All 2025 Conference Tracks

2025 Conference Tracks at a Glance

The 2025 agenda will deliver the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights most critical to CDAOs and their teams.

Track A. Leadership

A track designed for CDAOs, Data, Analytics and AI Leaders tasked with creating a strategy and operating model that delivers business value. These leaders develop talent and mature a data-driven culture by building trust and managing data while evolving technology capabilities.

Hot Topics:

  • Strategy and operating models

  • Delivering business value

  • Talent development

  • Building a data-driven culture

  • Evolving technology capabilities

Track B. Artificial Intelligence

This track covers everything you need to be successful with AI including: AI strategy, responsible AI, risk and governance, generative AI, LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, prompt engineering, data science, ML, and scalability. A track designed for leaders responsible for AI, as well as AI experts, Architects and Engineers.

Hot Topics:

  • AI strategy

  • Responsible AI

  • Risk and governance

  • Prompt engineering

  • Generative AI

  • DS and ML

Track C. Analytics

This track covers everything you need to be successful with analytics and business intelligence including: self-service analytics, hard resets to drive modernization, the adoption and impact of generative AI, ecosystems, composability, natural language query, modern dashboarding, data storytelling and decision intelligence. This track is designed for ABI leaders and practitioners including business analysts, analytics developers, analytics architects, and engineers.

Hot Topics:

  • Self-service analytics

  • Modernization

  • Impact of generative AI

  • Decision intelligence

  • Data storytelling

Track D. Data Management

This track covers everything you need to be successful with  data management including data fabric, data products; data observability, cost optimization, scalability, resilience and reliability of data management architectures. This track is designed for leaders responsible for data management as well as data architects and engineers.

Hot Topics:

  • Data fabric

  • Data products

  • Data observability

  • Resilience of data management architectures

  • Cost optimization

  • Scalability

Track E. D&A Governance

The Governance track covers everything you need to be successful with alignment, risk, trust, privacy, ethics, literacy and accountability. It is designed for leaders responsible for governance as well as data stewards.

Hot Topics:

  • Risk

  • Trust

  • Privacy

  • Ethics

  • Literacy

  • Accountability

Spotlight Track: New To Role

If you were just promoted to be CDAO, or are an experienced data, analytics and AI leader but just joined a new organization, these are the sessions to help you make a quick and significant impact.

Hot Topics:

  • CDAO Leadership and Influence

  • Organizational and Operating Models

  • Extending the D&A Strategy for AI 

Spotlight Track: Emerging Concepts and Best Practices

Been there, done that? These sessions focus on the cutting edge topics that you need to be thinking about.

Hot Topics:

  • AI Ready Data

  • Data, Analytics and AI Governance (including AI and Financial governance)

  • Business Value of data, analytics and AI

Spotlight Track: Fundamentals

You are pretty good with Excel, but you just picked up the whole of data, analytics and AI as a responsibility? These are the sessions to get you grounded quickly so you know the key questions to ask and how to assess the answers.

Hot Topics:

  • Data Fabrics and Ecosystems

  • AI Explainability and Risk Mitigation

  • Data Products and DataOps