Samantha Kappagoda was invited to speak at the Diligent AI Innovations Visionary Forum in New York on May 1, 2025. She participated in a panel titled AI Is Reshaping Your Role in the Boardroom: Are You Prepared?, moderated by Amanda Carty, General Manager, Compliance, at Diligent, and panelists John Horn, Director Cybersecurity Practice, Datos Insights, and Kevin Roy, Managing Director and Head of Issuer Solutions at S&P. The panel sought to discuss how governance oversight and strategy may be transformed in the context of AI and data transformation.
Samantha Kappagoda’s Contribution at the Diligent AI Innovations Visionary Forum
Samantha’s contribution at the Diligent AI Innovations Visionary Forum addressed the governance readiness gap that may have arisen in boardrooms, drawing on her active board directorship, published AI governance thought leadership, and data science operating experience to offer a technically grounded perspective directly applicable to directors navigating the transformation of their oversight and strategic role as the result of generative-AI. She previously participated in a panel titled AI in Corporate Governance: What Do Boards Need to Know Now? at the Diligent AI Virtual Summit in April 2025.
About Samantha Kappagoda
Samantha Kappagoda is a board director and technology strategist who brings a distinctive blend of capital markets judgment, AI governance and data strategy expertise to complex, regulated environments. Her boardroom perspective leverages her operating experience — in data, analytics and technology — to navigate emerging opportunities, drive value and mitigate risk.
Samantha currently serves as Board Director, Nominating & Governance Committee Chair and Audit Committee Member at the Credit Suisse Funds, now under UBS (NYSE: UBS), and a Member of the Governing Council Business Board at the University of Toronto. She also serves as Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder of Numerati® Partners LLC, a RiskTech firm, and Visiting Scholar/Academic at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Recognized as a Director to Watch, Samantha is the author of Board Governance of AI & Emerging Technologies, in Directors & Boards magazine. She is an active contributor at governance forums in USA and Canada, addressing AI and data governance, cybersecurity, financial markets and global macroeconomic trends. She has served as faculty at the NACD Master Class on Technology and Innovation Oversight and at NYU Directors’ Academy, and been an invited panelist at conferences including Character of the Corporation, Corporate Board Member, Independent Directors Council, NACD Summit, Private Directors Association and WGOB Canada. Samantha has been awarded the Certificate in Private Company Governance from the Private Directors Association, and has also completed the Harvard Business School Program Making Corporate Boards More Effective. For additional information, please see Samantha’s biography, recent news and conferences & events.
