Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City & Financial Global

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP, Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Advisory Group of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange 

Sovereign AI and National Security

Alex Shandro, Partner, Global Head of AI Advisory, A&O Shearman 

How UK regulators are supporting AI innovation - latest developments and challenges

Keynote address – theme tbc

Anulka Clarke, Director of Engagement & Insights, Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) 

Keynote address - Building Trust, Enabling Innovation: How Data Protection Supports Responsible AI Adoption

AI is moving rapidly from testing to deployment across the economy, creating significant opportunities for innovation, productivity and public benefit. At the same time, in order to realise those opportunities, organisations need clarity about how to use AI in ways that maintain public trust giving people confidence in how AI uses their personal information. William Malcolm will explain how the ICO is supporting responsible AI innovation through practical guidance, innovation sandboxes, regulatory engagement and cross-regulatory cooperation. He will highlight recent developments in the ICO's work on automated decision-making, foundation models and emerging systems such as agentic AI, and the importance of trust, and principles like transparency and accountability as foundations for sustainable AI adoption. 

William Malcolm, Executive Director for Regulatory Risk and Innovation, ICO

Keynote address – theme tbc

Senior Official, FCA   

Keynote address – Implications of AI for the SMCR, Consumer Duty, governance and control requirements. The FCA's Mills Review - How are consumers using AI to make financial decisions now and what needs to change? 

Speaker to be confirmed

THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD UNDER THE CHATHAM HOUSE RULE

Host

David Rundle, Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Guest

Jem Davis, Chief Compliance Officer, Bank of England

Convergence versus divergence in global AI regulation: does it matter

Fireside chat – Update on The EU AI regulation

Hosted by

Catharina Glugla, Partner, A&O Shearman

In conversation with

Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (EPP group), European Parliament

Keynote address – China's approach to AI regulation and implications for foreign companies. An overview of AI regulation strategies and trends in other APAC countries

Speaker to be confirmed

Keynote address - Fuelling the ecosystem: How modern AI regulation drives investment and tech growth in Abu Dhabi. Crafting progressive frameworks to accelerate emerging technologies and capital deployment

Lawrence Paramasivam, Senior Executive Director, Policy & Legal, Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) 

Fireside chat - Update on AI regulatory developments in the U.S.

Host and speakers to be confirmed

Deep dive into the implementation of the EU AI Act

Panelists

Tom Duff Gordon, Vice President, Head of EMEA Policy, OpenAI

Sarah Johanna Zech, Head of Global Privacy Advisory & Data Ethics, Allianz SE

Stephan Geering, Chief Privacy Officer, Instructure  

Monika Tomczak-Gorlikowska, Global Head of Privacy, Digital and AI Governance, Prosus Group 

Agentic AI Commerce and Payments

THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD UNDER THE CHATHAM HOUSE RULE

Panelists

Nikki Johnstone, Partner - Fintech, Payments and Crypto, A&O Shearman 

Evie Kyriakides-Stenhouse, Data, Ethics, AI, Privacy & Compliance Leader; Chair, BSI/ISO IST/40 Data Management Committee

Apurv Bhatnagar, AI Advisory & Commercialisation, Mastercard 

Roundtable one - Responding to the AI Revolution: what can we learn from past digital transformation 

• Moderated by Rafi Azim-Khan of BCLP, the session will focus on the potential pitfalls and risks to businesses, under pressure to adopt and implement AI products, services and solutions quickly.
• Azim-Khan will channel the discussion by drawing on his experience of working with Silicon Valley companies for over 25 years, from the dot.com boom through "e" and "m" commerce growth, big data and adtech, to AI today.
• The session will explore what lessons can be learned from costly mistakes made in previous digital revolutions and offer some practical tips for how companies can implement AI safely and compliantly, including from a data protection perspective.
• Rafi will be joined by Anulka Clarke, Director of Engagement and Insights at DRCF, who will provide an invaluable regulatory perspective on the topic of digital transformation projects and AI implementation.

Hosted by 

Rafi Azim-Khan, Partner - Global Head of Digital & Emerging Technology, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 

Guest 

Anulka Clarke, Director of Engagement & Insights, Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum  

Roundtable two - Governance of advanced AI use cases

Roundtable three – theme to be confirmed 

Host and guest(s) to be confirmed

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP, Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Advisory Group of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange