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AI Governance Executive Forum

From pilots to policy: operationalising AI governance in regulated industries.

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77%+of delegates rated the forum's overall value and quality as excellent
~89%found the keynotes and panels highly relevant to their day-to-day role
66%of attending organisations have a defined budget timeline for the next 3–12 months
55%+are likely to build an exhibitor's solution into their plans after 1-2-1s and demos

Delegate survey, #RISK Executive Forum, 10 June.

Who qualifies for a delegate place

Places are limited to around 150 senior leaders. We screen every application against four criteria so that each conversation on the day involves someone with a live project and the authority to act on it.

Budget

Your organisation has allocated, or is planning, budget for AI governance, GRC, model risk, operational resilience or related technology.

Authority

You sign off on, or directly shape, purchasing decisions and policy for AI risk, compliance, security or data in your organisation.

Need

You are working on an active project, such as building an AI governance framework, preparing for the EU AI Act, or extending model risk controls to AI.

Timeline

You expect to evaluate or invest in solutions within the next 3 to 12 months.

Sectors we prioritise

  • Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI)
  • Critical infrastructure and energy
  • Healthcare
  • Central and local government, regulators and supervisors

Seniority

  • C-suite, VP, director or head of function
  • Accountable for risk, compliance, audit, security, data or AI
  • Personally invited or approved by the #RISK team after screening

The programme

One question runs through the day: how do regulated organisations move from isolated AI experiments to governed, scalable deployments inside the risk, compliance and audit frameworks they already run? Two keynotes and two panels anchor the programme, with meetings, roundtables and demonstrations in between.

  1. 09.30

    Breakfast briefing

    Arrival, coffee and a short scene-setter on what has changed since June.

  2. 10.00
    Opening keynote

    Eighteen months you haven't got

    The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline moved to December 2027. UK supervisors did not stand down: since May they have assessed frontier AI risk inside existing operational resilience reviews. What the delay changed, what it did not, and what the extra time is genuinely useful for.

  3. 10.45

    Curated one-to-one meetings

    Matched to the priorities you set on your pre-event call.

  4. 11.45
    Panel

    Writing the control, not the policy

    What an AI governance programme contains once it leaves the slide deck, from practitioners who have built one inside a regulated business.

    • Inventories that capture what the business bought, not only what technology built
    • Risk tiering against a definition that keeps moving
    • Approval gates between proof of concept and production
    • Evidence internal audit accepts, and what it sends back
    • Mapping once for the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF
  5. 12.45

    Lunch and peer roundtables

    Seated by theme: third-party and foundation-model oversight, DORA registers, ISO/IEC 42001 certification, and model validation for GenAI.

  6. 13.45

    Curated one-to-one meetings

    A second block, with time to pick up the conversations that started in the morning.

  7. 14.45
    Panel

    Who owns the agent?

    A third of organisations already run agentic AI in production. Three quarters expect agents to hold decision autonomy within a year. Barely a third believe their governance scales to it.

    • Where an agent's authority stops and human sign-off begins
    • Who answers under SM&CR when an agent causes harm
    • Logging and reconstructing an agent's decision after the fact
    • Incident response when the system acts on its own
    • Separate framework or extended controls: the CRO and CISO boundary
  8. 15.30

    Coffee

  9. 15.45

    Technology showcases

    Short, practical demonstrations of AI governance, monitoring and resilience tooling.

  10. 16.30
    Closing keynote

    What the board actually needs to see

    Almost every board has formally assigned responsibility for AI risk. Far fewer have equipped it. Eight in ten saw an AI incident escalate last year, and four in ten changed anything as a result. What belongs in the board pack, how to quantify the exposure, and what a supervisor asks next.

  11. 17.00

    Drinks reception

    Where most delegates tell us the useful conversations actually happen.

Programme subject to change. Speakers are being confirmed and will be announced here.

Who attends

Roughly one-third of #RISK attendees hold C-suite or VP titles. The rest are directors and managers who run risk, compliance, security and AI programmes day to day.

Executive leadership and C-suite

  • Chief Risk Officer / Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • Chief Information Security Officer
  • Chief Data & Analytics Officer
  • Chief Technology / Information Officer
  • General Counsel
  • CEO, COO, Managing Director and Founder

AI, model risk and ERM

  • Head of Model Risk
  • Head of AI / ML
  • Enterprise Risk Director
  • Risk Management Business Leader
  • GRC Manager
  • Senior Enterprise Risk Governance Specialist

Technology risk, audit and supervision

  • Director of IT GRC
  • Technology Risk Manager
  • Cyber GRC Manager
  • Senior Internal Auditor
  • Senior regulators and supervisors

Organisations that have attended #RISK events

A sample of the banks, insurers, utilities, public bodies and technology firms whose leaders have joined our forums.

Banking and paymentsInsuranceAsset managementEnergy and utilitiesDefence and engineeringHealthcarePublic sector
ABN AMROAmerican ExpressbpNHSBarclaysInvestecNationwideSantanderAXA HealthStandard CharteredWorldpayAonLloyds BankNorthern TrustVisaGeneral DynamicsRGANestThames WaterWells FargoKBRVitalityNatWestSaltusStandard LifeMarshE.ONJulius BärBAE SystemsExperianEDFJPMorgan Chase & Co.AvivaThalesOctopus EnergyInvescoCentenary BankIFX PaymentsBT GroupHiscoxBGCRailpenAztec GroupGeneraliBank of EnglandAJ BellMizuhoLloyd's of LondonShellRoyal Bank of CanadaHoneywellM&G InvestmentsCitiAldermoreBNY

Organisations listed attended previous #RISK events. Listing does not imply endorsement or attendance at this forum.

Apply for a delegate place

Complete the short application form with your role, organisation and the AI governance project you are working on. Our team will confirm whether you meet the criteria and, if so, send a personal invitation.

Apply for a place

For solution providers

A small number of vendors, platforms and advisory firms meet pre-qualified buyers through curated 1-2-1 meetings, live demos and boardroom sessions. Packages include:

  • Sponsor, Premium, Profile and Entry-Level exhibitor packages
  • Pre- or post-event webinars and account-based marketing
  • Hosted executive dinners for up to 40 decision-makers
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Nick James, #RISK Director and Founder
nick@grcworldforums.com