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Lambert Hogenhout
Chief of Data, Analytics and Emerging TechnologiesUnited Nations -
Chris Murphy
Chief Privacy OfficerElectronic Arts -
Sarah Knight
VP, Chief Privacy OfficerStryker -
Charles Cutshall
Chief Privacy Officer and Director of Open GovernmentU.S. Department of CommerceWith over a decade of experience leading and transforming privacy programs across the Federal Government, Charles Cutshall is one of the most trusted privacy professionals working in Washington, D.C. today. In August 2022, he began serving as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and Director of Open Government for the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he has agency-wide responsibility and accountability for the Department’s privacy program, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), principles of transparency and open government, and management of the Department’s directives management program.
Previously, Charles served as the CPO for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he was responsible for managing privacy risks to individuals and to the Commission associated with the processing of personally identifiable information and for providing policy and programmatic oversight of the CFTC's privacy program. Prior to joining the CFTC, Charles served in the Executive Office of the President where he was responsible for overseeing Federal agencies' privacy programs, developing Federal privacy policy, and helping Federal agencies solve privacy problems. His prior experience also includes developing enterprise-wide privacy policies and supporting privacy compliance programs at both the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2019, Charles with appointed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building, a statutory advisory committee responsible for developing recommendations on how to promote the use of Federal data for evidence building.
Charles is a voting member of the Federal Privacy Council’s Executive Committee and Chairs the Council’s Public Affairs and Community Engagement Committee. Charles is also member of the Robert S. Brookings Society at the Brookings Institution. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Privacy Professional. In 2019, the International Association of Privacy Professional designated Charles as a Fellow of Information Privacy. Charles holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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Nada Bseikri
Assistant General Counsel, Data Privacy & RegulationRobinhood -
Andrew Bjerken
Vice President, Head of Global PrivacyMarriot Vacations Worldwide -
Karen Habercoss
Chief Privacy OfficerUChicago Medicine -
Grady Nye
SVP, Assistant General CounselMastercardGrady is a Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel on the Privacy & Data Protection team at Mastercard. Grady is the global privacy lead for Data Analytics, Privacy Engineering, and Loyalty, managing a global team of experts that provide strategic data and privacy advice to Mastercard's fast-growing data analytics and loyalty business. He also leads Mastercard's Privacy Engineering Program, spearheading efforts to be on the cutting edge of product and technology design.
Prior to Mastercard, Grady was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity group. -
Jo Ann Davaris
Vice President, Global PrivacyBooking Holdings -
Chris Hetner
, Co Chair, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Center for Board Excellence Insights CouncilNASDAQ -
Ronald Jansen
Chief Data Innovation and Capacity Branch, Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social AffairsUnited Nations -
Nishant Bhajaria
Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture and AnalyticsUber -
Orrie Dinstein
Global Chief Privacy OfficerMarsh McLennan -
Lana DeMaria
Head of Data PrivacyAlaska Airlines -
Eugenio Zuccarrelli
Manager, Data ScienceCVS HealthEugenio is a Business-Focused Data Science Leader, leading the innovation efforts for several Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, including Healthcare (CVS Health), Automotive (BMW) and Finance (Morningstar).
He is a Forbes 30 Under 30, a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and studied across MIT, Harvard and Imperial College London. Currently, he leads the innovation efforts for complex chronic care at CVS Health, the #1 Healthcare company in the world and a Fortune 5 firm.
In addition, he has been working in the Task Force using analytics to fight COVID-19 and develop policy recommendations for The White House and overall finding solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find Eugenio's work across Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg and Financial Times as well as multiple journals and in the App Store.
When he is not working, Eugenio enjoys contemporary art as well as playing Tennis with friends and traveling.
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Aaron Weller
Leader, Privacy Engineering GroupHewlett PackardAaron has over 25 years of global consulting and industry experience with a focus on information security and privacy.
After 5 years leading PwC’s Privacy practice for the Western US, he co-founded a consulting and technology company and worked with many Fortune 500 technology companies to help address strategic privacy issues.
More recently, he joined HP, Inc in 2022 where he now leads HPs global Center of Excellence for Privacy Engineering.
Aaron is recognized as a thought leader in the field of privacy and was accepted as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) by the IAPP in 2016.
He has presented at national and international conferences on a wide variety of privacy and data governance topics. He guest lectures on privacy and risk management at the University of Washington.He has been quoted in publications including the Wall Street Journal and published in the book Using Security Metrics to Drive Action.
Aaron was also a member of the working group that developed ISO31700 – Privacy by Design for Consumer Products & Services, which was published in early 2023.
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Naomi Lefkovitz
Senior Privacy Policy AdvisorNational Institute of Standards and Technology Picture:Naomi Lefkovitz is the Senior Privacy Policy Advisor in the Information Technology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce. She leads the privacy engineering program, which focuses on developing privacy risk management processes and integrating solutions for protecting individuals’ privacy into information technologies, including digital identity services, IoT, smart cities, big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence. In addition, she leads the NIST Privacy Framework team.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals named Ms. Lefkovitz their 2020 Vanguard Award winner. She also is a 2014, 2018, and 2020 Federal 100 Awards winner. FierceGovernmentIT named her on their 2013 “Fierce15” list of the most forward-thinking people working within government information technology.
Before joining NIST, she was the Director for Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Cybersecurity Directorate of the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President. Her portfolio included the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace as well as addressing the privacy and civil liberties impact of the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiatives and programs.
Prior to her tenure in the Obama Administration, Ms. Lefkovitz was a senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Her responsibilities focused primarily on policy matters, including legislation, rulemakings, and business and consumer education in the areas of identity theft, data security and privacy.
At the outset of her career, she was Assistant General Counsel at CDnow, Inc., an early online music retailer.
Ms. Lefkovitz holds a B.A. with honors in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. with honors from Temple University School of Law.
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Ross Parker
Head of Information Governance and PrivacyS&P Global -
Joseph Gridley
Chief Privacy OfficerUniversity of Maryland -
Tracy DeTomasi
CEOCallisto -
Jennifer Harkins Garone
Senior Director, Privacy and InformationGovernance Carnival Corporation -
John Derrico,
VP, Data StrategyMastercard -
James Joshi
Program Director, Secure and Trustworthy CyberspaceNational Science Foundation -
Alon Ben-Chorin
Director, Investigations - International BankingScotiabank -
John Athanasiades
Senior Director, Financial Crime Management and Corporate SecurityNational Bank of CanadaJohn Athanasiades leads National Bank of Canada’s Financial Crime and Corporate Security division which includes anti-money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing and corporate / internal threat investigations. He is responsible for putting in place a robust risk management and mitigation program by continuing to develop and reinforce strategies surrounding these issues. Prior to joining National Bank, he had a career of nearly 30 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police managing and collaborating on several national and international strategic initiatives and investigations involving national security, anti-money laundering, terrorism, financial crime and intelligence. Before he retired, he led the Financial Integrity Program for the RCMP in the province of Quebec. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from McGill University as well as completing a CAMS certification
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Bastiaan Quast
Co-Secretary ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI for HealthITU -
Dr. Walden “Wally” Rhines
President & CEOCornamiWALDEN C. RHINES is President & CEO of Cornami. He is also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, focusing on external communications and customer relations. He was previously CEO of Mentor Graphics for 23 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.
Dr. Rhines has served on the boards of Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms) and is currently a director. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and First Growth Children & Family Charities. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.
Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.
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Ryan Lasmaili
Co-Founder & CEOVaultreeRyan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.
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Karen Silverman
CEO and FounderThe Cantellus GroupKaren is a leading global expert in practical governance strategies for AI and other frontier technologies. As the CEO and Founder of The Cantellus Group, she advises Fortune 50 companies, startups, consortia, and the public sector on how to manage cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly changing policy environment. Her expertise is informed by more than 20 years of practice and management leadership at Latham & Watkins, LLP where she advised global businesses in complex antitrust matters, M&A, governance, ESG, and crisis management. Karen chairs the board of a public benefit corporation developing complex content moderation tools. She is an SME for the Business Roundtable's Responsible AI Initiative, and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator and Karen sits on its Global AI Council. She serves on the boards of Krunam, AI.EDU, Legal Momentum and Not For Sale.
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David Silva
Chief Technology OfficerAlgemetricDavid William Silva is the Chief Technology Officer at Algemetric. He is responsible for translating business strategies and objectives into efficient, user-friendly, secure, and privacy-preserving data-centric solutions to enable organizations to extract maximum value from data correctly. David started his career as a Software Engineer focused on web services and agile software development. This experience led him to be involved with several projects, from startups to government and large corporations in many different fields. After 17 years of conducting R&D in Brazil, David moved to the US to engage in scientific research applied to a global industry of security and privacy, which has been his focus for the past seven years. David leads the technical operation at Algemetric.
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Dr. Michael Capps
CEO/Co-FounderDiveplane -
Shashi Gowda
CEODevrShashi Gowda is CEO and co-founder of Devr and a member of its board of directors. A seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur, Shashi brings over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, big data and emerging tech industries.
Devr provides tools for enterprises to design and orchestrate data privacy, enabling rich open ecosystems for data monetization with continuous compliance.
Shashi champions advances in digital transformation, data privacy and continuous compliance using emerging technologies such as Blockchain and AI. He is passionate about bringing technologies into highly regulated industries which enable them to innovate with data, in an era of growing privacy concerns, regulatory complexity, and high costs of non-compliance.
Before founding Devr, Shashi was CTO of Virtual Control and supported the sale of its AI and ML solutions to Agilent Technologies. Prior to that, Shashi held various technology design and leadership roles, at both corporates and at early-stage companies, and has worked across Asia, Europe, and the US.
Shashi earned his bachelor’s degree in bio-medical engineering from Boston University.
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Nick New
FounderOptalysysFounded Optalysys in 2013 with twenty years experience in Fourier optical processing, having previously spun Cambridge Correlators Ltd. out of the University of Cambridge from technology developed during PhD in Optical Pattern Recognition.
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Kevin McCarthy
VP of Business DevelopmentInpherKevin is currently Vice President of Business Development at Inpher. In his role, Kevin leads the go-to-market functions for the deployment and implementation of Inpher’s privacy-preserving data analytics software, XOR Platform, and its award-winning tools in the fully homomorphic encryption space, TFHE and Chimera. Previously, Kevin was the Enterprise General Manager at DemystData where he led corporate strategy, product and team development. Earlier, as Demyst’s Chief Customer Officer, Kevin built out and managed the company’s revenue development, enterprise accounts and service team across global offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. Prior to DemystData, Kevin was a Specialist at McKinsey & Company focusing on advanced analytic solution development within healthcare and financial services organizations. Kevin spent the majority of his time at McKinsey serving Public and Private institutions in support of their efforts to develop and deploy AI and ML solutions within heavily regulated constructs and data privacy constraints. Kevin has experience with a similar project that was performed for TennCare Episodes of Care, which involved program management for multi-institutional algorithmic development across United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and the State of Tennessee.
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Ellison Anne Williams
Founder & CEOEnveilEllison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on more than a decade of experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, computer network exploitation, and network modeling, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to protect sensitive data while it's being used or processed – the 'holy grail' of data encryption. Powered by homomorphic encryption, Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions provide Trusted Compute in Untrusted Locations™, enabling previously impossible business functionalities for intelligence-led decision making.
Leveraging her deep technical background and a passion for evangelizing the impact of disruptive technologies, Ellison Anne has helped define and advance the Data in Use security space and cultivated Enveil’s capabilities into category-defining solutions that enable secure search, analytics, sharing, and collaboration. In addition to her ongoing contributions as a cybersecurity mentor and thought leader, Ellison Anne has been recognized as an SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator Award winner, a Woman to Watch in Security, and a CyberScoop Leet List Honoree. She started her career at the U.S. National Security Agency and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).
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Paul Lekas
Senior Vice President for Global Public PolicySIIA -
Vaikkunth Mugunthan
CEO & Co-Founder, DynamoFLDynamoFLVaikkunth is the CEO and Co-Founder of DynamoFL. He spearheads the ML research team at DynamoFL and is an expert in federated learning. Vaikkunth received his SM and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.
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Katherine Fick
Assistant General CounselIBM
