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AI Leadership Forum

AI is moving fast. Your oversight needs to move faster.

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AI is no longer a future issue. It is already working inside the enterprise.

AI is now shaping how companies make decisions, serve customers, manage risk, allocate capital, evaluate deals, defend against threats and redesign work. For public company directors and large enterprise CEOs, the challenge is no longer simply understanding AI. It is knowing what effective governance looks like as AI moves from experimentation into core operations.

The AI Leadership Forum brings public company directors and CEOs together for a highly interactive, one-day working session focused on the oversight questions companies are confronting now: where AI is creating value, where it is introducing risk, how fast the organization should move and what boards need from management to govern with confidence.

Work through the AI governance decisions already reaching the boardroom

This is not a sit-and-listen conference. Throughout the day, you’ll hear from enterprise leaders, AI experts and experienced directors, then move into table discussions, simulations and small-group workshops designed to help you apply the ideas to your own boardroom.

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Pressure-test your oversight judgment

Step into a boardroom simulation where AI decisions trigger operational, ethical and reputational consequences.

Identify where AI is creating or eroding value

Examine how companies are moving beyond pilots, where ROI is showing up and where weak governance can quietly destroy value.

Apply governance frameworks in peer discussion

Work through practical questions around risk classification, data integrity, monitoring, human oversight and documentation.

Understand what agentic AI changes

See how oversight shifts when AI systems begin initiating actions, interacting with other systems and operating at machine speed.

Compare notes with other directors and CEOs

Talk through the issues in small groups with leaders facing similar questions around growth, risk, workforce impact, cyber exposure and board structure.

Leave with sharper questions for management

Take back a clearer view of what boards should expect from management as AI becomes embedded across the enterprise.

Key Discussions & Expert Insights

Leading at AI Speed—What Boards and CEOs Must Align on Now

This session sets the tone for the day by engaging directors and CEOs in a shared leadership conversation about how organizations govern AI as it accelerates from experimentation to enterprise impact.

Where Value Will Be Created (or Lost) Faster Than Boards Expect

This highly interactive session will help directors and CEOs pinpoint where AI is creating—or quietly eroding—value faster than boards expect.

Agentic AI Flash Briefing: When AI Stops Assisting and Starts Acting

AI systems are shifting from tools that support human work to agents that initiate actions, make decisions, and coordinate across systems. Some already operate at speeds and levels of autonomy that sit outside traditional management and review processes.

Simulation: Boardroom Drill: When AI Decisions Trigger Real Consequences

In this 45-minute immersive, high-pressure simulation, attendees will step directly into a boardroom confronting an unfolding AI incident—one with real operational, ethical, and reputational consequences.

Regulation in 2026: What Boards Need to Know—Here and Abroad

AI regulation—both in the U.S. and abroad—is collapsing the distance between “we’re monitoring this” and actual board liability.

Agentic AI in Action: Governing When AI Becomes a Decision-Maker

As AI systems begin to initiate actions, interact with other systems, and adapt in real time, boards face a new oversight challenge: governing decision-making that occurs at machine speed, beyond traditional review cycles.

Building AI at Scale: Inside a Real-World Enterprise Transformation

What does it take to build AI at scale inside a complex, global enterprise? In this closing fireside conversation, we’ll sit down with a senior leader from a global organization that has successfully integrated AI across its business—from customer experience and operations to risk management and governance.

Concurrent Workshops

Attendees select from concurrent workshops designed for deeper, application-focused learning in smaller groups. Topics include: AI in M&A, Agentic AI as Strategy, Overseeing the Next Phase of Work, and more.

Who Should Attend

Public Company Directors

For directors overseeing AI as it moves from experimentation into operations, risk, strategy, workforce planning and capital allocation.
Relevant if your board is asking:
  • Where is AI already being used across the business?
  • What should management be reporting?
  • Which use cases create the greatest risk or opportunity?
  • How should oversight evolve as AI becomes more autonomous?

Large Enterprise CEOs

For CEOs responsible for turning AI from pilots into measurable business impact while keeping the board aligned on pace, investment and risk.
Relevant if your leadership team is asking:
  • Where can AI create real enterprise value?
  • How fast should we scale?
  • What governance needs to be in place first?
  • How do we keep the board aligned as AI changes the operating model?

Featured Speakers

Shibani Ahuja

Senior Vice President, Enterprise IT Strategy, Salesforce

Sheila Bangalore

Board Member, Alliance Entertainment, Principal Mineral Company, StoneAge Holdings

Arlyn Gajilan

Global Editor for AI Development & Integration, Reuters

Angel Hsu

Former Head of AI & Machine Learning, Stripe

Samantha Kappagoda

Board Member, Credit Suisse Funds; Chief Data Scientist, Numerati Partners

Dmitry Kozko

Board Member, Alliance Entertainment, Founder, MyEV.com

Kathy Leake

Board Member, Shipwell and Everyrealm Inc; 4-Time AI Company Founder

John Onoda

Principal, iQ 360

Carissa Rollins

Board Member, Owens & Minor

Florin Rotar

Group Chief Technology Officer, Atos

Dominique Shelton Leipzig​

CEO, Global Data Innovation

Karen Silverman

CEO & Founder, Cantellus Group

JoAnn Stonier

Executive Advisor, Cantellus Group

Lori Teranishi

Founder & CEO, iQ 360

Kari Zeller

CEO, TGN Consulting

Lori Teranishi

Founder & CEO, iQ 360

Book Now!

To ensure a high-quality experience, attendance is limited. To secure your spot and preferred workshop session, we recommend registering early.

Event + CBMN Membership

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$ 1295 For public company board directors only
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  • Access to Members-Only Virtual Events

Event Only

Registration
$ 995 For public company directors and CEOs only
  • In-person Attendance
  • Choice of Workshop Session
  • Meals & Networking

What you’ll leave with

By the end of the day, you’ll have a clearer view of:

How to distinguish AI activity from real enterprise value

What questions boards should ask before management scales AI initiatives

Where governance needs to change as AI becomes more autonomous

How to think about board visibility, escalation, auditability and accountability

What AI liability, cyber risk and regulatory exposure may require from the board

How other directors and CEOs are approaching the same issues inside their own organizations

Most importantly, you’ll leave having worked through these questions with peers, not just listened to presentations about them.

What 2025 Attendees Said

“Easily one of the best events I've been to. Well run and the quality of content was incredible.”
Leighton Carroll
"I left inspired, more skilled and full of practical knowledge on AI. You accomplished making a topic that is usually presented as a theory, with clear boardroom and business applications."
Claudia Marmalejo
“The conference helped me focus on next steps for organizations I’m involved with.”
Jeff Thompson

Venue

The event will be hosted at the offices of Freshfields, 3 World Trade Center, New York, NY.

We have negotiated discounted rates with a set of nearby hotels.

Sponsors

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