Erwin de Kreuk

Erwin de Kreuk is a passionate and highly experienced Technology Leader in the Data & AI domain. He currently serves as a Principal Consultant and Lead Data and AI at InSpark, winner of the Global Partner of the Year (POTY) Award for Identity and the Dutch Partner of the Year (POTY) Award for Data & AI. Erwin is a frequent speaker at various national and international data community events and has been recognized as a Data Platform MVP. With 16 years of experience in the world of data on the Microsoft Platform, Erwin has spent the last 8 years focusing on the Azure Platform. His day-to-day work involves addressing complex customer cases and technical issues. Additionally, he is a member of the Technology Board at InSpark, where he leads a team of highly experienced Data Experts specializing in the Microsoft Data Platform. Erwin is dedicated to helping customers maximize the value of their complex analytics environments, with a strong emphasis on solutions in the Azure Cloud (Platform as a Service) and Microsoft Fabric. As a Technology Board member, he continuously explores the latest opportunities and shares his enthusiasm with colleagues, the community, and customers. He is also a key stakeholder for the InSpark Solution (Managed) Oxygen, a Modern Data Platform Estate as-a-service and the Nitrogen Control Center a native solution build on top of Microsoft Fabric for easy data integration and data Processing.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework

Ready to learn how to build your AI foundation? Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s metadata-driven framework, combined with Data Factory pipelines and a Fabric database, powers automated data integration for AI-ready environments. Gain insights on governance, scalability, and accelerating AI-driven analytics.

Empowering Data Products and Data Agents through Data Mesh in Microsoft Fabric

Master the principles of Data Mesh with Fabric. This session explores building scalable, domain-driven analytics through Lakehouses, Databases & Warehouses. Learn how to structure (business)domains to accelerate the creation of Data Products & empower Agents for decentralized, high-quality insights.

From Insight to Oversight: Securing Power BI with Purview

As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and advanced analytics, securing sensitive data within platforms like Power BI becomes mission-critical. This session explores how Microsoft Purview enables robust Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management (IRM) across Power BI and Microsoft Fabric environments. We’ll walk through real-world scenarios where Purview policies help classify, label, and protect sensitive data, prevent oversharing, and detect risky user behavior, especially in AI-driven contexts such as Copilot interactions.

Why Data Quality Matters for AI-Driven Insights

In today’s data-driven world, the accuracy of AI insights depends on the quality of your data. Reliable, well-structured data builds trust, supports business processes, and enables informed decision-making. A robust data platform is key to maintaining consistency and accuracy. By integrating Microsoft Purview Data Quality, organizations can assess and monitor data quality with ease. This solution offers no-code/low-code rules, including out-of-the-box and AI-generated options, plus AI-powered profiling that recommends columns for review and allows human refinement for better accuracy.

Previous Sessions

Managing access to data sources in your data estate with Microsoft Purview

One of the new applications within Microsoft Purview Governance Portal are Access Policies. Access policies in Microsoft Purview allow you to manage access to different data systems across your entire data estate. The big advantage of these policies is that you do not have to apply RBAC roles and you have an overview of all applied policies. Are you a data consumer? Then the self-service access policy is an easy way to request access to data while browsing or searching for data. Are you a data producer? Then access policies helps you to easily create and publish access to data sources In this session, I will explain and show you how to create and publish policies and how to set up a self-service access workflow.

Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts

Join us for an hour to examine data governance for business and how it can benefit you.

Lake Database with Database Template and Mapping Data with Azure Synapse Analytics

Learn how to easily build your lake database without having to start with a blank canvas on Azure Synapse.

Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory

Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together!