AI Regulation and Sustainability: What Business Leaders Need to Know—and Do | Events | Sustainable Business Network and Advisory Services

Barbican, London

June 23, 2026

8:30 - 10:30 am BST

As AI technologies become more ubiquitous and mainstreamed across nearly all business functions, awareness of their human rights and environmental impacts is growing.

This is leading to new AI-focused regulations, most notably the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, as well as emerging voluntary standards and guidance, requiring companies to conduct due diligence and risk assessments that examine their development, deployment, and use of AI. These frameworks sit alongside others—such as the EU’s CSDDD—which will mandate human rights and environmental due diligence, including companies’ procurement and use of AI.

While the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, companies should now be thinking about how they will consider, assess, and account for the human rights and environmental impacts of their development and use of AI, as well as the connections between those impacts. This requires a company-wide approach to AI and its governance, focused on responsibility and sustainability.

Join BSR and Slaughter and May for a closed-door session where you’ll hear from experts and business peers navigating the latest regulatory developments relevant to companies’ development and use of AI. Explore the novel human rights and environmental impacts of AI technologies, and what they mean for companies’ sustainability efforts.

You will also have an opportunity to engage directly with peers through facilitated dialogue in small groups to help you take the next steps to ensure a responsible approach to AI.

Scheduled Speakers

Christine Diamente, Managing Director, Business Transformation, BSR

Managing Director, Business Transformation, BSR

London

Christine leads BSR’s Business Transformation team, helping companies to manage sustainability throughout their business and across their supply chains and to develop resilient business strategies that leverage insights from BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab.

She works with companies across sectors and geographies to structure a sustainability management approach that mitigates risk and captures emerging opportunities, creating strategic advantage for their businesses, while contributing to a more just, sustainable world. Christine also co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.

She brings over 20 years of experience in leading brand, sustainability, public affairs, communications, and reputation management with multinational corporations at the executive leadership level. This also includes overseeing corporate relations with external stakeholders, such as the World Economic Forum, the UN, European institutions, and investors.

Previously, Christine was Head of Brand Strategy at Nokia. She has also held major roles at Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel, leading Brand and Corporate Sustainability and European Affairs. Christine has also served on various boards, including as a chair of the Telecoms Industry Dialogue on human rights, as an advisory board member of Reuters Events Sustainability, as a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, and on the European Internet Foundation.

Christine holds a MA in History and a BA in History and International Politics from the University of Ottawa. She completed the Management Acceleration Program (MAP) at INSEAD, and she achieved the ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Global Competent Boards Designation (2021). She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Natalie Donovan, Head of Technology, Digital, Data and IP Knowledge, Slaughter and May

Laura Houston, Partner, Slaughter and May

Elisa Moscolin, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Sage Group plc

Peter Nestor, Global Head of Human Rights, Novartis AG

Richard Wingfield, Director, Responsible Technology, BSR

Director, Responsible Technology, BSR

London

Richard leads BSR's Responsible Technology team and portfolio, working with companies that develop and use technology to build human rights considerations and practices into their products, services, and policies. He brings a strong understanding of international human rights law and standards and how to translate the corporate responsibility to respect human rights into practice for companies of different sizes and sectors.

Richard is particularly experienced in supporting companies with their regulatory requirements where these touch upon human rights considerations, and has worked with many companies undertaking risk assessments required by the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act.

Prior to joining BSR, Richard led the legal and policy team at Global Partners Digital, an international human rights organization focused on the impacts of digital technologies on human rights.

Richard holds a LLB in Law and European Law from the University of Nottingham and is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales.

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