Johan van Zyl presented this five-chapter briefing at Always Exposed 2026 in Cape Town. It compares what AI vendors promise with what their contracts and terms say, and gives buyers practical terms and questions to take back to procurement.
What the presentation covers
- The gap between vendor marketing and contract terms
- Where risk hides: output warranties, liability caps, indemnities and model changes
- Who pays when AI fails, with recent court and regulatory examples
- Data sovereignty under POPIA and where frontier AI processes South African data
- Six contract terms and ten vendor questions that turn claims into commitments
About the event
Always Exposed 2026 brought security, risk and technology leaders together in Cape Town on 15 and 16 October 2026. See the full event, agenda and other presentations.
About the speaker
Johan van Zyl, Managing Director, Risk X Data Assurance.
Slides are shared as presented, as a 23-page PDF (353.0 KB). Views expressed are the speaker’s own.
