Meet the Morning Keynote
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Leonardo Cervera NavasLeonardo Cervera Navas is the Director of the Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the Data Protection Authority of the EU. Law graduate of the University of Málaga (Spain) and master’s degree in European Law from the University of Granada (Spain). He was a fellow at Duke University in North Carolina (US) as part of the EU Fellowship Programme of the European Commission. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in HR management by Kingston University (UK). He is Member of the Malaga Academy of Sciences (correspondent in Brussels). Leonardo joined the European Commission in 1999 and since then he has been working in the Data Protection field in the EU institutions. In 2010, he joined the EDPS, as Head of the Human Resources, Budget and Administration Unit and he was appointed Director in2018. As Head of the Secretariat, he is a member of the Management Board of the EDPS, responsible for advising on data protection law and policy, and he is in charge of the coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the institution.
Casimir WierzynskiCasimir Wierzynski is Senior Director, Office of the CTO, in the Artificial Intelligence Product Group at Intel. He directs research efforts to identify, synthesize, and incubate emerging technologies that will enable the next generation of AI systems, and leads Intel's privacy-preserving machine learning efforts. Before joining Intel in 2017, Cas led research teams in neuromorphic computing, AI, and robotics at Qualcomm. Prior to Qualcomm, Cas was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he traded fixed income and credit derivatives. Cas received his BS and MS in electrical engineering at MIT, completing his master’s thesis at AT&T Bell Labs, and a BA in mathematics at Cambridge University as a British Marshall Scholar. Driven by his passion for AI and the brain, Cas left finance to receive his PhD at Caltech in Computation and Neural Systems, where he used large-scale neural recordings to study the relationship between memory consolidation and sleep.
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Sandeep GopisettySandeep Gopisetty is Director of Enterprise AI, Systems & Solutions as well as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is responsible for advancing cognitive enterprises. With over 25 years of IBM Research experience, he has a passion for nurturing high performance, global and multi-disciplinary teams to bring innovation from Research to the market in collaboration with product groups, services, customers, and universities.
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Michael PhilipsMichael Philips is an Assistant General Counsel in Microsoft's Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. In his current role, he serves as lead counsel for Technology and Corporate Responsibility, with primary responsibility for legal support of the operational and policy initiatives of Microsoft's Office of Responsible AI. Mike joined Microsoft in 1999 and his time at the company has supported a variety of enterprise and consumer products. He has also worked in the field, including during a 2- year assignment in Singapore leading Microsoft's Southeast Asia legal team. Prior to Microsoft, Mike spent five years as an associate at Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) in Seattle, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
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Pam DixonPam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. An author and researcher, she has written respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, identity, biometrics, AI, data brokers, health privacy, and other topics. Dixon conducted substantive biometrics research in India, which formed the basis of a scholarly article analyzing India's Aadhaar, biometrics, and EU-US data protection policy. A Failure to Do No Harm, (Springer-Nature). This work was cited in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court of India Aadhaar privacy decision. In 2o19, she was the rapporteur for the first Roundtable of the African Data Protection Authorities, as well as author fo the Rapporteur's report on the roundtable. Dixon was the lead author and researcher on a groundbreaking report on predictive analytics and financial, medical, and other scoring mechanisms, The Scoring of America. She researched and wrote the first report on medical identity theft, identifying and bringing that topic to the public for the first time. Dixon has written 8 books and numerous other privacy studies. She is an expert advisor to OECD on AI, and has been an OECD advisor on health data uses. Her next book on privacy is set to be published in 2020.
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Tim SparapaniTim Sparapani, Principal at SPQR Strategies, PLLC, is a legislative, legal and strategic consultant who helps companies and consumer and privacy advocates understand and respond to the pressures created for businesses, consumers and governments by emerging technologies. Tim’s specialties are privacy, technology, antitrust and constitutional law. Tim represents industry leading companies, dynamic technology startups, and thought leading advocacy organizations. Tim is a frequent public speaker on topics related to emerging technologies. He has testified before Congress five times and given more than 500 TV, radio and print interviews. Tim has served as General Counsel or lead outside counsel to dozens of tech startups. He was the first Director of Public Policy at Facebook. Tim developed and led the implementation of the company’s interaction with federal, state, local and foreign governments and with opinion and policy makers. He managed these roles as Facebook grew from 150 million to more than 1 billion active users and from 300 employees to nearly 4,000. Prior to Facebook, Tim was Senior Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he helped advance the constitutional principle of the right to privacy, representing the ACLU before Congress, the Executive Branch and the media.
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Lee TiedrichLee Tiedrich is an IP/technology transactions partner at Covington & Burling LLP and co-chair of the firm’s global and multi-disciplinary Artificial Intelligence Initiative. She brings together an undergraduate education in electrical engineering and over twenty-five years of legal experience to counsel clients on a broad range of intellectual property, technology transactions, AI governance, data and other matters, which often involve cutting-edge technologies (such as AI, IoT, VR and AR) and require innovative legal and business solutions. Her work spans several industries, including fintech, digital health, mobility/autonomous vehicles, IoT, enterprise, sports, and energy. Ms. Tiedrich serves on the Board of Visitors of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and the Dean’s Council for Penn Law Women. She has been a peer reviewer for the law book division of Oxford University Press. She has written and spoken extensively on AI and other technology matters before government, business and other leaders, including in Europe, India, the Middle East, Canada and the United States. Ms. Tiedrich is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, has served on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology, is a member of the IEEE, and served as a reviewer of the Law Committee chapter of the IEEE’s Ethically Aligned Design (First Edition), published in 2019. She received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and B.S.E., magna cum laude, from Duke University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
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Meet the Moderators
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Ashwin MachanavajjhalaAshwin Machanavajjhala is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Duke University, and co-founder of Tumult Labs. Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist in the Knowledge Management group at Yahoo! Research. His primary research interests lie in algorithms for privacy preserving data analytics with a focus on differential privacy. He is a recipient of a 2017 IEEE Influential paper award for the invention of L-diversity in 2006, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER award in 2013, and the 2008 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. In collaboration with the US Census Bureau, he is credited with developing the first real world deployment of differential privacy. Ashwin graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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Jolynn DellingerJolynn Dellinger serves as Special Counsel for Privacy Policy and Litigation at the North Carolina Department of Justice. From 2007-2013, she worked as the founding program manager for Data Privacy Day. She turned Data Privacy Day into a globally recognized event to raise awareness for privacy, with a specific focus on recognizing globally shared privacy interests and creating mechanisms for dialogue and collaboration among nonprofits, academics, businesses and government entities. Dellinger has worked as a privacy lawyer at Intel Corporation, at The Privacy Projects, and at the National Cyber Security Alliance. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Triangle Privacy Research Hub and is a member of the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Committee as well as the NCSA Data Privacy Day Advisory Committee. Prior to working for Intel, Dellinger worked as a staff attorney for Judge W. Earl Britt in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (1998-2007), as a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General’s Office in the U.S. Department of Justice (1994-95), and as a clerk for Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1993-94). She has also practiced at law firms in Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, and taught Family Law at Duke Law School and Legal Writing at UNC School of Law. Dellinger received her B.A. in English from Columbia University (’89). She also received an M.A. in Humanities (with a concentration in Women’s Studies) and her JD from Duke Law School (’93), where she graduated Order of the Coif and was an editor on the Duke Law Journal.
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