Join your peers at the biggest privacy conference in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

IAPP ANZ Summit 2024 lands in Melbourne for two days of discussion, collaboration and networking. Connect with privacy professionals from the region and dive deep into finding solutions for the privacy questions at your institution.

Experts are slated to speak on the issues impacting Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the larger privacy world, including children's privacy, biometrics and the intersection of artificial intelligence and privacy. An all-star lineup of speakers will headline the event on the keynote stage, covering topics from online safety and privacy rights to regulatory updates from both Australia and New Zealand's privacy commissioners.

Looking to futher expand your knowledge? Stay in Melbroune for the new, comprehensive AI Governance Professional training, taking place after the conference on 28-29 November.

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Keynote speakers

Anna Funder

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.

Julie Inman Grant

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.

Jessica Lake

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.

Michael Webster

Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand

Commissioner Webster will share 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

Caitlin Fennessy

Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer, IAPP

Carly Kind

Australian Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

In a conversation with the IAPP’s Caitlin Fennessy, Commissioner Kind will discuss her first year as privacy commissioner as well as her regulatory priorities, recent enforcement action and preparation for privacy law reform.

Informative and practical sessions

Evolving Biometrics Regulation: Implications and Challenges for Responsible Use
This panel will discuss how policymakers around the world are grappling with the best way to regulate data about the body, particularly given the growth of artificial intelligence and the new analyses it enables.

Rethinking Privacy as a Human Right in the Age of AI and New Technologies
Join a fireside interview with the Australian human rights commissioner on the current and emerging approach to privacy as a human right in Australia, in the context of regulatory and policy reform and the responsible use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

Family-Centric Approaches to Age Verification and Parental Intervention
This interactive session explores design-led age verification considerations for parents/guardians and teens. It will begin with experts sharing about the latest regulatory trends around age verification and parental consent in the EU, APAC, and other regions, and their interaction with privacy laws.

Location

The Grand Hyatt Melbourne is situated in the center of the city. Take time after the conference to explore fine dining, shopping and other local attractions.

Grand Hyatt Melbourne
123 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
+61 3 9657 1234

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