The AI Act in Practice: Lessons Learnt, Challenges Ahead, and Next Steps for Companies

More than two years after the EU AI Act entered into force, and after the AI Omnibus reshaped key deadlines, organizations are still working out what compliance looks like in practice. This session brings together perspectives from private practice, industry and the EDPB to examine how companies have organized themselves to comply, which strategies have worked and which have not, and how the AI Act is being managed alongside other overlapping digital regulation. The panel will then look ahead to the challenges coming up, including liability of agentic AI, high-risk classification of AI systems, transparency, the need for guidelines, and the lack of harmonized standards. Finally, it will compare developments in other jurisdictions. The panel concludes with practical steps for companies at any stage of their AI journey.

What you will learn:

• Which AI Act compliance strategies have worked best, and which are not recommended.

• How to manage overlapping digital regulation obligations without duplicating work.

• Where agentic AI strains the AI Act, from liability and high-risk classification to human oversight and transparency.

• How other jurisdictions are approaching AI regulation, and which practical steps to take now.

• Which practical steps to take now, whether you are just starting your AI journey or are already well advanced.

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