IAPP ANZ Summit 2025

Sally Cripps is an internationally renowned scholar and leader in Bayesian Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to her role as Director of Technology at the Human Technology Institute, she is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney. Sally has held multiple leadership positions in ML and AI. She was cofounder and co-director of the University of Sydney’s Centre for Translation Data Science as well as the founder and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre Data Analytics for Resources and Environments. Most recently, Sally was Research Director of Analytics and Decision Science and Science Director of the Next Gen AI Training Programme in CSIRO’s Data61. She was also chair of the International Bayesian Society for Bayesian Analysis section on Education and Research in practice. She has served as a board member for Climate Services for Agriculture in the Department of Water and the Environment and as a member of the Data Analytics Centre of NSW Health and Human Services Expert Working Group and the NSW Smart Cities Research and Academic Working Group.

Sally’s research focuses on the development of new foundational methods in AI to address global challenges. Her work has been published in the world’s most prestigious statistical and machine learning journals such as the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and the Journal of the American Statistical Association; Theory and methods, Biometrika and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. She has applied these methods to diverse fields, including social disadvantage, mental health, climate, minerals and the environment. In recognition of the quality of her research, Sally was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and a visiting scholar fellowship to the Alan Turing Institute in the UK. Sally has attracted over $25M in industry, government and philanthropic funding.

J. Trevor Hughes is the president and CEO of the IAPP, the professional home for privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally. With over 80,000 members in more than 150 countries, the IAPP provides training, certification, publications, research, events and networking opportunities to respond to the growing need for professionals to manage the intersections of data, technology and humanity.

A native of Canada, Trevor previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition.

Trevor is widely recognized as a leading digital policy expert on the global stage. He is a sought-after speaker, appearing at SXSW, RSA Conference, TEDx, the Global Privacy Assembly and more. Recent speaking engagements have included ICA Live: Africa, World Bank Group Data Privacy Day, the FIFA Global Compliance Summit and the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme. He has lectured extensively around the world, including at Harvard, MIT, London School of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, University of Texas at Austin and Northeastern University Law School.

Trevor has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, TechCrunch and Wired and has testified on issues of privacy, surveillance and privacy-sensitive technologies before U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, British Parliament and more.

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law, where he is an adjunct professor.

Elizabeth Tydd took up the position of Australian Information Commissioner in August 2024 for a 5-year term.

Elizabeth is an experienced agency head and has occupied a number of statutory decision-making roles, including Information Commissioner and CEO of the NSW Information and Privacy Commission, Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner, Deputy President of the Workers Compensation Commission and Deputy Chairperson of the former Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal.

Elizabeth has extensive regulatory and governance experience at an executive and board level in a range of jurisdictions and industries, including commercial, not-for-profit and public sector oversight.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from the University of Technology Sydney, as well as postgraduate certificates in executive management and governance together with post graduate qualifications in leadership and policy from Harvard University. Elizabeth possesses expertise in digital government and has written extensively on this subject.

Michael Webster took up the role of Privacy Commissioner on 5 July 2022. Prior to this appointment he worked in the Cabinet Office, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for 14 years, and held the position of Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council from March 2014. Commissioner Webster’s career has focused on enabling and driving good governance, the promotion of democratic rights and values, the development and application of codes of conduct and behaviour, and working to ensure compliance with both statutory provisions and constitutional conventions.

Since taking up the role, Commissioner Webster has focused on ensuring the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is equipped to deliver on its vision of making privacy a core focus for agencies, in order to protect the privacy of individuals, enable agencies to achieve their own objectives and safeguard a free and democratic society. That has seen a strengthening of the compliance and enforcement function, a focus on delivering on the Office’s regulatory stewardship responsibilities and advocating for a regulatory framework and Privacy Act fit for the digital age.