agent assurance expert coucil
A collaborative forum for senior decision makers, risk leaders, and innovators across risk, compliance, and line of defence oversight. It is an opportunity to compare experiences, challenge assumptions, and explore what assurance will look like as organisations start to introduce more autonomous AI.
The Agent Assurance Expert Council brings together a small and select group of senior and experienced practitioners who are curious about where assurance is heading as AI systems, deploy rapidly and become more autonomous. We want to help shape that direction together.
This isn’t a product demo or a feature design forum; it’s a space for open, practical conversations. The rapid increase in AI adoption means traditional oversight and assurance processes are not fit for purpose. The scale of effort required to provide meaningful oversight is
significant, compoundedby the emergence of new risk types and understandable high regulatory expectations on its provision. This will impact how organisations are thinking about ownership and accountability and what meaningful assurance could look like in day-to-day operations.
This page acts as a shared home for the Council, with an overview of the purpose, how the group works, what to expect from each session, and a short, anonymised summary of themes and takeaways after every meeting.
The Agent Assurance Expert Council brings together a small and select group of senior and experienced practitioners who are curious about where assurance is heading as AI systems, deploy rapidly and become more autonomous. We want to help shape that direction together.
This isn’t a product demo or a feature design forum; it’s a space for open, practical conversations. The rapid increase in AI adoption means traditional oversight and assurance processes are not fit for purpose. The scale of effort required to provide meaningful oversight is significant, compoundedby the emergence of new risk types and understandable high regulatory expectations on its provision. This will impact how organisations are thinking about ownership and accountability and what meaningful assurance could look like in day-to-day operations.
This page acts as a shared home for the Council, with an overview of the purpose, how the group works, what to expect from each session, and a short, anonymised summary of themes and takeaways after every meeting.
Most organisations are at very different stages of readiness. Some are starting out with basic controls for AI assisted processes and some are experimenting with agentic workflows. The spectrum and speed of adoption is uneven, but evolving.
The Council exists to validate what is genuinely changing, what is still hypothetical, and what needs to be true for agentic assurance to become a board-level, regulator accepted, and budgeted priority.
Compare notes with other practitioners facing similar governance, oversight and assurance challenges.
Share what you are seeing: buy vs build appetite, current tooling, what is working, what is theatre, where gaps still exist.
Before each session we’ll set the scene. Concisely. After each session, we’ll share an anonymised summary and emerging themes.
Quarterly sessions, alternating Edinburgh and London.
An informal, hosted roundtable dinner with a guided discussion including: a short scene-setter, and key themes for peer exchange.
We capture themes and learnings allowing for candid discussion, not attributions.
A short brief is shared 48 hours before each meeting to provide context for the session and share any introductory material that might be helpful.
A short anonymised summary plus occasional “saw this and thought of you” notes when relevant research, regulation, or market shifts occur.
100% no. The Council is designed to validate the challenge, act as a ‘brain trust’ to agitate, provoke, and discuss where we collectively think the industry needs to go.. We may share hypotheses and invite any challenge.
Members typically treat compliance and assurance as non-competitive topics. We curate the room to keep discussion productive and respectful.
Yes. You can share learnings internally, but we do not attribute comments to individuals or firms.
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