AI Product Governance - From Compliance Friction to Moat

Hosted by Francis Ofungwu

In this video

What you'll learn

Compress Sales Cycles

Learn to pre-empt the "compliance review" bottleneck by building governance artifacts your market cares about.

How to Navigate The "We Can't Use Your AI" Sales Blocker

Walk away with how to make your compliance posture a differentiator.

You Can't Hide Behind SOC 2

Understand exactly what a risk team needs to see to inspire trust in your solution.

Why this topic matters

Product leaders are becoming the primary orchestrators of trust. In regulated markets, the PM who can translate between Engineering's "model accuracy" and Legal's "liability exposure" doesn't just ship faster, they close deals that competitors can't. As trust and governance continue to be the major blockers to AI adoption, product leaders need to learn to speak risk to unstick stalled deals.

You'll learn from

Francis Ofungwu

CEO at Efeeo (Former GitLab, Salesforce and Rackspace Cybersecurity Leader)

I've spent two decades threading the needle between "move fast and break things" engineering cultures and the regulatory mandates that govern financial services, insurance, and healthcare. I've sat in the rooms where deals die because the customer's compliance team couldn't get comfortable with the product's governance story, and I've built the programs that got those same deals across the finish line.


Why I Want to Teach This

In the last four years, I have seen a healthy share of AI product adoption failures, and the pattern is always the same: brilliant technology that never reaches enterprise readiness because governance, change management, and operational controls weren't treated as first-class concerns. Product leaders are often the missing link. They have the cross-functional influence but sometimes lack the vocabulary to bridge engineering and risk.


How Students Get Value

You're learning from someone who's been personally accountable for controls reviewed by military and defense companies, Big 4 auditors, and Fortune 500 security teams. I'll share the exact translation frameworks, objection handlers, and stakeholder alignment tactics that have worked in real regulated environments. You'll leave with artifacts you can use Monday morning.