CDOIQ Newsletter, December 2025 Volume II | | Season's Greetings from CDOIQ | |
The CDOIQ Symposium Team is delighted to extend our heartfelt thanks for your continued support throughout the past year. As we look ahead to the coming year, we are excited to continue our partnership with you, working together to drive innovation and success.
We send our warmest holiday wishes for a year filled with shared growth, meaningful collaboration, and new opportunities. Here’s to another wonderful year of partnership and progress with CDOIQ!
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Join a distinguished global community driving the future of Data and AI. As a thought leader, you’ll have the opportunity to share your insights, spark innovation, and help shape the industry alongside renowned CDOs, academics, and data visionaries from around the world.
Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the global dialogue on data and AI leadership and be recognized among the industry’s most respected voices. Join us at the 20th Annual CDOIQ Symposium, July 21–23, 2026.
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Guest Rooms at Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel for the 20th Annual CDOIQ Symposium are now available for reservations, limited to 300 rooms only. Please do reserve at your earliest convenience to secure your room.
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Showcase your brand, share your thought leadership, and connect directly with senior data executives in an intimate, collaborative setting. Early sponsors receive exclusive discounted rates—secure your spot today and elevate your presence at this premier event!
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Holiday Special: 70% Off 2025 Symposium Proceedings | |
For only $90 (regularly $300), access the full 19th Annual CDOIQ Symposium Proceedings. Relive every moment with complete session presentations and recordings from all three days, featuring insights and innovations from global data and AI leaders. Offer valid until December 31.
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| | Holiday Special: 20% Off CDOIQ Society Membership | | |
Join the CDOIQ Society for only $60 with a 20% holiday discount, valid until December 31, and gain access to exclusive member benefits and a global network of data leaders.
- Global Network Access
- Discount for CDOIQ Symposia
- Discount for Certified CDO (CCDO) Professional Program
- Special Discount for Symposium Proceedings
- Exclusive Participation in the Monthly CDOIQ Society Proseminar Series
- Access to session recordings and presentation decks
- Receive one (1) Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for every ten (10) Proseminar sessions completed
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Upcoming CDOIQ Society Proseminars | |
January 2026 Proseminar by Doug Laney
Date & Time: January 26, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Title: Agentic AI: The Road to Fully Autonomous Organizations
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February 2026 Proseminar by Stuart Madnick St
Date & Time: February 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Title: TBD
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March 2026 Proseminar by Robert Abate
Date & Time: March 18, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EDT
Title: Best Practices for the New CDO: The First 90-days and Roadmap
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Date & Time: April 15, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EDT
Title: Master Data Management: Focusing on Your Most Important Data
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Date & Time: May 6, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EDT
Title: TBD
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Date & Time: June 10, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:15 PM EDT
Title: TBD
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2026 CDOIQ Symposium
Thought Leader Article Spotlight
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Why Your Company Needs a Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer
By Vipin Gopal, Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean
Who should be in charge of data, analytics, and AI? While there are many possible divisions of responsibility and reporting structures, a combined role—the CDAIO (Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer)—will best prepare organizations as they plan for AI going forward. To succeed, this role needs a clear mandate that includes owning AI strategy, preparing for a new class of risks, developing the AI tech stack, ensuring the company’s data is ready for AI, creating an AI ready culture, developing talent and partnerships, and generating significant ROI on AI investments. Given the emphasis on business value creation, in most cases CDAIOs should be positioned closer to business functions than to technology operations. See more...
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To Create Value with AI, Improve the Quality of Your Unstructured Data
By Thomas H. Davenport, Roger W. Hoerl and Thomas C. Redman
A company’s content lies largely in “unstructured data”—those emails, contracts, forms, Sharepoint files, recordings of meetings and so forth created via work processes. That proprietary content makes gen AI more distinctive, more knowledgeable about your products and services, less likely to hallucinate, and more likely to bring economic value. As a chief data officer we interviewed pointed out, “You’re unlikely to get much return on your investment by simply installing CoPilot.” See more...
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How to Marry Process Management and AI
By Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman
When Mars Wrigley decided to digitize its supply chain, it invested in several AI and analytics capabilities. It built a digital twin of its production line (a virtual replica simulating its operations in real time) and fed data from it into a machine-learning model to predict the line’s output and reduce overfilling and waste. It worked with a “decision intelligence” vendor, Aera Technology, to create visualizations of the data, generate recommendations about preventive maintenance, and automate some operational decisions. It hired Kinaxis, a vendor whose AI software gave the staff suggestions on how to balance supply and demand, automate invoice processing, and increase truck utilization by 15%. As a result of all these improvements, the company was able to fill orders more quickly, and customer service ratings rose by a couple of percentage points. See more...
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