Jeannette Gorzala
Where Europe's AI rules are written —
and where they're put to work.
Jeannette Gorzala is one of Europe's leading authorities on AI governance. She helps shape the rules through national and European mandates, and helps boards, investors and organisations turn them into confident decisions. A lawyer by training, she spent more than fifteen years in corporate and M&A law and investment banking before moving to the front line of AI policy — and now works across the rooms where AI is governed, funded, taught and run. It is a rare vantage point: she sees where regulation is heading before it lands, and what it takes to turn it into decisions a leadership team can stand behind.
The AI expertise your board now needs at the table
AI is a board-level responsibility, and most boards don't yet have a member who understands both the regulation and the technology — and can tell real exposure from noise.
Jeannette serves on the Strategy Board of SCCH (Software Competence Center Hagenberg) — one of Austria's leading applied AI research centres — sits inside Europe's AI rule-making, and brings more than fifteen years in corporate and M&A law. She reads a board paper, a risk register and a regulatory horizon with equal fluency — and is independent and confidential by standard.
What AI really means for value — before you deploy capital
Jeannette has represented more than 2,000 AI companies and helped shape the rules they operate under. She sees governance as a way to move faster with fewer surprises — not a brake.
- AI readiness — can management actually execute?
- Governance maturity — are the foundations in place?
- Regulatory exposure — the real risk versus the noise
- Competitiveness — does regulation strengthen or weaken the moat?
Turning AI's hardest questions into a way forward —
on the world's leading stages.
No hype, no fear. Drawing on signature frameworks — the K2 Principle, the Deep Dive, the Immune System — Jeannette leaves an audience with genuine clarity and a credible sense of what to do next. In English or German.
The K2 Principle
AI governance for leaders who don't turn backMost organisations prepared for Everest — mapped routes, proven rules, sherpas who know the way. AI isn't Everest. It's K2: more technical, faster-changing and far less forgiving of a wrong step. A keynote about leading where the margin for error is thin.
The Expedition
Becoming an AI-ready organisationAI readiness begins with radical honesty about where you actually stand — not where the press release says, or where the last strategy workshop placed you. Climbers don't push straight for the summit; they build camps, acclimatise, descend and climb again, each one earning the next. An AI-ready organisation is built the same way — on four camps that decide everything.
The Deep Dive
AI for leaders who dare to go below the surfaceThe first encounter with a system that writes, thinks, decides and anticipates feels like Cousteau's first descent: deeper than we thought, faster than we planned, with currents we don't yet fully understand. Not a warning — an invitation. But an invitation into the water means you have to know how to swim.
The Immune System
Organisations that don't just survive AI — they adapt to itEvolution's most remarkable creation isn't the brain or the heart — it's the immune system. It doesn't fight what it has never seen; it learns it, and adapts. The real question for a leader isn't “do we have the right AI strategy?” — it's “is our immune system strong enough?”
Keynote · Fireside · Panel & moderation · Executive & board sessions
Global AI HeadlinerThe future of AI ecosystems
Opening Headline PanelHow to govern and regulate AI
Eurofinance InternationalAI: here to help?
Grounded in research — not opinion.
Jeannette teaches and works at the intersection of AI, law and ethics, keeping the frameworks she brings to boards, investors and stages anchored in evidence.
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