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WOMEN IN TECH GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2026

Jon-Rav Shende

Chief Technology Officer - Data and AI at Thales

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"Trust Is the New Feature: How to Scale AI Safely Without Slowing the Business"

Fri May 15 - 5:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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"Trust Is the New Feature: How to Scale AI Safely Without Slowing the Business"
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Session: Trust Is the New Feature: How to Scale AI Safely Without Slowing the Business

Trust Is the New Feature: AI Everywhere, Intelligence Everywhere. How to Scale It Without Losing Control

AI is now everywhere. Intelligence everywhere, is what every roadmap promises, inside products, inside operations, and inside customer workflows. The real bottleneck isn’t the model. It’s trust.

Most leaders can’t answer four basic questions with confidence: where AI is actually being used (including the stuff no one approved), what data it’s touching, which identity is acting (human and machine), and whether we can prove what happened after the fact.

This session gives CXOs and technologists a practical operating model to scale AI without slowing the business. Not a policy lecture. A control loop: discover the real usage, tighten data plus identity guardrails, and make auditability non-negotiable.

The outcome is simple: faster AI adoption with fewer surprises, and decisions you can stand behind with your board, regulators, and customers.


Key Takeaways

  • AI everywhere only works if trust is everywhere. If we can’t clearly show where AI ran, what data it touched, who or what acted (human and machine); what controls were in place, then we have unmanaged risk


Bio

Jon-Rav Shende is a business technologist who started in SCADA and IT services, moving to virtualization and cloud/ digital transformation over the last 15 years with integrations and work with Machine Learning and over the last 5 years early AI models to today’s AI systems.

He was a technology leader at Ernst and Young, Global Managing Director at a CSP and Media and Telco company, Head of Digital and Security at a F200, CISO and currently Global CTO Data and AI.

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