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Data Privacy Practitioner Summit

September 17-18, 2025 | Atlanta, GA

Hosted by Data Privacy Board Member Chick-fil-A

Interested in speaking at the Summit?

It’s a fantastic opportunity to share your expertise and engage with your peers.

Whether you’re a seasoned presenter or this is your first time on stage, we’d love to work with you to share your story.

Agenda

Wednesday, September 17

11:00 AM

Tour of Chick-fil-A Headquarters

The Chick-fil-A® Backstage Tour is a guided walking tour about the history, culture, and values of Founder S. Truett Cathy located at their corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout the tour, you’ll experience Chick-fil-A’s most valued company assets: their hospitable people and unique story. The Original Life and Legacy Tour is an immersive experience in which guests hear directly from three generations of Cathy Family in an introductory film and visit Truett’s Office, the History Museum, and Truett’s classic car collection.

12:00 PM

Lunch Discussions

Get here on time and grab a seat at the table. This sit-down lunch is your first opportunity to meet all of the great privacy leaders you’ll get to know at the Summit.

12:40 PM

Break

12:50 PM

Welcome & Introduction

1:00 PM

Case Study

Privacy holding IT accountable: Creating an application “health check”

Coming soon!

1:30 PM

Break

1:45 PM

Case Study

Leveraging privacy-enhancing technology for advertising measurement


Chris Dunlap, Expedia Group

As the demand for targeted marketing competes with your priorities to safeguard customer data, how can you leverage new technology to supplement your privacy work? Chris Dunlap, Director of Privacy and Data Security at Expedia Group, will give us an inside look at how they deployed data “clean rooms” for their advertising teams. In this confidential discussion, he’ll cover their justifications for this initiative – including how they sold the benefits internally – and how they structured contracting and privacy reviews to enable scaling.

2:15 PM

Break

2:30 PM

Case Study

Privacy visibility and funding: Making the internal case for growing your program

Coming soon!

3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:30 PM

Case Study

Selling privacy as risk intelligence: How data protection powers enterprise resilience

Coming soon!

4:00 PM

Break

4:15 PM

Case Study

Creating efficiency around PIA/AI reviews


Rachel Nico, Intel

Assessment fatigue for your business lines is a common issue, but combining assessments won’t save you time in the long run if it’s not done right. Rachel Nico, Chief Privacy Officer at Intel, will discuss how they combined their PIA/AI review processes, and how they’ve iterated since to make the process even more streamlined. She’ll take you behind-the-scenes to share the pain points they encountered and how this model is impacting the way they’re approaching other processes at Intel.

4:45 PM

Adjourn

5:00 PM

Private Dinner

Following our afternoon of conversations and case studies, we’ll all go out for a fantastic dinner together. It’s a perfect opportunity to connect with your fellow attendees before a big day of brainstorming, discussion, and collaboration.

Thursday, September 18

8:00 AM

Breakfast Discussions

The conversations over coffee and eggs at this event are often more lively than any other conference’s happy hour. You’ll want to be here bright and early (and on time).

8:50 AM

Break

9:00 AM

Welcome Back

9:05 AM

Workshop

Wiretapping lawsuits: Where are we now?


Gabe Levy, Subway

As website analytics and advertising tools are targeted in lawsuits brought under various wiretap laws, it can be difficult to know how best to respond. As these lawsuits evolve into more complicated and costly endeavors, what are you doing to safeguard your company? Gabe Levy, Lead Counsel for Privacy and Data Protection at Subway, will lead this confidential conversation as we compare our approaches, share our lessons learned, and discuss how current trends and decisions are affecting our future privacy planning.

9:35 AM

Break

9:45 AM

Workshop

Selling privacy internally: How best to socialize your program


Natalie Williams, Chick-fil-A

What have been your most successful strategies to build partnerships and create advocates for privacy work in your enterprise? Natalie Williams, Director & Enterprise Privacy Leader at Chick-fil-A, will lead a confidential group discussion to share our biggest triumphs, what hasn’t worked as well, and how we’re getting creative in an increasingly crowded internal attention market. We’ll cover building key relationships, what cadences work and why, and brainstorm on how to reach our toughest colleagues.

10:15 AM

Networking Break

10:35 AM

Workshop

AI state of affairs: Privacy program impacts and planning for the future

Coming soon!

11:05 AM

Break

11:20 AM

Workshop

Third-party assurance: Are your data privacy controls robust enough?

Coming soon!

11:50 PM

Lunch Discussions

12:50 PM

Break

1:00 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables Round 1

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Beyond Data Privacy Day: How to increase awareness year-round
  • Addressing employee privacy concerns
  • Vendor review: OneTrust
  • PIAs: Evaluating your process

1:30 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables Round 2

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Taking on AI accountability
  • Data mapping: Building for long-term privacy success
  • Assessing and managing data privacy risk in China
  • WhatsApp, WeChat, etc: Weighing risk and opportunity

2:00 PM

Snack Break

2:20 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables Round 3

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Data privacy and DEI initiatives: Balancing progress with compliance
  • Loyalty programs: Balancing privacy compliance and growth
  • Data minimization strategy for privacy compliance
  • Records retention: Best practices for big companies

2:50 PM

Peer Advisory Roundtables Round 4

EXAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Tools for cookie management and compliance
  • Cybersecurity and privacy: Building a winning partnership
  • Operationalizing Privacy by Design
  • Navigating competing frameworks in a global company

3:20 PM

Adjourn

Please note: This agenda is subject to change based on speaker availability and scheduling. As we continue organize this year’s schedule, you can take a look at 2024’s lineup here.