VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH
The Data Weaver
How Chief Data Officers Win the Data Race Now
5 DECEMBER I 10 a.m. EST I 4 p.m. CET
Join us for the Virtual Book Launch of “The Data Weaver: How Chief Data Officers Win the Data Race Now” with our four exclusive speaker guests:
Andreas Graesser
Author I Speaker I Founder & CEO innovad LLC I Professor at the Villanova University
The experiences of Andreas Graesser, the author of the book The Data Weaver, span more than 30 years within the software industry. Before founding his own company, innovad LLC in 2017, Andreas worked more than 21 years at SAP, first in Germany, and since 2000 within the United States. As a Senior Executive at SAP, he advised countless customers with his thought leadership on a wide variety of digital business transformation endeavors. Andreas Graesser’s publications include “JiVS One Click Transformation,” outlining a straightforward data migration methodology for transitioning systems to S/4HANA, “Escape the Change Dilemma,” focusing on rapid and secure data transformation, and “The Transformers,” a global release urging business leaders to recognize data as the pivotal element in 21st-century business transformation.
Dr. Stefan A. Knopf
Head of Customer Evolution in Middle & Eastern Europe, part of SAP Customer Success I SAP
Stefan Knopf is leading the regional team in the Middle & Eastern Europe of the SAP Customer Evolution Organization. In this role, he is responsible for customer satisfaction efforts worldwide and for accelerating the transformation of SAP’s customers to the cloud. The SAP Customer Evolution Program helps customers define and realize the next steps in their business and IT evolution. Leveraging SAP’s best practices, world-class innovations, tools, services, and its powerful ecosystem, the program helps guide customers towards a holistic landscape and business process transformation that is tailored to their unique business needs.
Thomas Spandl
Senior Vice President, Customer Evolution, Customer Success I SAP
Thomas Spandl is leading the regional teams of the SAP Customer Evolution Organization. In this role, he is responsible for customer satisfaction efforts worldwide and for accelerating the transformation of SAP’s customers to the cloud. The SAP Customer Evolution Program helps customers define and realize the next steps in their business and IT evolution. Leveraging SAP’s best practices, world-class innovations, tools, services, and its powerful ecosystem, the program helps guide customers towards a holistic landscape and business process transformation that is tailored to their unique business needs.
Tom Pfister
Chief Marketing Officer I Data Migration International
Tom Pfister is a seasoned marketing executive with two decades of experience, currently serving as the Chief Marketing Officer of DMI and the Founder & CEO of Nytro Marketing. In his distinguished career, Tom has excelled as a global marketing executive, playing a pivotal role in establishing SAP Marketing organizations across Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Throughout his career, he has garnered numerous awards, showcasing his commitment to excellence in the field of marketing.
JOIN US TO GAIN VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO…
the mysteries of data, exploring its often-underestimated value in today’s enterprises,
the journey to the cloud and the potential role of data as a catalyst,
crucial challenges surrounding this transition, providing a roadmap for businesses navigating this technological evolution
key questions, including the necessity of customer advisors at the inception of a transformation journey and whether businesses can successfully navigate this path alone,
a simplified pathway toward a Clean Core,
whether a Data Weaver, symbolized by the Chief Data Officer, is indispensable for steering enterprises towards a future empowered by data intelligence.
Don’t miss out on this insightful discussion that promises to unravel the complexities of modern data management and its pivotal role in business evolution!
MORE ABOUT THE BOOK
The book Data Weaver exposes the significance of data within our digital world and identifies how data will become the most valuable asset in business. Data alone, however, isn’t the future. It always requires somebody who knows, who guides, and who orchestrates. Companies of any size need to appoint an accountable person, the Chief Data Officer (CDO), to oversee the entire data chain: from ‘finding’ the data to transforming the insights into action.
Without the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Data Weaver, who guides and acts on the data, the dramatic proliferation of data silos accelerates – just consider how easily any application can run within the cloud and uses its own data foundation.
CDOs must evolve as “Masters of the Dataverse,” able and willing to engage with today’s state-of-the-art technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Neural Networks.
Aside from many technical explanations, some fictional stories about Tim, a senior data executive hired by a coffee chain, make the book entertaining. These episodes show Tim at the crossroads of ‘data and technologies,’ his pain points and struggles with the coffee chain’s data situation, and his willingness to learn and innovate in new ways.