IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025

Sam Altman is a prominent figure in the tech industry, currently serving as the CEO of OpenAI. Under his leadership, OpenAI has developed groundbreaking AI technologies like ChatGPT and DALL-E, positioning the company at the forefront of artificial intelligence research and innovation. Altman's vision for AI includes ethical considerations and the societal impact of these technologies, emphasizing the need for responsible development.

Before his tenure at OpenAI, Altman was the president of Y Combinator, where he played a crucial role in accelerating numerous startups, fostering innovation, and providing essential support to budding entrepreneurs. His tenure at Y Combinator saw the growth of many successful companies, making him a key influencer in the startup ecosystem.

Altman is also deeply involved in various other ventures, including his work with nuclear energy companies Helion and Oklo. He has been recognized by numerous organizations for his contributions to technology and entrepreneurship, including being named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. His efforts extend beyond business, with notable contributions to the LGBTQ community and various philanthropic endeavors. Altman's expertise and insights make him a sought-after speaker on topics related to AI, technology, and entrepreneurship. His talks often explore the future of AI, its potential to drive societal change, and the importance of maintaining ethical standards in technological development.

Bojana Bellamy is president of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s Centre for Information Policy Leadership, a preeminent global privacy and data policy think tank located in Washington, D.C., London and Brussels. At CIPL, Bellamy works with global business and technology leaders, regulators, policy and lawmakers to shape global data policy and practice, and develop thought leadership and best practices for responsible and trusted use of data in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

With more than 25 years of experience and deep knowledge of global data privacy and cybersecurity law, compliance and policy, Bellamy has a proven record in designing strategy, and building and managing data privacy compliance programs. She was the recipient of the 2019 IAPP Vanguard Award, which recognizes privacy professionals for outstanding leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection. In 2021 Politico recognized Bellamy in its inaugural list of top Tech28 people shaping digital policy and technology in Europe and beyond. She was also one of 20 privacy experts to participate in the transatlantic “Privacy Bridge Project” from 2014-2015 that sought to develop practical solutions to bridge the gap between European and U.S. privacy regimes.

Currently, Bellamy sits on a number of advisory and industry boards, including the Mercedes-Benz advisory board for integrity and sustainability, the Internet Commission advisory board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s privacy guidelines expert group, and the Thomson Reuters’ practical law data protection consultation board, as well as the advisory board of the tech, law and security program at the American University Washington College of Law. She also was selected as a member of the Global Privacy Assembly reference panel. Bellamy participates in many industry groups and is a regular speaker at corporate and governmental events and conferences.

Prior to joining CIPL, Bellamy served for 12 years as the global director of data privacy at Accenture, and worked for eight years as principal consultant with Privacy Laws & Business consulting and auditing projects for private and public sector clients in the U.K. and abroad.

Alex Blania is the CEO and co-founder of Tools for Humanity and WorldCoin. WorldCoin is designed to become the world's largest digital identity and financial network, giving ownership to everyone and providing universal access to the global economy no matter your country or background, establishing a place for every human to benefit in the age of AI. Blania is originally a theoretical physicist from Germany, with a dual bachelor’s degree in physics and industrial engineering from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a master student at the Max Planck Institute and researcher at Cal Tech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Blania researched deep learning and AI in quantum computing, and left his studies to work on Tools for Humanity and WorldCoin.

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 jecturer 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.