The New Mandate for Executive AI Governance | HumanX 2026

Executive AI governance is now a board-level mandate. At HumanX 2026, Defined.ai’s Daniela Braga joins Google and Binti to unpack what’s next. From the Command Desk track at HumanX 2026 — the executive AI conference in San Francisco — this panel brings together Daniela Braga (Founder & CEO, Defined.ai), Felicia Curcuru (Co-founder & CEO, Binti), and Reena Jana (Head of AI Research & Standards for Trust & Safety, Google) for a candid conversation on what it actually takes to govern AI at scale, moderated by Ksenia Se (Turing Post). The conversation covers Google’s AI governance framework across the full model lifecycle, why “AI is IT’s problem” no longer holds up (and what recent copyright lawsuits against major AI labs mean for every company training on data), how Binti builds human-in-the-loop AI for high-stakes child welfare and government use cases, whether governance is real progress or just “governance theatre,” and the concrete first steps any executive should take in the next 90 days — starting with a clear-eyed audit of what data you actually have the rights to use. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome: Is your organisation really ready for AI? 0:57 Meet the panel: Felicia Curcuru, Daniela Braga & Reena Jana 2:13 Reena Jana (Google): What a real AI governance framework looks like 5:26Daniela Braga (Defined.ai): Why governance can’t sit with the tech team alone 9:26 Felicia Curcuru (Binti): AI oversight in child welfare & government 12:19 Governance theatre vs. reality: ISO 42001 and industry standards 16:47 The next 90 days: what every executive should do first 19:43 Closing takeaways Explore our AI data solutions: defined.ai/datasets More from Defined.ai at HumanX: defined.ai/ai-conferences/human-X Follow Defined.ai on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/definedai #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #HumanX2026