Kevin Schawinski

CEO & Co-Founder
Modulos AG
Switzerland

About

Dr. Kevin Schawinski is co-founder and CEO of Modulos AG, a Zurich-based AI governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform trusted by organizations across technology, manufacturing, and government, including JobCloud, PwC, and ETH Zurich, to govern AI responsibly and comply with the EU AI Act. Modulos is an ETH Zurich spin-off, Europe’s first ISO/IEC 42001-certified AI governance platform, and a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Safety Institute Consortium.A former astrophysics professor at ETH Zurich, Yale, and Oxford, as well as a NASA Einstein Fellow, Kevin co-founded Galaxy Zoo, which later led to the creation of Zooniverse, and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited over 16,000 times. In March 2026, he led AI governance training for financial supervisors from all 27 EU member states at the EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy in Florence.He advises the European Commission and NIST on AI regulation, is a recognized thought leader, and speaks regularly about practical AI compliance for board members and C-suite leaders.
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Kevin Schawinski | Why AI Governance Keeps Failing at Implementation, and What Actually Works

AI Governance Implementation, EU AI Act Compliance, Enterprise AI Risk, Board AI Accountability.
Many enterprises now have an artificial intelligence (AI) governance policy. Far fewer have operationalized it. The gap between a framework on paper and continuous, auditable oversight of live AI systems is where organizations quietly stall—and where the EU AI Act’s 2026 application and enforcement milestones are exposing real weaknesses.In this session, Kevin Schawinski examines this implementation gap.Key takeaways:A clear diagnosis of why AI governance programs stall during implementation, including the specific organizational and technical patterns that distinguish successful programs from unsuccessful ones. A practical approach to moving from risk classification under the EU AI Act to continuous, board-reportable oversight of AI systems in production, grounded in real enterprise deployments across regulated industries. Concrete questions that every chief information security officer (CISO), chief information officer (CIO), and audit committee should be asking their AI teams right now, covering shadow AI, agentic systems, vendor accountability, and how to quantify AI risk exposure.