Board Education
AI Workshop Providers for Boards Ireland
Board AI workshops delivered from a current NED perspective. Governance-led, EU AI Act compliant, fixed-fee. Not a vendor briefing.
TL;DR
An AI workshop for boards in Ireland should do three things: build directors' baseline understanding of AI, equip the board to exercise meaningful oversight, and address the EU AI Act's director liability obligations. Acuity AI Advisory delivers board AI workshops from a current NED perspective — not a vendor pitch.
What most board AI workshops get wrong
Most AI workshops available to boards are delivered by technology vendors, consulting firms with vendor relationships, or general facilitators without governance depth. The result is a session that builds enthusiasm for AI tools without building the capacity to govern them. That is the wrong outcome for a board.
A board's job is oversight, not advocacy. An AI workshop for a board should develop the critical faculties to ask the right questions of management — not the appetite to approve the next AI initiative without scrutiny.
What a board AI workshop should cover
What AI actually is — and is not
Directors need a working understanding of how AI systems function, what they are genuinely capable of, and where their limitations create governance risk. This is not a technology lecture — it is the baseline needed to exercise meaningful oversight.
Governance obligations under the EU AI Act
The EU AI Act creates deployer obligations that fall ultimately on the board. Directors need to understand which AI systems in their organisation trigger high-risk requirements, what oversight is mandated, and how to satisfy those obligations.
How to question management's AI proposals
Boards receive AI proposals from management without the tools to evaluate them critically. The workshop equips directors with the right questions: what risk classification applies, what governance is in place, who is accountable, and how will performance be monitored.
AI risk and the board's risk appetite
AI introduces new categories of operational, reputational, and regulatory risk. The workshop works through how AI risk fits within the existing risk appetite framework and what changes to risk committee oversight are required.
Director liability under the EU AI Act
The Act creates personal obligations at deployer level. Directors who approve the use of high-risk AI systems without adequate governance in place are personally exposed. The workshop is direct about what this means in practice.
Why NED-delivered matters
Ger Perdisatt is a current NED at Dublin Airport Authority and Tailte Éireann. That experience — sitting on audit committees, risk committees, and strategy sessions in state bodies — means this workshop is built around what boards actually need to know, not what a vendor wants them to hear.
The COO background — 14 years at Microsoft Western Europe, responsibility for €10bn revenue across 14 markets — provides the commercial and operational grounding. The NED experience provides the governance perspective. The combination is specific to board education.
What Acuity delivers
- Half-day or full-day workshop format — tailored to your board's context
- Written briefing pack for directors to retain after the session
- Board AI governance framework template
- EU AI Act obligations summary for your sector
- Fixed-fee engagement — no day-rate billing
Common questions
What should a board AI workshop cover?
A board AI workshop should cover five areas: what AI actually is and what it cannot do (cutting through the vendor noise), the governance obligations directors carry under the EU AI Act, how to ask the right questions when management proposes an AI initiative, AI risk and how it sits within the board's existing risk appetite, and the personal liability position of directors under the Act. A workshop that covers only the technology misses the point. Boards need governance understanding, not a product demonstration.
What are directors' obligations under the EU AI Act?
The EU AI Act creates obligations at the deployer level — the organisation using an AI system. For boards, this means oversight of how management classifies, deploys, and governs AI systems. Directors cannot delegate this to management and disclaim responsibility. The Act requires meaningful board-level oversight of high-risk AI systems, which means directors need sufficient literacy to exercise that oversight. A board that approves AI adoption without understanding the governance requirements is exposed — both institutionally and personally.
How long does a board AI workshop take?
A half-day workshop (three to four hours) is sufficient for most boards to achieve baseline AI literacy and governance understanding. A full-day format allows for more detailed work on the organisation's specific AI use cases and the development of a board-level governance framework. For boards that want a lighter initial touchpoint, a two-hour briefing session is available as a first step — typically used to assess what depth of follow-on workshop is needed.
Book a board AI workshop
Fixed-fee. NED-delivered. Half-day or full-day format. Available across Ireland.
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