Join us at the Volta Serene Hotel, Ho for the 6th IT Audit, Cyber Security & Risk Conference scheduled for Thursday, 18th June & Friday, 19th June 2026 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Presenting on the day with other seasoned conference speakers is Carl Sackey, CGEIT, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE
Past President, ISACA Accra Chapter; Lead Consultant, CS Consulting & Services Ltd, Accra, Ghana.
Carl's topic for the conference is "Sovereign AI and the Global South: Concentration Risk, Resilience, and the Governance of Borrowed Intelligence".
SESSION ABSTRACT
The era of artificial intelligence is being constructed upon a hierarchical stack—comprising chips, computation, data, models, talent, and capital—that is concentrated among a limited number of nations and corporations. For institutions across Africa and the broader Global South, this situation prompts a question that many AI strategies tend to overlook quietly: when your models, computational resources, and data processing capabilities are located beyond your borders and outside your control, whose strategy are you ultimately implementing?
This session redefines “sovereign AI” away from political rhetoric and towards the pragmatic concerns of security, governance, and audit professionals. It maps the actual dependency chain supporting the AI capabilities of typical African institutions, reveals the concentration and operational-resilience risks embedded within it, and confronts the challenging economics of digital extractivism — where local data is used to train models that are subsequently rented back.
The discussion examines the genuine trade-offs involved in data localisation, the national and regional regulatory environment—including the African Union’s Continental AI Strategy and national data protection regimes—and the alternative approach of leapfrogging and governance-focused adoption.
Participants will depart equipped to consider AI dependency as a board-level and national security issue, focusing on resilience and concentration risks associated with third-party dependencies, enabling them to advise leadership appropriately.
Come. Learn. Connect. Evolve.
PAYMENT RATE: (Conference Fee Only. Accommodation not included)
Members: GHC 4,000
Non-Members: GHC 4,500
Registration Link: https://lnkd.in/ddNjRhMZ
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