Report from Compliance Week 2026 on AI Sessions

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Tom Fox reports on the AI tracks from Compliance Week 2026, discussing practical uses and compliance governance of AI.

In this episode, Tom Fox takes a solo turn behind the mic to report on the AI tracks from the recently concluded Compliance Week 2026 conference. He highlights two AI tracks: practical “creative” uses, including live demonstrations by Hemma Lomax creating PowerPoint content and Roxanne Petraeus creating video content, and the more critical compliance focus on AI governance, oversight, and accountability amid limited federal direction and a growing patchwork of state laws, with the EU AI Act positioned as a global benchmark. Tom emphasizes applying standard compliance risk management to AI (identify, manage, train, implement, monitor, improve), addressing shadow AI, internal/external/vendor risks, and building AI “in” rather than bolting it on. He notes scaling challenges, ROI questions, auditor expectations, risk registers, fraudsters’ use of AI, and ongoing discussions with Matt Kelly. Key highlights: AI Everywhere at CW Creative AI Demos AI Risk Framework Shadow AI and Risks ROI and Use Cases Scaling and Oversight Governance Takeaways Resources: Tom Fox Instagram Facebook YouTube Twitter LinkedIn For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book…

People in this episode

Host: Tom Fox

Topics covered

• AI in compliance
• Compliance Week 2026
• AI governance
• Risk management
• Creative AI uses
• Shadow AI
• Scaling challenges

Keywords

• AI
• compliance
• risk management
• Compliance Week
• shadow AI
• governance
• ROI
• scaling
• federal direction
• state laws

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Compliance Week, EU AI Act

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