Most boards get an AI update. Few get real oversight. I’ve sat in those meetings for 25 years, as a director, an adviser, and the person called in when a board needs to understand what’s actually happening with AI at the top, and the demo is rarely the danger. The danger is the confident, complete-sounding answer that turns out to be AI theatre, strategy that performs ambition without the capability behind it.
This session gives directors and C-suite leaders the tools I use in my own boardrooms: four questions to run on any board pack before your next meeting, a six-question governance framework for any AI system in the business, and five tests to tell a genuine AI strategy from a performed one. You won’t need to become a technologist. You’ll need better questions, and a 90-day plan to put real oversight in place before the gap becomes a headline.
Who it’s for
Board directors, NEDs, chairs, C-suite leaders and risk or audit committee members who want to move from “aware of AI” to “accountable for it.”
What you’ll learn
• Four questions to run on any board pack before your next meeting
• A six-question governance framework you can apply to any AI system in the organisation
• Five tests to tell a genuine AI strategy from AI theatre
• A 90-day plan to build genuine AI oversight into existing governance routines
AI Readiness Assessment
This session includes a bespoke board-level AI Readiness Assessment: a short pre-session survey for directors and executives, benchmarked and discussed live, so governance gaps surface in the room rather than after the next incident.