What is Yields Innovate?
Yields Innovate is our flagship annual event dedicated to the future of model risk management, AI governance, and regulatory compliance. It brings together risk professionals, model validators, and AI governance leaders to explore how organizations can build trustworthy and compliant models in an era of rapid technological change.
Why attend
Yields Innovate?
Learn
Gain cutting-edge insights into the latest regulatory developments across Model Risk Management (MRM) and AI governance.
Interact
Join interactive sessions exploring how to align AI innovation with governance and compliance in practice.
Enjoy
Network with peers shaping the future of model and AI oversight — all while enjoying great food, snacks, and drinks.
Get inspired
Discover real-world use cases from industry leaders who are tackling model risk and AI challenges in production.
Meet the speakers
Ratul Ahmed
Group Head Model Risk Management & Validation at Commerzbank
Ratul leads Model Risk Management and Validation at one of Germany’s largest banks, with over 20 years of experience in senior risk leadership roles. Her expertise spans model governance, strategic risk transformation, and guiding organisations through regulatory and technological change.
Philip Preuss
Global Head of Wholesale IRB Validation
at HSBC
Philip Preuß leads global efforts to ensure the robustness, regulatory compliance, and integrity of risk models across HSBC´s wholesale portfolio.
Marina Bosso Bosso
Customer Engineer
at Google
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Marina Bosso Bosso brings a strong foundation in IT Compliance, Risk Management and Governance, honed through extensive experience in regulated sectors, to her current role as Customer Engineer at Google. She specializes in defining enterprise AI strategy, focusing on Sovereignty, Data Governance, and bridging AI with global regulations.
Efrem Bonfiglioli
Model Risk Management expert
at Yields–
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Efrem is Model and AI Lead solution Engineer at Yields. He helps organisation globally in managing model and AI risk with technology through knowledge sharing.
Jos Gheerardyn
Co-founder and CEO
at Yields
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Jos Gheerardyn is the co-founder and CEO of Yields.io, a pioneering platform for model risk management and AI governance that helps organizations build trust in their models and AI systems. He is passionate about turning model oversight into a driver of transparency, compliance, and business value across industries.
Seppe Housen
Responsible AI Practice Lead at Datashift
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Seppe helps large organisations in Belgium and the Netherlands manage AI-related risks in a pragmatic and responsible way, ensuring AI creates value rather than liability. He works hands-on in regulated sectors, supporting AI, Risk, Legal and Compliance leaders with practical AI risk management and alignment with regulations such as the EU AI Act and GDPR.
Lukasz Szpruch
Expert in artificial intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute
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Professor Lukasz Szpruch is a leading expert in AI for financial services, specialising in risk management and the safe deployment of advanced AI systems. He founded and led the Finance and Economics programme at the Alan Turing Institute and advises regulators and central banks, including the Bank of England, FCA, and IOSCO, on AI governance and validation in financial markets.
Jelle Hoedemaekers
Expert Data Economy
Legal, Tax, Finance & Product Compliance, Agoria
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Jelle Hoedemaekers is a digital policy expert at Agoria, focusing on AI and data strategy. He serves as the Coordinator of the Belgian Gaia-X Hub and Co-chair of the Ethics & Law WG at AI4Belgium. Jelle bridge the gap between European policy and practical implementation, with a focus on standardization and data spaces.
Steven Wierckx
ProdSec Teamlead
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Steven is Toreon’s lead of the Product Security Practice. As a seasoned expert-consultant in Secure Development and Threat Modeling, he’s also a trainer/coach in many projects and often takes the stage as speaker on specialist conferences and seminars. He leads his team of 14 specialist consultants to help customers build secure products and services, often within the context of compliance regulations (CRA, AI Act, NIS2,…) and international standards (ISO27k1, IEC62443,…).
More speakers
will be
announced
soon!
Agenda for the day
Arrival and Breakfast
Welcome coffee and breakfast — a first chance to connect
Opening
Welcome and agenda overview
– Jos Gheerardyn, CEO, Yields
Keynote by Google
Elevating Risk Management to AI Governance at Enterprise Scale
– Marina Bosso Bosso, Customer Engineer at Google
Keynote by Ratul Ahmed + Panel discussion with audience
AI Governance at Scale: Navigating Risk, Regulation, and Geopolitics in a Rapidly Changing World (TBC)
– Ratul Ahmed, Group Head Model Risk Management & Validation at Commerzbank
Coffee Break & Demos
Enjoy a break and explore some live demos
Breakout sessions
Choose between:
From Principles to Practice: Building Strong AI Governance for Today and Tomorrow
– Jelle Hoedemaekers, Agoria
How HSBC approaches Model Risk Management
– Philip Preuss, HSBC
Breakout sessions
Choose between:
5 hidden truths about AI Governance
– Efrem Bonfiglioli, Yields
Learnings from MRM implementation at a major Australian bank
– Customer
Lunch
Relax and connect over lunch
Keynote
Multi-governance (merging AI and MRM)
– Jos Gheerardyn, CEO Yields
Keynote
From AI Assurance to AI Insurance: Model Risk in the Age of Agentic AI
– Lukasz Szpruch
Roundtable discussions
Peer-to-peer discussions on selected topics, hosted by our partners
Table 1:
Govern AI without killing innovation
How do we design AI governance that enables innovation while managing risks and without becoming a bureaucratic bottleneck
Hosted by Datashift
Table 2:
Bridging the gap: How to bring MRM practices to your AI solutions?
Hosted by KPMG
Table 3:
Designing Risk and Trust Early in the Lifecycle
Hosted by Toreon
Closing Session summarizing the day by Marc Taymans and Jos Gheerardyn
Drinks & Networking
Wrap up the day with informal networking.
Practical information
DATE AND TIME
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Starting at 08h30 CET
LOCATION
Google Digital Atelier
Central Station, Brussels
Cantersteen 10
1000 Brussels, Belgium
