Your local Data Management Community in the National Capital Region

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Upcoming events

    • Tuesday, September 09, 2025
    • 12:05 - 12:55
    • Virtual
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    Join us for an engaging Lunch and Learn session hosted by DAMA NCR, your local chapter of DAMA International—the leading global organization for data management professionals. DAMA International is dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information and data management, offering a collaborative community and a rich body of knowledge for practitioners across industries. DAMA NCR brings this mission to life in the National Capital Region, fostering networking, education, and professional development opportunities tailored to our local data community.

    This session will also introduce the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) designation—an internationally recognized certification offered by DAMA International. Whether you're just starting your data career or you're a seasoned expert, the CDMP validates your knowledge across key domains of data management. We'll walk through the different certification levels (Associate, Practitioner, and Master), explain how to prepare and register for the exam, and share insights on why earning the CDMP can elevate your credibility, open new career doors, and deepen your understanding of the DAMA-DMBOK framework. Don’t miss this chance to learn how to take your data career to the next level!

    To support your certification journey, we’ll also be hosting a dedicated, in-person Training Day for the CDMP Data Management Fundamentals Exam on November 19th, featuring “Pay if You Pass” exam opportunities to make the process more accessible and rewarding!

    Seminar link coming soon!


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    Participez à une séance Lunch and Learn captivante organisée par DAMA NCR, votre chapitre local de DAMA International — l’organisation mondiale de premier plan pour les professionnels de la gestion des données. DAMA International est dédiée à l’avancement des concepts et des pratiques de la gestion de l’information et des données, offrant une communauté collaborative et une riche base de connaissances pour les praticiens de tous les secteurs. DAMA NCR donne vie à cette mission dans la région de la capitale nationale, en favorisant le réseautage, l’éducation et les opportunités de développement professionnel adaptées à notre communauté locale de spécialistes des données.

    Cette séance présentera également la désignation Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) — une certification reconnue à l’échelle internationale offerte par DAMA International. Que vous commenciez votre carrière dans les données ou que vous soyez un expert chevronné, le CDMP valide vos connaissances dans les principaux domaines de la gestion des données. Nous passerons en revue les différents niveaux de certification (Associé, Praticien et Maître), expliquerons comment se préparer et s’inscrire à l’examen, et partagerons des idées sur les raisons pour lesquelles obtenir le CDMP peut renforcer votre crédibilité, ouvrir de nouvelles portes professionnelles et approfondir votre compréhension du cadre DAMA-DMBOK. Ne manquez pas cette occasion d’apprendre comment faire passer votre carrière en données au niveau supérieur!

    Pour soutenir votre parcours de certification, nous organiserons également une journée de formation en personne dédiée à l’examen CDMP Data Management Fundamentals le 19 novembre, avec des opportunités d’examen « Payez si vous réussissez » pour rendre le processus plus accessible et gratifiant!

    Lien vers le séminaire à venir!

    • Tuesday, September 16, 2025
    • 18:00 - 20:00
    • 10 Fourteen Bar - 1014 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, ON
    Register

    DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event

    DAMA NCR-RCN is hosting our Data Networking Event at 10 Fourteen Bar in Ottawa. Come join data professionals from the National Capital Region (NCR) to socialize, strengthen business connections, get fresh ideas, and raise your professional profile. 

    DAMA NCR-RCN organise notre événement de réseautage des données au 10 Fourteen Bar à Ottawa. Rejoignez des professionnels des données de la région de la capitale nationale (RCN) pour socialiser, renforcer vos connexions professionnelles, obtenir de nouvelles idées et rehausser votre profil professionnel.

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    Time/Heure: 6:00pm - 8:00pm (EST) / 18h00 à 20h00 (HNE)

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    Price/prix:

    The session is free of charge. DAMA NCR Members will receive one (1) free drink at the event. Drinks will also be available for purchase. Snacks will be provided.

    La session est gratuite. Les membres DAMA RCN recevront une (1) boisson gratuite lors de l'événement. Des boissons seront disponibles à l'achat. Des collations seront fournies.

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    Location/emplacement:

    10 Fourteen Bar

    1014 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, ON

    • Monday, November 17, 2025
    • Tuesday, November 18, 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • 150 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Canada
    Register

    Announcing our fourth annual DAMA Days Canada Conference (DDC)! 

    This year's event includes:

    • Special Guest attendance and presentations
    • Main stage session recordings available post-conference
    • Door prizes, including literature from data industry leaders and tech giveaways.
    • Complimentary (FREE) professional headshots.
    • Discounts for DATAVERSITY training and conferences
    • Discounts from industry leader-authored literature
    • Networking opportunities with:
      • International, national, and local Data Management communities and professionals.
      • Professionals from the private and public sectors.
      • Subject matter experts in Data Management from both technical and business backgrounds.
    • The chance to connect with vendors and explore product demos.
    • Introduction to local not-for-profit and community organizations in various areas of data management!
    • A FREE ticket to a dedicated Training Day with DATAVERSITY on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
      • Morning half-day Training with Mark Horseman for the CDMP Data Management Fundamentals Exam!
      • The option to write Pay-if-you-Pass Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) exam: Fundamentals and Specialist.

    While we are in planning mode, scheduling our speakers, coordinating with sponsors and vendors, and organizing all of the nitty-gritty details, tickets are up for sale! While we are welcoming many attendees, our sell-out Networking Night on Monday, November 17th, 2025, has limited seating available. Be sure to register ASAP!

    As we plan, some details may be subject to change.

    Need help explaining the enormous value of this event to your management!? We have saved you some time. Feel free to use our templated request letter which details the many benefits of this unique event. You can click here to download the editable file.

     

    We cannot wait to see you there!

     

    For additional information, please email admin@dama-ncr-rcn.ca


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    Annonce de notre quatrième conférence annuelle DAMA Days Canada (DDC)!

    L’événement de cette année comprend :

    • Présence d’invités spéciaux et présentations
    • Enregistrements des sessions principales disponibles après la conférence
    • Prix de présence, incluant des ouvrages de leaders du secteur des données et des cadeaux technologiques
    • Portraits professionnels gratuits
    • Rabais sur les formations et conférences de DATAVERSITY
    • Rabais sur des ouvrages rédigés par des experts reconnus de l’industrie
    • Opportunités de réseautage avec :
      • Les communautés et professionnels de la gestion des données à l’échelle internationale, nationale et locale
      • Des professionnels des secteurs privé et public
      • Des experts en gestion des données issus des milieux techniques et d’affaires
      • Des fournisseurs et démonstrations de produits
      • Des organismes communautaires et à but non lucratif œuvrant dans divers domaines de la gestion des données

    Un billet GRATUIT pour une journée de formation exclusive avec DATAVERSITY le mercredi 19 novembre 2025

    • Demi-journée de formation en matinée avec Mark Horseman pour l’examen CDMP Data Management Fundamentals
    • Possibilité de passer l’examen Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) « Payez si vous réussissez » : Fondamentaux et Spécialiste

    Pendant que nous sommes en mode planification, que nous organisons les conférenciers, coordonnons avec les commanditaires et les fournisseurs, et réglons tous les détails, les billets sont en vente! Bien que nous accueillions de nombreux participants, notre soirée réseautage du lundi 17 novembre 2025 affiche souvent complet — assurez-vous de vous inscrire dès que possible!

    Comme nous sommes en période de planification, certains détails peuvent être sujets à changement.

    Besoin d’aide pour expliquer la valeur exceptionnelle de cet événement à votre direction? Nous vous avons simplifié la tâche. N’hésitez pas à utiliser notre lettre modèle qui détaille les nombreux avantages de cet événement unique. Vous pouvez cliquer ici pour télécharger le fichier modifiable.

    Nous avons hâte de vous y voir!

    Pour plus d’informations, veuillez écrire à : admin@dama-ncr-rcn.ca



    • Wednesday, November 19, 2025
    • 2 sessions
    • Ottawa, Canada
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    Join us and DATAVERSITY® for a dedicated Training Day to work toward (with an option to write) your Certified Data Management Professional's (CDMP®) Exam!

    DATAVERSITY® is a Registered Education Provider (REP®) with DAMA International® and will be providing training on the Data Management Fundamentals Exam here in Ottawa, Canada - exclusively for our DAMA NCR Chapter!

    This event will include the half-day training with Mark Horseman, followed by a lunch break, then an opportunity to write the Pay-if-you-Pass CDMP® exams in a classroom environment! You can write either the Data Management Fundamentals, or upper-level Specialist Exams to achieve whichever level of CDMP® you desire!

    Note - DAMA Days Canada Conference 2025 attendees receive FREE access to this entire event.

    Best of luck to you!

    Members of DAMA NCR are eligble for discounted rates.

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    Joignez-vous à nous et à DATAVERSITY® pour une journée de formation dédiée afin de vous préparer (avec la possibilité de passer l’examen) à la certification Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP®)!

    DATAVERSITY® est un fournisseur de formation agréé (REP®) par DAMA International® et offrira une formation sur l’examen Data Management Fundamentals ici même à Ottawa, au Canada — exclusivement pour notre chapitre DAMA NCR!

    Cet événement comprendra une demi-journée de formation animée par Mark Horseman, suivie d’une pause dîner, puis d’une occasion de passer les examens CDMP® « Payez si vous réussissez » dans un environnement de classe! Vous pourrez passer l’examen Data Management Fundamentals ou un examen de niveau supérieur (Spécialiste) pour atteindre le niveau de CDMP® que vous visez!

    À noter — les participants à la conférence DAMA Days Canada 2025 bénéficient d’un accès GRATUIT à l’ensemble de cet événement.

    Bonne chance à toutes et à tous!

    Les membres de DAMA NCR sont admissibles à des tarifs réduits.


Past events

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting & Elections
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Sunday, May 04, 2025 EVENT - 2025 DAMA International Annual Meeting
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Thursday, March 13, 2025 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Thursday, February 20, 2025 Member Appreciation Night 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 DAMA NCR Lunch & Learn: Safeguarding Privacy Begins With You
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 DAMA Days Canada Conference (DDC) III - Ottawa
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 DAMA NCR Lunch & Learn: Pragmatic Data Governance
Wednesday, October 09, 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium (Ottawa)
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting & AGM
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Thursday, September 12, 2024 DAMA NCR Lunch & Learn: Trust & Traceability - Moving Metadata Out of the Backroom
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 DAMA Canada's 2024 CDMP Study Group
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 CANCELLED: DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Thursday, December 07, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Membership Appreciation Night
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Thursday, November 02, 2023 DAMA Days Canada - Ottawa Conference
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Thursday, September 21, 2023 (copy) DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Thursday, September 21, 2023 B&A Free Membership
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks Networking Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Thursday, September 07, 2023 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Symposium Ottawa
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Wednesday, June 07, 2023 2023 DAMA NCR Lunch and Learn Session with Eric Gagné, Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 2023 DAMA NCR Lunch and Learn Session with Alison Paprica: What do members of the public want from data access and use policies?
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 2023 DAMA NCR Lunch and Learn Session with Erica Ren, Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 2023 DAMA NCR Lunch and Learn Session #2 - Using Imperfect Data to Track the Socioeconomic Impact of Mega-Projects
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 DAMA Canada's 2023 CDMP Study Group
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 2023 Winter & Spring DAMA Luncheon Session #1 - Adapting data governance to the modern enterprise: a case study
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Thursday, October 20, 2022 DAMA Days Canada Conference
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Rescheduled DAMA NCR-RCN Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 DAMA NCR-RCN Data and Drinks
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Spring DAMA Luncheon Session #4 - Beyond Bar Charts: How to Make Creative Data Visualizations (and Why) with Jagoda Walny, Data Visualization Expert and Canada Energy Regulator
Wednesday, June 08, 2022 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group - Review & Test
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Spring DAMA Luncheon Session #3 - Use Case on AI Governance with Mario Cantin, Founder and Chief Data Strategist of Prodago
Wednesday, May 04, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Spring DAMA Luncheon Session #2 (Zoom Meeting Details Included) - Who's pissing in your Data Lake? with Karen Lopez: Data Evangelist for InfoAdvisors, Space Enthusiast & NASA Datanaut
Wednesday, April 06, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group - Review & Test
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Spring DAMA Luncheon Sessions #1 - Adapting data governance to the modern enterprise: A case study of Palantir Technologies
Wednesday, March 09, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, March 09, 2022 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, March 02, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 DAMA's CDMP Study Group
Wednesday, December 08, 2021 DAMA NCR Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 The New Analytical Ecosystem: Bridging the Worlds of BI, Analytics and Big Data
Thursday, March 05, 2015 Maturing the Organization from Data Transactions to Information Decision Support
Thursday, January 16, 2014 How the Enterprise Data Model can help you build a better Dimensional Data Warehouse by Alex Soltesz, Enterprise Data Warehouse Architect
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 TBS Policy on Metadata for Today and the Future by Marie-Claude Côté
Thursday, September 26, 2013 Deriving Business Value from your SAP ERP with Business Analytics and Data Management Mr. Michael Mitchell Director of Defence Business Management Program - National Defence
Thursday, April 04, 2013 Leadership Summit April 4th, 2013
Monday, October 01, 2012 The Father of Data Warehousing - William H. Inmon - Coming to Ottawa
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Data Management Journey – Bill Carroll
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Data Management – Enabling Open Data and Interoperability
Monday, May 02, 2011 Dr. Peter Aiken Presents: Making the Case for Improved Data Management Practices in the Public Sector
Tuesday, November 09, 2010 New DAMA - Ottawa Chapter Launch!

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