As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, many organisations are facing a critical challenge: how to unlock value from AI while maintaining visibility, control and trust.
In this webinar, Cloud Essentials and Microsoft experts explore how IT, data governance, security and responsible AI leaders can move from uncertainty to confidence when deploying AI and agents at scale.
We covered how to:
- Understand the scale of the opportunity – and urgency
AI isn’t just improving productivity, it’s reshaping how work gets done. With up to 70% of manual tasks now predicted to be handled by agentic AI, organisations that delay risk falling behind as early adopters drive faster decision-making and innovation. - Establish clear ownership and accountability for AI
Learn why unclear ownership is one of the biggest sources of risk, and how to assign accountable business owners, define decision rights, and align IT, risk and compliance around AI outcomes. - Implement risk-based governance that enables innovation
Move beyond one-size-fits-all controls with a practical framework for classifying AI use cases, setting risk appetite, and applying proportional governance that supports adoption rather than slowing it down. - See how to gain full visibility of AI and agent activity (live demos)
Through a detailed walkthrough, you’ll see how Microsoft Agent 365 provides a centralised control plane for all AI agents, including:- A complete inventory of agents across your organisation, including third-party tools
- Deep visibility into who is using each agent, what data it can access, and what permissions it has
- Embedded security posture across Entra, Purview and Defender
- Real-time risk detection, with the ability to investigate and block high-risk agents
- A connection map of agent-to-agent interactions, helping uncover hidden dependencies and risks
- A governed approval workflow to onboard new agents with the right controls from day one
- Monitor AI risk with unified dashboards
Discover how the Security Dashboard for AI surfaces real-time insights into AI posture, usage and risk across your environment, enabling security and governance teams to evidence oversight and respond proactively. - Secure AI with integrated identity, data protection and threat management
Learn how to extend existing Microsoft controls across identity, data and security operations to manage emerging risks such as shadow AI, prompt injection and data exposure. - Operationalise responsible AI at scale
Explore how to embed governance aligned to frameworks like the EU AI Act, NIST and ISO, including continuous monitoring, human oversight for high-risk use cases, and lifecycle management for AI agents.
The session also demonstrates how to manage AI agents as digital employees – with identity, access controls, monitoring and lifecycle governance that mirrors how you manage people.
Whether you’re preparing for Copilot adoption, managing AI risk, or building a scalable governance framework, this webinar provides practical, real-world guidance to help you adopt AI with confidence, control and clear accountability.