The role of the Chief Data Offi­cer is chang­ing from inward to out­ward. While gov­er­nance, com­pli­ance and con­trol are still impor­tant, the CDO agen­da is evolv­ing to be more strate­gic, trans­for­ma­tive and inno­v­a­tive. Data and ana­lyt­ics are crit­i­cal ele­ments of inno­va­tion and dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and CDO’s are being asked to deal with new busi­ness top­ics such as open data, data mon­e­ti­za­tion and dig­i­tal ethics. In this ses­sion, learn tips and best prac­tices for suc­cess­ful­ly nav­i­gat­ing this change.

Speak­er:

Maria Vil­lar, SAP

Maria Vil­lar is Head of Enter­prise Data Trans­for­ma­tion. In this role, she advis­es SAP customer’s on the cru­cial role of data man­age­ment in the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, lever­ag­ing our inter­nal best prac­tices, to assist our customer’s implementation

She reports into SAP’s NA Chief Inno­va­tion Officer 

Maria joined SAP in 2009, fol­low­ing a 15 year career as a respect­ed prac­ti­tion­er, author, train­er and con­sul­tant in help­ing major com­pa­nies build and exe­cute enter­prise strate­gies in Enter­prise Infor­ma­tion Management. 

Over the last 7 years, she’s built SAP’s inter­nal data man­age­ment pro­gram, report­ing to SAP’s COO. SAP’s approach to man­ag­ing its most crit­i­cal mas­ter data is a suc­cess­ful, busi­ness led pro­gram with over € 70 Euro ben­e­fit since incep­tion. These data man­age­ment capa­bil­i­ties are foun­da­tion­al to our abil­i­ty to ana­lyze and pre­dict our oper­a­tional met­rics with the Dig­i­tal Board­room and our inter­nal process trans­for­ma­tion to become a cloud com­pa­ny pow­ered by S4 Hana.

In addi­tion to the busi­ness val­ue real­ized inter­nal­ly, SAP’s data man­age­ment pro­gram has been rec­og­nized exter­nal­ly with 3 indus­try awards.

In addi­tion to her SAP expe­ri­ence, Maria has built data man­age­ment orga­ni­za­tions in 2 oth­er com­pa­nies in the finan­cial ser­vices and the tech­nol­o­gy industry. 

She has authored a book ​“Man­ag­ing your Busi­ness Data from Chaos to Confidence.”

Maria has also pub­lished 2 online class­es and numer­ous arti­cles, most recent­ly ​“Time to Lev­el Up: The Evolv­ing role of the Chief Data Officer.”