DAMA GA Annual Soriée (Chapter Meeting)

Sunil Soares, Founder & CEO | Lead AI Governance Researcher, Your Data Connect

"Agentic AI Governance"

AI Agents are getting increasing adoption due to the promise of increased operational efficiency. This session will discuss approaches to governing AI Agents where the focus is increasingly to remove humans from the loop. The session will also cover Shadow AI Governance where AI technologies are increasingly being embedded into enterprise applications often without the full knowledge of organizations.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sunil Soares is the founder and CEO of YDC, focused on AI governance. Prior to this role, Sunil was the founder and CEO of Information Asset, a data management firm, which he sold to private equity.

Sunil is the author of 13 books on data management and AI governance, including Agentic AI Governance, AI Governance Comprehensive, The IBM Data Governance Unified Process, Selling Information Governance to the Business, Big Data Governance, Data Governance Tools, Data Governance Guide for BCBS 239 and DFAST Compliance, and The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance.

In the past, Sunil also worked as an auditor at PwC and as a management consultant at Booz and Company. Sunil was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Sunil also holds the Artificial Intelligence Governance Practitioner (AIGP) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is also an IEEE CertifAIed^TM AI Ethics Assessor.