Thursday March 13, 2025 @ 4-5PM PST
Session Synopsis
AI Governance involves managing the trade-offs between innovation and risk management for artificial intelligence. This session will cover the following topics based on Sunil Soares’ books on AI Governance:
- Agentic AI Governance – Best practices to implement governance within the context of Human-out-of-the-Loop.
- People – Emerging roles and groups, such as the AI executive sponsor, AI governance leader, AI oversight board, AI steward, and AI center of excellence.
- Process – 13 components and 100+ controls for AI governance.
- Technology – Reference architecture to support AI governance including tools and vendors.
- Regulations – Mappings of controls to regulations such as the EU AI Act.
- Industry Standards – Mappings of controls to industry standards such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, OWASP Top 10 LLM and MITRE ATLAS.
Sunil Soares, Private Equity Exit/IAPP AIGP
Speaker Bio
Sunil Soares is the Founder and CEO of YDC, focused on AI Governance. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Founder and CEO of Information Asset, a data management firm, which he sold to private equity.
Sunil is the author of 12 books on data management and AI governance, including The IBM Data Governance Unified Process, Selling Information Governance to the Business, Big Data Governance, Data Governance Tools, Data Governance Guide for BCBS 239 and DFAST Compliance, The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance, and AI Governance. In the past, Sunil also worked as an auditor at PwC and as a management consultant at Booz and Company. Sunil was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Sunil also holds the Artificial Intelligence Governance Practitioner (AIGP) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He has also successfully completed the IEEE CertifAIedTM Assessor Training for AI ethics assessments.