ASQ Section 0511 January 2026 Meeting Announcement

Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Professional Night: Path to Quality

Conducted by
Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511

Short Description:

ASQ Section 0511 is a community of quality professionals of Northern Virginia, with tremendous cumulative experience across multiple industries, companies, and government agencies. The experience of these quality professionals is a highly valuable networking resource to learn from.

This January of 2026, we conduct our fourth Professional Night: Path to Quality. Due to scheduling reasons, this event has been moved from December 2025 to January 2026.

It has been a long-standing tradition for Section 0511 to dedicate each December meeting to its members. In the past, the annual social events conducted in December of each year did NOT grant attendance RUs. Advent of online meetings made us re-think our approach, and we replaced them with Professional Nights in December 2021, followed by similar events in December 2022 and December 2023. At those events, Quality Professionals in attendance introduced themselves, their interests, sentiments, and concerns to other Quality Professionals in attendance.

This fourth Professional Night: Path to Quality is an educational event that grants RUs to its participants, which is currently 0.15 RUs for this 1.5-hour event. We will focus on our Quality Professionals, where YOU are the center of attention!

Program Content:

One of the Section’s objectives is to put the Quality Professionals in touch with each other and to have them benefit from each other’s experience. The participants of our Section meetings emphasized in the past that they wanted to learn more about each other through introductions and by sharing relevant information about their professional experience.

• This January 2026 Professional Night: Path to Quality WebEx event will be conducted by the same procedure as such an event of December 2021, December 2022, and December 2023.
• Meeting attendees will be asked to take floor for a few minutes to introduce themselves and their professional experience to other participants by answering the pre-defined questions listed below.
• Your turn to speak will be selected in random order. One of several Moderators will ask you to answer the ten (10) questions listed below and will converse with you as appropriate, for example, by asking for clarification.
• The questions will be projected to your computer’s WebEx screen. Also, you are encouraged to turn your camera on when you speak. If you are on the phone, you will need to view the questions on the Section’s web page or similar when you speak.
• There is no featured speaker for the January 2026 event. Professional Night: Path to Quality is an educational event, thus carrying 0.15 RU. You are expected to participate in a conversation with the Moderator when randomly called.
• PLEASE REVIEW the ten (10) questions that you will be asked and THINK AHEAD of what you want to say to other Quality Professionals in attendance about yourself and your experience.
• You will have about 5-8 minutes to answer those questions, depending on the number of meeting participants. Duration of each introduction is regulated by the interviewing Moderator.
• We will try to give the floor to as many attendees as possible, but there is no guarantee that everyone will get the floor. If the meeting runs out of time (as was the case in previous Path to Quality meetings), asking you to speak may be deferred to another meeting.
• Although we will call on speakers at random, preference will be given to those who did not speak during the 2023, 2022, or 2021 Professional Nights.
• Note: This Professional Night: Path to Quality is not a call for volunteers. It is about YOUR Path to Quality. You will not be asked whether you volunteer or plan on volunteering unless you want to raise this yourself as part of a relevant question (such as Q4, Q5, or Q8-Q10).

Ten (10) Questions for Each Meeting Participant to Answer:

I. Quality Professional

• Q1: What is your name?
• Q2: What is your area of professional specialization, education, or interest
  • For example, engineering, construction, software, healthcare, environment, management, any other?

II. Relationship with ASQ

• Q3: What ASQ Certifications (current or expired) do you have or plan on getting?
• Q4: When and why did you start attending the ASQ Section 0511 meetings?
  • Did you come to Restaurant Events (both prior to 2020 and in 2023-2025) or Ranger Outings (both old and recently in 2021-2025)?
• Q5: Did you participate in ASQ other than with Section 0511
  • For example, its Divisions, Conferences, Test Preparation, ASQ Management, other Sections?

III. Work

• Q6: Are you currently:
  • in the workforce (employed or actively searching),
  • not in the workforce (retired or not actively searching),
  • or a student?
• Q7: What is (or was) your role at work?
  • Is (or was) your work role quality-related? In what ways?

IV. Expectations

• Q8: Professional organizations in general and ASQ specifically have been massively losing membership in recent years. Many ASQ sections have collapsed. Do you have any concerns with this?
• Q9: What, if anything, interests you in other Quality Professionals who attend the ASQ Section 0511 meetings?
• Q10: In what ways do you want ASQ Section 0511 to help you as a Quality Professional?

Webinar Link / Meeting Instructions:

7:00pm — 8:30pm – Section Meeting Information
Joining by a direct link:
Meeting link: https://asq.webex.com/asq/j.php?MTID=md7b51d35a3b8efcb35d04e7efb115ad1
Joining by meeting information (requires entering the password):
Web address: https://asq.webex.com/asq
Meeting number: 2556 788 1959
Password: MnNJGYiP686
Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2556 788 1959


6:00pm — 7:00pm – Section Leadership Committee meeting
Joining by a direct link:
Meeting link: https://asq.webex.com/asq/j.php?MTID=mf9eacfe383eb679d2189a2bc3466debf
Joining by meeting information (requires entering the password):
Web address: https://asq.webex.com/asq
Meeting number: 2558 731 5440
Password: vcXvNJjF372
Joining by phone (you will have to identify yourself by name when you have joined):
Phone number: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in number (US/Canada)
Access code: 2558 731 5440

Reservations:

There is no charge to attend. To register, please use our on line reservation form which can be used up to the day of the meeting. If your plans change, please contact dba26@asq0511.org, and let us know.

Next Meeting:

Saturday, February 21, 2026 @ 11am — Ranger Outing: Port City Brewing Company. Event Organized by Edwin Videla, ASQ Section 0511 Arrangements Chair and Ranger Outings Lead

Call for Speakers!!!

Would you or someone you know like to speak at a future ASQ meeting? We're always looking for volunteers. Be creative! Exercise your public presentation skills! Earn recertification credits! Get a free dinner! Please contact programs26@asq0511.org.

About Us:

ASQ Section 0511 is a geographic community that lives intertwined with the network of ASQ Divisions — technical communities specializing in specific quality domains and supporting ASQ Certifications in their domains.