From Passive to Active Governance in Modern Big Data Environments
JULY 8TH, 2026
60 MINUTES
LIVE WEBINAR
MICROSOFT FABRIC
Built for the People Running Fabric, Not Just Auditing It
One hour, live demos, and no theory-only slides. Walk away knowing why passive governance breaks at Fabric scale, what the active alternative looks like in production, and the specific patterns you can implement in your own environment the following week.
Active Governance, Built for the Speed of Modern Data
Passive governance cannot keep up with OneLake shortcuts, Power BI semantic models, and AI agents querying production data on demand. This session shows you what the alternative looks like in production.
Why passive governance breaks at Microsoft Fabric scale and what active governance replaces it with
The Fabric-native pattern: Purview policies, OneLake lineage, sensitivity labels, and workspace-level controls
How LLM-powered audit agents continuously classify sensitive fields, validate lineage, flag drift, and explain violations in plain language
Production patterns and human-in-the-loop checkpoints drawn from active governance work at a Fortune 50 enterprise
Actionable next steps you can take back to your own Fabric environment on Monday morning
Led by the Practitioner Who Built It
Rich McCraw
VP of Technology
Rich leads Improving's active governance and knowledge management practice. This session is built directly from that production work.
Where Does Your Organization Stand on the AI Maturity Curve?
Improving's Intelligence Operating System (IOS) defines 8 stages of AI adoption, from Zero AI to full Agentic Operations. During this session, Rich will use the IOS framework to show where active governance fits in your AI journey and what you need in place before the next stage is possible.
WAVE 1
Tools
Stages 1-2
From zero AI usage to off-the-shelf AI assistance. Humans approve every action, building the foundational trust required to advance.
WAVE 2
Process
Stages 3-4
AI moves beyond individual tasks to full workflows and governance infrastructure becomes essential. This is where most organizations stall.
WAVE 3
Agentic Operations
Stages 5-8
Agents run autonomously, coordinate in parallel, and span multiple products. This is where organizations stop managing AI and start operating with it.
