From backlog to breakthrough: Using AI in privacy work and governing it across the enterprise

IAPP Women's Leadership Network Web Conference

Privacy and compliance workloads are growing faster than the teams behind them. And now sitting on both sides of that equation is artificial intelligence: A tool that can help clear the backlog and a technology your program is increasingly being asked to govern. This session takes on both, blending hands-on enablement with a broader conversation about where the role is heading.

On the practical side, you'll see how general-purpose AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT can act as a force multiplier for routine, high-volume work — third-party vendor research, data map reviews, data subject access request triage and response drafting, and contract clause analysis — through live demonstrations and ready-to-use prompt templates you can take with you. Throughout, we keep sight of the guardrails: What AI gets wrong in a privacy context and the human-in-the-loop checkpoints that keep your work defensible.

The session also features a candid discussion about how AI is reshaping the compliance function itself — what it takes to update a program for AI, why governance increasingly demands technical fluency and surfaces the gap between what contracts promise and what's actually feasible, how to onboard a flood of new AI vendors fast enough to capture their value, and what "AI ethics" really means once you move past the buzzword.