The Roadmap
by Bristows LLP
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AI, sovereignty and security: navigating AI policy
AI, sovereignty and security: navigating AI policy
About this podcast
Welcome to The Roadmap, the technology law podcast series from Bristows. In this podcast, our technology lawyers dive into the digital transformation trends that are re-shaping modern businesses, even entire industries. In each episode, we will unpack a particular technology or trend – whether a type of transformational project, the latest market practice or a regulatory change – and explain what our clients need to understand in order to add value to their business. If you have any feedback, questions or comments, please email us at [email protected] - we'd love to hear from you. Also, find all the latest episodes on our tech focused site, The Cookie Jar, for views on matters shaping technology: https://www.bristows.com/the-cookie-jar-podcast-videos/
Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- AI, sovereignty and security: navigating AI policy · 42 min · Episode 49Vik Khurana, Tom Sharpe and Simon McDougall explore the evolving policy, legal and geopolitical issues shaping artificial intelligence. Drawing on developments across the AI…
- Chinese AI models and open-weight AI · 25 min · Episode 48In our latest Roadmap podcast, Vik Khurana and Tom Sharpe, discuss something a lot of clients are asking about right now: use of Chinese AI models and open-weight AI. They also…
- AI summer trends · 28 min · Episode 47Vik Khurana and our new AI Partner, Tom Sharpe, sit down to discuss the big trends they are seeing in the AI market this summer. These include the posture vendors are taking on…
- Regulatory shocks in AI | Insights from the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2026 in Dublin · 29 min · Episode 46Charlie Hawes and Simon McDougall recently attended Europe’s leading AI conference, the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2026 in Dublin. During the event, Simon chaired a panel…
- Content Licensing | AI Considerations · 30 min · Episode 45This episode explores AI content licensing in the media space. Alice Esuola-Grant, Jamie Cox-Deakins and Vik Khurana discuss why content owners and AI developers are increasingly…
- Contracting for AI | latest market practice · 33 min · Episode 44In this episode, Vik Khurana and William White break down how the rise of generative and agentic AI is reshaping technology contracting. Mapping practice across traditional IT…
- Agentic AI | Hot takes on the latest hyped-up tools · 19 min · Episode 43In this episode, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall take time out from our new series on agentic AI risks, to give their “hot takes” on the latest tools causing a stir in AI circles…
- Agentic AI | liability and risk · 21 min · Episode 42In this episode, Vik Khurana and Naomi Foale explain agentic AI – the features that distinguish it from GenAI, the ‘modes of failure’ that mean risks arise differently, and the…
- AI Governance | Manage & Monitor · 18 min · Episode 41In the final episode of our series on AI Governance, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall set out how organisations can manage and monitor AI risk on an ongoing basis, focusing on…
- AI Governance | Design & Implement · 17 min · Episode 40In the second episode of our series on AI Governance, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall set out how organisations can design and implement AI governance into their organisations…
- AI Governance | Identify & Assess · 17 min · Episode 39In the first episode in our mini-series on AI Governance, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall set out how organisations can kick off their programme, starting with the important work…
- AI Governance | top tips from a technology executive · 22 min · Episode 38In this episode, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall (Bristows Senior Adviser and Chief Strategist for AI at ZoomInfo) discuss the emerging discipline of AI governance and risk…
- AI system ‘building blocks’ | a deep dive on value, IP, open v proprietary and legal risks · 35 min · Episode 37In this episode, Vik Khurana explains the ‘building blocks’ of an AI system and various legal and commercial trends, risks and issues. In particular: What are the building…
- Medical device software market on the brink? The AI Act alarm bells are ringing - Part 3 · 8 min · Episode 36In this final episode of our three-part mini series on the EU AI Act and its implications for manufacturers of medical devices, Marc Dautlich and Alex Denoon look in detail at…
- Medical device software market on the brink? The AI Act alarm bells are ringing - Part 2 · 12 min · Episode 35As rumours swirl of a delay to the date of application of the AI Act, here is part 2 of specialists Marc Dautlich and Alex Denoon's podcast. In this episode, they delve further…
- Medical device software market on the brink? The AI Act alarm bells are ringing - Part 1 · 13 min · Episode 34Team-NB, representing the majority of Notified Bodies for EU MDR and IVDR medical devices, has issued a stark warning: the implementation of the EU AI Act carries a significant…
- Navigating the challenges of investing in or acquiring companies utilising Agentic AI · 11 min · Episode 33In the second episode of our series exploring Corporate Law and AI, our experts, Partner Iain Redford (Corporate & Tax) and Partner Vik Khurana (Commercial Technology), highlight…
- Navigating the Future | Corporate Law and AI | Recognising value in AI transactions · 20 min · Episode 32In the first episode of our series exploring Corporate Law and AI, our experts, Partner Vik Khurana (Commercial Technology) and Of Counsel Richard Swaine (Corporate & Tax)…
- Compliance considerations for consumer tech · 14 min · Episode 31On this episode of The Roadmap, Alice Esuola-Grant and Jamie Cox discuss legislative updates in consumer technology as a result of the EU’s Product Liability Directive and the…
- NIS2 | Gearing up to the next cybersecurity level · 18 min · Episode 30In this episode, James Johnston and Anna Ni Uiginn talk about the EU NIS2 Directive which will raise cybersecurity standards across critical sectors in the EU. James and Anna…
