AI and the Role of the Board
one-day programme

Boards in Trinidad and Tobago are approving AI investments and receiving AI-generated analysis in their board packs. The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago states that the board "may delegate some of its functions, though not its responsibilities", and its May 2026 proposals to amend the Financial Institutions Act name artificial intelligence among the technologies that "have exacerbated fraud, cyber and technology risks". In a 2026 survey of Caribbean directors, 37 per cent believed their board had the education or skills to oversee AI.

This one-day programme takes the three things a board does, direct, oversee and account, and applies them to AI. Directors work through realistic Caribbean cases: a board paper drafted with generative AI, an AI programme proposal awaiting approval, an automated credit system that harms customers, and the board's own use of AI tools. Each session ends with an instrument the board can use at its next meeting, and each participant leaves with a 12-month board AI governance plan with owners, first moves and review dates.

In Trinidad and Tobago no AI statute exists. The duties that reach a board or an executive today come from the Companies Act (section 99: the care, diligence and skill of a reasonably prudent person), the Data Protection Act 2011 (Part I and sections 7 to 18 in force since 2012; the private-sector and enforcement Parts unproclaimed; no automated-decision provision), the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago guidelines on corporate governance (2021), cybersecurity (2023) and outsourcing (2022), the May 2026 proposals to amend the Financial Institutions Act that would add cyber security and information technology to the skills every bank board must possess, the Trinidad and Tobago Corporate Governance Code, and the Judiciary's Practice Direction on generative AI of July 2026. Participants from Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Suriname receive their own jurisdiction's page.

The programme is derived from Meaningful Governance Advisory's Purpose-Driven AI (PDAI) advisory practice and the Standards.Academy PDAI courses. A two-day programme adds AI literacy for directors, value and people, a live AI incident simulation and the board's structures and records; the one-day programme can be taken first and the second day added within six months.

Learning Objectives

Course Agenda

Session 1: Accountability for AI: what the board owns and cannot delegate (08:30–10:15)

Case: a board paper drafted with generative AI. What AI changes for a board and what it does not; the Trinidad and Tobago position in one page. Instrument: accountability map.

Session 2: AI strategy and value: deciding what AI does to the business model (10:30–12:15)

Case: invest or wait, an AI programme proposal. Strategy as a decided position; how capacity returned becomes value; what a board requires in an AI business case. Instrument: AI investment approval checklist.

Session 3: AI risk and the management system the board relies on (13:15–14:45)

Case: who approved the model? An automated credit decision harms customers and the regulator writes. ISO/IEC 42001 as the board's checklist; risk tiers, impact assessment, human oversight, third parties and cloud. Instrument: board AI reporting specification.

Session 4: Trinidad and Tobago rules, the board's own use of AI and the 12-month plan (15:00–16:30)

Placing the company on the map; the general counsel's ten questions; the board's AI tool rules; the evidence pack; the 12-month board AI governance plan completed; commitment round.

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