AI is already making decisions inside your business—screening applicants, setting schedules, monitoring employees, and increasingly acting on your behalf across third-party platforms. Most companies haven’t caught up to the legal risk.
In the food and beverage sector, where high-volume hiring, distributed workforces, and thin margins drive rapid tech adoption, that gap is creating immediate exposure.
This program focuses on the emerging issues that are landing on legal and HR desks now, including:
- Whether your systems—or your vendors—are allowing AI agents to access and act on websites without clear authorization
- How everyday employee use of AI tools can lead to trade secret leakage and loss of proprietary recipes, processes, and data
- The rise of deepfakes and synthetic content in hiring, training, and internal communications
- Legal risk from AI-driven employment decisions, including bias, surveillance, and over-reliance on automated outputs
We’ll walk through practical scenarios drawn from food and beverage operations and outline what legal and business leaders should be doing now—from tightening internal controls to rethinking vendor relationships and updating employment policies.
Speakers:
- James Gatto, Partner, Sheppard
- Katherine Oblak, Partner, Sheppard
- Neha Jaiswal, Director, Sr. Corporate Counsel, Domino's
- Stacy Dominguez, Partner, Sheppard