Summary - Leading at Light Speed: Governing AI When Technology Outpaces the Law

Leading at Light Speed: Governing AI When Technology Outpaces the Law

This is not another conversation about AI's transformative potential, or a fear-driven tour of existential risk. You've heard that version, and it won't help you make a decision when you need to.

Instead, we tackle the issues that you’re facing, equipping you with practical tools and techniques you can adopt when you leave our event.

AI is moving faster than regulation and your business isn’t waiting before it adopts it. Sales is using it, as are Marketing and HR. Somewhere, a vendor tool with a new AI feature may have gone live without a formal legal review.

Boards are asking questions before there are clear answers, and General Counsel are increasingly expected to provide direction and clear answers where the legal framework continues to evolve.

"Wait for the law" is not a viable strategy.

This isn't unique to heavily regulated sectors. Wherever you sit, the same tension is playing out: the business is moving at speed, and law is not keeping pace. You’re the one holding that gap together, and doing it well takes real judgement.

Implementing proportionate AI governance: oversight that matches actual risk, so effort goes where it's genuinely needed. Think the differentiation between AI experimentation from deployment risk.
Where AI decisions really sit in practice and how to push accountability out into the business, so risk is shared with the people making the calls, not carried by legal alone.
Framing AI as a trust issue, not just a compliance one: in a space where the rules are still catching up, "we didn't break any rules" is a weak defence. The real test the Board, your customers, and your regulators are applying is whether the organisation can be trusted with this, not whether a policy document exists or a box was ticked.

Pratik Patel

Richard Given