EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Impact on U.S. Companies, Requirements for General-Purpose AI, Ensuring Compliance
Scope, Prohibitions, Exemptions, Governance, Enforcement, and Penalties
Course Details
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Live Online with Live Q&A
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
- event Date
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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This CLE webinar will provide an overview of the European Union's (EU) landmark Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) and its extraterritorial impact on U.S. companies. The panel will discuss the AI Act's scope, risk-based approach, application, enforcement, penalties, timeline for implementation, steps U.S. businesses need to take to ensure compliance, and recent developments since the Act's enactment.
Ms. Bajowala has deep experience with data security, privacy, artificial intelligence, and information technology issues. She conducts cyber risk assessments, develops privacy and InfoSec compliance programs, and leads proactive incident response planning, including drafting incident response and communications plans, and conducting tabletop exercises. Ms. Bajowala also helps companies stand up artificial intelligence governance programs, including creating policies, procedures, and trainings associated with a defensible compliance program. She also assists companies evaluate the risks associated with emerging technologies. Ms. Bajowala helps regulated entities comply with cybersecurity requirements. She assists public companies with compliance with the SEC’s cyber rules. Ms. Bajowala has wide-ranging litigation and trial experience, including over 100 days of first-chair trial experience.
Ms. Scali is an international lawyer who focuses on data protection and cybersecurity, with a specific emphasis on the financial services, life sciences and retail sectors. She is a dual-qualified lawyer, admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and as a French lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar, which together with her experience gained at U.S. and International law firms over a period of nearly 20 years, makes her uniquely placed to give the best possible service to her global client base in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Ms. Scali advises on all aspects of data privacy and security, with an emphasis on advising clients on the emerging laws that impact the development and implementation of AI solutions including the EU AI Act as well as the implementation of global data protection compliance programmes including UK/EU GDPR. cross-border data transfers, preparedness and management of personal data breaches and reporting. She also regularly advises on data protection issues in the context of complex cross-border investigations and litigation, corporate deals, and Inclusion & Diversity Programmes.
The AI Act was published on July 12, 2024, and took effect on Aug. 2, 2024, with most provisions becoming applicable in August 2026. The AI Act is considered the world's first comprehensive legal framework for AI and is expected to have far-reaching implications beyond the EU and will likely shape future regulation of AI in the coming years.
According to the European Commission Report, the AI Act establishes a legal framework for "foster[ing] trustworthy AI in Europe and beyond, by ensuring that AI systems respect fundamental rights, safety, and ethical principles and by addressing risks of very powerful and impactful AI models." The AI Act generally provides for EU-wide rules on data quality, transparency, human oversight, and accountability.
The AI Act establishes a set of risk-based rules applicable to all parties and roles in the AI ecosystem including developers, exporters, importers, deployers, and distributors. The most significant responsibilities fall on providers (those that develop AI or put it into the market) and deployers (companies under whose authority the AI system is used, including employers) based on the potential level of risk that results from the AI.
Since the AI Act's enactment in 2024, the requirements for general purpose AI (GPAI) took effect on Aug. 2, 2025, but the AI Office will not open any enforcement actions prior to August 2026, giving organizations time to assess whether their GPAI models align with the AI Office's recently released guidance for compliance.
Listen as our authoritative panel explores the AI Act's regulatory framework, summarizes key points U.S. organizations need to understand, and provides practical steps for ensuring future compliance with this highly complex regulatory framework.
I. Overview and background of the AI Act
II. Scope and definition of AI
III. Affected entities in the AI ecosystem or supply chain
IV. Extraterritorial effect of the AI Act beyond the EU market
V. AI Act's risk-based approach
VI. Limited exemptions for free and open-source AI models
VII. Governance and enforcement
VIII. Penalties for noncompliance
IX. Interaction with data protection laws: GDPR
X. Timeline for implementation of the AI Act
XI. Obligations for GPAI Models effective Aug. 2, 2025, and the EU's recently released guidance for compliance
XII. Next steps for impacted organizations
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How do the terms and requirements of the AI Act apply to U.S.-based companies?
- What are steps U.S. organizations need to start taking now to ensure compliance with the AI Act?
- What parties in the AI lifecycle are impacted by the AI Act, and what are their compliance obligations?
- What are the penalties for failing to comply with the AI Act?
- What are recent developments with the AI Act since its enactment in 2024?
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