Start Time
9:00 AM
End Time
4:30 PM
DELIVERY
Online
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About this Conference

The AI for Business Conference helps business owners navigate AI's impact on corporate policy and legal standards. It covers creating AI policies, legal and ethical issues, and strategic planning for AI implementation. Attendees will learn about the EU’s AI Act, responsible AI principles, liability issues, productivity enhancements through AI, and addressing discrimination in AI systems.

The conference also explores technology integration, AI and intellectual property, and future directions in AI law.

A word from our conference chairperson

Agenda

Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks

Peter Rose, Owner and Founder, TEKenable

Strategy, Compliance and Corporate AI Policy

Speaker: David O’Sullivan, Senior Manager, Consulting, ForvisMazars

  • Why Corporate AI Policy is needed - How your employees are already using AI in an unregulated manner
  • How to write an AI Policy for your business
  • Legal and regulatory standards - What does the AI Act say about corporate policy?
  • Legal and ethical issues surrounding AI in the workplace
  • Strategic planning and implementing AI in your workplace
  • Utilising AI as a leader
  • Future directions of AI for business strategy
  • Creating a team of responsible AI experts in your workplace
  • Interactive session: draft your own AI policy

The EU’s AI Act: What You Need to Know

Speaker: Doug McMahon, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

  • How is AI defined in the legislations?
  • Who does the AI Regulation apply to?
  • Risks levels and requirements for providers of AI systems
  • Prohibited/Unacceptable - Risk AI Systems - the “Blacklist”
  • Enforcement/Fines
  • When will it be fully applicable?
  • Key actions Businesses can take today

Productivity and Operational Transformation with AI

Speaker: Miguel López, RPA Senior Manager, Permanent TSB, Member of Board of Advisors, IBM

  • Upskilling your employees
  • Leveraging AI for increased productivity day-to-day
  • Applying AI for business productivity
  • Generative AI
  • Automation of repetitive tasks
  • AI software for business

Discrimination Caused by Algorithms, Machine Learning & Automated Decision-Making

Speaker: Mohammad Z Khan, CTO, Microsoft Services Division, TEKenable

  • Artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making
  • How AI can lead to discrimination
  • Legal and regulatory safeguards
  • Regulation and fast-developing technology

Responsible AI – What it Means & Why Does it Matter?

Speaker: Marie Murphy, COO, Fort Privacy

  • Why responsible AI is important
  • What are the principles of responsible AI?
  • How do you design responsible AI?
  • Implementation and how it works

Liability Issues Surrounding AI in the Workplace

Speaker: Joshua Hovsha, Senior Data Protection Consultant, Pembroke Privacy

  • Existing EU regulatory framework for safety and liability
  • Ensuring Data Security and Bias Mitigation
  • Safety regulation
  • Liability rules and Standards of liability
  • Proposed AI Liability Directive
  • Liability standards: fault-based or strict liability
  • Protecting your company

AI and Intellectual Property

Speaker: Ronan Murphy, Founder & Executive Chairman, Smarttech247 and Member of the AI Advisory Council for the Government of Ireland

  • The importance of creating an AI exposure register
  • Training and copyright infringement
  • Copyright - ownership of content
  • Employee information sharing
  • Data breeches
  • The Challenges of Understanding AI Ownership

Building an AI Corporate Governance Framework

Speaker: Niamh O’Brien, Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting

  • Understanding the context of the organisation: AI in an ESG World
  • AI Materiality Assessment: an impact and stakeholder assessment process
  • Developing governance structures for senior leadership
  • Telling the AI story through effective communications
  • Best practices and sample approaches

Future Directions: Towards Comprehensive AI Law

Speaker: Patrick Mascott, Digital Policy Advisor, ACQUIS EU Law & Policy

  • The challenges of integrating AI within existing legal frameworks
  • Attribution of liability – where do we go from here?
  • Recognise a legal status/personality for AI?
  • Merger control
  • Anti-competitive agreements

Who Should Attend?

This event would be very relevant to Chief Executive Officers (CEO), Chief Operating Officers (COO), Chief Technology Officers (CTO), Chief Information Officers (CIO), Chief Data Officers (CDO), Chief Innovation Officers, Business Owners, Managing Directors, General Managers, Operations Managers, Product Managers, Strategic Planners, Business Development Directors, Corporate Strategy Directors, Directors of Digital Transformation, Head of Compliance, Regulatory Affairs Directors, Legal Counsel, Technology Advisors, AI Strategy Consultants, Innovation Managers, Risk Management Directors, Data Protection Officers (DPO), Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), Cybersecurity Managers, Privacy Officers.

Speakers

Peter Rose
Owner and Founder, TEKenable
David O'Sullivan
Senior Manager, Consulting, ForvisMazars
Doug McMahon
Partner, McCann FitzGerald
Miguel López
RPA Senior Manager, Permanent TSB, Member of Board of Advisors, IBM
Mohammad Z Khan
CTO, Microsoft Services Division, TEKenable
Marie Murphy
COO, Fort Privacy
Joshua Hovsha
Data Protection Consultant
Patrick Mascott
Digital Policy Advisor, ACQUIS EU Law & Policy
Niamh O’Brien
Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting
Ronan Murphy
Founder & Executive Chairman, Smarttech247 and Member of the AI Advisory Council for the Government of Ireland

Price

EARLY BIRD RATE 1 €445 + VAT UNTIL THE END OF JULY

EARLY BIRD RATE 2 €475 + VAT UNTIL THE END OF AUGUST

Normal Rate @ €575 + VAT

Please note the early bird discount can close sooner than expected once a certain number of places fill up, therefore your prompt booking is strongly advised to avoid disappointment.

CMG Events Conference Discount

  • 10% discount for the third delegate booked or subsequent bookings thereafter from the same company.