AI - Can you trust IT? Designing Trustworthy AI through Security, Ethics, and Governance.
Speaker
Dr Kitty Hung
Agenda
6:30pm - Hybrid event starts
8:00pm - Presentation ends with networking and refreshments for those in person
9:00pm - Event close
Synopsis
Organisations often focus on what AI can do, while overlooking the trust infrastructure required to ensure AI systems operate safely within business and societal contexts. As AI adoption accelerates across industries, the consequences of poorly governed AI systems are becoming increasingly visible: biased decisions, security vulnerabilities, regulatory violations, and erosion of public trust. While AI technology is often seen as the domain of data scientists and engineers, ensuring that AI systems are secure, ethical, and accountable is a broader organisational responsibility. Business Analysts play a critical role in this space.
Positioned at the intersection of business needs, technology, stakeholders, and risk management, Business Analysts are uniquely equipped to identify risks, facilitate ethical decision-making, and embed governance safeguards into AI-enabled initiatives. This talk introduces a practical framework built on three essential pillars: Security, Ethics, and Governance - the core trust infrastructure that enables AI innovation to scale responsibly.
The audience will explore how failures in these areas can lead to cascading consequences, from model manipulation and data breaches to algorithmic bias and regulatory exposure. Through realistic scenarios and collaborative problem solving quizzes, attendees will examine complex dilemmas such as biased algorithms, compromised testing due to deadlines, questionable data sourcing, and data poisoning in critical systems.
This talk emphasises practical techniques which can be used by IT professionals to integrate responsible AI practices throughout the project lifecycle. Participants will leave with actionable frameworks, facilitation approaches, and governance insights that enable them to help their organisations harness the benefits of AI while safeguarding trust, accountability, and societal impact.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the foundations of trustworthy AI with a clear framework for analysing AI risks
- Practical tools for integrating responsible AI practices into projects
- Improved awareness to facilitate ethical discussions in AI initiatives
- Confidence in shaping responsible AI with implementable strategies to embed in projects.
About the speaker
Dr Kitty Hung is a BCS Fellow and CITP and a member of IIBA. She is also a committee member for the BCS North London Branch. She has undertaken a number of public Speaking engagements, including speaking at the BCS, BBC, DWP, TfL, UK Tech Show, Nationwide Building Society and BA Conferences. Her book, entitled ‘Business Analysis in the era of Generative AI’, was Amazon's #1 Best Seller book in that field when it was first published in 2024. She gained her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1999.
She has over 27 years of experience with a career spanning business analysis, project management and business consultancy roles at various prestigious organisations, including Cell Structures, London Business School, London Metropolitan Police, Capita, Raytheon Technologies, and AtkinsRéalis. While writing her next book, Kitty is currently serving as the Technology Advisor for www.shenwoman.com to help develop an AI powered Chinese Astrology app.
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