Artificial intelligence, cyber security and data governance are becoming increasingly interconnected board issues. As technology evolves rapidly, directors must enable innovation and value creation while ensuring appropriate oversight of emerging risks.
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This briefing will explore the board’s role in governing AI adoption, strengthening cyber resilience and overseeing the data and governance frameworks that underpin responsible technology use. It will consider the practical implications for director accountability, risk appetite and organisational resilience, including the assurance boards should expect from management.
Drawing on the AICD’s latest governance guidance and practical boardroom perspectives, the discussion will focus on how directors can balance opportunity and risk, challenge management effectively and ask the right questions as AI becomes more deeply embedded across organisations.
Key takeaways
Participants will gain insights into:
- Governing AI strategically: How boards can assess AI opportunities and investment while ensuring adoption aligns with organisational strategy, purpose and risk appetite.
- Director accountability and assurance: What effective board oversight of AI, cyber and data risk looks like, including appropriate controls, accountability and assurance.
- Cyber resilience: How boards can assess preparedness for an evolving cyber threat environment and strengthen organisational response and recovery.
- Data governance and responsible AI: Why strong data, privacy and security practices are fundamental to trusted and responsible AI adoption.
- From experimentation to scale: The governance questions that become more important as AI moves from pilots and individual tools into business processes and increasingly autonomous systems.
- Effective boardroom challenge: The practical questions directors should ask management to test governance maturity, technology investment and organisational readiness.
Informed by the latest AICD guidance
The discussion will draw on the AICD’s latest guidance for boards, including A Director’s Guide to AI Governance Version 2 as the primary governance framework and the AICD-ASD Frontier AI Cyber Threats guidance as a contemporary cyber security overlay.
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