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CDAO Dallas 2026

A 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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22Speakers
8Sponsors
5On the bill · sessions
30Companies · in total
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Speakers

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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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Datalogz
datavail
Denodo
Informatica
SAP
snapLogic
Starburst
Tiger Analytics
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Agenda

Selected from 5 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    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…

  • TBA

    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…

  • TBA

    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.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
8Sponsoringsponsor only
22Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers 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

Most-represented companies
  1. 01DatalogzSp
  2. 02datavailSp
  3. 03DenodoSp
  4. 04InformaticaSp
  5. 05SAPSp
  6. 06SnapLogicSp
  7. 07StarburstSp
  8. 08Tiger AnalyticsSp
  9. 09Actian1V
  10. 10Alteryx1V
  11. 11ATACCAMA1V
  12. 12Business Insider1V
  13. 13Capital One1V
  14. 14Charles Schwab1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified8
100% of 8
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.

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