Deploying AI at Scale in Regulated Environments: Success Stories from the Front Line
In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, deploying AI at scale in regulated environments brings unique challenges and opportunities. This panel will focus on how organizations are successfully navigating the complexities of AI deployment in production environments while addressing critical issues of security, privacy, identity, and entitlements. Panelists will share real-world success stories from the front lines, highlighting their approaches to converging structured and unstructured data onto secure, unified semantic models. Through these insights, the discussion will explore how AI-driven strategies are accelerating value creation while maintaining compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.
Andy Brown currently serves as CEO of Sand Hill East, LLC, which provides strategic management, advice and marketing services to emerging companies. Mr. Brown is also a member of the boards of directors of Guidewire inc. a public traded company in the PNC insurance business, Zscaler, Inc., a publicly traded company providing cloud security services, Pure Storage, Inc., a publicly traded software-defined data storage solutions company, Digital Asset, a company providing solutions in the DeFi and Digital Ledger workflow world, Moogsoft, a next generation AI-Operations company, Skyhive, a company providing Digital Reskilling & Education.
He is also CEO and co-owner of Biz Tectonics LLC, a privately held consulting company. From September 2010 to October 2013, Mr. Brown served as Group Chief Technology Officer of UBS, an investment bank. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served in a variety of executive management and leadership roles at a variety of leading banking companies including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. Mr. Brown holds a BSc Honors Degree in Chemical Physics from University College London.
Allen leads McKinsey’s IT Performance Management Practice and is a coleader of the Operations & Technology Practice. He has worked with a broad range of financial services companies on IT and operations strategy and redesign.
Examples of his work include developing:
- a digital strategy for a global universal bank
- an IT infrastructure offshoring strategy for a global broker-dealer
- an online strategy study for a leading US retail/high-net-worth brokerage
- a mid- and back-office redesign project for a commodity-trading organization, focusing on opportunities to reduce errors and implement straight-through processing
- an IT vision project for a global investment bank, to develop the strategy, governance and metrics for the IT infrastructure and application development group
Allen is also a member of the Social Sector Practice and has worked extensively with the Robin Hood Foundation on strategic issues.
Puneet spent much of his career as a tech entrepreneur as well as on Wall Street building trading AI. He’s been recognized as a member of Advertising Age’s Creativity 50 list and Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100 and 35 Up-And-Coming Entrepreneurs You Need To Meet. He also contribute to publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, VentureBeat and Wired.
