Larry Winters

Larry Winters

Director, AI, Data & Digital Transformation ONE Gas

Larry Winters serves as Director of AI, Data & Digital Transformation at ONE Gas, a fully regulated natural gas utility serving customers across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. He leads enterprise efforts spanning artificial intelligence, data strategy, analytics, automation, and digital transformation. Larry's work focuses on helping organizations move beyond experimentation and build sustainable enterprise capabilities. Working in a highly regulated industry, he has helped establish the governance, operating models, and decision-making frameworks necessary to balance innovation, risk management, compliance, and business value. His perspective is shaped by the practical realities of deploying AI within critical infrastructure, where reliability, accountability, and public trust are as important as technological advancement. He is passionate about helping leaders adopt emerging technologies in ways that create lasting business impact while enabling organizations to innovate with confidence.

AI in Energy Week Deep Dive Focus Day - March 1, 2027

8:00 AM Workshop C: Establishing Governance Without Slowing Innovation

AI governance has become one of the industry's most discussed topics, yet many organizations still struggle to define what it means in practice. While leadership teams want guardrails around security, compliance and risk, operational teams are concerned that governance can slow experimentation and delay value creation. This interactive workshop explores how organizations can build governance models that enable innovation rather than restrict it.

• What is AI governance, and why do organizations define it differently?
• How do we create governance that enables innovation instead of slowing it down?
• What levels of validation and human oversight are appropriate for different use cases?
• How should organizations govern AI agents and autonomous systems?
• What governance models successfully scale from pilots to enterprise deployment?

TAKEAWAY:
Develop a practical governance approach that applies the right level of guardrails, validation and human oversight to different AI use cases without creating unnecessary barriers to experimentation and innovation.

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