CDO Magazine | Chicago AI Forum
- June 22, 2026
- Chicago, IL
Malcolm Hawker
Chief Data Officer
Patrick Chew
VP of AI & Data Science – AIT Worldwide Logistics, Inc.
The hard part of enterprise AI isn’t the technology anymore. It’s everything around it. The Chicago CDO AI in the Enterprise Forum brings senior data, AI, risk, and analytics leaders into one room for a day built around a single question: what actually works, and what are we still figuring out?
This is an invitation only gathering designed for depth over spectacle. A single stage format means continuity and real dialogue throughout the day, not a hallway of competing tracks. The conversations span the full arc of enterprise AI, including strategy and business impact, data architecture and foundations, generative AI, responsible AI and governance, and the leadership and talent shifts reshaping how data organizations are built.
What sets the day apart is candor. Leaders share what they’ve stopped doing, what they’ve doubled down on, and where the comfortable narratives are quietly failing them. In their fireside chat, “The Foundations We Don’t Have Yet: Rewiring the Data Organization for an AI-Ready Future,” Malcolm and Patrick get into the real, unfiltered work of rebuilding the data and analytics operating model while the transformation is still happening in real time. Expect frank talk on governing unstructured data, building the talent stack everyone is fighting over, and the mindset shift that separates organizations doing AI from those truly ready for it.
If you’re a data or AI leader navigating transformation while the ground is still moving, this is the room where the next set of foundations gets figured out together, in real time.
