🌍 Annual Global Corporate Culture Day

15th of October 2026

Mainstreaming AI Cultural Sustainability for a Healthier Planet, People & Businesses

The heat is on. AI risk opportunities in a rapidly digitising world are entirely dependent on organisational culture. This summit explores the strategic alignment of corporate culture with global compliance mandates (AI, GRC, Privacy, and ESG) to foster trust, resilience, and collective ecosystem power.

AGENDA

Timing Topics: How to develop AI Culture, through AI Conduct & Corporate Governance
9:50 – 10:00 Welcome Remarks, Introduction to the agenda and speakers
10:00 – 10:30

The Human Element & Strategic Alignment

The Human Algorithm: Behavioural Science at the Heart of AI Adoption

  • Focus: AI runs on data, but its impact depends on human psychology. Discover how behavioural science helps leaders adapt leadership and communication styles to foster trust, reduce non-compliance risks, and embed AI responsibly into corporate rituals.
10:30 – 11:00

Navigating the Shift: Changing Cultural Drivers in the AI Era

  • Focus: Recognising contemporary challenges and resilient cultures.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Re-thinking corporate purpose, values, and cultural aspirations.

    • Aligning global workforce structures to respond to shared existential challenges (Race to Zero, Nature, and ESG reporting).
Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas, Global advisor to multiple corporate Board of Directors
11:00 11:30

Governance by Design: Embedding AI into Corporate Culture & GRC

  • Focus: Operationalizing Accountability, Diversity, Metrics, Integrity, and Transparency (ADMIT) through AI management.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Aligning local business rituals with global privacy and compliance directions.

    • Actively implementing and monitoring the adoption of trust and ethical AI across decentralized work teams.
11:30 – 12:00

Risk, Accountability & Execution (RACI Frameworks)

Psychosocial Risk & AI-Driven Insights for Healthier Workplaces

  • Focus: The role of psychosocial hazards in organizational risk.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Utilizing AI tools for monitoring workplace stress indicators and predictive alerts.

    • Integrating psychosocial risk oversight into traditional Performance Management Strategies.

    • Mapping accountabilities to bridge the gap between mental well-being and data-driven workplaces.
12:00 – 12:15

Break
12:15 – 12:45

RACI Matrices for AI, Privacy & Sustainability Reporting

  • Focus: A step-by-step guide to creating a RACI matrix for cross-functional compliance.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Integrating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) with human capital practices (hiring, onboarding, and job roles) to streamline AI governance.

    • Attendees will receive a practical RACI Template Toolkit for global AI disclosure processes.

Hernan Huwyler, MBA, CPA. Chief AI Consultant, CapGemini
12:45-13:30

Scaling Culture & Measuring Readiness

Global Scale, Local Trust: Building AI Culture Across Diverse Entities

  • Focus: The art of implementing AI governance solutions at both the corporate group and local entity levels.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Balancing centralized corporate AI standards with localized workplace cultures.

    • Building mutual respect for regional corporate diversity while maintaining unified ethical goals.
13:30 – 14:00

Demystifying Implementation: Assessing Your Cultural Current State

  • Focus: Introducing a structured framework rooted in a comprehensive AI Implementation Checklist.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Cataloging technology, privacy baselines, and human processes via the Current State AI Implementation Analysis.

    • Benchmarking organizational readiness early in the digital transformation journey.
14:00-14:30

The Ethical DNA: Culture’s Role in AI-Driven Decision-Making

  • Focus: How culture shapes AI use, interpretation, and executive trust.

  • Key Takeaways:

    • Embedding sustainability, compliance, and ethical frameworks directly into decision-making workflows.

    • Strategies to avoid ethical and privacy shortcuts under intense operational pressure.
14:30-15:00
AI Culture Is Not a Slogan: Turning Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics into Observable Practice
  • How AI culture becomes visible through day-to-day decisions, roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, documentation, and evidence.
  • Emphasis would be on how organisations can make accountability, transparency, ethical behaviour, and trust practical rather than aspirational.
Robert Wickstrom, CEO, Cianras LLC
15:00-15:30
AI Culture & Governance Futurist
  • What We’ve Learned Today — and How to Futureproof AI Culture in Business

Panel: All speakers
*The Conference Program is subject to change. The conference language is English