The IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025 call for speaking proposals is open

IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. helps professionals connect the dots between technology, privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility. Educate your colleagues while growing your reputation by submitting a proposal to speak at the 2025 event in San Diego.

We are looking for experts to speak on developing trends, as well as continuing issues such as:

  • AI ethics, governance and regulatory updates.
  • Breach response.
  • Building technology into privacy operations.
  • Critical infrastructure.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Children’s privacy.
  • Health technology and biometrics privacy.
  • Building your privacy team and growing your privacy career.
  • Privacy engineering.
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies and generative AI.
  • Third-party vendor management and risk.
  • International, U.S. state and federal privacy updates.

P.S.R. speakers gain exposure in front of an engaged audience of more than 2,000 top-tier professionals. This is a great opportunity to contribute to the community focused on the intersection of technology, privacy, AI governance, digital responsibility and technology.

Submit your proposal

Speaking has its benefits

Take this opportunity to give back to the community and share your expertise. Speaking at Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025 will help you:

  • Distinguish yourself as a thought leader in privacy.
  • Gain exposure in the world’s largest privacy association.
  • Elevate the profession by sharing your knowledge.

The call for proposals closes 23 March.

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2024 conference recap

P.S.R. 2024 cast a technically savvy eye
on privacy and AI issues

IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. focuses on the intersection of privacy, AI governance, digital responsibility and technology. P.S.R. agendas include keynote speakers, training, workshops, networking activities and breakout sessions that showcase practical solutions to operational challenges.

P.S.R. 2024 explored topics including artificial intelligence governance by design, implementing privacy-enhancing technologies, managing supplier risks, automating privacy operations, and responding to ransomware attacks. You can see presentations from P.S.R. 2024 breakout sessions if we received them and have permission to share them.

Presentations

Tech and ethics on stage

Keynote speakers included tech-focused philosophers, ethicists, podcasters and privacy activists. Casey Newton and Kevin Roose of the “Hard Fork” technology podcast did live interviews on the main stage with ethicist Casey Fiesler, AI publisher and philosopher John Kaag, and international privacy advocate Max Schrems. Former Google CPO Keith Enright shared his insights on the rapid change of the privacy and digital governance fields. Researcher Jenn Louie spoke about infusing moral literacy into technological innovation. A keynote panel including Harvey Jang, Lara Liss and Nubiaa Shabaka answered moderator Travis LeBlanc's questions about c-suite leaders' evolving digital governance responsibilities.

The 2024 program also featured networking events ranging from a large reception to small, focused discussions in quiet settings and special activities for first-time attendees. Meet-ups brought attendees together by industry — adtech, cybersecurity, etc. — and common interests such as diversity in privacy.

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2024 keynote speakers

Keith Enright

former Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President, Google

Keith Enright shared the experience and insight he gained working on the cutting edge of developing responsible information practices with regulators and policymakers around the world, and offered thoughts on the evolution and future of the privacy field and digital governance.

Jenn Louie

Founder, Moral Innovation Lab; Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

As the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab, which she launched during her time at Harvard Divinity School and while working at the Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab as its first Product Manager, Jenn Louie examined technology’s impact on our moral futures and how conflict and social inequities are perpetuated through unexamined moral inheritances that get translated into tech governance and design.

A P.S.R. exclusive with Casey and Kevin

Casey Newton

Founder, Platformer News, Co-host, Hard Fork

Kevin Roose

Bestselling Author, Futureproof, Award-Winning Technology Columnist, Co-host, Hard Fork

“Hard Fork” podcasters Casey Newton and Kevin Roose conducted podcast-style interviews with Casey Fiesler, John Kaag and Max Schrems on the main stage. The interviews centered on making sense of the latest developments in the rapidly changing world of technology.

Keynote interviews

Casey Fiesler

Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Casey Fiesler is a researcher and public scholar whose work on technology ethics and law has been covered in media outlets like The New York Times, WIRED, and Teen Vogue. She also teaches the world about artificial intelligence ethics, data privacy, content moderation, intellectual property, and other tech policy topics on social media. Fiesler did a live interview with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose on the main stage.

John Kaag

Co-Founder, Rebind Publishing, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Award-Winning Author, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds, and American Bloods

As co-founder of Rebind Publishing, John Kaag brought together a dream team of authors and intellectuals to provide commentary on classic literary works. Rebind uses artificial intelligence to distribute that commentary into interactive conversations with readers for a one-of-a-kind e-reading experience. Kaag did a live interview with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose on the main stage.

Max Schrems

Honorary Chairman, noyb.eu

Max Schrems champions the privacy interests of European consumers, sparking various court rulings that have overturned U.S.-EU agreements regulating flows of personal data across the Atlantic. Schrems did a live interview with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose on the main stage.

 

Keynote panel

Moderator: Travis LeBlanc

Partner, Cooley; Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Harvey Jang, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, FIP

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy Officer, Cisco Systems

Lara Liss, CIPP/US

Chief Privacy and Data Trust Officer, GE Healthcare

Nubiaa Shabaka

Vice President, Chief Cybersecurity Legal and Privacy Officer, Adobe

Responding to the complexity of digital regulation and risk is a top strategic priority for businesses. This expert panel discussed how their companies began vesting c-suite executives with responsibility for broad digital governance domains and how leaders saw their remits expanded and elevated.

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