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Free assessments, practical tools and hands-on labs for data professionals who want to improve data maturity, AI readiness and governance.
More than a third of the people Swiss companies employ abroad work in countries that Swiss law does not recognise for data protection. Do you know where your data goes?
- 44.1% recognised
- 14.4% under conditions
- 37.6% not on the list
Sources and method
Recognised states: Federal Office of Justice, Annex 1 of the Data Protection Ordinance, list as of 15 September 2024. Canada: organisations under its federal privacy act. United States: organisations certified under the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework.
Staff and direct investment abroad: Swiss National Bank, 2024. 2.48 million staff work in foreign subsidiaries of Swiss companies; 3.9% are not allocated to a country. The shares count people, not data transfers.
Know where you stand before you decide what to fix.
Four self-service tools, each scored against a structured framework. Fill one in for yourself; it changes more minds than a deck someone presents to you.
Data Maturity Assessment
Understand where your organisation stands and identify your next priorities.
Take the assessment AssessmentAI Readiness Assessment
Discover whether your organisation is ready to adopt AI responsibly and effectively.
Check your readiness AnalyzerAI Governance Gap Analyzer
Identify the policies, processes and capabilities your AI governance model is missing.
Run the analyzer ScorecardCDO Strategic Positioning Scorecard
See how the data leadership role is positioned in your organisation, and what that implies.
Open the scorecardWhat every tool gives you A defensible starting point, not a generic checklist.
Where you stand today
Scored against a structured framework rather than opinion or gut feel.
Your weakest areas first
Ranked, so you address what matters most instead of fixing everything at once.
A recommendation per gap
Specific enough to act on without a consulting engagement.
A summary for the room
Ready for a conversation with your team, your peers or your leadership.
Learn by doing, with the tools you would actually use.
Assessments tell you where you stand. Labs let you practise the work itself, one technology per lab.
Hands-On Data Governance with OpenMetadata
Deploy your first data catalog from scratch and lay the foundations of governance.
Start the labEnforce the Promise: dbt, OpenMetadata and ODCS
Write a real ODCS 3.1 data contract and build the layers that enforce it, before merge and in the catalog.
Start the labAnalysis for the people who make the decisions.
Governance, data quality, AI and regulation, written as executive briefings with Swiss context.
Sovereign Agents
Every agent call is a data transfer. What AI agents actually do, the six kinds already in your organisation, and how to apply the sovereignty ladder once AI starts acting.
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Residency Is Not Sovereignty
Switzerland made digital sovereignty a 2026 priority. What federal and cantonal rules actually require, sector by sector, and why data location is only the first question.
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The Data Owner Who Isn't
Most data owners are a name in a register. Why the role stays empty, what FINMA Circular 2023/1 actually asks for, and how a CDO can make ownership real.
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What the System Knows
AI tools like REA can now read what our systems really do. Only people can decide what the business meant.
Read →Governance fails when it stays on a slide. A scorecard someone fills in for themselves changes more minds than a deck someone presents to them.
I am Bernard Millet, independent data governance advisor. Twenty years inside the data functions of large regulated organisations: UBS, Société Générale, AxiomSL, Allianz, Roche. Head of data management, data protection officer, data architect, consultant. I built DataEdgePro, its tools and its labs myself.