Irina Steenbeek

Irina Steenbeek

Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner with more than 12 years of experience. The key areas of her professional expertise are the data management maturity assessment, implementation of data management frameworks, and data lineage. Irina has practical experience in software implementation such as ERP and DWH/BI, management consultation, financial and business controls, and data science.

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Artificial Intelligence

Harmonizing Data and AI Governance: To Do or No...

For over 15 years, I’ve focused on governance frameworks for data management, publishing several books and articles o...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

Issue 4: What Makes an AI Governance Framework ...

These are trending topics in AI governance discussed at EDW 2025. ⚖️ Start With a Solid Foundation of Principles An e...

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Data Management

Clarifying the Content of AI Governance

🔍 Insight Series – Issue 3 A lack of a common definition for “governance” remains a challenge across the data manage...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

What is a Data Product?

The term “data product” originated from data science. At least, I first heard this term from data scientists. My late...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

What Does Responsible GenAI Demand from Your Da...

📬 This post is part of the “Data Management in a Nutshell: Insight Series”—short, high-impact takeaways from the ful...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

Trending Topics in DG: Practical Techniques for...

This post is part of a recap series sharing impressions and key insights gathered during the Enterprise Data World 20...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

Business Drivers for a Data Lineage Initiative

A company should have strong drivers to start the data management, particularly data lineage initiative. These initia...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

Knowledge Graphs, Data Lineage, and Metadata Ma...

Knowledge graphs, metadata management, and data lineage are examples of new metadata capabilities that many companies...

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Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)data & AI strategies
Data Management

What’s the Biggest Challenge in Implementing Da...

I recently ran two LinkedIn polls to compare the challenges organizations face in implementing data vs. AI governance...

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