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  • Free Learning Event: Basics Around the DAMA Wheel

    • 2026-06-01
    • 2026-08-24
    • 12 sessions
    • Virtual: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87484060880?pwd=OBVCzDbkiQNiYMTO1UOar31E7XXK3d.1
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    FREE COURSE: A Trip around the DAMA Wheel


    This 12-week series provides an overview of each slice of the DAMA wheel. You'll learn fundamentals about each area including:

    • Key terminology
    • Basic concepts
    • Organizational roles and responsibilities
    • Associated activities
    • Common metrics to measure performance
    • Real-world tips and best practices

    Audience

    Open to anyone. You can attend the entire series or individual sessions. Great opportunity for students, new practitioners, leaders, or anyone wanting to increase their data literacy in one or more of these areas. This is also a great overview before you begin studying for the CDMP exam.

    Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting - you'll receive the link in your reminder notices.

    Agenda

    • Week 1: Data Governance & Management - COMPLETED
    • Week 2: Data Quality - COMPLETED
    • Week 3: Metadata Management - COMPLETED
    • Week 4: Reference & Master Data Management - COMPLETED
    • Week 5: Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence - COMPLETED
    • Week 6: Data Modeling & Design - COMPLETED
    • Week 7: Document & Content Management
    • July 20 - NO COURSE
    • Week 8: Data Security
    • Week 9: Data Integration & Interoperability
    • Week 10: Data Architecture
    • Week 11: Data Storage & Operations
    • Week 12: Big Data, Data Science, and AI Governance

    (This event is scheduled for 13 weeks but one week TBD will be cancelled, pending  presenter availability)

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  • July Chapter Meeting

    • 2026-07-15
    • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual Zoom Meeting
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    JULY Chapter Meeting

    Speaker: Danette McGilvray

     Forcefield Analysis: Breaking Through the Barriers to Your Data Quality Work

    Have you ever been discouraged by roadblocks that get in the way of your data (quality) work? Does it seem that forces are conspiring against you? Join us to learn and practice force field analysis. This is a strategic management tool that will be presented in the context of data and data quality. It will help you identify and evaluate forces that are both driving your work forward and restraining your progress. Learn how to take advantage of the strengths within your organization and minimize or remove the roadblocks. Come prepared to participate with your fellow attendees!

    • Learn and practice the force field technique 

    • You will be able to apply the technique to your data and data quality work 


    About the Speaker

    An internationally respected expert, Danette McGilvray is known for her Ten Steps™ approach, used by multiple industries as a proven method for increasing the value of data through quality and governance. It applies to operational processes and focused initiatives such as security, analytics, digital transformation, AI, and compliance. Danette guides leaders and staff as they connect business strategy to practical steps for implementation.

    As president and principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., Danette is committed to the appropriate and effective use of technology and addressing the human aspect of data management through communication, change management, and engaging with people.

    Danette is the author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™, 2nd Ed. (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021). Chinese and Japanese translations are available. Spanish translation is currently underway. Contact her at danette@gfalls.com.

    Connect with her on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danette-mcgilvray


    Meeting Agenda:
    •11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Greetings, Chapter News & Community Updates

    • 12:05 – 12:55 PM | Speaker
    • 12:55 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

    Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link Provided Day Before in Reminder Email
    Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

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  • July Ice Cream Social

    • 2026-07-29
    • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Sweet Science Ice Cream in Edina
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    Networking Social with the DAMA-MN Community! 
    JULY 29 @ 4:00pm-6:00PM

    Come hang out with your fellow data nerds. Sweet Science ice cream is locally made, small batch, and no artificial flavors. Just mention at the counter you're there with DAMA.


    Join us to:

    • Enjoy a FREE ice cream (sponsored by Reltio)

    • Meet the DAMA-MN Board and fellow data professionals

    • Mingle, network, and connect — no agenda, no pressure, just fun

    Open to members, guests, and anyone that wants to network with data nerds.


    Bring a friend or colleague — and drop in any time after work -

    (Wednesday between 4:00-6:00 PM)


    Location:
    Sweet Science Ice Cream
    3919 Market Street
    Edina, MN 55424

    Parking & Transit:
    Available across the street at the North Parking Garage

    Special Thanks:

    This event is generously sponsored by Reltio,  Reltio is the foundation for trusted agentic AI, ready to fuel real-time operations. With this cloud-native tool you can create and manage trusted master data, define golden record rules, leverage configurable matching and AI-assisted cleansing and take advantage of sophisticated entity resolution, in real-time. Learn more.

    BIG thanks to Reltio for treating our community to a cool summer evening! 


    Stay Tuned for these Upcoming Events!

    3rd Wednesday of every month, chapter meetings

    October 6-7 DAMA-MN Conference

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  • August Chapter Meeting

    • 2026-08-19
    • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual Zoom Meeting
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    AUGUST Chapter Meeting

    Member Share on Data Topic

    A DAMA member will share their data journey.


    Meeting Agenda:
    •11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Greetings, Chapter News & Community Updates

    • 12:05 – 12:55 PM | Member Share Speaker

    • 12:55 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

    Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link Provided Day Before in Reminder Email
    Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

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  • Oct 2026 Data Conference

    • 2026-10-06
    • 8:00 AM
    • 2026-10-07
    • 5:00 PM
    • Shoreview Community Center
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    Data GOVERNANCE.

    DATA ANALYTICS.

    DATA LITERACY.

    DATA strategy & Leadership.


    2 Days, 8 Presentations, Workshops,
    CDMP Exam, Exhibit Hall, Networking, Free Food

    Agenda

    Day 1

    • 8:00 AM | Registration
    • 8:00 AM | Exhibit Hall (All Day)
    • 9:00 AM | Keynote Speaker
    • 10:00 AM | Speaker
    • 11:00 AM | Speaker
    • 12:00 PM | Lunch
    • 2:00 PM | Speaker
    • 3:00 PM | Speaker
    • 3:45 PM | Networking & Snacks

    Day 2

    • 8:00 AM | Registration
    • 8:00 AM | Exhibit Hall (All Day)
    • 8:45 AM | CDMP Exam
    • 9:00 AM | Speaker
    • 10:00 AM | Speaker
    • 11:00 AM | Speaker
    • 12:00 PM | Lunch
    • 1:00 PM | Workshops 

    Connecting you with data experts, data professionals, and data learning.

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  • Oct 2026 Data Conference Exhibit Hall

    • 2026-10-06
    • 8:00 AM
    • 2026-10-07
    • 5:00 PM
    • Shoreview Community Center
    • 24
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    Exhibit Hall Vendors

    2 Days Networking with Interested Data Professionals


    Exhibit Hall open October 6-7, 8:00am - 4:30pm
    Shoreview Community Center

    Includes entry, exhibit hall table, chairs, and food for two booth attendants.
    Anticipate > 100 registrants

    Load-in and even information will be emailed to the registration before the event


    Additional sponsorship placement opportunities are available, including promotional materials in each registration bag. Email professional-development@dama-mn.org for more information.

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Past events

2026-06-17 June Chapter Meeting
2026-05-20 May Chapter Meeting
2026-04-16 April 2026 Data Career Networking Event - Registration
2026-04-15 April Chapter Meeting
2026-03-18 March Chapter Meeting
2026-02-26 Data Governance Workshop with Meenu Howland
2026-02-18 February Chapter Meeting
2026-02-16 CDMP Study Group Winter/Spring 2026
2026-01-21 January Chapter Meeting
2026-01-20 🍺 January Social 🍺
2025-12-17 December Chapter Meeting
2025-11-19 November Chapter Meeting
2025-10-29 🍺 Drinks & Data 🍺
2025-10-15 October Chapter Meeting
2025-09-17 September Chapter Meeting
2025-08-20 August Chapter Meeting
2025-07-31 🍦 Scoops and Smiles! 🍦
2025-07-16 July Chapter Meeting
2025-06-18 June Chapter Meeting
2025-05-21 2025 DAMA-MN/IIBA Professional Development Day
2025-04-16 April Chapter Meeting
2025-03-19 March Chapter Meeting
2025-02-19 February Reciprocity with DAMA Chicago
2024-12-18 December Chapter Meeting
2024-11-20 November - Reciprocity with Chicago DAMA
2024-10-16 October Chapter Meeting - In-person and Streaming
2024-09-18 September Chapter meeting
2024-08-21 August chapter meeting - Join DAMA Chicago chapter partners
2024-08-13 DAMA-MN Summer Social
2024-07-17 July 2024 DAMA-MN Chapter Meeting
2024-06-19 June 2024 DAMA-MN Chapter Meeting
2024-05-15 DAMA-CHICAGO RECIPROCITY (Data Leadership and Data Protection)
2024-04-17 Data Modeling
2024-03-20 Survey Results & Engineering the Extraordinary Presentation
2024-02-21 No Meeting on February 21
2024-01-24 DAMA-I offerings including CDMP and welcome of the new Board
2023-12-20 Statistical Process Control
2023-11-29 Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
2023-10-25 Business Meeting (October 25th) Just come no registration required
2023-09-20 No Meeting in September - No Speaker
2023-08-16 A 12 Step Program for Improving Organizational Data Literacy
2023-07-19 Data Domains and your Kitchen
2023-06-21 Achieving Buzzword Compliance: Data Architecture Language and Vocabulary - Overview
2023-05-17 Is Data Really "the new oil"... The data asset IS different
2023-03-15 Introduction to Azure Platform for Data Professionals
2023-02-15 Chicago Quarterly Meeting
2022-12-21 Ethics and AI Presentation and then Business Meeting
2022-11-16 Chicago Quarterly Meeting
2022-09-21 Quantify, Amplify, Act Bookending Data Management: How Technologies and Metrics, Measurements, and KPIs facilitate successful Data-Driven Organizations
2022-08-17 Chicago 35th Anniversary Celebration Meeting
2022-07-20 MDM Notable Trends and Best Practices
2022-06-15 Introduction to Data Mesh
2022-05-18 A framework for Enterprise Data Strategy and Data-led Transformation : Best Practices from a CDAO
2022-04-20 Data and AI Ethics – The Road Ahead, from a CDO
2022-03-16 Blockchain for the DBA & Data Professional
2022-02-16 The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) – The “Grand Translator” for data exchange
2022-01-19 Chicago 35th Anniversary Celebration Meeting
2021-11-17 Chicago Hosting November DAMA Meeting
2021-10-20 Quality Data for Our Data-Dependent World
2021-08-18 Chicago Hosting August DAMA Meeting
2021-07-21 The Role of Data Fabric in the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
2021-06-23 Intellectual Property Primer and Relations to Data
2021-05-19 Chicago Hosting May DAMA Meeting
2021-04-21 Achieving Data Acumen: Improving Workforce Data Literacy (and therefore performance!)
2021-03-17 Staying Ahead of the Fray in the Ever-Changing Realm of Data Privacy
2021-02-17 The Process-Data Connection - How Concept Modeling Supports Process and Architecture Work
2021-01-20 Data Strategy & Governance in a Hybrid Data World
2020-12-16 DAMA-MN Business Meeting
2020-11-18 Developing a Data Strategy: Steps to Success
2020-10-21 Governing Master Data
2020-09-16 10 Steps to Data Literacy: How to Develop and Foster a Data Literate Workforce and/or Data Architecture for Self Service Analytics
2020-08-19 BUSINESS AGILITY MANIFESTO Introduction and Discussion
2020-07-15 COVID-19 Data Quality Case Study
2020-06-17 Adapting Your Data Governance Program to Emerging Technologies in Data Governance
2020-05-20 What does CCPA mean and general data privacy
2020-04-15 Quantum Computing
2020-03-18 Big Data and AI
2020-02-19 Big Data: What is it? Security, Privacy, Selected Cases, Challenges and Opportunities
2020-01-27 Board Elections, By-Laws Change Review, and planning 2020
2019-12-11 Upcoming December Event
2019-11-25 Monday November 25: Speaker Daniel Cozine (from Mayo Clinic) - Achieving financial success through improved Data Recording. CONFIRMED Venue: Be The Match: National Marrow Donor Program - downtown Mpls)
2019-10-16 October: Doug Laney - Infonomics: The New Economics of Information
2019-09-16 September 16; 2019 DAMA-Day: Prashanth Southekal & Izabela Lundberg
2019-08-21 August 21 - Sanjay Kuba - Unlocking All of Your Data: Industry Trends and Use Cases
2019-07-24 July 24 : Joe Caserta: Innovation for Data and Analytics Trends
2019-06-19 June 19 : Maher Lahmer (Google) Topic: Data Science.. with Users in Mind
2019-05-15 Thank You For Sharing My Data: Making the case for new and emerging, top level data roles through data governance
2019-04-17 Dawn Michels: Right Sizing Data Management for a small to medium size organization
2019-03-20 Leading Information Governance Without a Formal Data Strategy
2019-01-17 A Framework for Identifying Business Value Through Blockchain Technology
2018-11-14 Data Engineering - The Hottest New Job
2018-10-17 Dan Myers: Real World Data Quality Using the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality
2018-09-24 2018 DAMA Day: Peter Aiken - Crafting A Strategy for Your Data: Your most powerful, yet underutilized and poorly managed organizational asset.
2018-08-15 Dr. Karl Smith: Project Management Methodologies
2018-07-18 Dr. Manjeet Rege: Visualizing Effectively
2018-06-20 Billy Cripe/ Amanda Isaacson: The new DATA dream team: aligning with and engaging the new data debutantes: sales and marketing
2018-05-16 Evan Levy: GDPR: The Seismic Shift in Marketing Analytics
2018-04-19 Mark Ouska: Why I Ignored Ontology and Graph DB and Why You Shouldn't
2018-03-21 Todd Sicard: Blockchain & Dawn Michels: Data Management Body of Knowledge(DMBOK) Case Study
2018-01-17 Luminita Vollmer: Blockchain - A Distributed Ledger
2017-12-13 Dr. Phil Shelley: Data And Analytics Modernization To Cloud — Considerations And Reasons To Consider
2017-11-15 Ellena Schoop: Making the Shift of Data Governance from IT to the Business
2017-10-18 CANCELLED: The October Chapter Meeting has been cancelled
2017-09-19 2017 DAMA Day - Tom Redman: Data Provocateurs Boot Camp
2017-08-16 Frank Cerwin - Mastering Master Data Using a Service Operating Model
2017-07-19 Kent Graziano: Changing the game with Cloud Data Warehousing
2017-06-21 Sue Habas: Data Lineage
2017-05-17 Cathy Nolan: Data Privacy
2017-04-19 Anthony Algmin: Advanced Data Architecture for Big Data, IoT, and Cloud
2017-03-15 Bonnie O'Neil: Agile Data: Oxymoron or Complementary?
2017-02-15 Mike Striefel: Part 1: Big Data - An overview of tools and capabilities; Carolyn Lewis: Part 2: The New DAMA 'Certified Data Management Professional® (CDMP®)' certificate
2017-01-18 DAMA-MN Board of Directors Meeting - Members Welcome
2016-12-14 Jay Zaidi: Age of Data
2016-11-16 Michael Blaha: A Database Reverse Engineering Case Study
2016-10-19 Missy Wittmann: Roadmap to an Enterprise Logical Data Model
2016-09-20 2016 DAMA Day - Len Silverston: Drowning in Data, Starving for Wisdom!: How to Apply Wisdom to Traditional as well as New Trends in Information Management
2016-08-17 Wesley Rhodes: Technologies of Disruption
2016-07-20 Dalton Cervo: Metadata Management as a Key Component to Data Governance, Data Stewardship, and Data Quality
2016-06-15 Gordon Everest: Conceptual vs. Logical vs. Physical: Stages of Data Modeling
2016-05-18 Janet Lichtenberger: Developing and Implementing Policies and Standards to Manage Data as an Enterprise Asset
2016-04-20 Matt McGivern: Regulated Data Governance in the Financial Sector and BCBS 239
2016-03-16 Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2016 Preview - 1. Dawn Michels: Metadata Updates - What if We Got It Wrong? 2. Susan Von Fruke: Applying Library and Information Science Disciplines to DMBOK Knowledge Areas
2016-02-17 Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2016 Preview - Luminita Vollmer: A Data Warehouse Now, Using Methods for the Future
2016-01-20 DAMA-MN Board of Directors Meeting - Members Welcome
2015-12-16 Rebecca Frederick: Vendor Risk Management
2015-12-16 DAMA-MN Chapter Officer Elections
2015-11-18 Dan McCreary: Modern Metadata Management in the NoSQL World
2015-10-21 Michele Goetz: Building the Trust Trinity to Lead Data Governance
2015-09-21 2015 DAMA Day - Kelle O'Neal: Sustainable Data Governance and Roles & Responsibilities of a Data Management Organization
2015-08-19 Charlie Vollmer: Powerful Machine Learning Anyone Can Do
2015-07-22 Michael Scofield: Avoiding Catastrophe When Importing Data and Using It in Your Enterprise
2015-06-16 Data Modeling with Big Data, NoSQL and other Modern Data Platforms – The Process with Karen Lopez
2015-05-20 CANCELLED: May Meeting Has Been Cancelled
2015-04-15 Charlie Betz: IT4IT
2015-03-18 Dawn Michels / Luminita Vollmer : Enterprise Data World Preview
2015-02-18 DAMA Board of Directors Panel Discussion
2015-01-21 DAMA Board of Directors Panel Discussion
2014-12-17 Dan McCreary 2nd Generation NoSQL Databases
2014-11-19 Matthew Israelson: Back-End Structures & Front End Visualization
2014-10-15 David Wormald - Semantic Discovery
2014-09-15 2014 DAMA Day - David Marco: Demystifying Meta Data Management
2014-08-20 John Bauer: I like Big Data and I don’t know why
2014-07-16 Dr. Phil Shelley: BIG DATA
2014-06-18 Josh More: Job Recon - Using Hacking Skills to Land the Job of your Dream
2014-05-21 Johnny Gay: Data Modeling Tool Tips and Techniques & Gordon Everest: Test your Data Modeling Skills
2014-04-16 Luminita Vollmer: Title: The EIM Reference Architecture – A journey to the center of the Enterprise
2014-03-19 Billy Cripe: Social Competitive Intelligence - Putting Data Insights Into Action
2014-02-19 Ross McNeely: Data Modeling with Graph Databases
2014-01-15 Dave Haertzen: "Data Structures for Analytics" and "Modeling Your Customer"
2013-12-18 Saeed Rahimi: NoSQL 101: Big Data Analytics – Scrub with Pig, Store in HBase, And Analyze with Hive
2013-11-20 Linda Finley: Definition and Practical Value of Business Architecture
2013-10-16 Deepak Bhaskar: Data Governance and Data Quality programs: Better Outcomes, Worthwhile Change, for Any Organization
2013-09-16 2013 DAMA Day - Danette McGilvray: Increasing Project Success through Data Quality and Governance
2013-08-21 Lillian Pierson: The Data Revolution - From Data Science and Big Data to the Geospatial Revolution and Digital Humanitarian Response
2013-07-17 Josh More: Lean Security: Practical Uses in the Real World
2013-06-19 Billy Cripe: Building Collaboration With Intelligent Unstructured Data Management
2013-05-15 Michael Scofield: Data Visualization: Converting Raw Data to Useful Information
2013-04-17 Program To Be Announced
2013-03-20 Andrea Thomsen: 1. Abstract - Creating and Selling an Enterprise Information Management Strategy; Luminita Vollmer: 2. Abstract - Data Architecture and Data Governance - The Not so Siamese Twins in IT
2013-02-20 Richard Howey: Why Should Business Invest in Data?
2013-01-16 Randy Hedegaard: 1. Abstract - Data Governance and Data Quality at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; David Haertzen: 2. Abstract - Profitable Analytics
2012-11-21 Lean Security and Data Governance - An Evolutionary Tale


DAMA International (DAMA-I) is a not-for-profit, vendor independent association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices for data resource management and enterprise information. DAMA-I is the parent organization of DAMA-MN, and has over 70 chapters and thousands of members throughout the world.


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