The Enterprise AI Factory: Who Holds the Kill Switch?

Artificial Intelligence Sydney is back, and we’re coming back in person!

After a long break from face-to-face events, Artificial Intelligence Sydney is joining Kestrel Eight, Sydney Data & AI and IBM for an afternoon at IBM’s George Street offices. If you joined this group hoping for proper in-person events with people worth meeting, this is the one.

Your AI agent has just approved a refund it shouldn’t have. It called three APIs nobody signed off on, and it’s about to do it again. Who stops it, and how fast?

📣 Panel speakers wanted. Have you taken AI into production, or watched it stall, in government, financial services, health, utilities or a startup? We’d love you on stage. It’s about an hour, with no slides and no pitching. Contact Steve Wilson at [steve.wilson@kestreleight.com](mailto:steve.wilson@kestreleight.com) by Tuesday 10 November / 0416 495 325

On Thursday 12 November, Kestrel Eight and AI Syd join IBM in the IBM Design Hall on Level 17 of 259 George Street for The Enterprise AI Factory that Builds at Scale: Deploy, Govern, Secure. It’s a live, vendor-agnostic panel with senior technology, data and risk leaders on putting AI agents, models and tools into production, and keeping control of them once they’re there.

You choose the questions
When you arrive, you scan a QR code. Each topic comes with a set of questions, and the room votes on which ones get airtime. The conversation follows the votes, so you hear the discussion you came for.

Governing agent behaviour
– When an agent acts on its own, who signs off on it, and who answers for it when it goes wrong?
– Could you show an auditor exactly what an agent did and why, today?
– Guardrails in a policy document vs guardrails enforced in code: which one actually exists in your organisation?
– Should an agent ever take a customer-facing action without a human checking first?

Workload isolation and the kill switch
– If one agent misbehaves, how much of your environment can it reach?
– Do you have a kill switch? Has anyone actually tested it?
– Who’s allowed to pull it at 2am: engineering, risk, or the business owner?
– Is isolation slowing adoption down, or is it what lets the board say yes?

On stage
Senior leaders from Kestrel Eight, IBM, financial services, government, regulated enterprise and startups. All of them have taken AI into production or watched it stall. Names announced this week.

Who’s in the room
Integration and enterprise architects, heads of data, platform and engineering, CIOs and CTOs, risk and security leads, and AI practitioners. It’s a mid-level to senior crowd, and there are no product demos or sales pitches.

When and where
Thursday 12 November, 3:00pm to 5:00pm, followed by networking drinks
IBM Design Hall, Level 17, 259 George Street, Sydney
Five minutes’ walk from Wynyard or Circular Quay.

⚠️ Registration: please read
RSVP here on Meetup. It’s the only registration you need. We share the attendee list with IBM building security, so please enter your full name as it appears on your photo ID in the RSVP questions. Without it, we can’t get you through the door.
Bring that photo ID for sign-in at Level 17 reception.
Places are limited. If your plans change, please update your RSVP so someone on the waitlist can take your spot.

Hosted by IBM Australia and Kestrel Eight, with AI Syd, Sydney Data & AI and Artificial Intelligence Sydney.