PET Shorts & Data Sorts: Recent Episodes
Jeffrey Dobin
Learn how innovative leaders democratize data to drive business. Their short stories offer a glimpse into how they secure and protect data with privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) while making insights accessible to those who need it most.
**Discussion Highlights with Kenneth Bible, CISO @ U.S. Department of Homeland Security (recently retired)
AI Impact*: Ken shares how artificial intelligence, particularly Generative AI, impacts cybersecurity and data privacy.
*Collaboration: Partnerships between cybersecurity, privacy, and legal are crucial for addressing concerns that exist in both cybersecurity and civil rights communities.
*Zero Trust: What this means and how it applies to AI.
*Securing the AI Environment: Addressing challenges of securing where AI models are trained.
*Adopting AI Monitoring Tools: Observability and alerting mitigate against the risks of GenAI, LLMs, and machine learning.
*Opportunities for Productivity: Despite risks, embracing AI offers opportunities for productivity and efficiency improvements, particularly in mission critical areas.
*Story Time: Ken shares a story from his past about conceptualizing the tactical cloudlet, highlighting industry's response to military needs and the evolution of edge computing.
*Leadership and Legacy: Discussion around the importance of creating and fostering new leaders in the cybersecurity field.
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Discussion Points with Bjorn Austraat, Top AI Voice on LinkedIn
*Background as an “AI Veteran” - Bjorn’s background in AI, from early work in machine translation to contributions to IBM's Watson and roles at Wells Fargo and Truist.
*Elegant Simplicity - The importance of effectively translating between business executives and data scientists to improve project success rates and the idea of “Elegant Simplicity” to reduce unnecessary complexity and to enhance understanding and decision making.
*Communication in AI - Challenges of defining AI and the importance of creating a common language between technical and business teams for effective collaboration.
*The 4D Framework - Dollars, Data, Differentiation, and Deployability to evaluate AI ideas, prioritize, and scale across large organizations.
*Measuring the 4Ds - Standardizing measures for the 4Ds to make objective decisions about AI projects while reducing emotional bias.
*Model Governance and Communication - Using the 4D framework for governance and how effective communication is key to successful project management and regulatory compliance.
*Adapting to Generative AI Innovations - Reflections on the rapid advancements in Generative AI and the necessity for leaders to confidently navigate changes and innovations.
*AI Observability – MLOps, the importance of responsible AI, and how a monitoring and explainability layer through Fiddler.AI can be used
*Communication Strategies for Long-term Projects - Insights into maintaining engagement and relevance through strategic communication throughout the lifecycle of AI projects.
*Enterprise AI Strategy - Outlining the 5 main components of a comprehensive enterprise AI strategy, emphasizing the importance of considering the end-to-end model lifecycle.
*Build vs. Buy Decision Making - Thoughts on deciding when to build in-house solutions versus partnering or buying, based on the core relevance to the business.
Relevant links, posts, and articles referenced in the podcast:
Bjorn’s LinkedIn profile
The AI Nexus
AI Strategy in a box
Project sourcing, sifting, sequencing: 4Ds, Disruptive vs. Incremental Innovation, Horizon 1/2/3 thinking
Evident AI Index
Recommended Conference: Evident AI Symposium
Recommended Books:
Four Thousand Weeks - Time Management for Mortals
Save the Cat!
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Top Takeaways from Adhiraj Saxena, Privacy Enhancing Technologies at IMDA and Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore
- Help regulators understand how, why, and where sensitive data flows
- Use cases must be the driver of any PET-related discussions
- PET-based systems should have governance controls
- The community will work towards standards and best practices
- How fully homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, secure multiparty compute, and trusted execution enclaves are being used
Mastercard Case Study - IMDA PET Sandbox:Preventing Financial Fraud Across Different Jurisdictions with Secure Data Collaborations
Meta Case Study - IMDA PET Sandbox:
Digital Advertising in a Paradigm without 3rd Party Cookies
Report on Key Insights:Asia Tech x Singapore 2023 Roundtable on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Conferences to attend:Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) in Singapore | May 2024
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Top Takeaways from Catherine Miller, CTO, at Flatiron Health
- Process, guardrails, and checkpoints can actually speed things up
- We think of things like security reviews and business sign-off as adding drag, but they can also act as enablers if done right
- Don’t take on all the risk alone
- Get others involved and engaged early on
- Think yes before no - one of Flatiron’s 10 core values
- Use it to challenge the status quo
- Embrace this mentality to climb the corporate ladder
- Importance of de-identification, safe harbor, and expert determination
- Ways to leverage synthetic data
Conferences to attend:AI Governance Global, an IAPP event in Boston | November 2023
Plato Elevate in San Francisco | November 2023
Privacy + Security Forum in Washington DC | November 2023
Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit Asia-Pacific in Singapore | November 2023
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Top Takeaways from Jonathan Anastasia, Executive VP, Crypto & Security Innovation at Mastercard
· How to secure an entire ecosystem by overlaying technologies
· Ways to build and maintain trust
· Examples of using federated machine learning and homomorphically encrypted queries to share insights across international borders
· Monetizing data with privacy-enhancing technologies
Recommended Reading:The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conferences to attend:AI Governance Global, an IAPP event in Boston | November 2023
Privacy + Security Forum in Washington DC | November 2023
Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit Asia-Pacific in Singapore| November 2023
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Top Takeaways from Beju Shah, Head of Nordic Centre, BIS Innovation Hub at Bank for International Settlements – BIS
· Catalyze change by planting seeds and demonstrating value
· Financial Action Task Force (FATF) identified several approaches and technologies that will transform AML efforts
· Standardized, quality, and comparable data is key
· Full network visibility is required to detect, flag, and stop suspicious activities
· Privacy-Enhancing Technologies drive better AML efforts by creating improved visibility
Check out the Project Aurora report Beju mentioned during the podcast:Project Aurora - The power of data, technology and collaboration to combat money laundering across institutions and borders – from the BIS Innovation Hub
Other Recommended Reading:The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin
Conferences to attend:SWIFT’s Sibos in Toronto | September 2023IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023
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Top Takeaways from Nishant Bhajaria, ex-Uber, Netflix, Head of Engineering
- Privacy is your competitive differentiator
- Privacy adoption and use within products will grow exponentially
- Trust cannot be quantified
- We must think about data both holistically and individually
Recommended Reading:
"Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers" by our esteemed guest himself, Nishant Bhajaria
Want to learn more about privacy, security, and governance?Take one of Nishant’s 11 LinkedIn courses, hereConferences to attend:Privacy Engineering Conference in Santa Clara | September 2023Sibos in Toronto | September 2023IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023
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Top Takeaways from Dora Boussias, Senior Director of Data Strategy & Architecture
- Drive relentlessly and consistently with business value in mind
- Bring people along
- Data strategy is not about the data; it's about the business
- How to be an effective leader
- Why active listening is so important
- People must be seen, valued, and understood
Recommended Reading:Give and Take by my favorite author, Adam GrantYou can sign up for his newsletter here:https://adamgrant.net/
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Top Takeaways from Callisto CEO, Tracy DeTomasi
- Over 90% of sexual assaults on campus are committed by repeat offenders
- Encryption-based privacy-preserved matching is a safe and secure option for stopping serial perpetrators
- The Callisto Vault and Matching System empowers survivors and is free to use
Recommended Reading:Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Netflix Recommendation:Victim Suspect
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Donate Here: https://give.projectcallisto.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callisto/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/callisto-tech-to-combat-sexual-assault/
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Top Takeaways from Aaron Weller, Leader of HP's Global Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence
- Your privacy program needs a “Digital to Analog converter” to align privacy lawyers with engineers
- To start a privacy engineering CoE, be sure to include core engineering, enablement, and privacy experience
- Make calculated decisions regarding the tradeoff of data utility and privacy
- Leverage the MUPPET decision framework
- Structure your approach to abstract detail that is not relevant to achieve a particular outcome
Conferences to attend:IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in San Diego | October 2023I'll be there too so send me a message if you'd like to meet in-person!
Recommended Reading:
Managing Talented People
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Top Takeaways from Lucia Canga Roza, Senior Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection:
- Take a step back and look around– data protection and privacy is evolving
- Data protection and privacy laws are growing globally
- The law is trying to catch up with technology
- Teams must deliver more with less
- Synthetic data is used to train algorithms
- Homomorphic encryption is used for datasets to “communicate with each other” to find insights without ever decrypting the underlying data
- PETs reduce overall risk
- Routines create higher productivity
Recommended Reading:How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Conferences to attend:IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels | November 2023
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Top Takeaways from William (Bill) Wilkins, Chief Risk and Analytics Officer @ Safety National
- Data initiatives & AI projects fail 90% of the time but they don't have to
- "It's you" not "them"
- Affect positive change
- Why data is like oxygen
- Purposeful driven data collection
- How to get people begging to give you data and jumpstart your initiatives
Conferences to attend:
Predictive Analytics World, Machine Learning Week in Las Vegas | June 2023
William Wilkins is a featured keynote speaker!
IPQC Events and CDO Exchanges | Worldwide and throughout the year
Recommended Reading:Deal with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst **As for the podcast, your feedback is welcome and encouraged. How else are we going to improve :)
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Top Takeaways from Jan Billiet, Data Protection Officer @ Booking.com
- Remember the three tectonic plates of data privacy
- How to deal with the increasing complexity of privacy developments and regulations across the globe
- Privacy is becoming increasingly technological yet still requires a strong culture and program to create meaningful customer experiences
- Don’t forget the fundamentals
- This current data privacy path is similar to the journey we went through in cybersecurity, only much faster
Conferences to attend:Legal Design & Innovation Summit in Berlin | December 2023
Recommended Reading:The Ransomware Hunting Team - A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime **Your feedback is welcome and encouraged. How else are we going to improve :)
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Top Takeaways from Caroline Harrison, Head of Digital Marketing
- The demise of third party cookies changes everything
- Align with Marketing to collect, store, and share customer data the right way
- When to rely on consent and how to get it
- How to leverage partners to change customer behavior and improve experience
- Dream big and don’t be limited by the resources you currently have
Recommended Podcast:Digital Marketing Podcast
Conferences to attend:MAD//Fest (marketing//advertising//disruption) in London | July 2023
Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North America in New York| May 2023
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Top Takeaways from Gemma O’Loghlen, COO, Group Data Protection Office
- When implementing new solutions, how to balance technology + People + Process
- The importance of asking yourself, “why?”
- How to design a sustainable solution that will stand the test of time
- Why storytelling is key
Recommended Reading:The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O’Neil
Conferences to attend:Financial Times Weekend Festival in London | September 2023
Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North America in New York| May 2023
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Top Takeaways from Sherri Zink, SVP, Chief Data & Engagement Officer:
- Align data and analytics strategies with business priorities and corporate goals
- Create three year strategy roadmap based on business objectives
- Build a data and analytics Center of Excellence
- Focus on innovation
- Run annual hackathons and involve business partners
- Upskill staff and provide career advancement opportunities
- Protect your data and treat information as a strategic asset
- Establish an Information Governance Council
- Leverage data to create valuable products and services for the enterprise
Recommended Reading:Check out the Health Equity Report Sherri mentioned at bcbst.com/healthequity
Conferences to attend:Gartner Data & Analytics Summitin Florida | March 2023Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North Americain New York| May 2023
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Top Takeaways from Christine Kempeneers, Assistant Vice President Risk Management & Data Protection Officer:
- Ensure resilience by taking simple steps to integrate risk management, information security, data privacy, and business continuity
- Fire fighting “burns” through limited resources that could be used to add value elsewhere
- Manage data related risks proactively
- Don't ignore reputational repercussions
Other recommendations from Christine
- Books to read:
- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
- Think Again by Adam Grant
- Podcasts to listen to:
- Work Life with Adam Grant
- Adam Grant | Think Again on the Good Life Project
Conferences to attend in 2023:
- IAPP Asia Privacy Forum in Singapore | July 2023
- IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC | April 2023
- Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North America in New York| May 2023
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Top Takeaways from Danny Tyrrell, Co-Founder & Chief Operating & Product Officer:
- How "data science in the dark" opens new possibilities
- Reduce risk and stop using consultants to determine customer overlap
- When to use a PET technique called Private Set Intersection
- Why you should manage data like a project
- See the link to a McKinsey article on the topic via Danny's LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danny-tyrrell_how-to-unlock-the-full-value-of-data-manage-activity-7031468399926906880-fpL2
Other recommendations from Danny
- Books to read:
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- App to download:
- Waking Up: Beyond Meditation
Conferences to attend in 2023:
- IAB Data & Privacy Summit in Australia | May 2023
- Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North America in New York| May 2023
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Top Takeaways from Chris Hutchins, Chief Data & Analytics Officer:
- How to partner with internal stakeholders to create exponential value
- How to make a measurable impact by putting the spotlight on individuals
- How to ensure patient privacy while positively impacting clinical care
- Prevent the loss of valuable insights by seeking direct input from the "boots on the ground"
- Pay it forward like Shaq
- Book to read: Team of Teams
Conferences to attend in 2023:
- Healthcare Data & Analytics Association 2023 in Denver | November 2023
- Privacy Enhancing Technology Summit North America in New York| May 2023
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