DAMA-MN Data Conference 2026
Powering Data.
Empowering People.
Join DAMA-MN for two days of practical learning, professional connection, and community-building focused on the people, practices, and leadership capabilities that help organizations create trusted value from data.
October 6–7, 2026
Shoreview Community Center
Registration Open
Day One
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
A full-day data conference symposium in Shoreview, Minnesota.
Day Two
Wednesday, October 7
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Workshops, learning sessions, and professional development activities.
A regional gathering for data professionals, leaders, practitioners, and partners.
The DAMA-MN Data Conference brings together professionals across data management, data governance, data quality, metadata, architecture, analytics, AI readiness, privacy, security, and business leadership.
The 2026 theme, Powering Data. Empowering People., recognizes that durable data value is created when strong practices, trusted information, and capable people come together with shared purpose.
Focus Areas
Symposium and workshop themes
DAMA Days 2026 will explore practical topics that help data professionals improve trust, quality, governance, architecture, analytics, and readiness for AI-enabled work.
Data Governance
Data Quality
Metadata
Data Architecture
AI Readiness
Stewardship
Master Data
Reference Data
Data Literacy
Data Readiness
Data Security
Data Contracts
Governance by Design
Data & AI Governance
Business Value
Change Management
Responsible Innovation
Ethics
The Two-Day Experience
Learn. Connect. Advance the profession.
Day One
Data Conference Symposium
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Day One is a full-day symposium featuring thought leadership, practitioner stories, peer learning, professional networking, and practical discussion across the data community.
The symposium will highlight practical approaches for improving trust, quality, governance, architecture, analytics, and organizational readiness for an increasingly data-driven and AI-enabled future.
Day Two
Workshops & Professional Development
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Day Two is designed for deeper learning, practical skill-building, and facilitated engagement. Participants will have opportunities to explore important data management topics in a more focused workshop setting.
Additional details about workshops, certification activities, and professional development sessions will be announced as the program is finalized.
Who Should Attend
Built for the people who make data work.
DAMA Days is for professionals who lead, govern, manage, improve, protect, analyze, architect, and use data to help organizations make better decisions.
Data Governance Leaders
Data Stewards
Data Quality Professionals
Data Architects
Business Analysts
Analytics Leaders
AI Readiness Teams
Technology & Business Leaders
Program Themes
Practical topics for a changing data profession.
Governance That Works
Operating models, stewardship, accountability, policy, decision rights, and sustainable governance practices.
Trusted Data Foundations
Data quality, metadata, reference data, master data, lineage, interoperability, and data architecture.
AI Readiness
Preparing data, teams, controls, and leadership practices for responsible AI-enabled solutions.
People & Change
Leadership, communication, culture, adoption, literacy, community-building, and professional growth.
Call for Speakers
Share your experience with the Minnesota data community.
DAMA-MN welcomes proposals from practitioners, leaders, educators, consultants, and partners who can bring practical insight, thoughtful perspective, and useful takeaways to data professionals.
Submit a Speaker Proposal
Registration
Registration is now open.
Reserve your place for DAMA Days 2026, October 6–7 in Shoreview, Minnesota. Join data professionals, leaders, practitioners, educators, and partners for workshops, symposium programming, networking, and professional development.
Register Now
Exhibitors
Exhibit at DAMA Days 2026.
Exhibitor spaces are limited. Organizations that serve, support, educate, employ, or partner with data professionals are invited to learn more about the exhibitor opportunity and register for exhibit space.
Sponsorship
Support DAMA Days 2026 and connect with the data community.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for organizations that want to support professional development, data leadership, and community-building across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
DAMA Days sponsorship offers a visible way to align your organization with data governance, data quality, analytics, AI readiness, professional learning, and the people who make trusted data work.
Ways to participate
Attend, speak, exhibit, or sponsor.
DAMA Days 2026 brings together attendees, speakers, exhibitors, sponsors, and community partners who care about advancing data management practice across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
Hosted by DAMA-MN
Advancing the practice of data management through education, professional development, community, and connection.
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