AI Risk Mitigation, Policy & Compliance for Employers
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Mitigation, Policy & Compliance for Employers
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Cost: £495 + VAT per attendee
- Thursday, 2nd May 2024
(If you can't attend the live event, we can send a link post event to watch the recording. Cost: £395 + VAT - please contact registrations@bfi.co.uk)
As AI continues to develop exponentially, effective governance and policy initiatives need to build in flexibility to ensure future relevance and compliance. Uncertain regulatory landscapes make the challenge tougher.
Employers are struggling to balance competitive pressure and the speed of technical evolution with responsible AI governance.
Helping employers develop and implement a workable and compliant Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy
This critical one-day conference will provide attendees with a playbook to develop and implement workable and compliant policy. The cutting-edge programme will address current and future challenges facing organisations and deliver a comprehensive understanding of the AI risk and mitigation framework, including:
- A thorough update on current and future global regulation, timescales and content
- Understanding and implantation of good governance
- How to formulate and implement a watertight AI policy in the absence of regulatory guidance
- Learn what comprehensive compliance looks like
- How to create a risk-based audit plan
- Get to grips with key ethics and bias issues and establish a risk framework
- Learn the elements of a workable AI policy for HR
We are accepting questions before and during the broadcast. Please send your questions to elizabeth.smith@bfi.co.uk.
Which functions will benefit from attending
- Senior representatives from the following functions: Compliance, audit, risk IT, HR, ethics, AI, privacy, legal.
Schedule
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.
Opening address: Working in an unsettled regulatory AI landscape: What do employers need to know?
- A global update: developments to expect
- EU AI Act timescale and content
- US Cybersecurity regulations and projected regulation
- UK: 2024 change of government implications
- China: navigating regulation and content
- Asia - Understanding and planning for timescales and technological evolution: essential issues to consider
Invited speakers:
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation and Research, European Commission
Alexandra Leonidou, Head of AI Regulation & Governance, Department of Science, Innovation & Technology, UK Government
Liz Centoni, EVP Chief Strategy Officer & GM Applications, Cisco
Keeping abreast of regulatory developments
- Anti-discrimination
- IP
- Cybersecurity
- Data protection and GDPR
- Confidentiality
- Issues to consider around fairness, accuracy and disclosure
Invited speakers:
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Chief AI Officer, E-Bay
Dave Johnson, former Chief Data & AI Officer, Moderna
Bryan Goodman, Director of AI, Ford
Essential compliance issues smart employers are addressing
- Who needs to be on your team?
- What does good governance look like? A checklist
- Defining and planning for areas of accountability to avoid possible grey areas
- Rules-based versus flexible compliance: systems and processes to establish best practice
- Ethics and values: how your organisational values inform AI
- Supply chain and third party considerations: how are your external partners managing AI compliance?
Invited speakers:
Leanne Summers, Head of AI Strategy, NHS Transformation
Nikola Aschoff, Head of Extended Digital Services, Mercedes-Benz
Athina Kanioura, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Pepsico
Belinda Doshi, Head of Legal, Data and Digital, Lloyds Bank Group
Comfort break
Key elements of AI governance and policy
Dhiren Master
Founder , HRClarity.AI
Dhiren Master was born in Kenya, Nairobi, grew up in England, graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Engineering, and an MBA from INSEAD. Since then he has set up a number of his own businesses as well as working for corporates, focused on turnarounds, acquisitions, and start-ups in a diverse number of industries. He has lived and worked in over 11 countries across 5 continents. He is currently founder and owner of HRClarity.Ai, a revolutionary patent pending analytic software that predicts when people are likely to leave, D&I trends, who are likely to be strong and weak line managers, as well as optimising total reward. He holds 4 international patents, a B2C and 3 B2B marketing awards from his time as Marketing Director at Kwik Fit and Global CMO at Salary Finance (a fintech). He started his career as a Research Engineer with GEC, then went onto become a Strategy Consultant with OC&C and Monitor, before becoming Head of Strategy Worldwide for BG Group Plc. He then went on to be CEO of BG Broadband India setting up the first foreign owned optical fibre broadband network in India. After which as CEO of Thermablade Inc, Canada, he developed the world’s first heated ice hockey skate blade. He then went on to invent a new cooking technique to cook paleo food quickly over charcoal. He has served as a founder, Director and Chairman of a number of not-for-profit organisations in the UK and Canada: Find The Time, Prayer Canada, Children’s Camps International, and Opportunity International. He is an author, budding triathlete, loves to read, sketch and sing karaoke."
- Basic spheres to consider:
- Content
- How AI will operate
- Data
- Decision-making
- Updating and communicating - Processes to deal with disciplinary action
- Data: where might you fall foul?
Invited speakers:
Edosa Odaro Partner & Chief Value Officer, Value Driven Services
Gurkirit Gill, Associate Solicitor, BP Collins
Defining a code of ethics to reflect your organisation’s values
Invited speakers:
Robert Trager, International Governance Lead, Centre for Governance of AI
Jesper Nordstrom, Head of AI Strategy & Governance, Nordea
Sanjeevan Bala, Group chief Data & AI Officer, ITV
Daniel Ramirez-Cano, Group Head AI & CVM, Vodafone
Raj Seshadri President, Data & Services, Mastercard
Challenges of AI and data privacy
- Strategy and vision framework: essential elements
- Identifying, aligning and communicating AI-related business goals
- Managing and meeting knowledge gaps in a fast-paced sector to inform and shape potential policy
- Fairness, transparency and evaluation criteria and how to apply internally and externally
- Which existing laws and principles can you adapt to ensure your policy is as watertight as possible?
Invited Speakers:
Alex King, Head of Data, Analytics & AI Partners, EMEA, Google Cloud
Toni Kitaka, Conversational AI Product Lead, JP Morgan
Kevin Lee, Chief Digital Officer, Consumer, BT Group
AI Policy essentials: A blueprint
Invited speakers:
Tarun Tawakley, Partner, Lewis Silkin
Lunch break
Quantifying and mitigating AI risks: Creating a risk-based audit plan
- Understanding the scope of unique AI risk
- Identifying potential litigation, liability and discrimination risk
- What are the most threatening internal and external risks?
- Mitigation for internal risk:
- Employee use
- Data privacy and ownership guidelines
- Data risks: black box and bias
- Transparency, bias and accountability
- LLMs: quality, data, access, bias and loss: how to avoid contravening current and future regulations - External risks: mitigating for partner, supplier and vendor use to avoid disputes: where are the biggest risks?
- Testing and audits to meet business objectives
Invited speakers:
Soren F Mortensen, Global Director Financial Markets, IBM
Theo Blackwell, Chief digital Officer, Greater London Authority
Laura Simpson, Chief Intelligence Officer, McCann Worldwide Group
Thomas Neumann, Principal Manager Digital, Vodafone
Panel discussion: AI Challenges and opportunities – a realistic corporate blueprint
Invited speakers:
Premal Desai, Head of Data & AI, The Gym Group
Jane Lauder, Executive VP Enterprise Marketing, chief Data Officer, Estee Lauder
Orlando Machado, Chief Data Officer, the LEGO Group
Brett St Clair, Co-Founder, The Rebel Technologist
Michael Janusz, Data Scientist, Sappi Europe
Toby Ord, Senior Research Fellow Philosophy, Oxford University
Comfort break
AI bias and ethics: Transparency and accountability for a bottom-up policy
- Defining, measuring and testing your systems against standards
- Establishing a framework to disseminate risks
- How to get the best feedback to ensure constant improvement
Invited speakers:
Thomas Ferretti PhD Lecturer, Ethics and Sustainable Business, University of Greenwich
Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics, Sony
Gaia Bellone, Chief Data Scientist, Prudential Financial
Gilbert Owusu, Data & AI Director, BT
Geoff Wappett, Head of AI & Data Insights, Virgin Media O2 Business
AI risk for HR: A blueprint
- Essential policy content to protect your organisation
- Identifying, implementing and monitoring an AI governance team: who plays what role?
- Avoiding bias and lack of diverse input
- Key HR considerations for AI risk
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, wellbeing environmental and societal initiatives: policy and ethics
- Aligning principles and practice: non-discrimination, transparency and accountability
Invited Speakers:
Peter Gostev, Head of AI, Moonpig
Elodie Blyth de Fontenay, Head of Data Strategy & Transformation, Royal London Asset Management
Dan Dixon, Head of Data, AI Global Functions Innovation, HSBC