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Agnes Bade

Agnes Bade

VP Head of Group AI & Digital Law, The Adecco Group

Enterprise AI Governance: Strategy and Management Learnings

May 15, 2026

Lessons from building an enterprise-scale AI governance framework.

<h1>Enterprise AI Governance</h1> <p>What does it actually take to roll out AI responsibly across a 30,000-person multinational? Agnes Bade, VP and Head of Group AI &amp; Digital Law at the Adecco Group, shares the strategic and managerial lessons from building an enterprise-scale AI governance framework — and the practical missteps to avoid.</p> <h2>Three layers of governance</h2> <p>Drawing on the Adecco experience, Agnes will walk students through the three layers every large organisation needs:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Policy</strong> — the hard rules: what AI is and isn't allowed to do, and who signs off.</li> <li><strong>Process</strong> — how a model goes from idea to production with risk reviews built in.</li> <li><strong>Practice</strong> — the day-to-day habits, training and tooling that turn policy into reality.</li> </ol> <h2>Real cases, real trade-offs</h2> <p>Expect concrete anonymised cases: an HR-screening model that had to be redesigned for fairness, a chatbot rolled out across 60 countries, and an automated legal-review tool that needed careful guardrails. The talk closes with a frank Q&amp;A on what business-school graduates can do to be useful on day one.</p>