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AI adoption is accelerating, but compliance alone won’t protect your business. In this episode, Santosh Kaveti explores practical strategies for managing AI risk, securing data, and scaling responsibly while unlocking new revenue streams.

👉 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/771

🎙️ What you’ll learn

• How to move beyond compliance to build security-first AI systems
• Four stages of AI adoption and where your organisation should be now
• Why data quality and governance are critical for AI success
• How to manage cultural change and workforce fears around AI
• Practical steps to create agents and leverage multi-agent ecosystems

✅ Highlights

• “Compliance is a result of really good security hygiene.”
• “Organisations will lose more by not embracing AI than worrying about what it might do.”
• “Most companies are still illiterate when it comes to wrapping their head around AI risks.”
• “Regulation is not moving as fast as it should. And it won’t.”
• “Security has to be the foundation and basis for everything that happens in the AI world.”
• “Most organisations should be in the low-code, no-code phase by now.”
• “You cannot bolt on security after the fact in AI.”
• “Everybody in every organisation should have created at least one agent for themselves.”
• “AI is not going to work just because you have an AI team deployed.”
• “You have to become AI native and then you have a huge opportunity in front of you.”

🧰 Mentioned

• ProArc – https://www.ascertra.com/products/proarc-engineering-document-management-software
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) – https://open-rag.ai
• MCP servers – https://www.mcplist.ai
• AI Examine – https://examine.com/examine-ai
• Mondra – https://www.mondra.com
• Meta Llama – https://ai.meta.com/llama

✅Keywords
ai compliance, security hygiene, data governance, multi-agent systems, low-code platforms, ai risk management, responsible ai, enterprise ai, agentic frameworks, synthetic data, ai adoption, ai literacy

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