The 2026 call for speaking proposals is open

IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global focuses on the intersection of technology and digital responsibility. Help advance the practices of privacy, AI governance and cybersecurity law as a speaker at the 2026 event in Seattle.

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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.

Speaking has its benefits

P.S.R. + AIGG speakers gain exposure in front of an engaged audience of top-tier digital responsibility professionals. This is a great opportunity to contribute to the community while growing your reputation. We are looking forward to hearing your ideas.

The call for proposals closes 1 March.

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2025 conference recap

Tech and privacy met to get things done at P.S.R. 2025

IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, artificial intelligence governance and cybersecurity law. The 2025 conference in San Diego featured breakout sessions on focused topics and keynote speakers with widely different perspectives on privacy, artificial intelligence governance and digital responsibility.

Practical solutions, expansive ideas
P.S.R. 2025 breakout sessions focused on challenges that digital responsibility professionals faced daily. Topics ranged from privacy for mobile apps, quantum computing’s impact on encryption, privacy and security, and creating trusted brands in an era of tracking technologies. Expert speakers dissected the issues, offered insights and solutions, and took questions from attendees.

On the main stage, keynote speakers looked at privacy and AI from historical and futuristic perspectives.

IAPP President and CEO J. Trevor Hughes’s keynote discussion with privacy veteran Julie Brill, who held high-level positions at Microsoft and the US Federal Trade Commission, where she reflected on changes and growth in privacy over the span of her career.

Tom Kemp, director of the California Privacy Protection Agency, spoke to IAPP Director of Research and Insights described his agency’s one-stop platform for processing consumer data deletion requests. “Hard Fork” podcast team Casey Newton and Kevin Roose interviewed authors Amy Kurzweil and Karen Yao and researcher Molly Kinder about humanity’s relationship with AI.

Building connections
Networking opportunities were woven through the P.S.R. 2025 agenda.

The Halloween-themed exhibit hall social gave attendees a chance to connect with solution providers over food and drink. Meetups for specific groups gave attendees chances to meet people in their fields.

P.S.R moves to Seattle in 2026. It will be collocated with the IAPP AI Governance Global conference and named IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global. Subscribe to IAPP conference updates, below, for information on registration date and the agenda.

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2025 keynote speakers

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

Casey Newton

Founder and Editor, Platformer News, Host, New York Times’s “Hard Fork” Podcast

Kevin Roose

Bestselling Author, Futureproof, Award-Winning Technology Columnist, The New York Times

“Hard Fork” hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose returned to P.S.R. in 2025 to talk about what was new on the wild frontier of tech. They interviewed Brookings Institution Fellow Molly Kinder and authors Karen Hao and Amy Kurzweil on the P.S.R. main stage.

 

Keynote interview

Karen Hao

Bestselling Author, Journalist

Karen Hao’s new bestselling book, “Empire of AI,” examines how the technology industry defines our era, showing how thoroughly artificial intelligence will alter society and what role we can all play in actively shaping AI so that it benefits everyone.

Molly Kinder

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Molly Kinder is a nationally recognized expert in labor policy, economic inequality, low-wage work, and the present and future of work. Her research examines the impact of generative AI on work and workers.

Amy Kurzweil

Cartoonist, Author

Amy Kurzweil’s new book, Artificial: A Love Story, asks deep questions about technology, memory, and art, through a story about three generations of creators whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life.

 

Keynote conversation

Julie Brill

Harvard Law School and Innovation Labs; former Commissioner of US Federal Trade Commission

J. Trevor Hughes

President & CEO, IAPP

Julie Brill sat down with Trevor Hughes to reflect on her career, spanning over three decades of service in the public and private sectors tackling some of the most complex and consequential geopolitical issues involving tech policy and regulation — from responsible AI, data sovereignty, data governance and privacy, to digital safety, lawful access, and standards.

 

Keynote conversation

Joe Jones

Research & Insights Director, IAPP

Tom Kemp

Executive Director, California Privacy Protection Agency

Tom Kemp leads the agency enforcing the nation’s most ambitious privacy laws. He shared his vision for operationalizing privacy, advancing policy, and preparing for major initiatives like the launch of the Delete Request and Opt–out Platform, or DROP, in 2026, all while building public trust and driving business accountability.

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