Annual General Meeting (VIRTUAL ONLY)

  VIRTUAL ONLY Annual General Meeting

Please join us VIRTUALLY on Friday Jan. 19th for a shortened Annual General Meeting to discuss and vote on two (2) major items. The recent and predicted snow are causing us to convert Friday's event to a VIRTUAL ONLY 

Agenda for Friday, Jan 19th (VIRTUAL ONLY):

• 8:55 Virtual chatting before start of meeting
• 9:00 DAMA chapter announcements
• • Thanks to our Sponsors: Denodo, Qlik, and Deloitte
• 9:05 Short Annual General Meeting (see summary below)
• • Discussion and vote on proposed bylaws to align with Provincial standard
  • Discussion and vote on $50 fee for Premium Membership
• 9:20 Draw for VIRTUAL attendees only
• • $50 Amazon Gift Card

• Please review the proposed bylaws (10 minute read) before the meeting
• • We discovered that our bylaws were not in sync with the provincial Society's basic society bylaws so we have amended them to align them. 
• Proposal of an annual fee for Premium Membership starting in 2024
• • Premium Membership will enable us to harmonize our Vancouver Chapter with the common practice across all other Canadian DAMA chapters.
  • Details of the annual fee:
  • • $50 due in January of each year. 
    • Students and unemployed can request the $10 annual fee.
    • Corporate bundles include a discount and reduced administration.
  • The benefits of Premium Membership include: 
• • Member only events such as Joe Reis and Chad Sanderson in June.
  • Deep discounts for the CDMP study group, official textbook DMBoK2, and conference
  • Eligibility to be invited to join Special Interest Groups such as the upcoming DG-SIG whose possible purpose is to mentor and share best practises amongst DGers and hopeful DGers in large organizations.
  • Access to historical slide decks and recordings, i.e. before last event
  • Voting at AGMs.
  • Eligible to run for Board of Director positions.
• • Regular Membership Benefits include: 
  • • Invitations to, and free attendance at, most monthly events
    • No discounts for CDMP study group, DMBoK2, or fall conference.
    • No access to archived slide decks and recordings.
    • No vote at AGMs and not eligible to run for DAMA-Vancouver BC Board of Director positions.

About our location:

• Deloitte Summit Building (architecture)
• Follow signage to the Learning Centre
• Capacity - 100 people
• We are finally back doing live events and even better, we will be in the new Deloitte Summit Building at 410 West Georgia, Vancouver with the same delicious muffins, croissants, coffee, and juices we all remember so fondly. 
  

Information and contacts will be linked here AFTER the event for Premium Members:

• Slide deck 
• Recording (if available)
• Contact information for follow-up questions

Upcoming DAMA-Vancouver Events - Mark Your Calendars:

• 2024: Please send in topics/vendors/paradigms you would like to see!
• January
• • Thursday 18th evening: Low Key Data Happy Hour - Good Co.
  • Friday 19th AM: 
  • • Annual General Meeting (bylaws change and annual membership fee)
    • Draw for a $50 Amazon gift card
• February
• • Tentative Thu 15th evening: Low Key Data Happy Hour - TBA by Marcus
  • Friday 16th AM: 
  • • Jeff Booth is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. Jeff is a cofounder of BuildDirect and author of "The Price of Tomorrow" which describes deflation as the key to an abundant future.
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• March
• • Tentative Thu 14th evening: Low Key Data Happy Hour - TBA by Marcus
  • Friday 15th AM: 
  • • BCLC's DG Journey so far - Sarah Marshall
    • Short presentation on China's top down approach to DG by Cathy Zhang
    • Aiming to have a meeting afterwards to begin organizing the Data Governance - Special Interest Group (probably with some constraints on joining the SIG in order to keep it a safe place to ask DG questions and provide experience-based mentorship, advice, and best practices).
• Apr 19?: TBA
• May 17?: TBA
• June
• • Tentative Thu 13 evening: Low Key Data Happy Hour - TBA by Marcus
  • Friday 14 AM:  (Premium Members)
  • • Joe Reis AND Chad Sanderson. 
    • Topic TBA though both will probably want to talk about their most recent book (Joe on Data Modeling and Chad on Data Contracts). 
• Sep 20?: TBA
• Oct 18?: TBA
• Nov 15?: Tentative date for our 3rd Annual DAMA Days Canada Conference
• Dec 13?: Holiday season get together (Premium Members)