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CDAO Dallas 2026

focused forum for data and analytics leaders across industries in the South to exchange ideas, benchmark progress, and accelerate data maturity.

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22Voices

8Underwriters

0Exhibitors

5On the bill · sessions

30Companies · in total

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The Voices

Programmed at CDAO, in alphabetical order.

Akshay Krishna

Staff Data Analyst · QUINCE

Devdas Gupta

Senior Manager of Software Development and Engineering Lead · CHARLES SCHWAB

Gowtham Chil

Director - Product Management · HUMANA

Jasper Cannon

Management Consultant · CHESTERTON HILLS CONSULTING

Jean-Georges Perrin

Senior Product Manager · ACTIAN

Joshua Burkhow

Chief Evangelist · ALTERYX

Karthik Ilangovan

Vice President - Data Analytics and AI/ML · MODE GLOBAL

Larry Hunt

Field CDO for Financial Services · ATACCAMA

Lauren Morandi Inskeep

VP, Data Governance, Chief Data Office · T. ROWE PRICE

Mohan Krishna Mannava

Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Leader · TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES

Naresh Dulam

Senior Vice President of Software Engineering · JP MORGAN CHASE & CO

Nitin Kumar

Director Data Science, GenAI · MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL

Parshaw Ghosh

Senior Manager - Software Engineering · CAPITAL ONE

Priya Reddy

Founder & CEO, AI & Data Strategy & Innovation · PRIYA REDDY CONSULTING

Ram Kumar Nimmakayala

Product Leader (AI/ML & Data) · WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY

Sivakumar Ganesan

Director-Product Management · FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

Steve Brodrick

Founder & CEO · HORIZON 5 LLC

Terry Dorsey

Senior Data & AI Evangelist · DENODO TECHNOLOGIES

Vinod Surasani

Sr Software Engineer MDM · RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Vinoth Nageshwaran

Senior Data Engineer · BUSINESS INSIDER

Vipin Kataria

Senior Lead Architect - Data/ML · PICARRO INC.

Westie Magnuson

Chief People Officer · CORNEL'S PLUMBING HEATING AIR

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

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The Programme

Selected from 5 sessions on the bill.

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Keynote Presentation: Enabling Reliable Agentic AI Through Unified Data and Business Context
Agentic AI promises to transform how organizations automate business processes - but without a solid data foundation, these initiatives often falter. When AI agents act on behalf o…
TBA
Keynote Presentation: Entity Extraction and Sentiment Analysis in the Age of AI for Strategic Enterprise Insights
Enterprises are increasingly using AI to interpret text from customers, partners, and regulators. Entity extraction and sentiment analysis are core capabilities for transforming u…
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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 A…
TBA
Keynote Presentation: Reality Check? - Moving GenAI from Prototype to Production
Beyond the pilot phase, real-world GenAI implementation brings new challenges. This session shares tested strategies for navigating that shift. - Balancing innovation with oversigh…
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Keynote Presentation: The Rise of Agentic Analytics: AI That Diagnoses, Thinks, and Acts
Analytics is broken at the last mile, where insights stop short of action, costing organizations millions in delay, waste, and inaction. Learn how a three-tier Agentic analytics a…

Intermission

Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 30 companies, parsed from the program.

“30 companies in attendance.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House

0All threespeak · spons · exh

8Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

22Speakingspeaker only

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

50% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite627%
VP-level29%
Director / Head of314%
Manager / Lead418%
Product15%
Engineer · IC314%
Other roles314%

Of 22 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room

№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

unspecified8

100% of 8

№ 05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Google Cloud×3 peers
Qlik×3 peers
Tricentis×3 peers
Adobe×2 peers
airia×2 peers
AI Squared×2 peers
carahsoft×2 peers
censys×2 peers
Cloudera×2 peers
DataInFormation×2 peers
Deloitte×2 peers
HP×2 peers

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

ETCIO Annual Conclave 2026May 29, 2026 · Goa+ 2 shared
CDAO Government 2026September 23, 2026 · Arlington+ 2 shared
CDAO Defense & SecuritySeptember 23, 2026 · Washington DC+ 2 shared
COLLIDE Data+AI Conference 2026October 1, 2026 · Atlanta+ 2 shared
Technology Services World 2026October 19, 2026 · Las Vegas+ 2 shared

CDAO Dallas 2026

Keynote Presentation: Enabling Reliable Agentic AI Through Unified Data and Business Context

Keynote Presentation: Entity Extraction and Sentiment Analysis in the Age of AI for Strategic Enterprise Insights

Keynote Presentation: From Chaos to Clarity: How Data Contracts Turn Governance into a Growth Engine

Keynote Presentation: Reality Check? - Moving GenAI from Prototype to Production

Keynote Presentation: The Rise of Agentic Analytics: AI That Diagnoses, Thinks, and Acts

“30 companies in attendance.”