Speakers
From Policy to Proof: A Practitioner's Framework for Trustworthy AI
AI governance frameworks are easy to write and almost impossible to make work. The gap between published principles and operational practice is where regulatory exposure lives. Drawing on 25 years as a tester, hands-on delivery in a FTSE-250 organisation, and independent audit experience, this session addresses who in your organisation actually owns AI governance, how to structure organisation-wide AI governance so that accountability is clear, and a human-led testing methodology that produces clean evidence for compliance and certification purposes across healthcare, critical infrastructure and cyber defence.
Pauline is an influential AI governance and digital assurance leader with 25 years of delivery experience, operating at the intersection of regulatory compliance, technical assurance and organisational change. One of a small number of practitioners in the UK holding concurrent ForHumanity Fellowship, IAPP AIGP and FIAAIS credentials, Pauline has hands-on delivery across five simultaneous governance frameworks spanning UK, EU and US jurisdictions.
An invited member of BSI ART/1, Pauline contributes to ISO/IEC SC 42 JWG 2 and CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 WG 4 in response to the EU AI Act. This standards work sits alongside a Professional Doctorate in progress: Beyond Process Conformance: Developing a Practitioner Framework for Technical Assurance of High-Risk AI Systems under the EU AI Act, which addresses the methodology gap that ISO/IEC 42001, 42005, 42006 and NIST TEVV leave open and is currently being presented to the ISO AI testing committee with a view to informing international standards.
Career highlights span senior roles at Sky, Planit Testing and SThree, where Pauline has built enterprise AI governance programmes, created compliance toolkits for large regulated financial services clients, and designed AI Impact Assessments to ISO/IEC 42005 standard. Clients have included the Ministry of Justice, the Bank of England, ARM Technology and Costa Coffee. As Founder of KernEthik Consulting, Pauline advises both SMEs and large organisations on responsible AI adoption aligned with the EU AI Act, GDPR and ISO/IEC 42001, preparing organisations for audits, certifications and buyer scrutiny.
A ForHumanity Fellow contributing to the development of independent AI audit frameworks as ForHumanity pursues formal accreditation as a designated EU AI Act auditing body, Pauline is also a committed advocate for AI literacy and ethical leadership. Pauline holds a Certificate of Higher Education in both the Governance and Ethics of AI from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Information Science, and speaks on technical assurance, high-risk AI systems and the governance responsibilities that responsible deployment demands.