AI is already being used across tribal organizations, whether through staff tools, vendor platforms, or federal contract requirements. The challenge is making sure leadership sets the rules before AI creates unexpected risks involving cybersecurity, compliance, contracts, or tribal data sovereignty.
Join BakerHostetler and Arctic IT for a practical discussion on what tribal leaders, IT, legal, finance, procurement, compliance, and federal contracting teams need to understand as AI use expands. Featuring attorneys Kimi Gordy, Partner, and Jon Knight, Counsel, from BakerHostetler, along with Phillip Jackson, CIO of Arctic IT, this session will combine legal and technical perspectives on AI governance, federal contracting, cybersecurity, and tribal data protection.
Attendees will learn how federal requirements, vendor risk, CMMC, CUI, and data handling obligations may affect AI use, along with practical steps tribal organizations can take during the first 90 days to establish a defensible governance approach.
Learning Objectives:
- How federal contracts can create cybersecurity, data handling, and reporting obligations
- What CMMC, CUI, and vendor requirements may mean for AI use
- Where tribal data sovereignty intersects with federal contract law
- How to determine which AI tools and data uses are acceptable