AI and the Role of the Board
two-day programme

Caribbean regulators now write the board into their expectations on technology and AI. The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago requires the board to approve the cybersecurity strategy and to retain responsibility for every material outsourcing contract; its May 2026 proposals would make cyber security and information technology mandatory board skills. The Judiciary's Practice Direction of July 2026 sets the standard of verification and disclosure for any document prepared with generative AI, a standard that transfers directly to board papers.

The two-day programme is the complete model. Day 1, the board's mandate for AI, builds the shared understanding and the strategic position: accountability, how AI systems work and fail, strategy, and value and people. Day 2, oversight in practice, builds the oversight system on ISO/IEC 42001, walks through the Trinidad and Tobago and regional rules, rehearses an AI incident as a board in a live simulation, and sets the structures and records. Every session opens with a case from the Caribbean public record, carries one short input, works on a board instrument and ends with an entry in the participant's 12-month plan.

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.

Learning Objectives

Course Agenda

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

The AI-written board paper; what AI changes for a board; the Trinidad and Tobago position. Instrument: accountability map.

Day 1 – Session 2: How AI systems work and fail: what a director needs to know (10:30–12:15)

Live demonstration: a board pack through a generative AI tool. Predictive, generative and agentic AI; the failure modes. Instrument: five standing questions.

Day 1 – Session 3: AI strategy: deciding what AI does to the business model (13:15–14:45)

Invest or wait: an AI programme proposal. Strategy as a decided position; exposure of the business model; three levels of AI maturity. Instrument: approval checklist.

Day 1 – Session 4: Value, people and culture: productivity, workforce and change (15:00–16:30)

The headcount proposal, debated from two positions. Capacity returned and value; workforce effects; literacy and culture as board matters. Instrument: requirements on value and people.

Day 2 – Session 5: AI risk and the management system the board relies on (08:30–10:15)

Who approved the model? A customer-harm case and a risk-tiering exercise. ISO/IEC 42001, 23894 and 42005 as the board's checklist. Instrument: reporting specification.

Day 2 – Session 6: The Trinidad and Tobago and Caribbean regulatory landscape and data protection (10:30–12:15)

Placing the company on the map; the general counsel's ten questions; automated decisions under the data-protection Acts; sector regulators; the EU AI Act as optional good practice by risk. Instrument: compliance position.

Day 2 – Session 7: Board simulation: an AI incident (13:15–14:45)

Live simulated board meeting in two rounds with observers, built on the region's own record of what went wrong in public statements after the TSTT and Massy incidents. Debrief: what helped, what records were missing, what the minute should say.

Day 2 – Session 8: Structures, records and the board's plan (15:00–16:30)

Committee allocation exercise; the minutes test. Committee options; AI expertise on the board; the board's AI tool rules; the evidence pack; the 12-month plan completed; commitment round.

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