AGENDA

The Corporate Governance Day on Addressing Sustainable AI Governance Issues

17th of September 2025. 9:50 AM CENTRAL EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME (CEST)
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ALL-DAY SESSION ON CURRENT, TOPICAL AND TIMELY AI GOVERNANCE  ISSUES

Approximate timings due to the online nature and the Q/A sessions at the event
Timing Morning Session: Topics/Speakers on Sustainable Corporate Governance for the BoD and Senior Management
9:50 Registration
10:00 Welcome Remarks.

How can the board and management provide recommendations and corporate governance concerns that reflect and address the challenges of Sustainable AI Corporate Governance?
10:00 – 10:35  Enhancing Investment Attractiveness through Good Governance
How can strong governance structures, supported by AI-driven analytics and reporting tools, increase a company’s investment appeal and market capitalisation?

  • Creating Transparent, Consistent Corporate Governance Systems
    How can management develop open, consistent governance frameworks that integrate AI-powered compliance monitoring, predictive risk analytics, and real-time reporting systems?
10:40 – 11:15 Effective Board Dynamics and Leadership Structures
How can AI tools enhance Board meeting management, agenda setting, leadership evaluation, and group dynamics through data-driven insights and real-time performance dashboards?

  • Scenario Planning: CEO Succession and Team Development
    If a charismatic CEO neglects leadership pipeline development, what AI-supported KPIs, progress tracking systems, and talent analytics tools should be implemented for succession planning? What strict timelines and monitoring protocols should be enforced at each Board meeting?
  • Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategies
    What new structures and AI-powered analytics can organisations implement to fight global gender inequality, support diversity, and identify underutilised human capital as an economic resource?
11:15 – 11:45

Corporate and Environmental Governance and Stewardship for AI Sustainability

  • Recognising accountability and addressing the consequences of corporate activities
  • Transparent reporting of negative externalities and engaging stakeholders
  • Re-thinking corporate purpose and stakeholder aspirations, goals and priorities
  • Aligning interests around collective responses to shared existential challenges
Colin Coulson-Thomas, Professor, Author, Chairman
11:45 – 12:00 Tea Break. The following sessions are on long-term social value and shareholder value
12:00 – 12:30 Shifting Decision-Making Powers: Board vs. Shareholders
Can good governance be defined by redistributing decision-making, and how can AI-assisted shareholder engagement platforms and real-time voting analytics support this shift?

  • Remuneration Policy and Shareholder Voting
    How can AI tools enable transparent, data-backed ex-ante and ex-post shareholder voting processes on remuneration policies, ensuring fairness and regulatory compliance?
  • Shareholder Identification Rights
    Should AI-enhanced financial intermediary platforms manage shareholder identification, ensuring data security, privacy, and accessibility for governance processes?
12:30 – 13:30

Board Governance and Emerging AI Risks

  • The Evolution of the Board of Directors’ Role and Accountability
  • The understanding, commitment and evolution of the BoD committees
Prof. Hernan Huwyler, IE University, Madrid
13:30 – 13:45

Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:30

How to create an AI roadmap and a framework to implement, execute and monitor the management and directors’ duties and sustainable AI governance

  • What are the critical concerns and processes that document high-quality evidence on the corporate identifications and solutions?
14:35 – 15:00

Digitalisation and Board Readiness
Are Directors and Senior Management equipped for the digital economy? How can AI-based capability assessments and digital maturity audits track and improve readiness?

  • Measuring Digital Business and Leadership Capabilities
    What AI-driven frameworks can organisations adopt to measure and monitor progress in digital business capabilities, leadership agility, and cultural adaptability?
  • Emerging Trends and Innovations in Digitalisation for Governance
    What are the latest AI-driven innovations reshaping corporate governance, investor relations, risk management, and audit committee operations? How should Boards prepare for and respond to these rapidly evolving trends?
15:00 – 15:30 AI-Enabled Transparency and the Future of Governance
How will digitisation and AI implementation reshape governance practices concerning capital markets, operational transparency, performance reporting, and competitive advantage?
15:30 – 16:00

Final Panel, All speakers:

Corporate and Boardroom dynamics: working together with stakeholders to get things done in AI Execution

  • The current global challenges for the board and effective governance in a turbulent world related to AI
  • Measuring what matters, measuring options to ensure expected performance, AI, and outcomes.
Closing Remarks and Final Q&A to all speakers
*Conference Program is subject to change. The conference language is English