CAIO Inspired Magazine October 2026
The October 2026 edition of CAIO Inspired, published for the CAIO Inspired Summit UK in London, looks at what it really takes to move AI from potential to business impact. With contributions from leaders at AVIV Group, WilmerHale, S&P Global, StepStone Group, HSBC and the Leasehold Advisory Service, alongside independent AI strategist and advisor Aaron Kalvani, the issue covers AI governance under pressure, data answering agents, keeping human review effective as AI changes how work gets done, earning trust through controlled autonomy, AI in medicine and fraud prevention, and putting AI to work in a public service. Readers will find candid, practical perspectives from leaders turning AI experimentation into outcomes they can stand behind.
AI Under Pressure
In our cover feature, Aaron Kalvani asks the questions governance frameworks often leave unanswered: who has the authority to decide, what happens when the evidence deteriorates, and why a single confidence score should never be the final word. Kshira Saagar, Chief Data and AI Officer at AVIV Group, argues that dashboards have had their day and sets out what a good data answering agent looks like, while Miranda Perkins of WilmerHale draws on legal practice, where mistakes end up in public court orders, to show why checks must be updated every time the failure changes shape. Vinayak Unnithan of S&P Global explains how to move beyond the hype and turn experimentation into business value, and Somnath Biswas of StepStone Group makes the case for risk tiering, earned autonomy and guardrails as the way enterprises earn the right to trust AI. HSBC Data Scientist Ioana Cretu discusses where AI can make a real difference in medicine and in tackling financial fraud, and Dr Kion Ahadi, Chief Executive of the Leasehold Advisory Service, closes the issue by explaining why fixing the service comes first when putting AI to work in public advice.
