Agentic AI changes the question. When systems stop recommending and start acting, the issue is no longer accuracy but accountability, and Dr Kate’s research finds 88% of boards that approved AI programmes cannot name a single owner for the decisions those systems now shape. Dr Kate Barker’s keynote Agentic AI and the Accountability Gap addresses exactly that: what a board is really approving when it lets a system act on its own, and what a leader must still own once it does.
Ranked the world’s No.1 Chief Futurist and a TIME100 AI Impact Award honouree, Dr Kate speaks on agentic AI from advisory experience with governments, sovereign institutions and global boards navigating live deployments, not from theory. The session gives executive audiences a working map of decision ownership, escalation and oversight for a world in which the most productive member of the team may not be a person.
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Dr Kate Barker’s agentic AI keynote covers what changes when AI systems act rather than recommend: decision ownership, the accountability gap, board oversight of autonomous systems, and the human judgement organisations must protect as delegation deepens.
Boards, executive committees and conference organisers whose audiences are deploying or approving autonomous AI systems, and who need the governance and accountability question answered before the technology question.
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