TECH & AI The sector has responded with a push for shared standards. In February 2026, UiPath joined the Agentic AI Foundation( AAIF) as a Gold Member, a move framed around compliance and governance alignment.
Raghu Malpani, CTO at UiPath, set out the rationale clearly:“ Joining the Agentic AI Foundation reflects our commitment to advancing open, enterprise frameworks for agent development, governance and orchestration.
“ Being a part of the AAIF’ s working groups for governance, regulatory alignment, security and observability allows us to align our products and go-to-market priorities to the security, observability and compliance demands of enterprises looking to transform their business using AI agents and agentic orchestration.”
For data centre operators, the importance of such initiatives extends beyond any single vendor. Interoperable governance standards mean that compliance evidence generated across heterogeneous AI environments – spanning Amazon Bedrock, Azure, Google Vertex and others – can be aggregated, audited and reported coherently. Without shared frameworks, the compliance overhead of multi-cloud, multi-model deployments threatens to become unmanageable.
Boards and executives must own the governance agenda The regulatory wave is also changing where compliance responsibility sits within organisations. For much of the past decade, AI governance was treated as a technology function
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