Fall 2026 Speakers

Meet the privacy, cybersecurity, and AI leaders speaking at the Privacy + Security Forum in Washington, DC.

Lindsay Abate

Director, Technology Policy
Alliance for Automotive Innovation (AFAI)

Mariam Abdel-Malek

Director, Privacy Legal
Pinterest

Darren Abernethy

Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig

Hanna Abrams

Assistant Attorney General
Maryland Office of the Attorney General

Devon Ackerman

Global Services Leader, DFIR,
LevelBlue

Mohammad Amer

Associate General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer
Solventum

Jocelyn Aqua

Partner
HWG

Caroline Bailey

Associate
Dentons

Leonard Bailey

Former DOJ Special Counsel for National Security/Head of the Cybersecurity Unit, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown
Georgetown Law

Ian Ballon

Shareholder, Co-Chair, Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group
Greenberg Traurig

Kaylee Bankston

Partner
Morrison Foerster

Carly Battaile

Director
LevelBlue

Michelle Bazu

Assistant General Counsel, Proactive Risk Mitigation
Microsoft

Lauren Berkebile

Senior Associate
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Laura-Kate Bernstein

Legal Director
ZwillGen

Elliot Black

VP of Incident Response
TransUnion

Michael Borgia

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Savanna Boyles

VP Cyber Claims, Americas
Mosaic Insurance

Addison Brown

Senior Privacy Counsel
Zscaler

Megan Brown

Partner
Wiley Rein

Robert Brown

Partner
Latham & Watkins

Matthew Butkovic

Technical Director-CERT Division, Software Engineering Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Danni Byam

Associate General Counsel
The Motley Fool

Libbie Canter

Partner
Covington

Peter Carey

Senior Corporate Counsel – Security
Snowflake

Mayra Cavazos

Senior Counsel, Global Privacy & Data Policy
Omnicom Media Group

Aaron Charfoos

Partner
Paul Hastings

Annie Chiang

Acting Deputy Director
Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection

Bruce Chiu

Shareholder
Dentons

Emilio Cividanes

Partner
Venable

Melinda Claybaugh

Privacy Policy Director
Meta

Dave Cohen

Director
Myna Partners

Cindy Cohn

Former Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Matthew Coleman

Partner
Orrick

Dave Coogan

Of Counsel
Paul Hastings

Alex Cox

Senior Associate
Troutman Pepper Locke

Courtney Cox

Senior Director, Privacy Certified Program
Entertainment Software Rating Board

Katie Cramer

Of Counsel
Cooley

Nicholas Cramer

Vice President, Cyber Solutions
IDX

Taryn Crane

Privacy & Data Protection Practice Leader
BDO

Chandler Crenshaw

Assist. Attorney General, Consumer Privacy Unit Manager
VA Attorney General’s Office

Michelle Dennedy
Michelle Dennedy

Chief Data Strategy Officer
Abaxx Technologies

Kaitlin Descovich

Partner, Governance, Securities & Reporting Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Peter A. Devlin

Associate
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Stephanie Duchesneau

Associate
Ashurst Perkins Coie

Jisha Dymond

Head of AI Governance and Privacy
Apollo

John Eakins

Deputy Attorney General
Delaware Department of Justice

Robyn Eckerling

Chief Privacy Officer
Tempus Labs

Jamie Elbert

Attorney
ZwillGen

Steve Elovitz

Managing Partner, Head of North America Consulting
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42

Melanie Ensign

Founder & CEO
Discernible

Janine Fadul

Director of Compliance, Division Compliance and Privacy Officer
UHS

Fran Faircloth

Partner
Ropes & Gray

David Faraone

Global Vice President, Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Booz Allen Hamilton

Daniel Felz

Partner
Alston & Bird

Jill Fertel

Director of Privacy & Emerging Technology Litigation
KLA Lega LLP

Tony Ficarrotta

VP & General Counsel
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)

Reed Freeman

Partner & Co-Chair, Privacy Group
ArentFox Schiff

Leigh Freund
Leigh Freund

External Advisor

Steven Gawthorpe

Engagement Manager
Keystone

Regina Gerhardt

Associate
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

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Elliot Golding

Partner
McDermott Will & Schulte

Kate Goodloe
Kate Goodloe

Managing Director, Policy
Business Software Alliance

Adam Greene

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Olivia Greer

Partner, Head of U.S. Privacy & Cybersecurity Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Lisa Gumbs

Associate Counsel, Global Privacy
Under Armour

Daniel Hales

Senior Policy Counsel
Future of Privacy Forum

Laura Hamady

Partner
Troutman Pepper Locke

Kate Hanniford

Partner
Baker McKenzie

Marisa Hawley

Global Data Governance and AI Counsel
Zoom

Jason Henderson

Founder, IP & Media Practice
JWL International

Zoe Hetzner

Director
Brunswick Group

Phil Hodgkins

Senior Principal
Keystone

Jordan Holz

Associate General Counsel (Privacy)
Meta

Jennifer Howes

Counsel
Latham & Watkins

Kara Hughley

Senior Lead Privacy Counsel, AI
Zoom

Perry Jackson

Associate
ArentFox Schiff

Ali Jessani
Ali Jessani

Counsel
WilmerHale

Eben Kaplan

Senior Director, Strategic Advisory Services
CrowdStrike

Greg Kaufman

Regulatory & Litigation Counsel, Privacy
Google

Megan Kayo

Partner
Freshfields

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Janis Kestenbaum

Partner
Ashurst Perkins Coie

Rahel Kifle

Senior Counsel, Privacy & Data Risk
Volkswagen of America

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Antony Kim

Partner
Latham & Watkins

Erika Klump

Senior Director, Data Strategy and Solutions
Premier

Jon Knight
Jon Knight

Counsel
BakerHostetler

James Koenig

Partner
Troutman Pepper Locke

Jason Kratovil

Head of Public Policy and External Affairs
SentiLink

Ryan Kriger

Deputy Chief, Privacy and Responsible Technology Division
MA Attorney General’s Office

Heather Kuhn

Legal Counsel Director – Data Protection
Arrow Electronics

Ruby Lang

Privacy & AI Counsel
Superhuman

Mariah Leffingwell

Junior Partner
Pierson Ferdinand

Hannah Levin

Partner
Morgan Lewis

Nancy Libin

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Brian Lichter

Managing Director, Cyber & Data Resilience
Kroll

Dajin Lie

Partner
Taylor Wessing

Kathryn Linsky

Partner, Privacy & Cybersecurity
McDermott Will & Schulte

Joel Lutz

Counsel
Troutman Pepper Locke

Liz Lyons

Global Privacy Senior Counsel
HP

Edward Machin

Counsel
Ropes & Gray

Danielle Manner
Danielle Manner

Chief Privacy Officer, Sr. Assoc. Gen. Counsel
Gilead

Courtney Manzel

Sr. Counsel, Privacy & Data Governance, Volkswagen America
Volkswagen of America

Chanda Marlowe

Associate
Loeb & Loeb

Rohan Massey

Partner
Ropes & Gray
(UK)

Brendan McGann

Director of Incident Response
Arete

Nerissa Coyle McGinn

Partner
Loeb & Loeb

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Chad McHenry

Trial Attorney | National Security Cyber Section, National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice

Jenifer McIntosh

Of Counsel
Stinson

Colin Meek

Senior Associate
Kroll

Ken Meiser

Vice President of Public Policy
LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Lindsay Monti

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
JM Equity

John Morgan

Director, Senior Corporate Counsel, Cybersecurity Legal
Salesforce

Christine Moundas

Partner
Ropes & Gray

Brandon Mullings-Whitaker

Privacy & Security Counsel
Former TikTok USDS

Amy Mushahwar

Partner
Lowenstein Sandler

Kirk Nahra
Kirk Nahra

Partner & Co-Chair Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
WilmerHale

Andrew Nauer

Vice President of Operations
Assessment First

Wim Nauwelaerts

Partner
Alston & Bird

Greg Nojeim

Sr. Counsel, Director of Security & Surveillance Project
Center for Democracy & Technology

Nicole O’Donnell

Director of Privacy, Data & AI
Atlassian

Colin O’Malley

Founder & Principal
Lucid Privacy Group

Paul Otto

Partner
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Domenic Paci

Vice President, Cyber Solutions
CyEx

Susanna Parker

Senior Counsel and Assistant Vice President of Government Relations
Verisk Analytics

Meera Patel

Assistant General Counsel, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Becton Dickinson

Roshni Patel

Counsel
Troutman Pepper Locke

Lynn Peachey

Regional VP, Northeast Insurance Channel
Arete

Kim Peretti

Partner
Alston & Bird

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Nancy Perkins

Counsel
Arnold & Porter

Benjamin Perry

Partner
Husch Blackwell

George Platsis

Managing Director, Commercial Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Booz Allen Hamilton

Jayne Ponder

Partner
Covington

Matthew Porter

Founder & Vice Chairman
Contegix

Stephen Provazza

Partner
Arnall Golden Gregory

Carolyn Rashby

Of Counsel
Covington

Brian Rasquinha

Associate Director, Solution Architecture
Privacy Analytics

Michelle Reed

Partner
Paul Hastings

Karla Reffold

Chief Insights Officer
Surefire Cyber

Eder Ribeiro

Director, Global Incident Response
TransUnion

David Rice

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Rich Gatz

Vice President and Head of Cyber Claims
Arch Insurance

Pamela Richardson

VP Legal, Director of Privacy Compliance
Zeta Global

Michael Roberts

Counsel
McDermott Will & Schulte

Sabrina Ross

Chief Privacy Auditor
California Privacy Protection Agency

Noah Rubin

Senior Director, Complex Digital Events and Expert Services
Kroll

Heidi Saas

Data Privacy and Technology Attorney
H.T. Saas

Dr. Vinny Sakore

SVP, Commercial Strategy and Growth
Arete

Kamran Salour

Partner
Lewis Brisbois

Sydney Saubestre

Senior Policy Analyst, Privacy & Data Project
Center for Democracy & Technology

Mike Saxton

Director of Commercial Cyber Solutions
Booz Allen Hamilton

Talia Saypoff

Associate General Counsel, Employment
Anthropic

Jarrod Forgues Schlenker

Assistant Section Chief
FBI

Whitney Schneider-White

Partner
Baker & Hostetler

Karen Schuler

Global Head of Privacy, Data & AI Governance
BDO

Paul Schwartz

Jefferson E. Peyser Professor, Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Personal blog / websiteLinkedin
Mark Seifert

Partner
Brunswick Group

Sara Sendek

Managing Director, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications
FTI Consulting

James Sherer

Partner
BakerHostetler

Ankur Sheth

Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting

Jim Simatacolos

Managing Counsel, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
Toyota North America

Jay Sinha

Information Governance Counsel (Privacy/Cyber/AI)
Axinn

Doug Smith

Executive Director, Legal and Compliance Division
Morgan Stanley /E*TRADE

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Daniel Solove

Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law
George Washington University Law School

Personal blog / websiteLinkedin
Maya Song

Partner
Ropes & Gray

Isaiah Soval-Levine

Director
AlixPartners

Ann Staggs
Ann Staggs

Legal - Head of Privacy; AI and Product
Grafana

Tara Swaminatha

Founder & Principal
ZeroDay Law

Julie Sweeney

Privacy Counsel
OpenAI

Alex Tate

Associate
HWG

Brian Tengel

Counsel
Venable

Nik Theodorakis

Partner
Wilson Sonsini

Theodore Yale

Senior Associate
Dechert

Amber Thomson

Partner
Mayer Brown

Paul Tiao

Chief Legal Officer
Orano USA

Jamie Tolles

Vice President, Incident Response
IDX

Matteo Tomasini

Founder & CEO
District 4 Labs

Amelia Vance

Founder & President
Public Interest Privacy Center

Carissa Veliz

Associate Professor, Institute for Ethics in AI
University of Oxford

Cody Venzke

Senior Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
ACLU

Paul Voigt

Partner
Taylor Wessing

Heidi Wachs

Managing Director, Cyber Risk
Kroll

Ann Waldo

Senior Fellow
Principal, Waldo Law Offices

Paula Weil

Chief Compliance Officer
Citadel

Kate Whitesell

Privacy Counsel
Fortive Corporation

Tiffany Williams

Head of US & Canada Information Governance
IQVIA

Alyssa Wolfington

Associate
Morgan Lewis

Jordan Wrigley

Sr. Technologist, Health & Wellness, AgeTech
Future of Privacy Forum

Lauren York

Vice President, Privacy, Cybersecurity & AI
Optimum

Colleen Yushchak

Senior Managing Director, Cybersecurity and Privacy
FTI Consulting

Marc Zwillinger

Managing Member & Founder
ZwillGen