Stop Blocking, Start Building: Rethinking Governance for the Agentic Era
As AI moves from “chat“ to “act,“ the risk surface is exploding. Traditional governance is too slow, too onerous, and often looks in the wrong places. Join this session to learn how to:
- Identify the 3 fatal flaws of applying legacy governance to autonomous agents.
- Implement the GRASP Framework: A 5-part approach (Governance, Reach, Agency, Safeguards, Potential Impact) to categorizing agentic risk.
- Leverage Observability as Governance: How real-time visibility replaces manual approvals to keep innovators moving without breaking the enterprise.
Hamish Songsmith
Hamish Songsmith is the founder of ryora.ai, focused on accelerating enterprise AI adoption through practical AI risk visibility, governance, and controls for AI agents. Previously, he was an AI Leader at Optiver, operating in a highly risk-sensitive environment where implementation speed and control discipline must coexist. He brings an implementation-first perspective on why traditional governance models break under agentic systems, and how to align engineering, risk, legal, and security with lightweight frameworks that scale to emergent, user-configured AI capabilities.