IAPP Canada Symposium 2026
Privacy | AI governance | Cybersecurity law
TORONTO
4-7 May
AI Arms Race: The Survival and Reinvention of Privacy
Monday, 4 May
12:15 - 13:15 EDT
Intermediate level
No company or institution is ready for smart systems that learn constantly and behave autonomously.
This session is intended to be a catalyst for rethinking privacy, arguing that today’s approaches fail when volatility rises, transparency drops, agents proliferate, and technology guardrails become victims of the artificial intelligence arms race.
But this is not a sky-is-falling session. We will share foundational shifts and dial them to 11 to pressure test current approaches and assumptions. We will explore how to transform privacy programs through new operating models and guardrails designed for machines that behave like people, not like code. Come prepared to debate and push each other’s thinking.
What you will learn:
• Why AI introduces long-term ambiguity, not just complexity, and how privacy leaders must redesign strategy and programs to handle probabilistic systems.
• How risk is increasingly transferred from the technology provider to the enterprise.
• Why accountability becomes a litmus test for the long-term viability of any privacy program or control.
Sponsored by: OneTrust
Moderator and speakers

Ojas Rege
CIPP/E, CIPM
Senior Vice President, Privacy and Data Governance
OneTrust