September 11-12, 2024ㅤ•ㅤChicago, IL
Board Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, September 11
11:30 AM
Registration opens
12:00 PM
Lunch Discussion
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 Board Meeting.
12:40 PM
Break
12:50 PM
Welcome & Introduction
1:00 PM
Show & Tell: Global privacy standards: Creating a baseline to stand the test of time
Lisa Garrett, AT&T
Between company acquisitions, new regulations constantly coming into force, and varying levels of maturity across your business, getting to a universal privacy standard is a big ask for your company. Lisa Garrett, Director of Privacy at AT&T, will share how she worked with key partners to build U.S. domestic and international privacy company frameworks to standardize policies across her global organization. Lisa will highlight key challenges, lessons learned, and how this approach has served as a jumping off point for maturing AT&T’s overall privacy practices.
1:30 PM
Break
1:45 PM
Show & Tell: Assessing your privacy maturity: Practical steps and lessons learned
Christine Szafranski and Fred Jandt, American Family Insurance
Evaluating the maturity of your privacy program is vital, not only for quantifying your progress but also demonstrating the value to leadership. Director of Privacy and Consumer Affairs Christine Szfranski and Privacy Program Manager Fred Jandt at American Family Insurance will share their approach to privacy program assessment, including leveraging popular frameworks and practical steps to incorporate them into your enterprise. Whether you are looking to benchmark your current privacy practices or seeking ways to enhance your program, this session will provide useful knowledge and tools to ensure your privacy program is not only effective but is clearly communicated to your stakeholders.
2:15 PM
Break
2:30 PM
Show & Tell: Data privacy and change management: Leading through organizational shifts
Ashley Slavik, ADM
Whether you’re stepping into a new role as a privacy leader, working with a leadership change, or attempting to influence legacy systems, it’s likely that you’re going to need to reinvent yourself as a privacy leader many times during your career. So what are your best strategies when facing major changes? Ashley Slavik, Chief Privacy and Information GRC Officer at ADM, will share her strategies for launching a culture shift within a large global organization. Ashley will discuss finding and influencing key stakeholders, leveraging privacy adjacent skill sets, recalibrating privacy language and terms to fit a company’s legacy culture and systems, and tailoring your work as much as possible in a world of generic privacy frameworks.
3:00 PM
Snack Break
3:30 PM
Show & Tell: Privacy compliance in website tracking: Optimizing your process
Sarah Stalnecker and Kelley Walsh, New Balance Athletics
As a privacy leader, you want to help your business teams foster growth, but you also need to be compliant, and the rules about what is acceptable (and what isn’t) are constantly changing. Join Kelley Walsh, Associate General Counsel, and Sarah Stalnecker, Director of Global Data Privacy at New Balance Athletics, for a behind-the-scenes look at the processes they’ve deployed to ensure transparency in website data sharing practices. Their process review will include the tools they use, samples of their documentation requirements, and best practices in driving business team adoption.
4:00 PM
Break
4:15 PM
Show & Tell: Crafting a responsible and streamlined AI program
Janine Foster, Target
As more AI products make their way into your company’s operations, how are you evaluating and mitigating risks related to data privacy and responsible AI in your organization? Janine Foster, Senior Director of Privacy and Responsible Technology at Target, will share how they’re building a risk management framework that accounts for new developments in AI, while also allowing their business to move forward with projects safely and efficiently. She will take you behind-the-scenes to discuss stakeholder engagement, intake and assessment processes, risk ranking, and so much more as we figure how best to lead from a privacy lens in this evolving space.
4:45 PM
Adjourn
5:00 PM
Private Dinner
Following our afternoon of conversations and Show & Tell Talks, 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 12
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
Member-Led Discussion: Privacy careers: Fostering long-term growth
Andrew Bjerken, Marriott Vacations Worldwide
Privacy as a discipline has grown rapidly in the last decade, but career trajectories for privacy professionals haven’t kept pace in terms of clear levels or organizational growth. As privacy leaders, how can we address this need for our teams and for the industry as a whole? Andrew Bjerken, VP and Chief Privacy Officer at Marriott Vacations Worldwide, will lead this confidential conversation as we discuss the barriers we face in codifying privacy roles, what we can learn from related disciplines, and best practices to advance privacy as a career path for ambitious employees.
9:35 AM
Break
9:45 AM
Member-Led Discussion: Wielding privacy technology for efficiency and growth
Ryan Scardigli, AES
As the number of privacy vendors rapidly increases, how are you ensuring that your choices are improving your program while also providing enough ROI to justify their implementation? Ryan Scardigli, Privacy and Cybersecurity Program Manager at AES, will lead this conversation on how we’re evaluating technology options, including determining short- and long-term value, exploring where there is the greatest potential for automation, and examining forward leaning options and the impact on our work.
10:15 AM
Snack Break
10:35 AM
Member-Led Discussion: Considering the wider impact of consumer health privacy laws
Melissa Parisi, Herbalife
You may or may not deal regularly with consumer health data, but you might be responsible for more than you think. As U.S.-state laws have created broad categories for what is considered “health” data, how are you incorporating these new standards into your privacy program? In this discussion led by Melissa Parisi, VP and Worldwide Privacy Counsel at Herbalife, we’ll discuss our best practices for dealing with privacy notices, collecting consent, and what we anticipate having to address in the future as we enter a new era of consumer privacy considerations.
11:05 AM
Break
11:20 AM
Member-Led Discussion: Partnering with internal stakeholders to support your privacy story
Virginia Neiswender, Cox Enterprises
How are you leveraging key internal partnerships at your company to further your privacy objectives? In this conversation, Virginia Neiswender, Associate General Counsel for Enterprise Privacy at Cox, will lead us as we share our use cases and brainstorm creative options when it comes upleveling our privacy reach. We’ll consider traditional partners, out of the box ideas, and unique approaches to getting others’ objectives to also support your privacy KPIs and goals.
11:50 PM
Lunch Discussions
12:50 PM
Break
1:00 PM
Unconference 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
Unconference 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
Unconference 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
Unconference 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
