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IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global 2026

Seattle

6-9 October

Conference

8-9 Oct.

Training

6-7 Oct.

Workshops

7 Oct.

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Closing General Session

Friday, 9 Oct.

09:00 - 10:15 PDT

Hall 4B, Level 4

GENERAL SESSION

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

headshot of Ashley Casovan

Ashley Casovan

Managing Director, AI Governance Center

IAPP

headshot of Barbara Cosgrove

Barbara Cosgrove

CIPP/E

Vice President, Chief Privacy and Digital Trust Officer

Workday

headshot of Caitlin Fennessy

Caitlin Fennessy

CIPP/US

Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer

IAPP

headshot of Joe Jones

Joe Jones

Research and Insights Director

IAPP

headshot of Simon McDougall

Simon McDougall

AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT

Chief Strategist, Privacy and AI

ZoomInfo

headshot of Jasmine Sun

Jasmine Sun

Independent Writer