October 2025 Newsletter

California continues to set the pace for responsible and innovative AI development. Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Senate Bill 53, solidifying the state’s position as the world leader in artificial intelligence governance and innovation.

This legislation establishes clearer guardrails for AI adoption while encouraging public–private collaboration across industries. For Konfer, it validates our vision: agentic AI must be built on trust, governance, and compliance. By aligning innovation with accountability, California is sending a strong message: AI is not just about technology, but also about responsibility, transparency, and building confidence in its impact on society.

Compliance with SB 53 requires major operational and documentation efforts, especially for "Large Frontier Developers" (those with high compute power and over $500M in annual revenue) such as Publishing a Frontier AI Framework, Releasing Transparency Reports, establishing protocols to detect and report "critical safety incidents" to the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) within 15 days of discovery, or within 24 hours if the incident poses an imminent risk of death or serious injury, establishing and Whistleblower Protections, etc. 

Large Frontier Developers can tap Konfer to Agentify the entire process to be SB 53 compliant from day zero without adding any new resources. 

Our very own Healthcare GM, Ishita Sharan, moderated a high-profile panel on Personalized Medicines powered by multi-omics. The session featured CEOs from BridgeBio Pharma, XNA Labs, and PathomIQ, alongside Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje.

The discussion explored how cancer and rare-disease treatment is entering a new era, where layers of biology - genes, proteins, and chemical signals - can be integrated with AI to guide patient-specific therapies.

But scientific discovery is only half the story. True progress requires:

Managing risk: Balancing high R&D costs, complex cancer and rare-disease trials, and uncertain reimbursement.

Building infrastructure: Ensuring scalability, reliability, and automation in next-generation bio-lab platforms.

Translation to real-world care: Moving from lab breakthroughs to tangible solutions for patients and families.

Real-world deployment must also navigate evolving and disparate regulatory requirements across global markets.

As Ishita emphasized, this is not just about science; it’s about designing systems that ensure equitable access and responsible innovation.

Agent Hours, Not Human Weeks: Konfer Action Plan for Startups Responding to Security Assessments & RFQs

Startups face a common pain point: lengthy, complex security questionnaires and RFQ responses that can stretch into weeks of manual work. In our latest blog post, we explain how Konfer’s Agentic AI approach compresses this process from weeks to hours.

By leveraging retrieval-augmented generation, compliance knowledge graphs, and agent orchestration, startups can meet enterprise-level demands for speed, accuracy, and trust—without overloading small teams.

For emerging companies, this shift is more than operational efficiency. It’s a survival advantage.

Konfer founding member Ashis Khan recently hosted a fireside chat with Amit Zavery, President, COO, and CPO of ServiceNow, during which the spotlight was on the ServiceNow AI Control Tower for AI governance.

Ashis' conversation centered around responsible innovation in the Age of Agentic Enterprises. Their discussion explored how organizations can stay ahead of ever-evolving AI regulations, which today vary not only across countries but even from one U.S. state to another. Ashis asked how enterprises can "bulletproof" their AI strategies amid this fast-shifting compliance landscape, balancing innovation with governance while avoiding a patchwork approach to policy. Ashis also discussed with Amit how C-Suites can build resilience and accountability frameworks, ensure transparency in AI decisions, and prepare teams for continuous regulatory monitoring through adaptive governance models inspired by global standards such as NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act.

For compliance leaders, this means:

• Enterprise-wide visibility into AI agents and workflows
• Embedded compliance and governance guardrails
• End-to-end lifecycle management for AI operations
• Real-time reporting aligned with business outcomes
• Integration with ServiceNow’s AI Agent Fabric, enabling AI agents from multiple providers to collaborate seamlessly

This matters for every enterprise. Gartner projects that by 2028, enterprises using AI governance platforms will achieve 30% higher customer trust ratings and 25% better compliance scores than their peers.

As Amit Zavery put it:

"With AI Control Tower, businesses can oversee AI workforces in the same way human workforces are managed—aligned, coordinated, optimized, and delivering measurable outcomes at scale."

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