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Data Privacy Meets AI: Governance Strategies for a Responsible Digital Future
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Join our expert panel as they navigate the complex intersection of Data privacy and AI governance.

During this webinar, learn how to leverage data privacy governance, ensure responsible AI practices, and mitigate risks associated with AI adoption. From vendor arrangements to ethical considerations, get practical insights to inform your organization's roadmap for good governance.

Key topics include:

Data Privacy & AI Governance
  • Overlap between AI and data privacy
  • Leveraging data privacy governance
  • Practical insights on governance programs, AI literacy, principles, and business practice
  • Resourcing & cost
Using Vendors
  • What to look out for in vendor arrangements and contracts
  • Who is responsible for the AI data governance, you or your vendor?
Ethics & Risks – Delivering Responsible AI
  • Identifying risks (societal, ethical, legal, organizational, technical)
  • Risk mitigations
  • Protecting individuals' rights
  • Societal concerns (harm, bias, discrimination, exclusion)

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Speakers
Speaker
Esha Bhandari
Deputy Director,
ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
Esha Bhandari is deputy director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on litigation and advocacy to protect freedom of expression and privacy rights in the digital age. She also focuses on the impact of big data and artificial intelligence on civil liberties. She has litigated cases including Sandvig v. Barr, a First Amendment challenge to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on behalf of online discrimination researchers, Alasaad v. Wolf, a constitutional challenge to suspicionless electronic device searches at the U.S. border, and Guan v. Mayorkas, in which she represents journalists questioned about their work by border officers. She argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Hansen, a case that significantly narrowed a federal law that, on its face, criminalized First Amendment-protected speech about immigration. 

Speaker
Dr Kuan Hon
Of Counsel
Dentons
Dr W Kuan Hon is Of Counsel in leading international law firm Dentons's Privacy and Cybersecurity Group. An English solicitor and New York attorney, with degrees in computing science as well as law, Kuan advises not only on data protection and security but also on broader technology/data-related legal/regulatory issues, including artificial intelligence, such as the EU AI Act. She is an Editor of the Encyclopedia of Data Protection and Privacy, a member of the UK government's International Data Transfer Expert Council, and was previously a guest lecturer on AI-related laws for Imperial College London's AI MSc students. Kuan has volunteered for the UK Information Commissioner's Office, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, and the UN Privacy Preserving Techniques Legal Task Team. 

Speaker
Simon McDougall
Chief Strategist, Privacy & AI
Zoominfo
Simon McDougall is the Chief Strategist for Privacy and AI at ZoomInfo, where he brings over 20 years of experience in data privacy and risk management. Based in the UK, Simon advises the company and its customers on regulatory compliance, risk management, and government relations. He is also a Senior Adviser to Bristows, a UK law firm, an International Fellow at Yale’s Digital Ethics Center, and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals. 

Prior to joining ZoomInfo, Simon served as Deputy Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK's independent authority for information rights. There, he established new technology policy and innovation functions, led work in areas such as artificial intelligence and adtech, and guided the ICO's response to data use during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Moderator
Speaker
Shelley Malhotra
Senior Specialist Legal Editor
Thomson Reuters Practical Law
Shelley has over twenty years’ global experience working as a data privacy consultant specializing in UK and EU data privacy laws. Her roles and responsibilities have been wide-ranging, acting in both an onsite and remote capacity to deliver data protection solutions to clients. These have included the development of data protection compliance programs, establishing data protection infrastructures, conducting gap analyses, audits, training and awareness programs. Customers have included Accenture, Global and Tik Tok. She holds the IAPP CIPP/E qualification. Shelley is a Senior Specialist Legal Editor focusing on UK and EU data privacy and AI. 

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