Sep 23–26, 2019

Brenda Leong
Senior Counsel and Director of Strategy, Future of Privacy Forum

Brenda Leong is a senior counsel and director of strategy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US). She oversees strategic planning of organizational goals, as well as managing the FPF portfolio on biometrics, particularly facial recognition, along with the ethics and privacy issues associated with artificial intelligence. She works on industry standards and collaboration on privacy concerns, by partnering with stakeholders and advocates to reach practical solutions to the privacy challenges for consumer and commercial data uses. Previously, Brenda served in the US Air Force, including policy and legislative affairs work from the Pentagon and the US Department of State. She’s a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law.

Sessions

1:15pm–1:55pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 14

War stories from the front lines of ML

Law and Ethics, Strata Business Summit

Secondary topics: Ethics, Privacy and Security

Andrew Burt (bnh.ai), Brenda Leong (Future of Privacy Forum), David Florsek (IDEMIA NSS), Alex Beutel (Google Brain), Chris Wheeler (Mastercard)

Machine learning techniques are being deployed across almost every industry and sector. But this adoption comes with real, and oftentimes underestimated, privacy and security risks. Andrew Burt and Brenda Leong convene a panel of experts including David Florsek, Chris Wheeler, and Alex Beutel to detail real-life examples of when ML goes wrong, and the lessons they learned. Read more.

2:05pm–2:45pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 14

Regulations and the future of data

Security and Privacy, Strata Business Summit

Secondary topics: Ethics, Privacy and Security

Andrew Burt (bnh.ai), Brenda Leong (Future of Privacy Forum), Boris Segalis (Cooley), Susan Israel (Loeb & Loeb, LLP)

From the EU to California and China, more of the world is regulating how data can be used. Andrew Burt and Brenda Leong convene leading experts on law and data science for a deep dive into ways to regulate the use of AI and advanced analytics. Come learn why these laws are being proposed, how they’ll impact data, and what the future has in store. Read more.