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FPF DC Privacy Forum 2026

This event will be held in live, in-person-only format. June 10, 2026

Overview

We’re excited to invite you to the Future of Privacy Forum’s Annual DC Privacy Forum on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at the Yours Truly DC Hotel in Washington, D.C. This event will be held live and in-person only.

Join us at the DC Privacy Forum, where business and government leaders gather with experts from civil society and academia for thought-provoking and interactive discussions. The Forum provides a unique space to explore critical policy and governance questions, share insights from the field, and identify pathways toward principled and pragmatic data protection, AI and digital governance practices.

The program will include:

  • Panel Discussions & Lightning Talks: Insightful panel discussions & lightning talks focused on AI, policy, and critical topics in privacy today.
  • The Big Debate: Engage in stimulating debates where leading experts share their insights and challenge conventional assumptions on critical AI and privacy topics.
  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and build valuable professional relationships during our lunch networking reception.

Stay tuned for more details, including agenda updates, and attendee information!

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Agenda

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2026

Time

Event

Location

Speakers

9:30 am –
10:00 am ET

WELCOME COFFEE & EVENT REGISTRATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Be Announced

 

 

 

 

10:00 am –
10:45 am ET

OPENING REMARKS & KEYNOTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Be Announced

 

 

 

 

10:45 am –
11:00 am ET

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am –
11:30 am ET

GEOSTRATEGY OF REGULATION: UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO THE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR DIGITAL DATA SOVEREIGNTY 

What is the U.S. strategy when it comes to understanding and responding to the global demand for digital data sovereignty? Does the trend towards localized data control also mean less international coordination?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speakers:

  • Pablo Chavez, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology & National Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
  • Kenton Thibaut, Senior Resident China Fellow, Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)
  • Cameron Kerry, Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow, The Brookings Institution

 

 

 

 

11:30 am –
12:00 pm ET

AGE TECH PANEL

This panel will explore the emerging challenges and opportunities of Age Tech. The rapidly growing US population will create a range of socioeconomic challenges for which technology will play a significant role. Privacy, autonomy, and dignity issues will be central and assured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator:

  • Jordan Wrigley, Senior Technologist, Future of Privacy Forum

Speakers:

  • Debra Berlyn, Executive Director, Project GOAL
  • Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, Research Director, Real-World Evidence (RWE), Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

 

 

 

 

12:00 pm –
12:45 pm ET

STATE OF U.S. PRIVACY REGULATION 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator: 

  • Tatiana Rice, Senior Director for U.S. Legislation, Future of Privacy Forum

 

 

 

 

12:45 pm –
1:45 pm ET

LUNCH NETWORKING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:45 pm –
2:30 pm ET

THE CHANGING GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator:

  • Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Vice President for Global Privacy, Future of Privacy Forum

Speakers: 

  • Justin B. Weiss, Senior Counsel & Senior Director, Crowell & Moring LLP and Crowell Global Advisors
  • Hilary Wandall, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Dun & Bradstreet
  • John Miller, Information Technology Industry Council, General Counsel & Senior Vice President of Policy

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm –
2:50 pm ET

THE BIG DEBATE

Debate: Resolved: Chatbots & Youth: Encourage & Support or Regulate & Restrict

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Negative: Encourage & Support:

  • Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, Cato Institute

Affirmative: Regulate & Restrict:

  • To Be Announced

 

 

 

 

2:50 pm –
3:00 pm ET

BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm –
3:30 pm ET

AI & THE WORKFORCE FIRESIDE CHAT AND PANEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Be Announced

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm –
4:30 pm ET

UNPACKING EMERGING ISSUES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator:

  • Stacey Gray, Senior Director for Artificial Intelligence, Future of Privacy Forum

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm –
4:35 pm ET

FORUM CLOSING REMARKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker:

  • Matthew Reisman, Vice President for U.S. Policy, Future of Privacy Forum

 

 

 

Speakers

Debra Berlyn

Executive Director | President, Project GOAL | Consumer Policy Solutions

Debra Berlyn serves as the Executive Director of The Project to Get Older Adults onLine (GOAL), and she is also the President of Consumer Policy Solutions. Ms. Berlyn is a seasoned veteran of telecommunications and consumer policy issues and an advocate for consumers of technology services. She represented AARP on the digital television transition and has worked closely with national aging organizations on several Internet issues, including online safety and privacy concerns.

 

 

Pablo Chavez

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology & National Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Pablo Chavez is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with CNAS’s Technology and National Security Program. His research focuses on the national security, economic, and geopolitical implications of cloud and AI policy.

Pablo advises corporations and organizations on technology policy and strategy, with a focus on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. A contributor to the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Lawfare, he has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and POLITICO.

Pablo also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), on the board of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), and on the advisory committees of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI).

 

 

Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup

Research Director, Real-World Evidence (RWE), Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup is the Research Director of Real-World Evidence (RWE) at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy in Washington, DC, strategically leading and managing the Institute’s RWE Collaborative and RWE policy research portfolio and education. As a nationally and internationally recognized engagement expert, biomedical researcher, bioethicist, and policy practitioner, her work explores and directly addresses key regulatory and implementation science issues and ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) at the intersection of health policy and innovation.

 

 

Jennifer Huddleston

Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, Cato Institute

Jennifer Huddleston is a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state. Huddleston’s work covers topics including antitrust, online speech and content moderation, and data privacy. Her work has appeared in a range of outlets including USA TodayNational Review, the Los Angeles TimesCNNRealClearPolicy, and The Dispatch. She has published in law journals including the Liberty University Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law JournalGeorge Mason Law ReviewOklahoma Law Review, and Colorado Technology Law Journal and provided expert testimony before Congress and state legislatures related to her research. Huddleston has a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a BA in political science from Wellesley College.

 

 

Cameron Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution

Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy, artificial intelligence, and cross-border challenges in information technology. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He leads two projects: The Privacy Debate, which engages policymakers and stakeholders on the national legislative debate on privacy, and the Forum for Cooperation on AI, a series of roundtables bringing together officials and experts from several countries to identify avenues of cooperation on AI regulation, standards, and research and development. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy, artificial intelligence, and international data flows, along with other digital economy issues.

 

 

John Miller

Senior Vice President of Policy & General Counsel, Information Technology Industry Council

John Miller, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Policy, Trust, Data, and Technology, currently leads ITI’s Trust, Data, and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s global strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, Internet of Things, cloud computing, telecommunications, surveillance, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters.

 

 

Kenton Thibaut

Senior Resident China fellow, Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)

Kenton Thibaut is a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), where she leads China programming for the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

In this role, Thibaut serves as head of China research and principal investigator for projects analyzing China’s role in the global technology ecosystem and its foreign-policy priorities in the digital space.

Before joining the DFRLab, Thibaut spent five years in the private sector, specializing in Chinese government relations for multinational companies. Previously, she conducted research on Chinese elite politics at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

 

 

Hilary Wandall

Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Dun & Bradstreet

Hilary Wandall is the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics. She leads the company’s global compliance and ethics program and manages the regulatory legal teams responsible for corporate compliance, data and product compliance, and privacy and data protection.

Hilary has a multi-disciplinary background in law, ethics and compliance, biomedical science, strategy, and product development. She joined Dun & Bradstreet in 2021 after five years at the privacy solutions provider, TrustArc, where she most recently served as Senior Vice President, Privacy Intelligence and General Counsel. Prior to TrustArc, Hilary spent 22 years at the global pharmaceutical company, Merck, most recently as Associate Vice President, Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer.

 

 

Justin B. Weiss

Crowell Global Advisors Senior Director, Senior Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP

Justin B. Weiss is a senior director in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell Global Advisors, the global government relations, public policy, and public affairs affiliate of Crowell & Moring. He supports in-house legal and technology teams, senior executives, and boards of directors on the successful development and execution of technology strategies across multiple geographies, and in the management and mitigation of digital risk across stakeholder groups, accounting for consumer, business-to-business (B2B), and U.S. and foreign government perspectives.

In his practice as a senior counsel in Crowell’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, he draws on over 20 years’ experience of private sector leadership advancing companies’ in-house privacy, cyber, and artificial intelligence (AI) governance capabilities. In addition to providing legal advice and specialized support to technology investors, Justin helps established industries integrate innovations from the internet and digital sectors to inform their own digitization and digital risk management efforts, including compliance with data protection, AI, and evolving digital sector regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.

 

 

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Location

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Yours Truly Hotel - 1143 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037

1143 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037