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AI governance in practice: the legal risks every director must know

AI is here - and it’s already changing your board’s risk profile. Are you ready to govern it?

Speaker(s)
Campbell Featherstone
Date
5:00pm — 7:00pm, 16 October 2025
Venue
Dentons Wellington
Location
Level 4, 40 Bowen Street, Wellington 6011
Price members
$55.00 incl GST
Price non-members
$100.00 incl GST

Overview

Artificial intelligence presents both opportunities and risks for directors. Boards must balance innovation with accountability, ensuring compliance with New Zealand laws and anticipating global regulatory shifts. 

Join Campbell Featherstone, Corporate and Commercial Partner at Dentons, for an interactive workshop on the legal, regulatory and ethical dimensions of AI. Using the IoD’s Nine Principles for the Governance of AI as a practical framework, this session will help you frame the right questions for management and strengthen decision-making at the board table. 

Key topics include directors’ obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 and Fair Trading Act, intellectual property and liability issues, ethical governance, and emerging global regulation. A case study exercise will give you the chance to map risks and test board-level responses. 

This workshop supports directors to strengthen governance practices under Pillar 2 (Compliance and accountability) and Pillar 3 (Risk and strategy).

Campbell Featherstone 

Campbell Featherstone is a Partner in Dentons New Zealand’s Technology practice. He is a technology, privacy and general commercial lawyer, who provides advice on the use and procurement of technology, privacy and data protection, software agreements (including SaaS), IP licensing and consumer and marketing law compliance. His practice addresses the intersection of law and technology, and he is often engaged to advise on the application of existing privacy, consumer protection, and other laws on novel technologies such as wearables, AI, and virtual reality. 

Campbell has worked in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and New Zealand, and as such he has experience with multi-jurisdictional issues. He has been involved in global product launches and has coordinated advice from lawyers from around the world in order to deliver a consistent and accurate brief of legal issues affecting each market.  

Campbell has a keen interest in the use of legal technology as part of his and the Firm’s own practice, including through the use of AI and contract automation tools, and he is the lead partner on Dentons New Zealand’s AI steering committee. 

Additional information

Should you have any dietary, mobility, cultural or other requirements, you can let us know on the registration form.

By registering for this event you are confirming that you agree to adhere to our event terms and conditions.

Branch event cancellation policy

Regrettably, registration fees cannot be refunded when cancellations are received within two working days prior to any branch event.  See our standard terms and conditions for more information.

Contact

Jill Dawson
Wellington Branch Manager

+64 27 278 8814
+64 4 470 2673
jill.dawson@iod.org.nz

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    Members — $55.00

    Non-members — $100.00

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