DAMA Philadelphia - All things Data since 1992

Good Governance Beats Good Luck St Patrick's edition! March 17, 2026 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM One Logan Square, Philly #AI #AIEthics #AIGovernance damaphila.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.ph…

Improper AI governance can lead to hallucinations such as the one in the flyer :)

🍀 Good Governance Beats Good Luck 🍀 Governance, Integration & Ethics in the Age of AI. 📅 March 17, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM 📍 One Logan Square (26th Floor) 130 N 18th St, Philadelphia, PA damaphila.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.ph…

🎤 Featuring: 👩‍💼 Carolina Charrie — Finding Direction in Data Governance: Focusing on What Truly Matters ⚖️ Ariel Seidner — Legal & Ethical Perspectives on Data & AI 🏥 Andy Cruz — Breaking Down Data Silos: Toward a Single Source of Truth ☕ Coffee + Networking + Lunch. 🎟 $15

Machine learning Algorithms

𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝘃𝘀 𝗠𝗖𝗣 - 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? APIs route requests through gateways to backends. MCP connects AI clients directly to resources. The difference matters if you're building AI systems. 𝗔𝗣𝗜 (𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲): - Built for software-to-software communication - Client → API Gateway → Service → Backend - Each service needs its own endpoint, docs, and integration - Standard patterns: REST, GraphQL, gRPC 𝗠𝗖𝗣 (𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹): - Built for AI-to-resource communication - Client (Agent/IDE/LLM) → MCP Host → MCP Server → Backend - One protocol for all: resources, tools, prompts - Self-describing, no external docs needed - Access via HTTP, SQL, and File I/O through a standard interface APIs excel at predefined workflows. You know what you need; you call the correct endpoint. MCP excels at dynamic access. The AI decides what it needs, discovers available resources, and executes. Think of it this way: APIs are like calling specific phone numbers. MCP is like having an intelligent assistant who knows the entire directory. The question isn't if MCP will replace APIs. It won't, not for traditional integrations. The question is whether your AI systems need the flexibility MCP provides or the stability APIs deliver.

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DAMA Phila Virtual hands-on Training Data Modeling Techniques Brush up - or get your feet wet - with various #datamodeling techniques, from dimensional to relational to canonical to document and others such as vault and graph, time permitting damaphila.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.ph… $30 / $0

These are descriptive analytics, and you can get your data back through prompts as long as your data model is sane, has foreign keys or consistently same-named named fields for joins, but the next step is prescriptive

Data Survivorship

You still need data marts, views, or some other "simplified" semantic layer that is fit for purpose and optimized for reporting and for answering the most common questions.

"Albania's personal data protection law: A legal framework harmonized with the GDPR" by Giovanni Ferorelli and Vincenzo Lagonigro: bit.ly/4oDAtMs

"A view from DC: Conflicts over data are battles for power" by IAPP's @cobun: bit.ly/3V1JFwz

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RSVP for DAMA Day Sept 10! Sponsored by @zclap 2 amazing speakers and lightning talks, don't miss it! lnkd.in/dPB5Wk_g We welcome Frank Cerwin from our sister chapter DAMA Chicago who will be bringing his well-received 3-hour tutorial recently presented at EDW/DGIQ

Our CDMP Boot Camp is next week! Visit our website if you would like to still sign up.