IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2026 call for
speaking proposals is open
Contribute to the privacy and data protection profession while growing your reputation by speaking at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2026. Submit a session proposal describing how you would explore an issue influencing privacy, AI governance or cybersecurity law. Among the topics of interest to the Summit audience are:
Share your insights and experience at the privacy profession’s largest and most influential event. Send us your idea today.
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Speaking has its benefits
Take this opportunity to give back to the community and share your expertise. Speaking at this conference will help you:
- Distinguish yourself as a thought leader in privacy, artificial intelligence governance and cybersecurity law.
- Gain exposure in the world’s largest privacy association.
- Elevate the profession by sharing your knowledge.
The call for proposals closes 17 August 2025.
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2025 CONFERENCE RECAP
Summit 2025 found order in entropy
IAPP Global Privacy Summit is the world’s largest gathering of privacy, artificial intelligence governance, and cybersecurity law professionals. Summit speakers unravel the complexities of law, regulation, policy, management and operations around digital responsibility.
Summit 2025 focused on finding a coherent path through the entropy created by new laws, regulations and technological developments. The agenda featured more than 80 breakout sessions on topics such as:
- Using live data to tune AI algorithms.
- User-centric privacy threat modeling.
- Legislative updates from countries around the world.
- Strategies for protecting children’s privacy.
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Varied keynote lineup pushes boundaries
The Summit 2025 main stage hosted globally recognized experts in law, ethics, robotics and AI technology. They explored topics such as:
- Women’s legal struggles to protect their privacy and identities.
- The geopolitical struggle to dominate AI.
- Robotics’ potential to improve human life.
- New legal conventions focused on the digital rather than physical worlds.
2025 keynote speakers
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Keynote conversation
President, Centre for Information Policy Leadership
CEO and Co-founder, OpenAI, Chairman and Co-founder, Tools for Humanity
CEO and Co-founder, Tools for Humanity
This fireside chat featured two leaders of influential tech firms, Tools for Humanity and Open AI. They described their perspective on the current environment and the road ahead.
Keynote speakers
Former CEO, Everyday Robots, Former VP, Google X
Hans Peter Brøndmo explored a reimagining of the nature, meaning, and purpose of work in an age where humans will live alongside highly capable robots powered by AI.
CEO, Zenie, and Postdoctoral Scientist, Stanford University
Catie Cuan shared her vision of integrating robots into human society through, among other means, dance.
Assistant Professor, George Washington University
Jeffrey Ding traced technological revolutions of the past, their influence on the rise and fall of world powers, and the potential implications for U.S.-China competition in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Melissa Holyoak discussed the commission’s priorities and how supporting innovation and providing regulatory clarity can benefit businesses and consumers alike.
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Orin Kerr articulated a powerful, ultimately optimistic vision for maintaining the vitality of the Fourth Amendment in the digital age and safeguarding the United States Constitution's guarantee of individual rights in a world of rapid technological change.
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Jessica Lake made the case that the right to privacy was first made by women in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by bringing cases to prevent and prohibit the unauthorized use of their photographic and cinematic images.
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Lessig has studied how laws, social norms, markets, and technical /systemic architectures combine to regulate our behavior, and why the rise of digital technologies demands a wholesale rethinking of legal norms. He suggested a remedy based on the historical “right to be left alone.”