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2024 conference recap
ANZ Summit 2024 brought the region’s best together to debate pressing issues
IAPP ANZ Summit 2024 landed in Melbourne for two days of discussion, collaboration and networking. Attendees from across the region met to find solutions for the privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility questions at their institutions.
Experts spoke on the issues impacting Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, including children's privacy, biometrics and the intersection of artificial intelligence and privacy. Click the button below to access available presentations from ANZ Summit 2024.
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Ethics, rights and regulations
This year’s keynotes included authors, lecturers and commissioners. Anna Funder drew parallels between themes from her latest book, “Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life,” and current threats to privacy. Julie Inman Grant talked about her experience running the world’s first agency for online safety. Jessica Lake discussed the origin of “the right to privacy” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michael Webster provided his thoughts on bodily autonomy and biometrics. Caitlin Fennessy spoke with Carly Kind about the OAIC’s regulatory priorities.
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2024 keynote speakers
Author, University of Technology Luminary
Anna Funder’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning books “Stasiland” and “All That I Am” illuminate the human condition in times of tyranny and surveillance through stories of courage, resistance, conscience and love. Her latest work, “Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life,” hailed as a “masterpiece” and a “spellbinding achievement,” was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 2023. It was named Biography Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Originally trained as an international human rights lawyer, Anna lives in Sydney.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Office of the eSafety Commissioner
Julie Inman Grant leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online, safeguarding Australians from online harms and promoting safer, more positive online experiences.
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
In her first book, “The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy,” Jessica Lake makes the case that the “right to privacy” was first made by women in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by bringing cases to prevent and prohibit the unsanctioned use of their photographic and cinematic images.
Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand
Commissioner Webster shared his office’s current focus on, and future priorities for, strengthening the rights to privacy and protection of personal information in New Zealand.
Keynote conversation
Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer, IAPP
Australian Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
In a conversation with the IAPP’s Caitlin Fennessy, Commissioner Kind discussed her first year as privacy commissioner as well as her regulatory priorities, recent enforcement action and preparation for privacy law reform.