The Next Frontier of AI-led Transformation Calls for AI Governance- Meet Kasia Jakimowicz, Senior Analyst for AI Governance
For most of my career, two things have remained constant: a fascination with technology and a willingness to embrace transformation.
I’ve lived and worked across countries, sectors, and disciplines. I’ve worked with entrepreneurs, startups, governments, international organizations, and business leaders across the globe, and lived in various parts of Europe and the US. Through this journey, I have gained firsthand experience in how organizations across the globe adapt to technological, economic, and societal changes.
Looking back, a common thread connects those experiences: every transformation was shaped by and built upon the one that came before it.
For example, entrepreneurship taught me the realities of innovation and scaling new ideas. Working with governments and international institutions showed me how policy, regulation, and trust shape the environment in which organizations operate and grow. As a Senior Policy Adviser on AI, Data, and Emerging Technology at the UK Mission to the United Nations, I worked at the intersection of diplomacy, technology, and governance as countries grappled with increasingly capable AI systems. I believe that transformation succeeds when advances in capabilities are applied on top of previous lessons learned.
Today’s AI-led Transformation Requires an Evolving Approach to AI Governance for Scale and Business Value
As AI systems become more capable and autonomous, organizations need governance that scales with the technology rather than constrain it.
In an environment that is constantly evolving from experimentation to autonomous systems, many organizations feel pressure to move faster. But speed alone is not enough. The organizations that succeed will not simply be the ones that innovate fastest. They will be the ones that successfully combine innovation with trust, governance, resilience, and institutional knowledge. In other words, they will transform without forgetting what made them successful in the first place while recognizing that increasingly capable systems require new approaches to governance, assurance, oversight, and accountability.
Thus, AI governance itself is evolving as organizations confront questions that go beyond traditional risk management and compliance: how do we govern systems whose capabilities evolve rapidly? How do you trust systems that act autonomously? How do you scale systems whose capabilities evolve faster than traditional control mechanisms? And how do we build trustworthy and resilient AI that organizations can rely on at scale and during runtime?
Why Forrester? And Why Now?
Alongside my previous career trajectory, my recent work with frontier AI governance and AI safety communities has provided a front-row seat to the debates shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
These experiences reinforced a lesson that has followed me throughout my: transformation succeeds when governance evolves alongside advances in capability. The more capable a certain technology becomes, the more important it is that trust, oversight, and accountability practices evolve with it. Governance of AI must also evolve and synergize changes in all types of governance. It must be the catalyst for successful AI-led transformation.
What Is Your Research Focus?
As a Senior Analyst at Forrester, my research focuses on helping leaders build trustworthy, resilient, and governable AI systems that create business value while adapting to an increasingly autonomous future. I will be exploring:
- AI Governance for future enterprises, agentic and autonomous systems
- Trustworthy and resilient AI for business value and competitive advantage
- AI Policy and regulatory impact on enterprise AI adoption
- Governance challenges and organizational readiness for frontier AI and emerging technologies.
Let’s Connect
I bring new perspectives to help leaders navigate one of the most significant transformations of our time: building AI systems that organizations can confidently scale.
I look forward to exploring these challenges and opportunities with you. Book a guidance session with me.