Wednesday
Room 3
15:00 - 16:00
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
What You Need to Know (And Why You Should Care) About AI Governance
AI governance is no longer just for your legal team, but is becoming a daily reality for developers, designers, and product managers. AI agents taking real-world actions introduces an entirely new risk profile for product teams as well.
But what does "governance" actually look like when you’re debugging an agent's reasoning loop or trying to hit a sprint deadline without getting blocked?
This session skips legal theory to focus on what product teams actually need to know. We’ll look at how to translate high-level guidelines like NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act into practical engineering decisions. We will use a beginner friendly governance
framework as a lens on how to balance innovation with accountability, helping your team navigate: what we need to do for the product, what we should do ethically, what we must do legally, and what we can do technically.
Whether you’re writing code or managing the roadmap, you’ll leave with practical strategies to build systems that are resilient, compliant, and ready for global deployment.
Michelle Frost
Michelle Frost is an AI and machine learning practitioner, Microsoft AI MVP, and AI Advocate at JetBrains. She is also the founder of Accountable Intelligence, where she consults on AI governance and responsible AI strategy.
She holds a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence from Johns Hopkins University and brings over a decade of experience across data science, engineering, and enterprise AI systems to questions of fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy, and risk. Her work spans AI and machine learning strategy, responsible AI development, and governance for high-risk domains, with a particular interest in building systems that keep humans meaningfully in the lead.
Michelle speaks on AI ethics, accessibility, inclusion, and the human impact of emerging technologies. Outside of work, Michelle can usually be found in her garden or with her nose in a book.