Speakers
Kate Smith
Stream 2 | The Carnegie Stage
AI is becoming embedded in core business processes and decisions, making competitive advantage a function of how safely and effectively organisations scale it. Yet governance, risk, resilience and assurance practices are lagging behind adoption.
The challenge is no longer whether to adopt AI but how to scale it with trusted control across governance, cyber, data, supplier risk and operational resilience.
Doing so safely and sustainably demands an enterprise-wide approach, one that sets clear strategic direction, aligns to risk appetite, and deliberately redesigns controls and operating models where AI introduces new or elevated risk, while taking practical, immediate steps to close the gap
Kate is a Director within PwC's Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice.
Kate is an experienced data management professional with 10 years experience in data management, data governance, data risk management, records management and data quality management. Kate has spent many years in both private and public sectors, uplifting data management, governance and record keeping capabilities across the industries of law, health, telecommunications, finance, retail gaming and higher education.
