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AI & Data Governance

Making AI and data manageable — without blocking the organisation

Poor data governance costs money, trust and compliance headaches — and with AI in the mix, the risks grow. This workshop provides a pragmatic framework: ownership, quality agreements, a data catalogue people actually use, and the principles of the EU AI Act.

What you'll learn

  • Choosing governance frameworks

    DAMA-DMBOK in practice — which parts are relevant now, which later. Not everything at once.

  • Ownership & stewardship

    Who is responsible for which data? Making roles, authorities and escalation paths concrete.

  • Setting up a data catalogue

    What goes in it, how to keep it current, and how to ensure people actually use it.

  • GDPR in data practice

    Processing register, data minimisation, retention periods — not as compliance theatre, but as workable policy.

Programme

A day in detail — no surprises.

# Time Module Content
1 09:00–09:30 Start & inventory Review current governance practice. Where are the biggest pain points and risks?
2 09:30–10:45 Frameworks & scope DAMA-DMBOK overview, domain prioritisation, pragmatic MVP approach to governance.
— 10:45–11:00 Break
3 11:00–12:15 Distributing ownership Map data domains, assign data owners, complete RACI for critical datasets.
— 12:15–13:00 Lunch
4 13:00–14:15 Designing a data catalogue Minimum viable catalogue: which metadata, which tool, who fills it in. Hands-on setup.
— 14:15–14:30 Break
5 14:30–15:30 GDPR in practice Create a processing register, apply data minimisation, set retention periods.
6 15:30–16:30 Implementation plan Draft a 90-day plan: first three governance initiatives, ownership, communication approach.

Immediate results

  • Data domain map with ownership
  • Working setup for a data catalogue
  • 90-day implementation plan

Long-term

  • Fewer data incidents and GDPR risks
  • Faster onboarding of new data employees
  • Increased trust in data from business and board

Who it's for

  • Data owners / data stewards
  • CDO / data managers
  • Compliance officers
  • IT managers
  • Legal advisors with data scope

About the trainer

Pascal Mertens

Co-founder & Data and Analytics Consultant

Co-founder of DNMP and economist (University of Amsterdam) with a sharp focus on data, BI and analytics. Pascal previously co-founded Vizieo, a data visualisation and analytics company. Today, at DNMP, he helps organisations turn data into actionable insights and better decisions.

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Participant experiences

We'd already let two governance projects fail. This time we used an MVP approach — and it's holding up.
Rik Bos — IT Manager, Logistiek
Finally an approach where governance helps people rather than blocking them.
Ingrid van Dalen — Compliance Officer, Financiële dienstverlener
The RACI for our critical datasets — something we'd been putting off for three years — was done by the afternoon.
Esther Kok — Data Owner, Zorggroep
GDPR not as compliance theatre but as workable policy — that phrase alone was worth the day.
Anne Kuipers — Legal Advisor, Gemeente
We now have a data catalogue that colleagues actually open. I honestly didn't expect that.
Robert Meijer — CDO, Pensioenfonds

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