Leadership reimagined: Governing the agentic AI era

Leading the shift from static data to autonomous systems   

A HotTopics C-suite Exchange in partnership with 

AI agents don't wait for a human to interpret their output—they act. They’re already approving loans, resolving customer cases and executing workflows at scale and speed. In this new reality, the role of digital and data leaders has to change. Governing static data pipelines is no longer enough; you now need to manage dynamic, autonomous systems that make consequential decisions on behalf of the enterprise.

This exclusive virtual roundtable brings together CIOs, CTOs and CDOs to confront that transformation head-on. We’ll be sharing experiences, challenges and frameworks for leading governance in an era where the cost of getting it wrong isn't just a flawed report, but an irreversible business decision.

Key conversations will include:

• How agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping what data governance means.
• The critical difference between AI agents that are powerful and those that are genuinely trusted.
• Redefining authority, influence and accountability in the age of autonomous AI.
• Practical approaches to building governance that works at agent speed in real time.
• What the next generation of leadership looks like: part data leader, part AI architect and part enterprise risk guardian.  

Event details

📍 Location: Virtual

🗓 Date: 16th June 2026

🕛 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM BST

👥 The Hosts: Doug Drinkwater, Editorial and Strategy Director, HotTopics

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