Call for 2024 speaking proposals is open
Enhance your profile in the industry by speaking at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024. The IAPP is looking for expert speakers to share their insights on privacy practice, law, policy and operations with hundreds of regulators and privacy professionals from all over Canada.
Speaking has its benefits
Seize the opportunity to give back to the community and share your expertise. You will also:
- Identify yourself as a thought-leader in the data protection community.
- Gain exposure with the world’s largest privacy association.
- Elevate the profession by sharing your knowledge.
- Receive a complimentary pass to next year’s main conference program.
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2023 event highlights
The IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium was the biggest ever in 2023, with almost 1,000 people in attendance from all over Canada for compelling keynotes, banner breakout sessions, top-notch trainings and deep-dive workshops.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne gave his first Symposium keynote, sharing his vision for Canadian privacy, a slew of recommendations to Parliament on Bill C-27 and stating he would be investigating ChatGPT with several provincial data protection authorities.
Ian Kerr Memorial lecturer Kristen Thomasen spoke about the lack of rights that people have when they are in public spaces. The Commissioners’ Game Show featured six commissioners from British Columbia to Labrador and was fun and informative for all.
Between the speakers, panels and networking sessions, there was a lot of discussion about the governance of artificial intelligence, the role privacy pros should play in that and how this rapidly-evolving technology could be regulated in Canada.
Other popular topics included the Quebec law, privacy-enhancing technologies like deidentification and anonymization and much more.
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