Brian Rasquinha, Jennifer Geetter, Luk Arbuckle, Sorana Ionescu
Session Time: Thur, May 7, 2026: 10:10 AM-11:10 AM
How can organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence while protecting privacy, maintaining public trust, and enabling responsible data use at scale and across diverse stakeholders?
This panel explores how organizations are navigating the growing footprint of AI and what it takes to govern it effectively without slowing innovation. Drawing on real‑world experience from a major energy sector initiative and complementary perspectives across policy, operations, and legal risk, the panel will examine how leaders are prioritizing AI oversight in practice.
Panelists will discuss how organizations:
- Rapidly assess and prioritize AI risks using tiering approaches, focusing scarce governance resources on the highest‑impact applications with a rigorous approach.
- Enable innovation through advanced data transformation and privacy‑preserving techniques that support more responsible data sharing, even as AI capabilities and regulatory expectations evolve.
- Balance privacy, confidentiality, data integrity, and emerging risks such as AI‑generated data and impersonation, while sustaining public confidence.
Attendees will leave with practical insights into how combining proportional AI risk tiering with modern privacy safeguards can enable innovation, support regulatory readiness, and strengthen trust in the digital era.
Learning Goals
- Understand how organizations prioritize oversight across large and growing AI portfolios.
- Recognize practical, scalable approaches to safer data sharing that support innovation.
- Gain language and examples to communicate AI trust, transparency, and resilience to executives, regulators, and the public.
Brian Rasquinha, Associate Director, Solution Architecture, Privacy Analytics (moderator)
Jennifer Geetter, Partner, McDermott Will & Schulte
Luk Arbuckle, Global AI Practice Leader, Chief Methodologist, IQVIA Applied AI Science
Sorana Ionescu, Director, Smart Metering, IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator – Ontario)
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