Wednesday, August 19, 2026
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
theDock - Centre for Social Impact, 722 Cormorant Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1P8 (open in Google Maps)
Free–$10.00
Presented by Victoria Data Society
Hosts: Alyssa Foote on LinkedIn, Elsa Kastrati on LinkedIn
Featuring: Nick Hepner on LinkedIn
Nick Hepner follows the research data collection pipeline end to end: establishing chain-of-custody, navigating compliance, building a cleaning process that allows for accurate corrections, and preparing it for analysis. He has spent more than a decade designing, building and securing enterprise-level data collection platforms. The session is aimed at data professionals, researchers, and anyone curious about data architecture. Pizza and networking open the evening, the presentation runs in the middle, and networking closes it out.
Anu's Take
The quietest line in this agenda is 'responsible, accurate corrections', which is the polite way of saying the numbers get changed after they are collected. Everybody does it. Almost nobody has a process that holds up when someone asks about it a year later, and that is the gap worth two hours.
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Published Friday, August 14, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
Underused data is one of the five signs I look for when a business asks if it is ready for AI. Data nobody can vouch for is the same problem one step earlier.