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    • 2025-09-17
    • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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    Navigating Information Risks to Establish a Baseline for Trusted AI

    Join the DAMA-MN community in welcoming guest speaker David Loshin at our September Chapter Meeting!


    David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., is a recognized thought leader and expert consultant in the area of data strategy, information risk, and information innovation. David is a prolific author regarding information management best practices as the author of numerous books and papers, including Big Data Analytics: From Strategic Planning to Enterprise Integration with Tools, Techniques, NoSQL, and Graph and The Practitioner’s Guide to Data Quality Improvement. David is a frequent invited speaker at conferences, web seminars, and sponsored websites and channels. David is also an Associate Research Engineer at the University of Maryland.

    This Month's Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies are rapidly becoming integrated into the analytics fabric. At the same time, the evolution of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools has transitioned from examining these tools as novelties to a growing acknowledgement of their promise of business value. Organizations are rapidly reorganizing their data and application architectures to accommodate the integration of increasingly sophisticated AI/ML techniques and models.

    Yet there are risks to increasing an organization’s reliance on automated AI decisioning. In this talk, we will examine some fundamental risks in adopting AI into business applications and consider governance tactics to establish a baseline for trusted AI.

    • Key Learning Objectives:
      • Categories of Information Risk
      • Defining “Trustworthy” AI
      • AI Risk Profile
      • Best Practices for Identifying and Managing AI Risks


    Hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams
    Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

    Location:  Virtual MeetingLink provided upon registration

    Reserve your spot today!

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    • 2025-10-15
    • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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    Policy Meets Platform: Mapping Governance with Knowledge Graphs


    Join the DAMA-MN community in welcoming guest speaker Mark Horseman at our October Chapter Meeting!


    Mark Horseman, is a Data and IT professional with over 20 years of experience and is the Data Evangelist for DATAVERSITY's educational and training services. Mark moved into Data Quality, Master Data Management, and Data Governance early in his career and has been working extensively in data management since 2005. Previous to his work at DATAVERSITY, Mark led Information Management initiatives in both private and public sector organizations. His experience and desire for life-long learning led Mark to get his CDMP designation at the Masters level, and he teaches DATAVERSITY's CDMP and DMBoK Preparation course, as well as leading regular CDMP study groups to help other data management professionals obtain their professional certification. Mark is a peer contributor to DATAVERSITY's new Applied Data Governance Practitioner (ADGP) certification, and the lead instructor of the ADGP prep course.

    This Month's Topic:

    In this session we'll show how knowledge graphs can be used to bridge the gap between enterprise policies (eg: Information Security, Document Management, Data Privacy, and External Data Sharing) and the actual data elements within a data lake. Linking specific fields to their governing policies, data owners, and usage contexts allows for the creation of a visual representation of data governance. This approach not only clarifies policy applicability but also reveals the centrality of key data assets. Implementation of a solution like this is surprisingly lightweight, requiring only a few steps to deliver a powerful solution.

    Key Learning Objectives:

      • Key aspects to managing a Business Glossary
      • Implementing Lineage
      • Adding Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines to a Business Glossary
      • Linking all of the above together

      Hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams!
      Open to members and guests — all are welcome!


      Location: Virtual Meeting | Link provided upon registration

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      • 2025-11-19
      • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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      Chapter Meeting PLACEHOLDER!

      Upcoming DAMA-MN Chapter Meeting — Save the Date!

      We’re publishing our upcoming meeting dates early so you can plan ahead and stay engaged with the DAMA-MN community. While speakers and topics are still being finalized, you can expect the same high-value experience our members have come to count on: actionable insights, professional networking, and alignment to the DAMA-DMBOK framework.

      Meetings are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month
      Agenda:
      • 9:00 – 9:15 AM | Chapter News & Community Updates
      • 9:15 – 10:00 AM | Featured Speaker #1
      • 10:00 – 10:45 AM | Featured Speaker #2

      Hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams
      Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

      Stay tuned for speaker announcements and registration details as each event approaches. In the meantime, block your calendar and join us for learning, discussion, and connection with your local data community.

      Location: Virtual MeetingLink provided upon registration
      Reserve your spot today!

      • 2025-12-17
      • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
      Register


      Chapter Meeting PLACEHOLDER!

      Upcoming DAMA-MN Chapter Meeting — Save the Date!

      We’re publishing our upcoming meeting dates early so you can plan ahead and stay engaged with the DAMA-MN community. While speakers and topics are still being finalized, you can expect the same high-value experience our members have come to count on: actionable insights, professional networking, and alignment to the DAMA-DMBOK framework.

      Meetings are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month
      Agenda:
      • 9:00 – 9:15 AM | Chapter News & Community Updates
      • 9:15 – 10:00 AM | Featured Speaker #1
      • 10:00 – 10:45 AM | Featured Speaker #2

      Hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams
      Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

      Stay tuned for speaker announcements and registration details as each event approaches. In the meantime, block your calendar and join us for learning, discussion, and connection with your local data community.

      Location: Virtual MeetingLink provided upon registration
      Reserve your spot today!

    Past events

    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
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    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
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    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
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    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


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