Enabling Acceleration with AI You Can Trust

About this session

Companies raced to pilot AI in the past few years. Now they must prove they can run it safely at scale. Saima Shafiq, Head of Enterprise AI Enablement at U.S. Bank, shares how governance becomes the accelerator—not the brake—that moves AI from isolated pilots into supervised production. Drawing on U.S. Bank’s Responsible AI principles and its enterprise governance principles, she unpacks the guardrails that enable applications to observe, detect, and intervene in real time, and the single-intake, risk-co-design playbook that compresses use cases from idea to live production in days, not months. She’ll address the hardest challenges of deploying agentic AI in a regulated environment—from prompt injection and data leakage to model risk and regulator engagement—and the best practices for turning compliance into a competitive advantage. She closes with where agentic AI is taking banking next, and why the winners won’t be those who deploy fastest, but those who deploy with guardrails watching every step.