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AI is already in your organization, whether you have a policy for it or not. The real question isn't whether to write one, it's whether the policy you have (or are considering) is actually helping your municipality adopt AI safely, or quietly getting in the way.

In this session, we'll cut through the noise with a practical, honest conversation about AI governance for Mississippi municipalities from the perspective of both a state technology leader and a team building AI infrastructure for local government every day.

We'll explore:

• Do you actually need an AI policy? — What's driving the real risks and when a policy helps vs. when it creates more friction than protection
• Where existing policies go wrong — over-restriction, shadow IT, human verification burdens, and the accountability gaps that leave municipalities exposed
• What a good policy actually does — security and data protection, auditability, performance monitoring, and building toward the future without locking into point solutions
• How Mississippi's ITS AI framework aligns with platform-first thinking — a look at the state's 10 guiding principles and how they map to what modern AI infrastructure already provides

Featuring Zach Duguid, AI Engineering Manager at Polimorphic, and Shelley Thompson, Emerging Technology Manager at Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services.