This the first in a four-part webinar series sponsored by the UC AI Council.
As AI adoption accelerates, UC must carefully manage third-party risks when evaluating and purchasing AI-powered solutions. This webinar provides a roadmap for assessing AI tools, ensuring privacy, security, and compliance while mitigating risks. Our panel will guide attendees through key stages of AI acquisition, from pre-adoption considerations and vendor assessments to procurement strategies and risk advisories, equipping decision-makers with best practices for informed AI purchasing. This event is open to UC audiences only.
Event overview
AI & Third-Party Risk: Best Practices for Evaluating and Procuring AI Solutions [Learn More & Register now]
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12-1 p.m.
Panelists: Lisa Ho, Bethanie Brown, Sajjad Matin, Gigi Capuyan
Contact: aicouncil@ucop.edu
As AI adoption accelerates, UC must navigate the complexities of third-party risk management when evaluating and purchasing AI-powered solutions. This webinar provides a roadmap for assessing and approving AI tools while mitigating risks.
Target Audience:
Whether you are an end user, procurement professional, legal counsel, or senior decision-maker, this session will provide best practices for making informed AI purchasing decisions while minimizing risk.
Learning objectives:
- Best practices for making informed AI purchasing decisions while minimizing risk.
- Navigating the complexities of third-party risk management when evaluating and purchasing AI-powered solutions
- This webinar provides a roadmap for assessing and approving AI tools while mitigating risks.
- The four key stages of AI acquisition:
- Users: Key pre-adoption considerations to ensure AI tools align with business objectives.
- Partner Reviews: Assessing third-party AI vendors for privacy, security, and compliance risks.
- Contracts & Procurement: Exploring procurement options, negotiation strategies, and risk mitigation clauses.
- Approvers: Identifying organizational risks and issuing critical advisories before rollout.
About the panelists
- Lisa Ho, Chief Privacy Officer, UC Berkeley
- Bethanie Brown, Executive Director, Human Resources at UC ANR
- Sajjad Matin, Systemwide Cybersecurity Counsel for University of California, UC Office of the President
- Gigi Capuyan, Principal Procurement Counsel at University of California, UC Office of the President
About the four-part webinar series
Meet UC domain experts and hear key considerations for implementing AI solutions across administrative disciplines, from protecting data to third-party vendor relationships. The four-part webinar series, hosted by the UC AI Council, provides UC faculty and staff operations and administration communities with the information and system wide network necessary for responsible and effective implementation of AI.
Register now for all four events in the series (one registration link per event). The series will take place Wednesday, March 26, April 9, and May 21, and Thursday, May 29, with all events running from 12-1 p.m. Content from the series will be available via UC Tech News after-the-fact. Register now, using the link below.Learn about all four webinars in the four-part series sponsored by the UC AI Council, March 26-May 29, 2025.