Building on the success of our inaugural event in July 2024, this one-day forum will keep you at the forefront of global AI trends. Equip your organisation to seize new opportunities and effectively manage emerging risks in this rapidly evolving landscape.
Explore our growing speaker line-up and programme below. Join us on 19 March 2025 and be part of the conversation shaping the future.
Fast forward to 2026 – and you’re listening to an AI generated podcast summarising the last board meeting. You’re embracing AI, using it as a tool to effectively support your governance practices.
Will this be your board in just 12 months’ time?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a cornerstone in the fight against climate change, offering both significant opportunities and considerable challenges.
Yuval Noah Harari and Parmy Olson on how the race for superintelligence may amplify the worst of human nature.
We are on the verge of a profound technological shift. From global markets to everyday life, AI is proving itself to not just be a fleeting trend but a transformative wave offering unprecedented opportunities.
A Director’s Guide to AI Board Governance presents nine principles to guide boards’ oversight of AI in their organisations.
Grand Millennium, Auckland
Registration is open from 8.00am
Join MC Vic Crone as she sets the tone for the day and outlines what you'll learn from our fantastic speaker line up.
Campbell will paint a picture of what’s coming in the next 12 – 14 months, along with regulation in other jurisdictions. What should you be thinking about and lessons from across the globe.
AI will soon begin to reshape how businesses operate and compete, and Boards must govern their organisations with this in mind. AI can boost efficiency, improve decision-making, and create new opportunities, but it’s also changing markets, increasing competition, and shifting the balance of power. Boards need to focus on both—how AI strengthens the business from within and how it transforms the world outside. This isn’t about chasing trends—it’s about governing AI to drive competitive advantage, ensure ethical use, and create long-term value.
Speaker details and session information coming soon.
As AI transforms industries worldwide, how should boards navigate the opportunities and risks? This interactive session puts you in the boardroom of Delicious Foods NZ Ltd, a fast-growing FMCG company facing strategic decisions about AI adoption. Through this case study, participants will explore AI’s role in quality control, supply chain management, marketing, and financial planning—balancing innovation with ethical, financial, and governance considerations. Step into the director’s seat, debate key challenges, and shape AI-driven decisions that could define the future of business.
With businesses and cyber criminals increasingly using AI to aid them in their goals, AI can be both a hindrance and a help when it comes to cyber security. This fact facts session will cover how Security and privacy should be at the forefront when implementing AI tools. It will also discuss the boards role to ensure the risks are balanced with opportunities.
Vic Crone will sit down with Nagaja Sanatkumar in this fireside chat.
Nagaja has been involved in a number of organisations implementing interesting AI strategies, after a career in senior roles at the likes of Amazon and Expedia.
Come prepared with your questions for Nagaja.
Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster will discuss privacy, and stewardship of personal information, in a world where AI is increasingly being used to carry out a range of tasks, in both the private and public sectors. He will share with us his perspectives on digital trust, consumer confidence and AI, areas of business risk, and future AI strategy and regulation in New Zealand.
Session information coming soon.
AI is fundamentally reshaping marketing. Today, teams can already do more with less, adding new skills like data science (without writing a line of code), or creating major new campaigns (without picking up a camera). Yet in the next five years, these tools are also likely to pick up more and more of our day-to-day. Which isn't even to mention an entire new governance paradigm from intellectual property to customer trust. So where does this leave us, or in other words: has there ever been a more exciting, or worrying, time to be governing a brand than right now?
Wrap up of the 2025 Governing AI Forum.
