Inevitably, privacy-enhancing technologies are often viewed exclusively as a privacy tool. This panel will discuss whether this is too narrow an assessment that fails to account for the role PETs can play in both the development and maintenance of a profitable data strategy.
- Bridging the perceived divide between privacy and data teams
- PETs from a data governance and strategy perspective
- Achieving data privacy by design and default
Chris Murphy
Karen Habercoss
Lambert Hogenhout
Lambert Hogenhout is Chief Data, Analytics and Emerging Technologies at the United Nations Secretariat. He is also an author, keynote speaker and advisor on data, AI and responsible tech.
He has 25 years of experience working both in the private sector and with international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. He leads policy, governance and strategy in the areas of data and AI. He researches the societal implications of technology and advises UN senior leaders on digital transformation and the ethics of data and AI. He recently published a book on Data Privacy in international context.
Charles Cutshall
With over a decade of experience leading and transforming privacy programs across the Federal Government, Charles Cutshall is one of the most trusted privacy professionals working in Washington, D.C. today. In August 2022, he began serving as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and Director of Open Government for the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he has agency-wide responsibility and accountability for the Department’s privacy program, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), principles of transparency and open government, and management of the Department’s directives management program.
Previously, Charles served as the CPO for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he was responsible for managing privacy risks to individuals and to the Commission associated with the processing of personally identifiable information and for providing policy and programmatic oversight of the CFTC's privacy program. Prior to joining the CFTC, Charles served in the Executive Office of the President where he was responsible for overseeing Federal agencies' privacy programs, developing Federal privacy policy, and helping Federal agencies solve privacy problems. His prior experience also includes developing enterprise-wide privacy policies and supporting privacy compliance programs at both the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2019, Charles with appointed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building, a statutory advisory committee responsible for developing recommendations on how to promote the use of Federal data for evidence building.
Charles is a voting member of the Federal Privacy Council’s Executive Committee and Chairs the Council’s Public Affairs and Community Engagement Committee. Charles is also member of the Robert S. Brookings Society at the Brookings Institution. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Privacy Professional. In 2019, the International Association of Privacy Professional designated Charles as a Fellow of Information Privacy. Charles holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Ryan Lasmaili
Ryan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.