case, what can CDAOs and their teams do to help mitigate risk, optimize survival and exploit the opportunities?
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Guido De Simoni, VP Analyst, Gartner
This roundtable provides an opportunity for participants to share their experiences on data and analytics governance initiatives. Participants can discuss any aspect of the initiative, including strategy, organization, metrics, processes and technology.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEST
Ankush Jain, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
High-quality, trusted data is critical for successful digital business initiatives. If data and analytics leaders are to enable a data-driven organization, they must take pragmatic and targeted actions to improve their enterprise data quality. There are 12 quick actions which help organizations not only achieve their data quality goals, but also sustain for the long-term value.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM AEST
Donna Medeiros, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This leadership exchange provides insights from recent research findings, helping CDAOs navigate the road ahead for data and analytics in their organization. The emphasis will be on the exploration of the impact of these findings and how it changes the way CDAOS think about the way they lead.
Monday, 31 July, 2023 / 02:15 PM - 04:15 PM AEST
Andrew White, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In the disruption-as-usual climate that CDAOs face today, it is difficult to shift the focus of data and analytics teams from delivering insight to discovery of new business value. This research discussion provides an opportunity for CDAOs to discuss case studies that have shown such success, and explore how success could be translated to their organizational context.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 08:00 AM - 08:45 AM AEST
Saul Judah, VP Analyst, Gartner
If CDAOs are to be successful in their organizations, they must engage effectively with their CxO level counterparts. This roundtable enables CDAOs to exchange ideas on what they have done that has worked, and what they can do differently to become better at building stronger relationships with other C-level leaders.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
Sarah Turkaly, Sr Principal, Advisory, Gartner
This leadership exchange will introduce Gartner's new CDAO Effectiveness Model, and explore how it can be used to understand where CDAOs have well developed capabilities, and where there are threats and opportunities that must be addressed. As a leadership exchange, CDAOs can explore with their peers how this model can best be applied to deliver higher levels of performance.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM AEST
Donna Medeiros, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CDAOs agree that a data driven organization is critical for business success, however organizational culture is a limiting factor in our ability to achieve this. At this roundtable, CDAOs will explore how we can better understand out existing data and analytics culture and what practical steps can be taken to make tangible improvements.