Fall 2026 Speakers

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

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

Jocelyn Aqua

Partner
HWG

Caroline Bailey

Associate
Dentons

Ian Ballon

Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig

Kaylee Bankston

Partner
Morrison Foerster

Lauren Berkebile

Senior Associate
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Laura-Kate Bernstein

Legal Director
ZwillGen

Jennifer Birnbaum

Cyber Underwriting Officer
The Hartford

Michelle Bowling

Senior Associate
ArentFox Schiff

Savanna Boyles

VP Cyber Claims, Americas
Mosaic Insurance

Addison Brown

Senior Privacy Counsel
Zscaler

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

Bruce Chiu

Shareholder
Dentons

Melinda Claybaugh

Privacy Policy Director
Meta

Cindy Cohn

Former Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Matthew Coleman

Partner
Orrick

Dave Coogan

Of Counsel
Paul Hastings

Nerissa Coyle McGinn

Partner
Loeb & Loeb

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
Office of VA AG

Michelle Dennedy
Michelle Dennedy

Chief Data Strategy Officer
Abaxx Technologies

Peter Devlin

Associate
Frankfurt Kurnit

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
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

Tony Ficarrotta

VP & General Counsel
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)

Jarrod Forgues Schlenker

Assistant Section Chief
FBI

Reed Freeman

Partner & Co-Chair, Privacy Group
ArentFox Schiff

Steven Gawthorpe

Engagement Manager
Keystone

Regina Gerhardt

Associate
Frankfurt Kurnit

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Elliot Golding

Partner
McDermott Will & Emery

Kate Goodloe
Kate Goodloe

Managing Director, Policy
BSA, The Software Alliance

Siobhan Gorman

Partner
Brunswick Group

Adam Greene

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

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

Jennifer Howes

Counsel
Latham & Watkins

Kara Hughley

Senior Lead Privacy Counsel, AI
Zoom

Ali Jessani
Ali Jessani

Counsel
WilmerHale

Greg Kaufman

Regulatory & Litigation Counsel, Privacy
Google

Megan Kayo

Partner
Freshfields

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Janis Kestenbaum

Partner
Ashurst Perkins Coie

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Antony Kim

Partner
Latham & Watkins

James Koenig

Partner
Troutman Pepper Locke

Heather Kuhn

Legal Counsel Director – Data Protection
Arrow Electronics

Ruby Lang

Privacy & AI Counsel
Superhuman

Jerry Lavish

Director - Global Head of AI Risk, Approvals, and Portfolio Oversight,
Citi

Hannah Levin

Partner
Morgan Lewis

Nancy Libin

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Brian Lichter

Managing Director, Cyber & Data Resilience
Kroll

Matthew Liebner

Vice President of Sales
Assessment First

Kathryn Linsky

Partner, Privacy & Cybersecurity
McDermott Will & Schulte

George Little

Partner
Brunswick Group

Liz Lyons

Global Privacy Senior Counsel
HP

Danielle Manner
Danielle Manner

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

Courtney Manzel

Corporate Counsel, Privacy & Data Governance
Volkswagen Group of America

Chanda Marlowe

Associate
Loeb & Loeb

Rohan Massey

Partner
Ropes & Gray
(UK)

Brendan McGann

Director of Incident Response
Arete

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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

John Morgan

Director, Senior Corporate Counsel, Cybersecurity Legal
Salesforce

Christine Moundas

Partner
Ropes & Gray

Brandon Mullings-Whitaker

Privacy & Security Counsel
TikTok USDS Joint Venture

Kirk Nahra
Kirk Nahra

Partner & Co-Chair Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
WilmerHale

Andrew Nauer

Vice President of Operation
Assessment First

Wim Nauwelaerts

Partner
Alston & Bird

Greg Nojeim

Sr. Counsel, Director of Security & Surveillance Project
CDT

Colin O’Malley

Founder & Principal
Lucid Privacy Group

Paul Otto

Partner
Hogan Lovells

Lynn Peachey

Regional VP, Northeast Insurance Channel
Arete

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Nancy Perkins

Counsel
Arnold & Porter

Jayne Ponder

Associate
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

David Rice

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine

Michael Roberts

Counsel
McDermott Will & Schulte

Sabrina Ross

Chief Privacy Auditor
California Privacy Protection Agency

Heidi Saas

Data Privacy and Technology Attorney
H.T. Saas

Dr. Vinny Sakore

SVP, Commercial Strategy and Growth
Arete

Kamran Salour

Partner
Lewis Brisbois

Talia Saypoff

Associate General Counsel, Employment
Anthropic

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

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Mark Seifert

Partner
Brunswick Group

Tom Shebar

VP, Content Strategy & Acquisition
Fubo

James Sherer

Partner
Baker & Hostetler

Ankur Sheth

Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting

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Daniel Solove

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

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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

Brian Tengel

Counsel
Venable

Nik Theodorakis

Partner
Wilson Sonsini

Jamie Tolles

Vice President, Incident Response
IDX

Sean Vargas-Barlow

Senior Managing Counsel - Data Protection, AI, & Technology
CNH

Carissa Veliz

Associate Professor, Institute for Ethics in AI
University of Oxford

Cody Venzke

Senior Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
ACLU

Heidi Wachs

Managing Director, Cyber Risk
Kroll

Ann Waldo

Senior Fellow
Future of Privacy Forum

Kate Whitesell

Privacy Counsel
Fortive Corporation

Jordan Wrigley

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

Colleen Yushchak

Senior Managing Director, Cybersecurity and Privacy
FTI Consulting

Marc Zwillinger

Managing Member & Founder
ZwillGen