Governing the Audit Function in the Agentic Enterprise
About the Forum
October 23–25, 2026
By invitation only
Program Overview
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.
What the Forum Will Examine
Through faculty-led discussions, practical workshops, peer exchange, and a boardroom simulation, participants will examine how audit committees should approach:
Governance & Accountability
- Agent authority, permissions, and accountability
- Agent identity, cybersecurity, and third-party risk
Controls & Financial Reporting
- Internal control over financial reporting in agentic workflows
- AI disclosure and financial reporting
Assurance & Oversight
- AI-generated evidence and behavioral assurance
- External auditor use of AI
- Continuous monitoring, assurance, and governance
Who Should Attend
The Forum is designed for senior leaders with responsibility for corporate governance, financial oversight, risk, and assurance, including:
Participation will be limited to a highly curated inaugural cohort.
- Audit committee members
- Corporate directors
- CFOs
- Controllers
- Chief Audit Executives
- General Counsel
- Corporate Secretaries
- Compliance and Risk Leaders
Agenda
Day 1: Friday, October 23, 2026
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Registration & Cocktail Hour |
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Opening Remarks Agentic Audit Forum • Program Faculty |
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Welcome Dinner • Sponsored by Cooley • Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat Lisa Hook, Board Director & Audit Committee Member @ Nokia; Board Director @ FIS Global Inc., NextNav Inc., Zayo Group; Lead Independent Director @ Philip Morris International |
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Closing of Day 1 |
Day 2: Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Breakfast |
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The State of the Agentic Enterprise Steven Wolfe Pereira, Founder & CEO @ Alpha |
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Fiduciary Duties for an Agentic Enterprise William Pao, Partner @ Cooley Janet Kim, Partner @ Cooley Moderated by Colleen Honigsberg, Professor of Law @ Stanford Law School |
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Break |
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Inside the AI Workflow: Implementation, Guardrails & Oversight Elena Gomez, President & CFO @ Toast Mandy Fields, CFO @ e.l.f. Cosmetics Moderated by Shannon Nash, CFO @ Vibrant Planet; Director @ SoFi Bank, Netscout, Lazy Dog Restaurants |
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Break |
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Agentic AI: The New Governance Challenge | Case Study Session Led by PwC Tracey-Lee Brown, Director, Governance Insights Center @ PwC Emmet Daly, Principal, Digital Assurance & Transparency @ PwC |
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Lunch & Networking |
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Keynote Speaker • In Conversation with California State Controller Malia Cohen Moderated by Shannon Nash, CFO @ Vibrant Planet; Director @ SoFi Bank, Netscout, Lazy Dog Restaurants |
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Auditing the Agentic Enterprise: Auditors and the Technologies Reshaping Assurance Siddarth Chandrasekaran, Co-founder @ Accrual Cecil Mak, U.S. Sector Leader, Technology @ KPMG US Richard Jackson, Assurance Chief Technology Officer @ EY Lucas Ward, Co-Founder & CEO @ Oath Verified Moderated by Colleen Honigsberg, Professor of Law @ Stanford Law School |
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Break |
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Inside the AI Black Box: What Boards and Auditors Need to Understand About How AI Works Mehran Sahami, James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor and Chair of the Computer Science department at Stanford University |
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Break |
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From Principles to Practice: The Board’s Role in Making AI Governance Work Janet Wong, Director @ TWFG Insurance, Valvoline Edward Cannizzaro, Board Director, PG&E, Ross Stores Inc. Kristin Reinke, VP, Finance AI Innovation and Transformation, Google Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO @ Credo AI Moderated by Steven Wolfe Pereira, Founder & CEO @ Alpha |
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Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat Sol Trujillo, Former CEO @ USWest, Orange, Telstra; Board Director @ Western Union Former Director @ Bank of America, PepsiCo, Target, & WPP Moderated by Steven Wolfe Pereira, Founder & CEO @ Alpha |
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Setting the Rules for AI Assurance: Regulation, the SEC, and the PCAOB George Botic, Board Member and Former Acting Chair @ PCAOB Graeme Finley, Vice President of AI Assurance Provider Services @ Fathom Satyam Khanna, President @ Khanna Economic Strategies Moderated by Colleen Honigsberg, Professor of Law @ Stanford Law School |
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End of Session • Transportation to Dinner |
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Dinner • Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat Madhu Ranganathan, Director and Audit Committee Chair @ Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Moderated by Steven Wolfe Pereira, Founder & CEO @ Alpha |
Day 3: Sunday, October 25, 2026
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Breakfast |
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From Financial Analysis to Agentic Action: What Audit Committees Need to Know Rahul Rekhi, President @ Rogo Moderated by Steven Wolfe Pereira, Founder & CEO @ Alpha |
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Break |
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AI Agents Inside the Enterprise: Rethinking Authority, Oversight, and Organizational Design Arvind Karunakaran, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering @ Stanford University |
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Break |
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Reinventing the Board: How AI, Tech, and New Risks Are Changing Board Composition Lindsay Trout, Global Co-Leader, Technology & AI Practice @ Egon Zehnder Janet Wong, Director @ TWFG Insurance, Valvoline Moderated by Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO @ Alpha |
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Closing Remarks • Lunch |
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End of the Agentic Audit Forum |
Program Faculty
George R. Botic
Tracey-Lee Brown
Edward Cannizzaro
Siddarth Chandrasekaran
Malia M. Cohen
Emmet Daly
Mandy Fields
Graeme Finley
Elena Gomez
Colleen Honigsberg
Lisa Hook
Richard Jackson
Arvind Karunakaran
Satyam Khanna
Janet Kim
Cecil Mak
Shannon Nash
William Pao
Steven Wolfe Pereira
Madhu Ranganathan
Kristin Reinke
Rahul Rekhi
Mehran Sahami
Navrina Singh
Lindsay Trout
Sol Trujillo
Lucas Ward
Janet S. Wong
Tuition
Attendance is limited to a highly curated inaugural cohort.