(US and Canada) CDO Magazine — with special guest Doug Laney, Innovation Fellow, Data & Analytics Strategy at West Monroe and Karan Dhawal, Enterprise Data & Transformation Strategy Leader at ZS  — recently launched the Wisconsin CDO Forum in conjunction with Laney’s new book, “Data Juice:101 Real-World Stories of Organizations Squeezing Value From Available Data Assets.”

Two events, held Oct. 21-22, 2022, in Madison and Milwaukee, provided terrific data stories, CDO networking, and vision alignment for the inaugural Wisconsin forum. 

Attendees included Anup Singh, Enerpac Tool Senior Director- Information Security and Compliance; Damini Dhawal, AIG Vice President IT Architecture and Strategy GI-NAM; Doug Barton, University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium Director; Elaine Stephens, Head of Customer Engineering, Google; Fahad Bijle, CalAmp Vice President Data Strategy and Data Products; Kari Feliciano, Kohler Sr. Systems Analyst, Master Data Governance; Kathy (Schmitt) Henrich, CEO – MKE Tech Hub Coalition; Kristen Benbazza, Molson Coors Senior Director BI, Data and Analytics; Muktak Sharma, Dorel Sports Director SAP Application System ; Purush Papatla, Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Tom Keeley, Compsim Founder, President and Technical Visionary; Annie Shahid, Scient Solutions Principal Consultant; John Michl, Director, Analytics and Business Intelligence Consortium, Carroll University; Charlie Scott, Director, Elutions; and Shahid Khan, Scient Solutions President.