From IAOP's Healthcare & Life Sciences Center of Excellence
Wednesday, October 7 at 11:00 AM ET 

AI has officially moved past the experimental phase. Today, autonomous AI "agents" are actively managing complex workflows and delivering massive, measurable results—like reducing a four-to-six-week audit review down to just a day or two.

But there is a catch: deploying AI just for the sake of automation doesn't produce results. The organizations actually succeeding are the ones that define their outcomes first. While everyone wants an automation-first strategy, building one that holds up to real-world AI, security, and privacy laws and other requirements is a much bigger challenge. The risks of giving autonomous systems access to sensitive environments are very real.

This session brings together three unique perspectives to tackle this challenge head-on: an enterprise leader deploying AI in a highly regulated industry, an advisor guiding companies through automation strategy, and legal counsel explaining where the risks live. Expect a high-level, candid conversation about what is actually working in the real world—and what is breaking.

What You Will Learn

• Maximizing Human Potential: How autonomous AI agents can extend your current tech investments and make your teams more effective, rather than replacing them.
• Planning for Success: Why you must map out your desired outcomes before deploying AI, and the costly pitfalls of skipping this step.
• Navigating Regulations: Practical, safe approaches for using AI in highly regulated environments, including secure system architectures and the tradeoffs they carry.
• Managing Legal Risk: Where your true legal and security exposures lie, from managing AI access controls to drafting the right contract language.

Meet the Panel

• Robert Kantrowitz (Moderator), Kirkland & Ellis
• Dan Schuffert, HCSC
• Avinash Baliga, Avasant
• Mark Kausel, Vee Healthtek
• Dr. Joh Handler