From Theory to Practice: Building an AI Compliance Program Using DOJ Guidance and Ohio State’s Compliance Framework

Explore the practical journey of designing and implementing an artificial intelligence compliance program at Ohio State, guided by DOJ principles and the university’s own framework. Attendees will gain insights into real-world challenges, strategic priorities, and lessons learned in managing AI risks, regulatory pressures, and operational controls. The presentation highlights actionable steps for building effective governance, training, and issue response processes that support responsible and ethical AI innovation. 

Rob Moormann serves as Privacy Lead at The Ohio State University, overseeing the creation and implementation of the Privacy Program and ensuring compliance with state, federal, and international regulations. Additionally, Rob reviews, drafts and develops policies, conducts risk assessments and privacy impact assessments, and collaborates across the entire university and medical center enterprise on privacy issues.  Before his current role, Rob served as Director of Compliance within the university’s Office of University Compliance and Integrity, defining, rating and reporting compliance risks and building processes to mitigate those risks through controls and imbedded testing and monitoring. Rob collaborated with leaders throughout the university and supported colleagues in proactive compliance planning, including collecting, analyzing, and reporting on trending regulations/litigation and investigations/issue response data.  Rob joined Ohio State in 2015 as the university’s second Director of Public Records. In this role he advised the entire university community on state and federal freedom of information regulations, processed thousands of information requests and helped solve complex issues often requiring a delicate balance between privacy and transparency.