Who Governs When AI Acts
Schedule
Sat Apr 11 2026 at 09:30 am to 01:00 pm
UTC+05:30Location
Alliance Française de Bangalore | Bangalore, KA
India’s First Leadership Conclave on Responsible AI Governance | Regulation | Enterprise AI Risk
The Context
AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to decision-making — across enterprises, Digital Public Infrastructure, finance, healthcare and governance. The question is no longer whether organisations will use AI. The real question is:
Who Governs When AI Acts
While national platforms such as the India AI Impact Summit have advanced conversations on innovation and scale, leadership readiness for risk, accountability, compliance and public trust remains inadequately addressed. Also, the idea of Sovereign AI and its regulation are critical to India.
Geoffrey Hinton, widely considered the godfather of Deep Learning, observes:
"We need to think very hard about how to control AI systems that could become more intelligent than us.”
Responsible AI is now a leadership responsibility — shaping enterprise risk, regulatory exposure, reputation and societal trust.
This conclave brings together leaders across business, policy, law, academia, technology and civil society to shape India’s pathway to Responsible AI, a first in a nationwide dialogue on the same theme.
Why Attend
Most AI events focus on tools and use cases. This conclave focuses on what leadership must now govern and what everyone else should be informed and wary of.
Dialogue Streams
Curated Fireside Conversations
Governance Frameworks & Operational Reality
Lifecycle techno-legal governance across design, deployment, monitoring, audit and risk ownership. Operationalizing AI accountability through lessons learnt from previous frameworks.
Innovation, AI Leadership & Public Authority
Aligning innovation velocity with regulatory readiness and public–private responsibility.
Advancing innovation-first AI growth with regulatory readiness, building national capability in compute, data and indigenous AI through strong public–private collaboration.
Civil Society, Constitutional Values & Public Policy
Fairness, non-discrimination, due process, societal legitimacy, addressing bias and safeguarding citizen rights and public trust in automated decisions.
Regulation in Practice & Public Good
Governing AI deployment in public infrastructure, welfare systems and population-scale systems. Balancing growth with inclusion and distributive justice.
Who Should Attend
Primary
- Leadership & Decision Makers
- Board Members & Independent Directors CEOs, CXOs and Founders
- Chief Data, Digital and Technology Officers
- Chief Risk, Compliance and Legal Officers
- Academia from Public Policy, Law, Technology, ESG, Trust and Governance Leaders
- Promoters of mid-sized enterprises Serious AI Startup Founders
Also Relevant for
- Senior technology and product leaders
- Consultants and advisory professionals
- Policy researchers
- Think tanks
- Impact investors
- Decision-makers responsible for AI
- Students of business, law, engineering, healthcare and others.
Speakers
Our esteemed speakers will feature:
- Senior leaders in governance and regulation
- Reputed academia from institutions such as NLSIU, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras
- Foremost enterprise and technology leaders
- Public policy and regulatory practitioners
- Civil society advisors
Speaker lineup to be announced shortly.
Concept & Knowledge Curator
Parveen Goribidnur
Founder, United Regulation
Parveen Goribidnur is an AI governance and technology leader and Founder of United Regulation. She also serves as Strategic Advisor for Governance, Ethics and Innovation at the Digital Personal Data Protection Forum.
https://dpdpaforum.org/about
With over two decades of experience, she has led large-scale AI systems and enterprise technology initiatives across Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Sapient, and Servion. She is an Algorithms, AI and Civil Liberties Fellow with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Berlin), holds a B.Tech in Computer Systems from the University of British Columbia and is trained in Public Policy from NLSIU.
Her work focuses on operationalizing global AI governance and privacy frameworks, including the EU AI Act, India’s DPDPA, OECD AI Principles, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, informed by direct engagement with GDPR implementation in Germany. By combining technical depth with policy insight, she helps organizations build trustworthy digital systems that balance innovation, ethics, human rights, and responsible regulation.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/parveens
Host
BizLitFest is a Bengaluru-based business literature festival platform for deep and meaningful conversations between authors, business leaders, professionals, academia and graduate students. Conceptualised by Benedict Paramanand and co-founded by best-selling authors and editors, BizLitFest has so far hosted 11 annual editions in Bengaluru and one in Hyderabad.
It is gearing up to host sharp dialogues in corporate and business school campuses across India and abroad.
Visit for more details: https://bizlitfest.com
The BizLitFest team also hosts the Green Literature Festival - https://greenlitfest.com - and publishes the fortnightly SustainabilityNext - https://sustainabilitynext.in
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Where is it happening?
Alliance Française de Bangalore, Thimmaiah Rd, opposite UNI, Kaverappa Layout, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001, India, BangaloreEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
