Prof. Hayes moderated the industry panel on AI governance at the Rocky Mountain Workshop on Trustworthy & Responsible AI (RMTRAI), held at CU Boulder on November 4–5, 2026. The panel, "Turning responsible-AI principles into policies teams can actually follow," focused on what organizations should write down, what to require, what to audit, and who signs off when an AI agent is allowed to act on an organization's behalf.

The panel brought together practitioners who have drafted and defended real AI policy: Karen Furlani (former Chief Risk Officer, Worley), Michael Cooper (Founder, Triarcus Systems), Rajdeep Mukherjee (Principal Scientist, Amazon Web Services), and Moses Bazzi (AI Cybersecurity Consultant, RMCyber).