Heather Gentile

AI Governance Product Lead IBM

Heather Gentile is Executive Director of Product for watsonx.governance in IBM’s Data and AI software division. Heather has a passion for innovation and collaborates with industry leaders, ecosystem partners and clients to solve for AI governance and risk and compliance challenges. Her experience expands across financial services, regulatory agencies, and other highly regulated industries. She sits on IBM’s AI Ethics board as a product focal to ​ guide product strategy in support of accelerating responsible, transparent and explainable AI adoption. Prior to joining IBM, Heather was responsible for overseeing the compliance analytics division of regulatory solutions at Wolters Kluwer. She received her undergraduate degree from Bryant​ University in Business Administration and her MBA from the University of ​ Massachusetts.

Responsible AI Summit Conference Day 2 - Wednesday June 18

11:30 AM Presentation: AI Governance in the Agentic Era

As AI rapidly evolves from predictive and task specific models to goal-driven agentic systems that can autonomously, make decisions, and even collaborate with other agents, the stakes for responsible governance have never been higher.

The panel will discuss:

  • What Agentic AI is defined at their organizations
  • Emerging risks and governance gaps
  • How to build a resilient governance framework

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Heather.

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