Announcing Lineup for Bridge Summit 2026

Privado AI will host its third annual Bridge Summit, a virtual privacy conference, on February 4-5, 2026. After 1,600 privacy professionals attended Bridge Summit in 2025 to discuss technical privacy challenges, Privado AI has redesigned Bridge 2026 to focus on privacy innovation, regulation, and AI governance.

Increasing GenAI use and privacy regulation is putting more pressure on privacy teams to protect their organizations. Bridge Summit 2026 brings all privacy professionals, regulators, and attorneys together to openly discuss new challenges and solutions over two full days.

Bridge 2026 features 15 sessions across four tracks: Privacy Innovation, Regulation & Enforcement, AI Governance, and Privacy Program Design. The virtual conference is free to attend for anyone who is interested. Register here to gain access. The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has approved for Bridge attendees to receive 9.75 CPE credits for various privacy and AI governance certifications. 

“The privacy landscape continues to change at an increasingly rapid pace, and Bridge Summit has become the annual event for the privacy community to discuss the latest issues as they prepare for the year,” said Vaibhav Antil, CEO and Co-Founder of Privado AI. “In response to new regulation and enforcement from US states, this Bridge Summit features leading regulators and attorneys to bring new clarity to privacy professionals. Attendees will also get an inside look at Privado AI’s new agentic solutions that are enabling privacy teams to keep up with regulation and the wave of AI.” 

The third edition of Bridge Summit will feature a broad lineup of speakers spanning privacy leaders, regulators, attorneys, Privado AI customers, and partners from organizations such as CalPrivacy, ZoomInfo, Superhuman, FLLR Consulting, and FKKS. The speakers include: 

• Tom Kemp, Executive Director, CalPrivacy (California Privacy Protection Agency)
• Andrea Lowe, Assistant Attorney General, Colorado's Attorney General's Office
• Max Schrems, Chairperson, noyb
• Linna Hsii, Senior Privacy Counsel, Airbnb
• Carl Mathis, Privacy Architect, HP 
• Beatrice Bott, Chief Privacy Officer, DoubleVerify
• Tyler Bridegan, Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP (former Director of Privacy & Tech Enforcement for Texas Attorney General’s Office)

The goals of this annual conference are to advance privacy expertise, increase knowledge sharing, and support career growth primarily for privacy leaders and practitioners. Bridge 2026 will include fireside chats, presentations, and panels across the following four tracks:  

• Privacy Innovation - AI Agents & Automation: AI agents are enabling unprecedented automation across disciplines, and agents designed for privacy can finally bring scalable personal data governance. Hear from 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. Watch how agents can initiate, populate, and help review assessments. Learn how HP and ZoomInfo use Privado AI to build complete and real-time data maps across sources. See Privado AI’s latest capabilities to continuously scan websites and apps for privacy compliance risks. 
• Regulation & Enforcement - US & Europe: Get up to speed on the latest changes to privacy regulation and prepare for changes to come in 2026. Watch an exclusive fireside chat between CalPrivacy Executive Director Tom Kemp and privacy attorney Daniel Goldberg as they discuss new requirements regarding the Delete Act, the DROP system, risk assessments, automated decision-making, and cybersecurity audits. Get the latest best practices to protect against CIPA lawsuits and learn about the most critical requirements from new state laws going into effect on January 1st, 2026. Hear privacy activist and noyb founder Max Schrems break down how the newly proposed Digital Omnibus could re-write privacy and AI law in Europe.
• AI Governance - AI Products & Third-Party Tools: AI has quickly become embedded in nearly all software, creating unprecedented challenges for privacy and governance teams to keep risk in check. Hear privacy and AI governance leaders from Airbnb and Superhuman unpack the real-world challenges that arise when evaluating and implementing third-party AI tools. Explore how to promote the responsible use of AI in product development as leaders discuss risk management frameworks and best practices.
• Privacy Program Design - Agility & Impact: Managing privacy programs and a career in privacy continues to get more complex. There is no standard privacy org structure or risk management framework. Join privacy leaders from organizations such as Align Technologies and DoubleVerify as they share experiences running privacy programs in the face of changing regulation, business priorities, and responsibilities. Explore how to grow your career in privacy as a privacy staffing firm CEO and a privacy leader share their learnings and best practices for job seekers and hiring managers. 

To learn more, see the full agenda for Bridge 2026. Bridge Summit is free to attend. Register now.