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Niharika Srivastav
Sanjay Saxena
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Governing Agentic AI: The 5 Failure Modes Nobody's Talking About

45 min
Jun 5, 2026 3:00 PM

What you'll learn

What makes AI "agentic" and why it changes everything

Understand how autonomous AI agents differ from traditional AI and why existing governance frameworks fall short.

Failure Modes & Key Risks

5 failure modes that are quietly creating six- and seven-figure liability exposure inside Fortune 500s right now.

Apply a practical governance lens to agentic deployments

Use a structured framework to assess, question, and guide agentic AI use in your organization or client work.

Why this topic matters

Your company just deployed an AI agent that can browse, call APIs, and execute multi-step tasks autonomously. Your governance playbook was written for chatbots. You're already behind. Agentic AI breaks every assumption baked into traditional AI governance. The risk surface isn't the model — it's the chain of actions the agent takes between prompts.

You'll learn from

Niharika Srivastav

Niharika Srivastav

AIGP, AI Governance Advisor, Speaker, Author

Sanjay Saxena

Sanjay Saxena

Chief AI Officer (Fractional), CISSP, Ex-Deloitte, KPMG, Harvard

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