When AI Runs Your Supply Chain: Governance at the Speed of Commerce

What happens when AI makes thousands of real-time decisions about inventory, fulfillment, and pricing across a $300M+ operation — and one of them goes wrong?

In this episode of Trustworthy AI, host Pamela Gupta sits down with Nirmal Jingar, Sr. Technology Leader, AI Platforms & Modernization at Wayfair, to explore what AI governance actually looks like when it has to work in production — not just read well in a policy document.

Nirmal isn't advising on AI governance from the outside — he's building and shipping AI systems inside a major e-commerce operation with direct P&L accountability. When governance fails in his world, the result isn't a compliance gap. It's excess inventory, missed deliveries, or lost revenue.

In this conversation, you'll learn:

→  The governance decisions that directly protected business outcomes — not compliance checkboxes

→  Why the biggest AI risk isn't a bad model — it's a missing feedback loop

→  How to assign clear ownership when models retrain, drift, or make autonomous decisions at 2 AM

→  What deterministic, governance-first AI design looks like in a world racing toward agentic AI

→  How to build feedback loops that catch gradual model degradation — not just catastrophic failure

→  What boards and C-suite leaders are dangerously underestimating about AI operational risk

→  What agentic AI in supply chain means for governance — and whether enterprise is ready

About Nirmal Jingar:

Sr. Technology Leader, AI Platforms & Modernization at Wayfair. Forbes Technology Council Member. IEEE Senior Member. Mass Technology Leadership Council Chief AI Officer Group. University Board Member & Advisor.

About Your Host:

Pamela Gupta is the Founder of Trusted AI and creator of the AI TIPS governance framework — deployed across Fortune 500 companies in 120+ countries. Thinkers360 Top 50 Women Thought Leader on AI 2026. ISACA Wasserman Award 2025. CISSP | CISM | CSSLP.

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