IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025

Hans Peter led Everyday Robots, an artificial intelligence-meets-robotics moonshot at Alphabet/Google X from 2016-2023. With one foot in today, and the other in the future, Everyday Robots was on a mission to turn the helper robots of science fiction into reality.

A high-tech executive and successful entrepreneur, Brøndmo has spent his career at the intersection of technology innovation and creating products and companies that empower people. He has founded several category defining companies, including: Plum, an early web and mobile app for collaboration and group conversations, acquired by Nokia in 2009; Post Communications, a pioneering email marketing software-as-a-service, acquired by Netcentives in 2000; and DiVA VideoShop, the first product to bring digital video editing to consumers, acquired by Avid Technology in 1993. He has also held positions at Nokia in Berlin, Apple in Tokyo, and at the Center for European Nuclear Research in Geneva.

Brøndmo has served on start-up and non-profit boards, is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “The Engaged Customer,” is on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Visiting Committee, has been a guest lecturer at MIT and Cambridge University, has testified at U.S. Senate and Federal Communications Commission hearings on Internet privacy and consumer data management, and has been a featured/keynote speaker at countless conferences on topics ranging from technology-driven innovation and entrepreneurship to privacy and the broad influence and impact of technology on society.

Always seeking new adventures, when Brøndmo is not wrangling robots, he can frequently be found on a mountaintop or behind a lens: http://www.brondmo.com.

An entrepreneur, engineer, and artist, Dr. Catie Cuan is a pioneer in the nascent field of ‘choreorobotics’ and works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and art. She is the founder and CEO of Zenie, a consumer AI company, backed by Gradient Ventures and HF0. Catie holds a PhD and Master’s of Science in robotics and AI from Stanford, where she is also a Postdoc leading the art and robotics efforts at the new Stanford Robotics Center.

The title of her PhD thesis is “Compelling Robot Behaviors through Supervised Learning and Choreorobotics”, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Google, and Stanford University. During her PhD, she led the first multi-robot machine learning project at Everyday Robots (Google X) and Robotics at Google (now a part of Google Deepmind). She has held artistic residencies at the Smithsonian, the Exploratorium, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Everyday Robots (Google X), TED, and ThoughtWorks Arts. Catie is a prolific and award-winning robot choreographer, having created works with nearly a dozen different robots, from a massive ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot to a tabletop IDEO + Moooi robot. Catie is also an International Strategy Forum (ISF) fellow at Schmidt Futures and the former co-founder of caali, an embodied media company.

Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

He researches great power competition and cooperation in emerging technologies, the political economy of innovation, and China's scientific and technological capabilities. His book, Technology and the Rise of Great Powers (Princeton University Press, 2025), investigates how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers, with implications for U.S.-China competition in emerging technologies like AI. Other work has been published or is forthcoming in European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Security, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and Security Studies, and his research has been cited in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and other outlets. He regularly briefs government leadership on issues at the intersection of technology and national security, including testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Ding received his doctorate in 2021 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, he worked as a researcher for Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and Oxford's Centre for the Governance of AI. Growing up in Iowa City, he became a lifelong Hawkeye fan and attended the University of Iowa for his undergraduate studies.

Jessica Lake, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She researches and publishes in the areas of privacy, defamation and technology law, past and present. Her first book, “The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: the American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy,” was published by Yale University Press in 2016. It was widely praised and shortlisted for the W.K Hancock prize. Her second book, “Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law,” is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Lake has also published extensively in peer reviewed journals, edited books, magazines and newspapers, and held numerous editorial positions. In 2016 and 2017, she was the Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Massachusetts. In 2022, she was awarded a prestigious Discovery Early Career Researcher Award by the Australian Research Council. Prior to academia, Lake practiced for several years as a media and intellectual property lawyer.

One of the most inspiring and visionary thought leaders of the digital age, Lawrence Lessig occupies a unique place at the intersection of transformative ideas, citizen activism and the future of the law, digital technologies, and democracy itself. His signature rapid-fire presentation style, known as the “Lessig Method” uses dynamic typography and thought provoking visuals to seize attention and deeply inform.

A Harvard Law professor and New York Times bestselling author, Lessig first became known for developing the very foundations of internet law, allowing the sharing of copyrighted content. He has since taken on issues at the core of our system of government, particularly the impact of money on politics. His 2015 effort to enter the presidential campaign was a crusade for campaign finance reform with a clarion call to “fix democracy first.” Throughout his career, Lessig’s farseeing ideas and efforts have drawn support from some of America’s most important business and political leaders and garnered numerous honors and awards. He is one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries and was named to Fastcase 50 “honoring the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” In his latest venture, Lessig is lending his expertise to build the political framework for Seed, a new multiplayer online game in which characters populating a new planet collectively decide how they want to govern themselves.

A popular speaker on the coveted TED main stage, each of his three TED talks have more than one million views online. Known for his compelling, personal and completely non-partisan content, Lessig’s presentations leave audiences informed, awakened, and with a heightened understanding of any topic.