Technology Record - Issue 40: Spring 2026

45 Vegard Hammer Chief Technology Officer, Huddly “With Fellowmind Hive AI, we build on Microsoft’s security foundation to enable secure, responsible AI adoption at scale. We use Microsoft’s identity, data protection and threat monitoring capabilities as a trusted baseline, and extend them with governance by design, human oversight and transparency across the AI lifecycle. Hive AI enables organisations to build, deploy and manage AI agents in an aligned way, with traceability at its core. This approach helps organisations innovate across silos while protecting sensitive data, meeting regulatory requirements and moving beyond isolated experiments toward trusted AI that delivers sustainable business value, confidence and long-term impact in modern, complex, regulated enterprise environments.” “AI delivers commercial value only when security and governance are embedded from the outset. We operate as a frontier firm with strict compliance, using Purview to enforce data and AI guardrails and feed actionable signals into our Security Operations Centre for continuous oversight. This foundation helps organisations move from AI ambition to safe, real-world adoption. In practice, it enabled a world-leading UK university to move from on premises to cloud and software-as-a-service, then confidently introduce automated workflows, bots and AIpowered capabilities. With governance in place first, the university unlocked significant research made possible by trusted data and AI at scale.” Pernille Bernth AI Program Lead, Fellowmind David Keeling Managing Director, Managed IT Services, Intercity “At Huddly, we believe privacy is the fundamental premise of responsible AI, not an afterthought. By using Edge AI, we process video and audio directly on our hardware, keeping data secure at the source. As Microsoft Teams-certified devices, our cameras deliver precise, rich meeting data to Microsoft’s security and compliance layer, enabling features like speaker attribution and live transcripts without routing sensitive content through the cloud. Our goal is to eliminate collaboration waste, transforming raw meeting data into an immersive, efficient experience where technology disappears and human conversations take centre stage.”

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