Directors' College

Stanford Directors’ College Agentic Audit Forum

Agentic AI is rapidly changing how companies operate, make decisions, execute transactions, and manage financial and operational workflows. For boards and audit committees, the question is no longer simply how to oversee AI. It is how governance, controls, assurance, and accountability must evolve when AI systems can act on behalf of the enterprise.

The Stanford Directors’ College Agentic Audit Forum is an intensive three-day program bringing together leading directors, executives, academics, and practitioners to explore the emerging governance framework for agentic AI.

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Directors' College 101: Board Fundamentals for New Directors

Directors’ College 101 (DC 101) is an optional, pre-conference program designed to provide a strong foundation in the core responsibilities and practices of effective board service. Featuring three interactive sessions, Fiduciary Duty Bootcamp, Business Leadership in the Age of AI, and Leading from the Boardroom Simulation, along with a hosted lunch, the program offers a practical and engaging introduction to today’s boardroom challenges. While designed with newer directors in mind, DC 101 is open to and highly relevant for all Directors’ College participants seeking to sharpen their governance skills and deepen their perspective.

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32nd Annual Stanford Directors' College

Directors’ College is the nation’s premier executive education program for directors and C-level executives of publicly traded firms and prominent private companies. The program examines the key responsibilities and challenges facing modern boards — the board’s role in setting business strategy, CEO succession and evaluation, managing legal and reputational risk, responding to activist investors, navigating boardroom dynamics and culture, and engaging with pressing issues such as artificial intelligence and the politicization of the corporation. Each year it convenes leading CEOs, directors, regulators, jurists, and scholars for a rigorous and balanced examination of corporate governance and the evolving role of the board.

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