This week's episode of the CDO to CDO Podcast features Mark Marshalek, Head of Data Governance at Farmers Insurance.

This week's guest on the CDO to CDO podcast series is Brett Starr, VP, Data & Machine Learning Engineering, Intelligent Automation, & Business Intelligence at The Cincinnati Insurance Companies.

Atif Usman, Global Data and Analytics Director at Zimmer Biomet together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti discuss their thoughts on handling external data from a systems perspective, the types of funding models for advanced analytics, the future of the global supply chain of medical devices, and how Zimmer Biomet integrates engineering/analytics and data science in their organization

Laura Titas, Chief Data Officer at Nationwide together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti explains her perspectives on data privacy, data ethics, and bias concerning its effects on industry regulators. Industry regulators are now understanding the power of data, AI, and ML. Titas believes that data can move farther and faster away from regulatory challenges.

This week Kevin is joined by Derek Oats, CEO of smartShift, an organization that provides a smarter way to transform legacy SAP systems. Derek is responsible for growing the company worldwide. With a successful track record in sales and leadership roles globally and in the Americas, Derek has a strong customer experience and solution mindset. Before smartShift, Derek served as CEO, Americas for SNP. He has held various leadership roles at Tata Consulting Services, IBM, Oracle, and SAP, where he helped hundreds of customers modernize their SAP landscapes.

Syniti recently announced a strategic partnership with smartShift and Natuvion to complement the RISE with SAP offering by helping businesses accelerate and simplify their move to SAP S/4HANA® Cloud.

Read More: Syniti Partners with smartShift and Natuvion to Complement RISE with SAP for SAP S/4HANA® Adoption: https://syniti.info/3xS98eh

Ryan Sousa, Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital together with Chris Knerr, Chief Digital Officer at Syniti discuss the roles and processes of Seattle Children’s Hospital’s digital transformation experience. Sousa’s team started with a parallel relational database then formed DevOps functions and later brought in novel technologies to support analytics.

This week's guest, Mike Maiolo is CEO of Rizing. He has over 20 years of experience with manufacturing companies and enterprise asset management consulting services. Prior to his current role, Mr. Maiolo was the CEO of Vesta, a Rizing Company, which is now Rizing's EAM division.

What is SAP MDG, and what are the key functionalities?

Find out by listening to Episode 6, where we are joined by Arthur Wirthensohn, Syniti’s Head of DQ Practises, to explore this SAP solution.

Today Kevin is joined by Ryan Rodenburg founder and CEO of DMR. Ryan has dedicated his career for the past decade to the single pursuit of assembling the best talent in data migration, quality and governance.  Ryan has worked in SAP talent management for the past 20 years.  He established DMR’s “talent first” culture and actively focused on the recruitment of the “best and the brightest” in SAP data management. With a strong focus on delivering specialized services to meet client’s specific data challenges, DMR paves the way with true partnership and engagement from start to finish. Syniti and DMR recently merged and are taking a bold step forward to address the need for end to end enterprise data management.

This week Kevin is joined by Michelle Adelman, founder of Accite, a boutique firm focused on building sustainable food and agriculture technology business in Sub-Saharan Africa that spur economic diversification and employment of youth and women, enabling the continent to be more food-secure. Accite’s investment philosophy brings together proven technologies with world-class operational teams and localized business models to create pioneering businesses.  Accite’s flagship, Go Fresh!, a controlled environment, hydroponic horticulture operator, is the premier organic and sustainable vegetable brand in Botswana. Accite’s latest ventures include: Infinite Foods, a go-to-market platform for plant-based food brands like Beyond Meat and Oatly to reach Africa and emerging markets faster, with lower risk. Ms. Adelman has 30 years of business experience as a former Global Managing Director for Accenture, CEO of a US-based home health services company, and Group Strategy Executive for the pan-African Econet Group.