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John Rood shares how organisations can unlock real value from AI by balancing innovation, governance, and compliance. Learn why robust frameworks, practical training, and a bottom-up approach are key to sustainable AI adoption and risk management.
👉 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/792
🎙️ What you’ll learn
- How to implement effective AI governance without stifling innovation
- Practical steps for building an AI management system
- The role of ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act in compliance
- Strategies to drive AI adoption and avoid shadow AI
- How to design ongoing AI literacy programmes for all staff
✅ Highlights
- “A poorly designed policy, I think, does stifle innovation. I think a well-conceived policy manages that trade-off.”
- “Shadow AI happens because organisations go buy an AI product and then lock it down.”
- “Our first recommendation… is that you’ve got to have someone to champion AI initiatives.”
- “Most organisations will start either from ISO 42001, or… the NIST AI risk management framework.”
- “The idea is we’re not just trying to put together a set of policies… What we’re trying to create is a living process.”
- “A great AI management system defines who has to get trained in what, and then make sure that actually happens on a regular basis.”
- “If your customers knew how you treat their data, they might not be your customers anymore.”
- “The top-down programmes tend to go poorly, whereas the… bottom-up programmes tend to do much better.”
- “When we are able to empower more people… we start to build the organisation’s muscle.”
- “The first step… is always regulatory.”
- “EU AI Act is written… to be extraordinarily broad.”
- “At the top of the pyramid, there’s a certain set of fairly robust training or literacy requirements that should be for whoever’s actually making the AI.”
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✅Keywords
ai governance, iso 42001, eu ai act, compliance, shadow ai, risk management, ai management system, ai literacy, bottom-up adoption, regulatory, data privacy, nist framework
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