IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global 2026
Seattle
6-9 October
Conference
8-9 Oct.
Training
6-7 Oct.
Workshops
7 Oct.
Closing General Session
Friday, 9 Oct.
09:00 - 10:15 PDT
Hall 4B, Level 4
Keynote conversation
Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer
Jasmine Sun, Independent Writer
Caitlin Fennessy will interview Jasmine Sun for this keynote conversation. Jasmine Sun is an independent writer covering artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley culture on her Substack and as a contributor at The Atlantic. She describes her work as an "anthropology of disruption," interrogating the collisions between frontier technologies and existing cultures, communities and institutions. Her writing on the AI "permanent underclass," gray-market peptides, defense tech, and more have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
Keynote panel
Moderator: Joe Jones, Research and Insights Director, IAPP
Ashley Casovan, Managing Director, AI Governance Center, IAPP
Barbara Cosgrove, CIPP/E, Vice President, Chief Privacy and Digital Trust Officer, Workday
Simon McDougall, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, Chief Strategist, Privacy and AI, ZoomInfo
Joe Jones will moderate this keynote panel addressing the current AI landscape. Hear how leaders are handling AI policy, risk and their own shifting roles in this moment of digital entropy, from privacy to cross-cutting digital responsibilities.
Featured in this session

Ashley Casovan
Managing Director, AI Governance Center
IAPP

Barbara Cosgrove
CIPP/E
Vice President, Chief Privacy and Digital Trust Officer
Workday

Caitlin Fennessy
CIPP/US
Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer
IAPP

Joe Jones
Research and Insights Director
IAPP

Simon McDougall
AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT
Chief Strategist, Privacy and AI
ZoomInfo

Jasmine Sun
Independent Writer