The 1-Day Accountability Activation
Defensible AI 26
23 June 2026, London
The Countdown to Strict Liability is Underway.
Following the January 20, 2026 Treasury Report, ‘Wait-and-See’ is no longer a boardroom option. With the August 2, 2026 deadline for mandatory high-risk AI audits under the EU AI Act, the era of personal, non-delegable accountability has begun.
Defensible Intelligence: Secure Your Fiduciary Shield. Move from debate to defensibility. Gain the practical architecture required to protect your organisation, your board, and your professional legacy in the Agentic Era.
Defensible AI 26
Defensible AI 26 is a targeted activation event for leaders in Finance, Energy, and Critical Infrastructure.
We address the unique, high-stakes regulatory pressures your sector faces, providing direct, actionable frameworks for immediate compliance and operational resilience.
Join 200 curated peers; CROs, GCs, CAIOs, CEOs and Board Directors to establish the defensible principal risk controls and governance standards required to maintain operational resilience against: Agentic autonomy risks, Algorithmic integrity decay, and material regulatory non-compliance.
Secure your place at the nexus of governance and resilience.
Why Defensible AI 26?
This is a day of activation. We provide the legal shield and audit-ready frameworks required for leaders to fulfil their fiduciary duties.
For the Board & CEO: Secure your brand and professional legacy through verified oversight.
For the CRO & General Counsel: Move from abstract risk to Individual defensibility and strict liability protection.
For the CAIO: Accelerate the transition from pilot to Audit-Ready Scale.
JOIN US AND ADDRESS KEY CHALLENGES
Defensible AI 26 is structured for immediate, actionable insights, blending high-level plenaries and Chatham House Rule Advisory Suites with high-velocity Red Team simulations
Address key challenges
The
Financial Mandate
By adopting a wait-and-see approach, the major public financial institutions, which are responsible for protecting consumers and maintaining stability in the UK economy, are not doing enough to manage the risks presented by the increased use of AI in the financial services sector.
Following the Jan 20, 2026 Treasury Report, the UK has moved from "Wait-and-See" to an enforcement-ready stance. We codify the reasonable steps required for senior managers and the certification regime compliance.
Our crisis simulations provide the AI-specific stress-testing that the UK Government recommends.
The Infrastructure Limit and The Technical Standard
AI deployment is no longer a software challenge; it is a physical energy mandate. We bridge the 19GW compute gap, aligning your infrastructure requirements with institutional roadmaps to ensure your 2026 strategy is powered and defensible.
Transitioning from experimental pilots to Sovereign AI certainty requires a new governance architecture. Our Technical Standard provides the rigorous framework necessary to assess AI agents against the EU AI Act’s high-risk transparency requirements.
By codifying these benchmarks ahead of the August 2026 deadline, we transform regulatory pressure into a documented record of Boardroom defensibility and a verified roadmap of reasonable steps.
Treasury Select Committee UK Government
“Based on the evidence I've seen, I do not feel confident that our financial system is prepared if there was a major AI-related incident and that is worrying. I want to see our public financial institutions take a more proactive approach to protecting us against that risk.” Dame Meg Hillier, Chair of the Treasury Select Committee UK Government
DEFENSIBLE AI SESSIONS
Action Labs:
The 2026 Governance Red Team
The Action Labs are high-velocity Crisis Simulations. These 55-minute labs utilise ‘Red Teaming’ methodologies to stress-test your internal frameworks against the most aggressive AI failure modes of 2026.
Tactical Execution: You will be hit with live triggers; adversarial attacks, autonomous failures, and snap regulatory audits.
The Objective: Populate your Accountability Compact Portfolio with a verified response logic.
The Outcome: You leave with a documented stress-tested strategy that moves your corporate readiness from a static policy to an audit-ready defense.
Advisory Suites:
Strategic Defensibility Consultations
Direct peer-to-peer exchange meets host-led tactical advice.
These Chatham House Rule sessions are designed to solve the friction between innovation and oversight.
Delegates bring their most pressing AI challenges; our hosts provide the practical architecture to solve them.
The result is a personalised Standard of Care that satisfies both the horizontal requirements of the EU AI Act and the vertical demands of sector-specific regulators.
Activation Deliverable: The Defensibility Compact Portfolio
Every delegate receives a personalised Activation Portfolio. This is your strategic bridge between the 2026 Defensibility Diagnostic (our baseline study of corporate readiness) and your own organisational reality.
Throughout the day’s Activation Labs and Advisory Suites, you will populate this portfolio with peer-benchmarked insights and sector-specific stress test results.
You will leave with a bespoke governance roadmap; a documented record of ‘Reasonable Steps’ and strategic actions to take back to your Risk Committee and Board.
