The is no better measure of the growing prominence of the Chief Data Officer role than the emergence of business conferences dedicated to discussing its impact. At the 2015 CDO Forum in Melbourne, Katrina Read, Analytics Client Architect Leader for IBM Asia Pacific presented a session entitled: Chief Data Officer - The Next Corporate Rock Star. Intrigued by the possible conjunction of spandex, extended guitar solos and data analytics, IDM asked Katrina to expand on her thesis.