IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025

Julie Brill is one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in technology, governance, geopolitics, and global regulation. After being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serving for six years as a commissioner for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Brill joined Microsoft in 2018 as a senior executive, serving as Microsoft’s chief privacy officer, corporate vice president for privacy, safety and regulatory affairs, and corporate vice president for global tech and regulatory policy.

In her leadership roles at Microsoft, Brill was a central figure in global internal and external regulatory affairs, covering a broad set of issues that are central to building trust in the AI era, including regulatory governance, privacy, responsible AI, and data governance and use strategy. She advised Microsoft's top executives and customers about some of the most important strategic geopolitical issues facing businesses today.

At the FTC, Brill helped drive the broad agenda of one of the world’s most powerful regulatory agencies. She achieved thoughtful and lasting outcomes on issues of critical importance to industry, governments and consumers, including competition, global data flows and geopolitical concerns around data, privacy, health care, and financial fraud.

Brill is now channeling her vision and formidable expertise into her consultancy, Brill Strategies, by providing strategic guidance to global enterprises navigating the rapidly shifting landscape of technology policy and regulation. Leveraging her decades at the forefront of digital innovation, Brill consultancy will empower leaders to navigate the complexities of geopolitics, responsible innovation, and regulatory change — and help their organizations thrive in the AI-driven era.

Brill has been recognized as one of Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women,” “a key player on national and international regulations,” the Federal Trade Commission’s “most important voice on privacy and security,” “one of the most powerful people in health care,” one of the “top minds in online privacy” and a “cybersecurity trailblazer” for her thought leadership on these issues.

Brill is also committed to advancing education, civil society and transatlantic relations. She is an Expert in Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab. She serves on the boards of directors of the IAPP and Center for Democracy and Technology and is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation (U.K.).

Brill graduated from Princeton University and from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Scholar.

Artificial intelligence is upending the planet in real time, and its path of unchecked development threatens to erode democracy and return us to an age of empire, where a small group of companies dictates our future. It does not have to be this way, says Karen Hao, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-award-winning-journalist. Her book “Empire of AI” — an instant New York Times bestseller called a “heroic work” by Shoshana Zuboff (“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”) — is the culmination of her years of insider access to OpenAI and her original reporting, spanning five continents. She assembles the fullest picture yet of the most consequential tech arms race in history. She shows how thoroughly AI will alter society, and, more importantly, what role we can all play in actively shaping AI so that it benefits everyone.

J. Trevor Hughes is the president and CEO of the IAPP, the professional home for privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally. With over 80,000 members in more than 150 countries, the IAPP provides training, certification, publications, research, events and networking opportunities to respond to growing need for professionals to manage the intersections of data, technology and humanity.

A native of Canada, Hughes previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition.

Hughes is widely recognized as a leading digital policy expert on the global stage. He is a sought-after speaker, appearing at SXSW, RSA Conference, TEDx, the Global Privacy Assembly and more. Recent speaking engagements have included ICA Live: Africa, World Bank Group Data Privacy Day, the FIFA Global Compliance Summit and the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme. He has lectured extensively around the world, including at Harvard, MIT, London School of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, University of Texas at Austin, and Northeastern University Law School.

Trevor has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, TechCrunch and Wired and has testified on issues of privacy, surveillance and privacy-sensitive technologies before U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, British Parliament and more.

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his juris doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law, where he is an adjunct professor.

Joe Jones serves as the director of research and insights for the IAPP. Leading the research and insights team, he provides strategic direction and contributes to the development of practical content for privacy professionals on privacy law and policy, data protection management, and privacy technology and engineering. This work includes engaging with privacy leaders from industry, government, academia and civil society as he keeps IAPP members informed on data protection developments around the world.

Previously, Jones served as the deputy director for international data transfers with the U.K. government where he led the team responsible for U.K. government policies relating to free and secure flow of data internationally. This included work on data adequacy partnerships, alternative transfer mechanisms, and multilateral initiatives that promote the trusted exchange of data across borders. Other prior roles include serving as the U.K. government’s deputy head of digital trade policy and working in the private sector as a lawyer on international data issues with Covington & Burling LLP.

Jones has been globally recognized as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential “rulemaker” in Europe as well as the digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September of 2021.

He has led dozens of U.K. government diplomatic delegations or missions, holds over 200 public and private speaking credits on data protection and transfers, and has contributed frequently to academic and professional publications, including the National Law Review.

He received his bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence with honors from the University of Oxford and his legal practitioner course with honors from the University of Law.

Tom Kemp is the executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency. Before his role at the CPPA, he was a Silicon Valley-based tech entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO. Kemp was a full-time volunteer on the 2020 campaign to pass the California Privacy Rights Act and has since advised on significant tech policy legislation across the country, including the Delete Act (SB 362), the AI Transparency Act (SB 942), and bills in Texas, Nebraska, Vermont, and Washington. He has been recognized for his policy contributions by both the California and Texas state senates. Tom is the author of “Containing Big Tech: How to Protect our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy.” He holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and history from the University of Michigan.

Molly Kinder is a nationally recognized expert in labor policy, economic inequality, low-wage work, and the present and future of work. Her research at Brookings examines the impact of generative AI on work and workers.

Kinder’s scholarship on workers has been covered widely by national media, and she has appeared regularly on NPR and other media outlets. Her work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, NPR, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and the BBC. Kinder’s research on essential workers has influenced federal policy and state-level programs, and was cited in dozens of city and county government mandates requiring higher pay for frontline workers.

Previously, Kinder was a nonresident senior fellow at New America and directed research for its Work, Workers, and Technology initiative. She is the lead author of a report exploring the perspectives of workers across the country whose jobs are at high risk of automation. Kinder was also a professor of practice at Georgetown University, where she taught a new graduate-level course on the social, economic, and policy implications of AI.

Kinder has over 20 years of experience in public policy, social innovation, research, philanthropy, and teaching. Previously, she co-founded a $200 million social impact fund and was its vice president of policy. She served in the Obama administration as a director in a new innovation program and co-authored one of the Center for Global Development’s best-selling books. Kinder worked overseas in Liberia, India, and Pakistan with the World Bank and government of Liberia. She has a master’s in public administration in international development from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame.

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two graphic memoirs: Flying Couch and Artificial: A Love Story, which was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus. She is the 2024 winner of the Overseas Press Club Cartoon Award for her comics with the Los Angeles Times, and she was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow with the American Academy in Berlin. Amy has also received fellowships from The Black Mountain Institute, Yaddo and MacDowell, and her work has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award for “Technofeelia,” her four part series with The Believer Magazine. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, WIRED and many other places. Amy has taught widely, in public and private school, in universities, and online. Find her on Patreon to join her monthly cartoonist class.

Casey Newton co-hosts Hard Fork, the critically acclaimed New York Times podcast about the future that is already here, alongside Kevin Roose. Newton is also the founder and editor of Platformer, an independent publication devoted to exploring the intersection of technology and democracy. Always evolving with the news, Newton’s work focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence, how social media affects human behavior and politics, government regulation of Big Tech, as well as the declining trust in government and ongoing threats to democracy.

In 2020, Newton was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for his series of investigative reports about content moderation that lead to a USD52 million settlement for Facebook moderators who developed PTSD on the job. Prior to founding Platformer in 2020, Casey spent 10 years covering Silicon Valley for The Verge, CNET, and the San Francisco Chronicle. While at The Verge, he authored The Interface, a daily newsletter with over 20,000 subscribers, and hosted the Converge podcast, offering humorous and revealing conversations with Silicon Valley’s most fascinating entrepreneurs.

Kevin Roose co-hosts Hard Fork, the critically acclaimed New York Times podcast about the future that is already here, alongside Casey Newton. Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the bestselling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, “The Shift”, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. He is a recurring guest on The Daily podcast and appears regularly on leading TV and radio shows. He writes and speaks frequently on topics including automation and artificial intelligence, social media, disinformation and cybersecurity, and digital wellness.

In addition to Hard Fork, Roose is the host of the New York Times podcast Rabbit Hole, an eight-part series released in 2020 about how the internet is influencing our beliefs and behavior.

After college, Roose joined The New York Times, followed by New York magazine, and wrote the book “Young Money,” which chronicled the lives of eight junior Wall Street investment bankers right after the 2008 financial crisis. Before rejoining The Times in 2017, Roose produced and co-hosted a TV documentary series about technology, called Real Future.

At The Times, Roose writes about technology and its effects on society. Recently, that has meant a lot of coverage of companies like Facebook and YouTube, as well as profiles of internet personalities like PewDiePie, and social phenomena like online radicalization and workplace automation.