CTA DataOps Planning

Date: February 9, 2026 Source: Granola Meeting ID: 72dcde3b-47b8-4e35-bcc1-18674e52c8ee URL: https://notes.granola.ai/t/72dcde3b-47b8-4e35-bcc1-18674e52c8ee

Participants:

  • Uttam Kumaran (Brainforge)
  • Ashwini Sharma (Brainforge)
  • Katherine Bayless (CTA)
  • Awaish Kumar (Brainforge)
  • Kyle Wandel (CTA)
  • Chi Quinn (Consumer Technology Association)

Summary

Data Access & Permissions Setup

  • Committee data view implementation ready
    • Bridge table needed to connect individuals to organizations
    • Display current committee members on company pages
    • Query logic sufficient, no structural changes required
  • New Snowflake role configurations needed:
    1. Prod-read role hiding staging/dev databases (show only prodmart and raw)
    2. Role for mart and archive access only
    3. Streamlit app creation privileges without other write access
  • Membership team early adopters get Streamlit building capability
    • Built audience profiler using Cortex in Snowflake
    • Promise: “can’t break anything in Snowflake”

Identity Stitching & Data Matching Strategy

  • Current challenges with identity resolution:
    • Multiple entities share same website domains
    • Gmail users with LinkedIn/YouTube as websites
    • Samsung subsidiaries inflate data volume when matching on website
  • Waterfall matching logic priority:
    1. Impacts ID or exhibitor ID (highest priority)
    2. Company name matching
    3. Email domain matching
    4. Website domain (rolls up to parent company)
  • Data freshness hierarchy needed
    • Sales team exhibitor links (2027 CES) prioritized over old remembers data
    • Formal ID matches trump domain/name matching
  • Individual name matching rejected as too unreliable
  • Metrics tracking planned for match success rates
  • Total unique companies estimated ~4,000 from 4M company name variations

Current Tools & Next Steps

  • Member engagement tracker demo shared
    • S3 logo integration working
    • Primary rep job titles added to model
    • CES data 2023-2026 included
    • Innovation awards tracking
    • Virtual event attendance alerting requested
  • Registration consolidation priority for Kyle
    • 2.5M rows in registration history
    • Modern history focus for new RPT
  • Awaish and Ashwini pairing on identity stitching implementation
  • Working sessions planned to surface edge cases
  • Daily follow-ups on access provisioning