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Managing the Rise of Artificial Intelligence [Video]

There will be real consequences for organisations that fail to comply with new artificial intelligence regulations, writes Grant Thornton consulting partner Shane O’Neill

The 2008 financial crash shone a light on the major failure in corporate governance across the banking sector.

The pursuit of growth, combined with looser oversight and governance structure without robust risk management processes and controls ultimately led to a spectacular collapse, the effects of which we are still feeling to this day.

Since then, we have seen the balance swing in the opposite direction, with stricter regulatory regimes and the introduction of measures like the Individual Accountability Framework in Ireland to ensure that executives could be held responsible in the future, and the establishment of the Irish Banking Culture Board to promote ethical behaviour within the pillar banks themselves.

This new emphasis on regulation stretches far beyond these shores and now also reverberates across multiple sectors, as the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine