Our Events at A Glance
October 2025
Join us for a special webinar where three inspiring professionals showcase their research projects in the field of data and machine learning. Each project takes on a unique real-world challenge, from healthcare to cybersecurity to language accessibility.
Adel Bugeja Radwan presents his work on using ResNeXt-101 with transfer learning to detect lung pathologies. With a background that bridges both medicine and computer science, Adel brings a rare perspective to medical AI and demonstrates how technology can support earlier and more accurate screening.
Jonathan, an experienced IT executive with over a decade of leadership in enterprise technology, explores the future of biometric authentication. His project investigates EEG-based technologies to move closer to a stable, universal authentication system, combining his professional expertise with a personal passion for pushing the boundaries of science and innovation.
Mohammed Grech introduces his research on natural language processing for the Kurdish Sorani language, one of the world’s low-resource languages. By comparing machine learning models for digital media classification, his work aims to improve information retrieval and accessibility for underrepresented communities.
Together, these three projects highlight the incredible breadth of machine learning applications. From improving healthcare outcomes, to securing digital identities, to breaking down language barriers, their research shows how data and AI are shaping a better future. This event is a celebration of curiosity, innovation, and the next generation of ideas in machine learning.
Tuesday 28/10/2025 5:15pm
September 2025
Data governance is gaining traction as a vital component in today’s enterprise. Especially with the rapid surge of AI, which is reshaping the enterprise landscape, the appropriate management and use of data have become a strategic imperative. This session explores the critical interplay between people, policies, processes, and platforms to build a robust and scalable data governance strategy.
Tuesday 30/09/2025 5:15pm
DAMA Malta Valletta in-person networking event for data professionals in Malta series. This informal meetup is a chance to connect with others working in data; whether you’re in engineering, governance, analytics, or strategy. Join us for drinks and conversations at Haywharf Clubhouse, Floriana and help us kick off a new community for data people in Malta.
Monday 29/09/2025 5:30pm
July 2025
How does EU law shape the development and deployment of AI systems? Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring the evolving legal landscape that governs how artificial intelligence technologies use data.
From the foundational principles of the GDPR to the forward-looking obligations of the AI Act and Data Act, this session unpacks the complex web of EU regulations influencing AI innovation. We’ll examine how compliance and accountability intersect with the need for technological advancement, and what that means for organisations working with data-driven AI.
Dr Sharon Xuereb is a senior associate at Camilleri Preziosi, with a passion for anything IT related, most significantly new and disruptive technologies and how these advancements are challenging local and foreign legal landscapes, particularly in the areas of privacy and data protection laws, intellectual property and communications laws, which also happen to be her main areas of practice at Camilleri Preziosi.
Tuesday 29/07/2025 5:15pm
June 2025
Through a career that has covered both the public and private sector, this talk will describe 4 very different data visualisation projects that have each taught me different things about the power of presenting data.
Alan Smith is the Head of Visual and Data Journalism at the Financial Times. He leads the FT’s newsroom team of data reporters and visual journalists. A data visualisation specialist, his TEDx talk Why You Should Love Statistics was featured on TED.com in 2017. Alan is the author of How Charts Work, a handbook on designing with data using the FT’s principles. He is also Honorary Professor of Practice at UCL’s Social Data Institute.
Tuesday 24/06/2025 5:15pm
You’re invited to the first in-person networking event for data professionals in Malta, organised by the local DAMA chapter, DAMA Malta Valletta.
This informal meetup is a chance to connect with others working in data—whether you’re in engineering, governance, analytics, or strategy. Join us for drinks and conversations at MeLounge, Spinola, St. Julian’s, and help us kick off a new community for data people in Malta.
Thursday 05/06/2025 5:30pm
May 2025
In this focused session, data quality thought leader, Dan Myers will provide an overview of how to leverage the power of DAMA’s Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) to create or improve your organization’s Data Quality function.
As a CDMP, and data quality and data governance practitioner for over 15 years, Dan Myers will apply his hand-on experience to recommendations on how to maximize your organizational start-up using the DMBOK. Specifically, he will identify key sections of the Data Quality domain (chapter) and how other domains reinforce your data quality function.
Mr. Myers is the founder of DQMatters which offers data quality training and consulting to organizations seeking to improve business outcomes leveraging their data. Dan has experience consulting clients and developing data management programs in the following industries: Retail/B2B Sales, Insurance, Loan Origination & Non-performing Loan Management, Health Care and state governments.
Mr. Myers is the founder of the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality (CDDQ) and has been a thought leader in the Data Quality space for over 10 years.
Tuesday 27/05/2025 5:15pm