Preparing for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act Conference
Preparing for the Artificial Intelligence Act: Implications for HR and Recruiters
Time: 09:30 - 17:00 (if you can't attend live, register to watch the recording)
Cost: £395 + VAT per attendee
- Tuesday, 21st November '23
(If you can't attend the live event, we can send a link post event to watch the recording. Cost: £350+VAT - please contact registrations@bfi.co.uk)
The benefits of AI are seismic, long-reaching and only the surface has been scratched. Understandably, it’s imperative that use is regulated and organisations are compliant with proposed legislation.
The world is waiting for the upcoming AI Act to be passed, and non-compliance with the AI Act will pose significant risks for large organizations. The proposed regulation is designed to govern the use of artificial intelligence and ensure that AI systems are developed and deployed in a safe and trustworthy manner.
Failing to comply with the AI Act can lead to various consequences and potential risks, including legal fines and penalties and reputational damage and loss of competitive advantage and costs to implement corrective measures.
Non-compliance with the AI Act will pose risks for organizations
This intensive conference will ensure you understand your obligations, including conducting risk assessments, implementing transparent and accountable AI systems, ensuring data privacy and security, and keep you abreast of the regulatory landscape
Key areas covered include:
- Risk Management and Mitigation
- Data Protection and Privacy Compliance
- Transparency and Explainibility
- Human Oversight and Control
- Bias and Discrimination Mitigation
- Record Keeping:
- Conformity Assessment for High-Risk AI
- Quality Management and Maintenance
- Appropriate Use of AI
- Obligations for Providers and Importers
Team discounts available - keeping your stakeholders briefed?
Understanding the AI Act's implications can help these job functions ensure responsible AI implementation, data protection, and compliance within their respective areas of expertise. It also enables them to proactively address potential risks and contribute to building a trustworthy AI ecosystem within the organization.
Which functions will benefit from attending
- AI and Technology Developers, Business Leaders and Executives, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Data Protection and Privacy Officers, Ethics and Responsible AI Officers, HR and Talent Acquisition Professionals, IT & Technology, Legal and Compliance, Risk Management and Audit Teams, Training & Learning Directors and Senior Management.
Schedule
Chairs welcome and introduction
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.
Draft Act: What does HR need to know now to prepare effectively?
- What is legally compliant use for HR?
- Key takeaways of the AI Act (EU): implications and consequences for national and global organisations
understanding the four levels of risk - Where are the high-risk areas and why?
- Implications for recruitment and selection
- Which HR systems are potentially high-risk?
Compliance and audit: Essential steps to take and when
- Ensuring compliance of HR systems early
- Lessons learned form GDPR
- Who is subject to AI Act obligations? Defining roles and responsibilities to ensure you get it right
- Who is exempt?
Comfort break
Use and benefits: Applications for HR
- Automation
- Generating predictability
- Timeline
- Biased and discriminatory outcomes
- Data protection
How to carry out a compliance check: Understanding your obligations and ensuring compliance
Lunch break
Introducing and implementing AI Systems: Expert guidance
Essential obligations and steps to take to ensure your systems are compliant: Practical streams
A: PROVIDERS
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Data feed and input to avoid discrimination
- Documentation and user instructions
- Recording and tracking unusual results
- The role of human oversight: key roles and responsibilities
B: USERS
- Ensuring your systems accord with their instructions of use: pinpointing and elimination risk and grey areas
- Ensuring relevance of input data
- Data protection in impact assessments: GDPR compliance: a checklist
Comfort break
Global HR compliance: Where are the hotspots? Regional briefings for companies
- UK
- Europe
- Americas
- Latin America
- Australasia
- Middle East & Africa