Wayne Poggenpoel is a governance, risk, and internal audit expert with over 20 years of experience in financial services, specializing in the South African insurance sector. A Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) with a Master’s Degree in Internal Audit, he has held executive roles including Chief Audit Executive and Chief Risk Officer. As founder of TFL Consulting, Wayne works at the intersection of governance and artificial intelligence—building AI-enabled audit and decision-support systems that challenge how organisations think about oversight, risk, and performance. Wayne is known for one core message: governance is not keeping up. As AI becomes faster, more consistent, and more insightful, the question is no longer how boards use AI—but whether they can keep up with it. At the conference, Wayne will argue that in some cases, AI is already making better decisions than boards—and that the real governance risk is failing to confront this reality