Kate Ross

Kate Ross

Former GM & Associate General Counsel, Digital Safety Unit Microsoft
Kate Ross

Kate is Former General Manager and Associate General Counsel of the Digital Safety Unit of Microsoft, where she ran a team working at the intersection of digital safety and global regulation. She brings decades of legal leadership experience across consumer technology and gaming sectors, with a strong focus on online safety, privacy, AI and technology policy. Her background includes building and scaling complex regulatory and legal teams from the ground up.

Conference Day Two - 24th March 2027

12:00 PM Presentation – The Regulatory Spray: Building Compliance Programmes with AI

As regulations multiply across jurisdictions and increasingly intersect, compliance teams must assess decisions against a growing and complex stack of requirements. AI offers new ways to build and scale compliance programmes, but it is not a catch-all solution. In this session, Kate Ross, Former GM, Digital Safety Unit at Microsoft, draws on lessons from building Microsoft's programme. She will explore where AI can map overlapping obligations and streamline compliance workflows, where human judgement remains essential and what effective adoption requires.

• Mapping intersecting requirements across a complex regulatory stack.
• Identifying where AI adds value and human judgement remains essential.
• Applying practical lessons from building an AI-enabled compliance programme.


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