Governance Is the Real Bottleneck to AI ROI
David Hsu
- When
- Tuesday, June 3010:45 AM – 11:05 AM · 20 min
- Where
- Leadership 2San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
As AI systems move from generating content to taking Claw-based agents action inside production systems, governance (not model quality) becomes the limiting factor. David will break down why visibility, guardrails, approvals, and rollback matter more than raw intelligence, and how companies can enable AI adoption without creating security and compliance disasters.
Speaker
CEO, Retool
David Hsu is the Founder and CEO of Retool, the $3.2B Sequoia-backed governed platform where AI development is fast for builders and safe for business. Under his leadership, Retool helps over 10,000 companies like Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitnessintegrate AI into enterprise-grade applications without sacrificing security or control. David studied philosophy and computer science at the University of Oxford.
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