A Practitioner's Guide to the Modern AI Ops Stack By Ken Johnston | AIGovOps Foundation | February 2026 The Meeting That Changed My Mind Twenty of us crammed into an interior conference room , no natural light , and twenty more joined from the grid of video tiles above. We were there to align on the company's new AI strategy. The deck was sharp. The insights were real. Then slide 6 hit. "Okay, so first we stabilize drift with AIOps , on top of the MLOps layer we alre

By Ken Johnston | AiGovOps Foundation | February 2026 Why This Matters Now Every AI system deployed without automated governance creates technical debt that compounds. Every compliance framework that exists only as a PDF is a liability waiting to surface. Most organizations today have responsible AI frameworks. Many have ethics boards. Some have published commitments to fairness, transparency, and accountability. The intentions are real. But look at how AI systems actua