DAMA Northern Colorado Happy Hour (10/08/2026)

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:30:00 GMT

Join Us for Happy Hour with DAMA Rocky Mountain!
Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar, Johnstown, CO
Thursday, October 8th
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Looking to connect with fellow data professionals and learn more about DAMA Rocky Mountain Chapter? This is your chance!

We’re on a mission to reignite the data community in Northern Colorado, and we’d love to see faces from Cheyenne, Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Longmont, Frederick, Firestone, and Boulder.

✅ Network with peers
✅ Discover DAMA’s role in data management excellence
✅ Enjoy great food and drinks in a relaxed setting
(Please note: attendees are responsible for their own food and beverage tabs.)

RSVP Options:

Quick email: malbano@damarmc.org
Or register here: https://dama-rmc.wildapricot.org/event-6853255

Let’s reignite the data community together!

#DataManagement #DAMA #NorthernColorado #Networking #HappyHour #DataProfessionals

Engineering 101: Data, Prompt, Context, and When to Hand It Back (10/22/2026)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:30:00 GMT

Join DAMA-RMC

for

Engineering 101: Data, Prompt, Context, and When to Hand It Back

When: Thursday, October 22nd - 2:30pm-5:30pm

Location: University of Denver (Reiman Theater in Margery Reed Hall)

Address: 2306 E. Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80210

Price : Log-in to receive membership pricing!

Professional Members: Always Complimentary & Free!
Guest Members: First In-Person event $0, In-Person $20, Virtual $10
Non-members: In-Person $25, Virtual $15

Many organizations treat AI as a prompt problem. Data teams know it is a data problem. This session walks the difference between a data engineer, a prompt engineer, and a context engineer, then the part people skip: the stop rule. How do you know the model should quit and hand the work back to a person? We use contra-examples, not just happy-path metrics, and we attach ROI to the gate instead of forecasting a science project. Conversational, vendor-agnostic, built for a DAMA room.

What the room leaves with
1. A plain-language map of the three roles, including the why.
2. Five questions that tell you when to stop the machine.
3. A way to prove the value of a human gate, not just estimate it.

Nathan Platter

Nathan Platter is a Lincoln-based data and AI practitioner with 13+ years inside Fortune 500 analytics teams, including NBCUniversal, 3M, Sleep Number, and SAP Concur. He builds compliance-aware AI workflows live on stage, works in enterprise AI data management, and runs Platter Analytics.

Event Parking:

Available at the Evans Garage (corner of Evans & S. High Street) and is $2 per hour. ParkMobile app available (https://parkmobile.io/).

Campus Map: https://www.du.edu/site-utilities/maps

Other Details:

Join DAMA-RMC at the University of Denver.

Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Doors open at 2:00pm for networking and presentations begin promptly at 2:30pm.

Event followed by a 'Pint of Data' Happy hour at Crimson & Gold

Address: 2017 S. University Blvd, Denver, CO 80210

Event table/booth and other sponsorship and job promotion opportunities available. See Sponsor Benefits for more information.

Contact PartnershipsVP@damarmc.org to book your space at a future event.

DAMA - Rocky Mountain Chapter upcoming events

DAMA Northern Colorado Happy Hour (10/08/2026)

Engineering 101: Data, Prompt, Context, and When to Hand It Back (10/22/2026)