According to the event announcement, The Register is hosting an off-record dinner in Washington on 29 October with HPE and NVIDIA to discuss why AI projects in regulated industries stall. The answer, it says, is rarely the model. It is where data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as evidence a year later.
The announcement describes two boundaries around any AI system. One is jurisdictional: what data can leave the country and under whose rules. The other is physical: what can leave an organisation's own estate and who signs for it. These questions are not answered by product sheets; they are settled case by case with a particular regulator and legal team.
The dinner will run under the Chatham House Rule, meaning what is said can be used but not attributed. HPE Fellow Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Bert Condensa are scheduled to attend, with The Register's editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff moderating. The intended guests are technology, data and risk leaders in healthcare, financial services, research, pharmaceuticals, government and higher education.