Anthony R. O’Donnell // October 31, 2025 
(Franklin Manchester, Global Insurance Strategic Advisor, SAS. Photo by author.)
For SAS (Cary, N.C.), ITC 2025 is more than an opportunity to meet customers—it’s a venue to advance an urgent conversation about AI trust and governance. “Even though it’s a U.S.-based event, we’ve been impressed with how delegations from around the world come here and participate,” comments Franklin Manchester, Global Insurance Strategic Advisor, SAS. “But what we’re noticing of increasing importance is a conversation around AI governance, around trust.”
That concern, he says, is rooted in findings from a recent IDC report