In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, data and technology leaders face mounting pressure to create modern data architectures that fuel digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated digital adoption by five years, prompting leading AI adopters to invest even more in AI. However, despite the urgency for modernization, many companies struggle to make foundational shifts necessary for innovation.

Speaker: John O’Brien 

Principal Advisor and Industry Analyst, Radiant Advisors

John O’Brien is the Principal Advisor and Founder of Radiant Advisors. He has a unique perspective on enterprise data and analytics strategies and architecture gained from over 35 years of experience as a practitioner, vendor CTO, and industry analyst. As a recognized thought leader in data strategy and analytics, John has been publishing articles and presenting at conferences in North America and Europe for 20 years. His knowledge in designing, building, and evolving modern data platforms and teams brings real-world insights to each role and phase within a data program. Today, John provides advisory services and mentoring for CIOs/CDOs and data architects to guide their companies in meeting the demands of next-generation information management, architecture, and emerging technologies.

Speaker: Jacqueline Rinehart 

Fractional Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Limitless Innovations

As a Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology executive, Jacqueline is an AI and data thought leader whose successes are grounded in MIT AI coursework, Yale MBA in technology and transformation, and a JD. Bringing all parts of her into what she does, her passion is contagious and results are unique. She has been at the leadership forefront as an executive in Innovation Labs, Transformation Incubators, and Centers of Excellence across FinTech to Fortune 50-500 to Big 4.

Speaker: Frances Stoor

Lead Data & AI Governance Architect, Jackson

Frances is a Lead Data and AI Governance Architect at Jackson, a leading retirement products provider in the annuities market. Frances has been a thought-leader in Jackson technology for nearly 20 years, contributing to the development of multiple custom internal data processes in multiple areas of the business. As a Lead Data and AI Governance Architect, Frances has heavily contributed to the overall enterprise Data and AI policies, and is a leader in helping the business articulate its Data and AI strategy.

Speaker: Scott Brokaw

Director of Product Management, IBM Data, AI and Automation, IBM Software

Scott Brokaw is a director of product management for IBM Data, AI and Automation at IBM Software. He is responsible for driving the business and technical strategy for IBM’s data-integration capabilities, spanning data movement, transformation, replication and streaming. Mr. Brokaw is an expert in the fields of complex data transformation, scalable data movement and performant connectivity.