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Architecting for Innovation — Lunch & Learn #89

AI Governance for Enterprise Architecture: From Governing Systems to Governing Intelligence

Your governance framework was built for systems that do what they're told.
Most IT governance still rests on a few comfortable assumptions: systems are deterministic, change happens on a release schedule, risks are predictable, and a human is always holding the wheel.

AI didn't get the memo.

Models drift. Agents act on their own. Prompts get manipulated. Data turns up with no clear provenance, and AI tools multiply across the business faster than anyone can register them. The old controls weren't designed for any of it.

Devendra Nambiar, former CTO, CIO and Chief Enterprise Architect and a member of the National AI Centre's AI Technical and Delivery Councils, joins us to make the case that Enterprise Architecture has to evolve, from governing technology assets to governing organisational intelligence.

And he'll show us how.

We'll get into:

  • The gap — why conventional IT governance can't handle model drift, bias, autonomous actions, prompt manipulation, data provenance and uncontrolled AI proliferation
  • The new domains — model architecture, data provenance, prompt and agent architecture, behavioural architecture, and AI governance controls, and how they fit together as an intelligence governance capability
  • The roadmap — assessing AI readiness, standing up governance frameworks and operating models, and designing oversight that actually works
  • The end game — keeping AI systems trustworthy, accountable, safe and aligned to your organisation's values and objectives
  • The big question — how do you govern intelligence itself when machines become participants in decision-making?

The format: Devendra will walk us through the framework, drawing on his forthcoming book The Fourth Horizon of Intelligence. The book asks how we govern intelligence in an AI-enabled world; this session is about how you make that work inside a real enterprise on a Monday morning. Then it's over to you for Q&A. Bring your hardest questions.

About the Speaker
Devendra Nambiar MBA, MIEE, MAICD — Technology, Cyber Security & AI Governance Executive; Author, The Fourth Horizon of Intelligence
Devendra has more than 25 years of leadership experience across government, defence, higher education and highly regulated industries.

He has served as CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect, CIO, and Director of Strategy, Architecture, Security, Risk and Compliance, leading large-scale transformation, cyber security programs, AI governance frameworks and enterprise modernisation.

He's been recognised by Microsoft and Australia's National AI Centre for his contributions to AI strategy, innovation and governance, and today helps organisations build trusted, ethical, resilient and accountable AI governance capabilities.

MC
Andrew Blades
Principal – The Bridge Search
Founder – Architecting for Innovation

The machines have joined the meeting. Time to work out who's chairing it. See you there!

Wednesday, 18 November
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM AEDT | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM AWST (online, with overrun)

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