(USA and Canada) Dr. Inderpal Bhandari, Global Chief Data Officer at IBM and Advisory Board Chairman & Strategic Advisor at CMU’s New Chief Data Officer Certificate Program, and Dr. David Steier, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Lead Faculty at CMU’s New Chief Data Officer Certificate Program, together with Mark Johnson, Editorial Board Chair at CDO Magazine, talk about the evolving roles of a CDO. Given the diverse landscape of data, Dr. Bhandari and Dr. Steier discuss how CDOs respond to the rapidly changing volume and velocity of data they encounter. They also explain how CDOs bridge data strategies with business organizations to create practical applications to ensure success.