Agenda - CDAO Summit | CDAO Summit

08:30 - 09:30

Networking Breakfast

09:30 - 10:10

Opening Panel: Everyone’s Ready for AI – Except Their Data

10:10 - 10:40

Fixing the Foundations: The Platforms Powering Trusted AI

10:40 - 11:10

Guardrails for Growth – Data Governance in the Era of AI and Regulation

11:10 - 11:20

AI first organization – strategic importance of data

11:20 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

People Over Platforms – Building a Data-Driven Culture That Delivers

Roundtables

Showing 4 of 4 Streams

Roundtable 1: The Infrastructure of Intelligence: Powering AI with Trusted Data

Roundtable 2: Why Space Data Belongs in Your AI Strategy

Roundtable 3: AI Culture & Capability – Building the Human Side of AI Adoption

Roundtable 4: From Experiment to Enterprise – Scaling AI with Business Impact

12:00 - 13:00

How are CDAOs modernising fragmented data estates to unlock AI value—from ownership and stewardship to platforms, pipelines, and architecture?

12:00 - 13:00

How are organisations using space-derived data to enhance operations, customer experience, and sustainability? Explore practical AI use cases across supply chains, location-based services, and environmental monitoring, and discuss UK Space Agency initiatives and collaboration opportunities.

Lydia Green - Head of Unlocking Space Programme, UK Space Agency

12:00 - 13:00

How are CDAOs equipping teams with the tools, training, and behavioural frameworks to activate AI across the business—and what are the most effective partner solutions in driving adoption at scale?

12:00 - 13:00

What separates AI proof-of-concepts from scaled deployment—and how are CDAOs working with partners to accelerate value delivery from architecture to ROI?

13:00 - 14:00

Networking Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

AI in the Wild – Real Enterprise Use Cases and What Actually Worked

14:30 - 14:40

Closing the Last Mile: Embedding Insight into Everyday Decisions

14:40 - 15:10

Proving the Value of Data – Turning Analytics into Business Outcomes

15:10 - 15:20

Federation vs. Centralization: Building Observable AI Systems at Enterprise Scale

15:20 - 15:50

Building a Federated Data Operating Model: Lessons from the Frontline

15:50 - 16:30

Closing Panel: The CDAO Role in 2030 – Growth Engine or Extinct Species?

16:30 - 17:30

Networking Drinks

CDAO SummitWednesday, 19 November 2025