Summary: Guest: Eugene Kolker, PhD Title: Chief Data Officer at Seattle Childrenâs and Head of the Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Laboratory at Seattle Childrenâs Research Institute Guest: Mario Faria Title: Data Strategy Advisor, Boa Vista; Big Data Advisor at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Member of the MIT Data Science Initiative As data and data management have rapidly become drivers of potential business value, discussions over the need for a Chief Data Officer to champion data strategy have been pervasive. But letâs assume the need is prevalent; how will this person realistically make a valuable input in the enterprise? What should be the CDOâs end goal, and how does a CDO make sure that in the first year on the job, things get done?
