2026
Bridge the gap between privacy regulation and privacy practices by attending the largest virtual conference for privacy professionals.
Explore how the privacy world is innovating in response to the latest pressures from global regulation and generative AI.
Hear from leaders
redefining data privacy
Session Tracks
Session
Get clarity on California privacy regulation and enforcement by joining us for a live fireside chat with CalPrivacy Executive Director, Tom Kemp, and privacy attorney Daniel Goldberg, partner at FKKS. Hear directly from a leading California privacy regulator on the new requirements regarding the Delete Act and the DROP system, risk assessments, automated decision-making, and cybersecurity audits. Learn how enforcement is carried out and the agency’s top priorities for 2026.
AI has dramatically sped up innovation across organizations, and privacy teams need their own AI agents to keep pace. Agents are enabling unprecedented automation across disciplines, and agents designed for privacy can finally bring scalable personal data governance. Join Privado AI co-founders Vaibhav Antil and Prashant Mahajan as they share how Privado AI is building agents that can unlock new automation for privacy assessments, data maps, and risk discovery. Learn how agents can initiate, populate, and help review assessments. Build complete and accurate data maps with agents that analyze and unite data across sources. Automate risk analysis and alerts with agents set to follow your policies and principles.
AI has quickly become embedded in nearly all B2B software, creating unprecedented challenges for privacy and governance teams to keep risk in check. In this session, privacy and AI governance experts will unpack the real-world challenges that arise when evaluating and implementing third-party AI tools. Panelists will share best practices and success stories for due diligence, contractual safeguards, and continuous monitoring. Hear how these leaders have addressed the unique challenges from governing usage of foundational AI models, new AI capabilities from existing vendors, and brand new AI tools.
On January 1, 2026, enforcement begins for new comprehensive state privacy laws in Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island. Join this session to learn the most critical requirements you need to prepare your organization for. Understand when privacy assessments are required, how sensitive data processing is restricted, and what changes to make to privacy notices. Hear privacy legal experts explain how these laws compare with other state laws and get best practices on reducing enforcement risk.
Do you ever deal with ambiguously large responsibilities, changing business priorities, and complex regulatory changes? That’s why we gathered experienced privacy leaders to address these growing pressures on privacy teams. Hear real-life examples for how privacy programs can be designed to adapt to continually changing priorities. Get best practices on prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and metrics to proactively set up your team for success.
The surge in CIPA lawsuits continues to plague privacy teams across the US, and to make things even more complicated, the courts continue to evolve their interpretation of the law. Join for an in-depth presentation from leading CIPA legal expert, Matthew Pearson, Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, to learn the latest CIPA litigation trends and how to protect your company from a CIPA lawsuit. Get Matthew’s expert analysis on the most recent CIPA cases and hear how to minimize CIPA litigation risk.
The most visible and consequential privacy risks live on websites and mobile apps, yet many organizations lack consistent web and app privacy governance. Learn from a seasoned privacy consultant how they’ve helped customers across industries build resilient and efficient governance programs. Hear how Privado AI continuously scans websites and mobile apps to automate privacy audits. See live Privado AI demo showing the only solution to identify each personal data element shared and flag non-compliant sensitive data sharing from websites and apps.
Join for a live fireside chat with Assistant Colorado Attorney General, Andrea Lowe, to learn about Colorado’s new privacy restrictions and how states are working together on privacy enforcement. In 2025, Colorado privacy law amendments went into effect to increase restrictions on children's and biometric data, and Colorado joined the cross-state GPC investigative sweep and the 10-state Consortium of Privacy Regulators. Get unique insight from a leading privacy regulator on how to reduce enforcement risk for your organization.
On November 19, 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus Package, proposing updates to key pillars of the EU’s GDPR, AI Act, and Data Act. Join this session to hear EU privacy experts break down the largest potential changes to the European data regulatory framework in years. Get the latest updates on the current regulatory process and understand how the most critical changes would affect privacy practices and enforcement. Become an expert on these landscape shaping developments as they unfold.
The AI regulatory landscape in the US is evolving rapidly with new laws in Texas, Utah, Colorado, New York, and California recently going into effect. In this session, leading attorneys on AI will break down the most critical obligations from these new laws, including algorithmic impact assessments, disclosure requirements, and data protection mandates that demand immediate attention. They'll provide practical guidance on identifying which regulations apply to your AI systems, prioritizing compliance efforts, and building scalable governance programs that can adapt as more states introduce their own legislation.
As organizations race to build AI into their products and internal tools, privacy and governance leaders face the critical challenge of enabling innovation while protecting personal data and maintaining regulatory compliance. This panel brings together AI governance and privacy experts to share practical frameworks and battle-tested strategies for embedding responsible AI practices throughout the product development lifecycle. Panelists will discuss real-world success stories, common pitfalls in managing privacy risks, and actionable approaches for balancing speed-to-market with robust data protection controls. Whether you're building customer-facing AI features or deploying internal AI tools, you'll leave with concrete guidance on creating governance structures that accelerate—rather than impede—responsible innovation.
With the advent of AI agents that can analyze and take action, manual privacy assessments can now become a thing of the past. See how privacy teams and stakeholders are using Privado AI’s new Agentic Assessments to populate entire privacy assessments by simply importing documents and contracts and letting agents do the rest. Hear customer use cases and get a live demo showing agents extracting personal processing details, conducting risk analysis, and documenting evidence.
Questionnaire-based data mapping has proved to be slow, imprecise, and never complete. Explore Privado AI’s multi-pronged approach to build complete and real-time data maps. Map real-time data flows by scanning code of internally developed software or scanning third-party tools. Fill in any gaps with agents that extract data processing details from relevant documentation and contracts. Prefill RoPAs with accurate data processing and contractual information. See the latest product updates, customer use cases, and a live demo.
With over 100 million internet connected HP devices in the hands of users across 170 countries, HP needs privacy visibility and controls that scale with their technology and their business. Hear from Carl Mathis, Privacy Architect at HP, how he has used Privado AI to monitor personal data processing in real-time across HP and proactively mitigate privacy risk. Learn what privacy challenges HP has faced and how they have overcome them with Privado AI’s dynamic data maps and privacy code scanning.
There’s never been one clear path to career growth in data privacy. Join this session to get career and staffing guidance uniquely tailored to privacy professionals backed by dense market intelligence from TruLegal founder and CEO on the behaviors and desires of both job seekers and hiring managers. Having represented and interviewed tens of thousands of privacy job seekers over the last 16 years, Coseglia will articulate paths most available, and skills with the most leverage for growth, in privacy today. Leaders and hiring managers will get never-before-given tips and wisdom on how to attract and retain talent in the modern era of privacy, AI, governance.
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Speakers
Daniel Rosenzweig
Carl Mathis
Jonathan Tam
Suresh Putteti
Matthew Ferraro
Linna Hsii
Tyler Bridegan
Beatrice Botti
Jodi Daniels
Andrea Lowe
Tom Kemp
Debra Farber
Crystal Ferguson
Jared Coseglia
Matthew Pearson
Vaibhav Antil
Robert Bateman
Rachel Wallis
Nishant Bhajaria
Prashant Mahajan
Nik Fuller
Daniel Goldberg
Ben Werner
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Frequently
Bridge Summit is a virtual two-day conference organized by Privado AI to be held on February 4-5, 2026 for privacy leaders, managers, engineers, lawyers, and consultants to openly discuss current privacy challenges and new solutions.
The IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) has approved for Bridge Summit attendees to receive CPE credits that count towards a number of IAPP certifications.
In 2025, over 1,500 privacy professionals joined the second edition of Bridge Summit. The event’s 44 speakers included a wide range of privacy leaders and privacy experts from companies like Uber, Snap, HP, Marriott, DoorDash, LinkedIn, M&T Bank, and Vodafone. See the full recap of the 2025 Bridge sessions here.
Yes, Bridge Summit is free for all to join. Register for free to get access links for event.
Registered participants will receive an email with a unique link to join the event a few days prior to the event.
Yes. The IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) has approved for Bridge Summit attendees to receive CPE credits that count towards a number of IAPP certifications.
Yes, register now to get the recordings in your inbox after the event.
Privado AI
Data Privacy Day is “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust.” Initiated in 2007 by the Council of Europe and adopted in 2009 by the United States, Data Privacy Day is now observed by over 50 countries around the world.
At Privado AI, we take pride in celebrating this day every year in a big way and Bridge Summit is our way of doing just that for 2026.
professionals attended Bridge 2025.
