Alina, Global Principal Advisor
A day in the life
Before the first meeting, before the first Teams message lands, Alina kisses her kid on the forehead as he heads to school, pours a coffee, and sits down at her desk in Sibiu — a medieval town in the heart of Transylvania that couldn't be further from the corporate image of AI governance work, and that's exactly how she likes it. Her role spans the Global Responsible AI Advisory, internal AI governance processes at Twoday, customer-facing compliance work, and the kind of regulatory monitoring that never really stops. Most days begin the same way: a mix of small decisions and bigger questions already in motion.
08:57
Starting the day
Not all work fit a job description.
The bulk of Alina's day sits at the intersection of strategy and operations. On the advisory side, that means preparing training and presentations, diving into ongoing initiatives, and being the person colleagues reach out to when they hit an AI governance question they can't answer alone.
Behind the scenes, there's a parallel track: reviewing new AI tool requests, tracking AI credits usage, and working with colleagues on the VIA plan work tracks for 2026. It's the kind of work that keeps a responsible AI framework from being a document that lives in a drawer.
10:46
Vibe-coding
On quieter days, Alina gets to do something she genuinely enjoys: building. With the EU AI Act timeline for high-risk AI systems approaching, she's been working on a tool to make risk assessment easier — designing, testing, and iterating in Visual Studio Code Insiders with GitHub Copilot alongside.
She'll tell you the hackathon on Agentic Engineering she attended in Oslo earlier this year is paying off. And the investment has a clear destination: a user-friendly way for us internally and, later, for customers to assess risk, increase visibility into their AI systems, and register them in an AI inventory — bundled into the Global Responsible AI Advisory offering.
This kind of work can take hours. It involves designing, testing, and iterating. She can easily lose track of time when she dives into this work.
13:04
Staying on top of things
After a quick sandwich and a coffee refill, Alina reviews the regulatory landscape. She follows trusted sources for changes that could affect Twoday or its customers, then turns those signals into actionable recommendations— for the leadership team and the AI Governance Committee, or thought leadership pieces published on the website.
It's a discipline, not a task. Regulations move, and someone has to be watching.
13:30
Beyond the PDF graveyard
Less glamorous, but just as necessary: internal guidelines and ISO 42001 preparation. Think of it as the AI counterpart to ISO 27001 — where 27001 protects sensitive data, 42001 ensures the AI systems using that data are trustworthy and ethical.
But Alina's concern isn't just the standard itself. It's adoption. A Responsible AI Framework that lives only in documents doesn't change anything. Her focus is on embedding it into the actual processes and tools people use — which means the work is inherently iterative and never quite finished.
15:00
Putting a face to Responsible AI
Alina has worked to make Responsible AI something her colleagues and our customers can actually engage with — not just a policy position. That means being available to clarify questions, work through AI compliance use cases, and support projects directly. It's a part of the role that's growing, and one she's invested in building further.
She's backed by a strong team in the Global Data and AI Strategic Advisory group, spanning all countries, focused on enabling global offerings for consultants and salespeople — and identifying what comes next.
16:03
Learning from others
Not every conversation is about frameworks or policies. Some of the most useful thinking happens when people who approach the same problem from different angles sit down together — which is exactly the point of the Global AI Office Hours that Alina co-hosts alongside Thomas Martinsen and Hans Olav Sunde.
The latest edition — a special one — showed her just how strong the appetite is for this kind of hands-on, specific discussion. Colleagues across the organisation are showing up in growing numbers. That's a signal worth paying attention to.
By this time, her kid is back from school — and might make a cameo. He won't stay long. He's just learned that snack requests during meetings have a much higher approval rate. What a rascal.
Later
Still on the list
One thing that keeps sliding to the bottom of the to-do list — not because it isn't important, but because the days rarely leave room for it — is studying for the AIGP certification.
What is the AIGP?
The AI Governance Professional certification comes from the IAPP — the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the world's largest privacy and data protection community. It's designed for professionals working at the intersection of AI and governance: understanding AI systems, managing risk, navigating regulation, and building responsible practices inside organisations. In other words, exactly what Alina does every day.
That's part of why finding the time feels so elusive. The work is the subject matter, which makes it easy to tell yourself you'll get to the structured study later. That mythical uninterrupted block of time hasn't materialised yet. But it's on the list — and it'll stay there until it happens.
Alina's role doesn't have clean edges. It sits between policy and practice, between internal process and customer value, between what regulation demands today and what organisations will need tomorrow. Most of the work is invisible until it isn't — and that's exactly the point.
