About this episode

The episode discusses the critical importance of the enterprise data layer in AI governance for regulated industries, featuring insights from Patrick Van Deven.

The AI revolution has a hidden dependency most enterprises are still underestimating. It is not the model. It is not the interface. It is not even the agent. The real bottleneck is the enterprise data layer. In this episode of Scouting for Growth, Sabine VanderLinden speaks with Patrick Van Deven, CEO of VaultSpeed, about why AI governance in regulated industries will depend on something far less glamorous than large language models: trusted, traceable and explainable data transformation. As insurers, banks and wealth management firms move toward AI-native operating models, many are discovering an uncomfortable truth. Their data infrastructure was built decades ago. Their transformation logic is often hard-coded. Critical institutional knowledge lives inside undocumented pipelines. And many organisations cannot fully explain how their reporting, analytics or regulatory data was created. That becomes a serious risk when AI agents start supporting decisions in regulated environments. Patrick connects this challenge to the rise of the “Frontier Firm”: the AI-native enterprise powered by human-agent collaboration, intelligence on demand and automated workflows. But he offers a…

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