SGS Webinar entitled “EN 18286: AI Quality Management
Systems for EU AI Act” was held on 21st Oct 2026. There are three
speaker and they are Mr. Willy Fabritius (Global Head of Strategy &
Business Development InfoSec, SGS), Ms. Azadeh Haratiannezhadi (Global
Technical Experts – AI Assurance, SGS) and Mr. Sergio Frauca Roca (Global AI
Assurance Expert, SGS).
In the beginning, Mr. Willy Fabritius introduced the
webinar and briefed the overview of EU AI Act and its harmonized standards
including EN 18286:2026 and others.
Then Ms. Azadeh Haratiannezhadi mentioned why AI
quality management are matters through ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and EN 18286:2026. It
is based on Article 17 under EU AI Act that providers of high-risk AI systems
shall put a QMS in place to ensure the compliance with this regulation.
And then she explained in organizational and system
lifecycle layer with the recruitment example.
After that Mr. Sergio Frauca Roca introduced EN 18286
for High-Risk AI system.
He briefed the relationship among clauses and its
implementation focus.
Then he stated each clause in detail. For example,
some essential requirements mentioned in clause 4 QMS that related to different
articles.
In clause 6 – Planning, it compared between QMS risk
and AI system risk.
And then he introduced AI system realization and AI
lifecycle (ISO/IEC 22989:2023) in clause 8.
The AI system realization - inception, design and
development were introduced in clause 8.
One of important elements was data management.
In clause 9, it was operations and control as well as
included the post-market monitoring plan.
Finally, Ms. Azadeh Haratiannezhadi stated the
interplay with other management systems such as ISO 42001 and ISO 13485.
Mr. Sergio Frauca Roca briefed the update of EU AI Act
and the standard.
He also mentioned the impacts on EU AI Act and
Compliance with CE marking.
Lastly, Mr. Willy Fabritius introduced SGS AI
assurance product portfolio to achieve AI Trust Checking.
