Kunal Deore

Kunal Deore

VP | Enterprise Risk Transformation & AI Governance Leader

About

Kunal Deore is an Enterprise Risk Governance and AI Governance professional with 12+ years of experience across enterprise risk, controls, AI, data science, analytics, and transformation. He specialises in helping organisations connect risk strategy, technology execution, and responsible AI adoption at enterprise scale.

At Standard Chartered Bank, Kunal leads governance and digital transformation initiatives within Group Risk Governance. His work focuses on bridging C-suite vision with practical execution by turning complex risk, control, and technology priorities into scalable governance solutions.

His strategic focus is on helping boards, C-suite risk, and technology leaders on AI governance, agentic AI risk, runtime controls, AI-first risk infrastructure, and responsible AI adoption. Kunal is an active thought contributor on enterprise AI governance and the future of AI-native operating models.

As organisations move from AI experimentation and copilots toward more agentic AI systems, governance challenges become more complex. Unlike traditional AI tools that mainly assist with content, analysis, or recommendations, agentic AI systems can plan tasks, call tools, trigger workflows, interact with enterprise systems, and influence operational decisions. This makes governance more important because risk can emerge during execution, not only during design or approval.

Traditional policy-based approaches remain necessary, but they are no longer sufficient on their own. In agentic environments, governance must increasingly operate at runtime, where AI systems are actually being used.

This session will explore how enterprises can translate governance and regulatory expectations — including accountability, human oversight, auditability, monitoring, traceability, and escalation — into practical runtime controls. The discussion will focus on control mechanisms such as access boundaries, data-use restrictions, tool-use controls, approval checkpoints, human review, logging, monitoring, and intervention mechanisms.

The session will offer a practical view of how enterprises can move from policy-driven governance to execution-level control frameworks that are better suited to agentic AI and growing regulatory expectations.

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