Speaking

Talks built for risk committees and boards, not conference theatre.

Every session ends with something the audience can act on Monday — questions to ask, evidence to demand, and a way to test their own posture.

Upcoming

Regulating FinCommerce: Payments, Data & AI in Retail Finance

Panel at LEAP 2026. Where AI is making consequential decisions inside payments and retail finance, and what supervisors will ask when it does.
LEAP 2026 · Thursday 3 September · 14:00–14:30
StageOrbital One: FinTech & E-commerce
VenueRiyadh Exhibition & Convention Centre, Malham
ModeratorSteve Suarez — Founder & CEO, HorizonX
PanelAlina Timofeeva, Tamayouz · Ali Bashiti, Ejada
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Zero Findings by Design

Building AI governance frameworks that survive the regulator — accountability across the three lines of defence, and the evidence an examination requires.

Signature Keynotes

Four talks

You cannot govern what you have not found

The institution reported 14 AI systems. Discovery found 41. Why inventory — not intent — is the first examiner question, and what a vendor-embedded sweep actually surfaces.

45–60 min · board or executive committee

Zero findings is not luck

The architecture of examination-durable AI governance in Fed, OCC and NCUA regulated environments. Five stages, one gate, and why the weakest link sets the posture.

45–60 min · risk and audit

Who approved the AI to approve?

Decision authority in agentic systems. The accountability gap that opens when an agent acts against money without a mapped human owner, and how to close it before deployment.

30–45 min · technology and risk

Governance is not a project. It's a calendar.

Examination cycles, vendor change notifications and model drift set the rhythm. What an annual assurance cadence produces, and why it does not require a new decision each year.

30–45 min · board
Take-Aways

The four things audiences take back on Monday

01

Count them

Ask for the AI inventory. Then ask who built it, and whether vendor-embedded features are on it.

02

Name the humans

Every system needs one accountable person. Not a team, not a committee. A name.

03

Tier by consequence

Autonomy times blast radius. An agent that executes against money is not a chatbot.

04

Test the weakest stage

Posture is set by the lowest score, not the average. Find the lowest one.

Booking and media kit

Speaker biography, headshot, talk descriptions and technical requirements.

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Your AI governance program may look great on paper. Will it survive a regulatory examination?

Sixty minutes. No cost. You leave with a one-page Exposure Hypothesis.