Speed to market is now the single biggest challenge product leaders name - and in financial services, healthcare and the public sector it collides head-on with a regulator entirely entitled to ask how your model reached its conclusion. 'Move fast and iterate' is not a strategy when one hallucinated answer is a reportable incident. This panel brings together product leaders shipping AI-powered products inside genuinely regulated environments. They'll cover what they've learned about designing for auditability from day one, where human review adds real safety rather than theatre, how to work with risk and compliance as partners instead of gatekeepers, and how to protect release velocity when every change carries evidential weight. Useful well beyond regulated industries: the governance expectations landing on financial services now have a habit of arriving everywhere else within two years. Key takeaways - Design patterns that make AI product decisions explainable and auditable without crippling iteration - How to structure the relationship with risk, legal and compliance so that it accelerates delivery - Which controls genuinely reduce risk, and which are expensive reassurance