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EXECUTIVE DATA COUNCIL®

Where enterprise leaders turn private peer insight into action.

EDC convenes senior operators from major banks and global enterprises in confidential councils, roundtables and research programs - then turns validated perspectives into stronger decisions, practical frameworks and strategic progress.

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EDC participants hold senior and executive roles across banking, finance, insurance, healthcare and other data-intensive sectors.

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EDC EVENING ROUNDTABLES

Trusted by executives responsible for consequential enterprise decisions

Recent executive participants from

  • Aetna
  • American Express
  • Bank of America
  • Barclays
  • BlackRock
  • BMO Capital Markets
  • BNY
  • Capital One
  • Citi
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Edward Jones
  • Federal Reserve Bank NY
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HSBC
  • Humana
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Mastercard
  • Merck
  • MetLife
  • Morgan Stanley
  • National Futures Assc
  • Nomura
  • Northern Trust
  • Pfizer
  • RBC Capital Markets
  • Regeneron
  • S&P Global
  • SMBC
  • Truist
  • UBS
  • Wells Fargo

Participant roles

  • Chief AI Officer
  • Chief Data Officer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Executive Director
  • Executive Director, Product Director
  • Firmwide Chief Data Architect
  • Global Co-Head. Equities Central Risk Book
  • Global Equities Production Management Co-Lead
  • Global Head of AI
  • Global Head of Architecture - Technology, Data, AI/ML
  • Global Head of SIB, Enterprise Client Data & Analytics Technology, ED
  • Global Health Data Analytics
  • Head of Architecture, Market Supervision, Controls & Data
  • Head of Data Science, Ratings Commercial
  • Head of Enterprise Technology Services
  • Head of Onboarding, Compliance and Document Digitization Technology
  • Head of Technology Compliance, ED
  • International Head of AI Strategy, AI Centre of Excellence
  • Senior Director, Global Digital / Technology
  • SVP Agentic Enterprise Strategy

Participation is individual and does not imply organizational endorsement. Duplicates removed.

One network.
Three ways to create value.

Enterprise leaders

Work through consequential decisions with trusted peers.

Compare how other senior operators are governing AI, proving value, evaluating vendors and moving from policy to operating reality - without public attribution or sales pressure.

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Advisors and council leaders

Help shape the enterprise agenda.

Guide the questions, standards and practical outputs that EDC develops for leaders navigating AI, data, risk and transformation.

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Selected partners

Turn trusted engagement into market intelligence and qualified growth.

Validate positioning, understand buyer requirements and build relevant enterprise relationships through protected, executive-first programs.

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HOW EDC WORKS

The room is only the beginning.

EDC combines protected executive exchange with structured research and disciplined follow-through. The result is more useful than a conference and more current than a static report.

  1. 01Convene

    Curate leaders who own the problem, the decision or the operating consequence.

  2. 02Surface

    Use focused questions and private working formats to expose real priorities, friction and evidence gaps.

  3. 03Validate

    Test patterns through executive confirmations, follow-up conversations, pulse research and council review.

  4. 04Activate

    Turn the signal into briefs, benchmarks, frameworks, decisions and permission-based strategic next steps.

FLAGSHIP COUNCIL

AI Governance, Risk & Trust Council

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A private working council for the leaders accountable for AI governance, model and agent risk, third-party evidence, monitoring and defensible value.

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Current agenda themes

  • Which AI systems require model-risk, technology-risk or other formal review?
  • What evidence should an AI vendor provide before approval?
  • Who owns failures spanning procurement, model risk, cyber, legal, data and business lines?
  • How should enterprises monitor drift, hallucination, access, leakage, bias, human override and kill-switch effectiveness?
  • What is the minimum defensible AI inventory and control record?
  • How should total cost, control burden, adoption and value be measured together?

Leave with more than a conversation.

Peer intelligence

Understand how comparable organizations are approaching the same decision, where practices diverge and what is changing now.

Practical frameworks

Use council-developed questions, checklists, maturity views and decision tools inside your own organization.

Trusted relationships

Build relationships around shared responsibility and substance - not broad networking or transactional outreach.

Board-ready clarity

Translate technical, governance and operating complexity into priorities, evidence and decisions senior stakeholders can act on.

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FOR SELECTED PARTNERS

Do not buy impressions. Build market relevance.

EDC partner programs combine executive engagement, market intelligence, offer validation, target-account insight and structured commercial follow-through. Partners learn what enterprise buyers need, why decisions stall and how to become more credible at the point of evaluation.

Trust

Engage in a protected environment that executives are willing to enter.

Signal

Learn priorities, blockers, evidence requirements and buying criteria.

Activation

Convert validated relevance into opt-in conversations, discovery and proposals.

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Partnership never includes attendee-list resale, control of participant selection, guaranteed introductions or permission to convert an executive session into a product pitch.

Current work inside the Council

Forming · Accepting founding-member applications

AI Governance, Risk & Trust Council

  • Which AI systems require model-risk, technology-risk or other formal review?
  • What evidence should an AI vendor provide before approval?
  • Who owns failures spanning procurement, model risk, cyber, legal, data and business lines?
  • How should enterprises monitor drift, hallucination, access, leakage, bias, human override and kill-switch effectiveness?
  • What is the minimum defensible AI inventory and control record?
  • How should total cost, control burden, adoption and value be measured together?
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Executive signal, made useful.

Public commentary often arrives after consensus. EDC Insights captures what senior operators are seeing while priorities, controls and buying decisions are still forming.

Executive Pulse

Targeted executive research run between council sessions.

EDC Brief

Validated patterns from council discussion, written for enterprise decisions.

Benchmark or Decision Framework

Maturity views, question sets and evidence checklists developed with members.

Each published item displays methodology, validation date and attribution level.

Council output - structure

How a validated council finding is assembled

  1. 01Question in scopeThe decision the council examined.
  2. 02What members comparedThe operating practices placed side by side.
  3. 03Where practice divergesThe points on which comparable organizations disagree.
  4. 04Evidence requiredWhat must be in place before approval.
  5. 05Validation recordMethod, validation date and attribution level.

Structure only. EDC publishes findings, figures and named contributors solely after council validation.

Receive the EDC Executive Brief

Validated patterns from council discussion, written for enterprise decisions. Sent only when there is something worth sending.

Trust is not a theme.
It is the operating system.

EDC controls attendance, protects attribution, separates executive participation from partner influence and uses participant information only for defined program purposes. Commercial follow-up occurs only through an appropriate permission-based process.

How EDC Protects ParticipantsReview the Methodology

A better decision starts with the right room.

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Applications and partner inquiries are reviewed individually. EDC aims to respond within two business days. Response times are not guaranteed and may vary significantly.

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