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Is your data AI-ready, or just... data? 🤖 At the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, one thing became crystal clear: AI is no longer the experiment—it’s the expectation. But there’s a massive hurdle standing in the way of value. According to Gartner, organizations with low data governance maturity are significantly more likely to fail their AI initiatives. 📉 The secret? AI readiness is a metadata problem. If your metadata is siloed, static, or undocumented, you can’t verify if your data is fit for a specific AI use case. To scale AI responsibly, you need active, connected metadata that evolves as fast as your models do. We’ve recapped the top 3 themes from the summit, including:  ✅ Why "outcome-based governance" is replacing "Check-the-Box" compliance.  ✅ How to bridge the gap between AI teams and Data teams.  ✅ The shift toward Agentic Data Intelligence. Stop guessing if your data is ready. Start proving it. Read the full Gartner 2026 recap here: https://lnkd.in/eJh5_cdy