Spent last night on the 67th floor of Willis (Sears) Tower with a room full of Chicago CIOs at the Evanta Inner Circle. The agenda said human-AI collaboration and change leadership. The actual conversation kept coming back to one word: governance. Two years ago, the question in these rooms was "what are you piloting?" Last night nobody asked that. The questions were harder. Who signs off when an agent takes an action nobody reviewed? What do you do when your board wants AI velocity, and your risk team wants a pause button? The adoption problem has been addressed. The judgment problem isn't close. Two things I'm taking back to the office: - Governance that lives in a policy doc is decoration. If it isn't enforced inside the workflow, it doesn't exist. - Buy vs. build is the wrong question. The right one is who owns the failure when it breaks. Good conversation, better people. Thanks to the Governing Body and the Gartner team for pulling it together. https://www.evanta.com/cio/chicago/chicago-cio-inner-circle-9278 #AI #CIO #Leadership #Cybersecurity #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #Governance #Gartner #Evanta