Trainer: Liisa Thomas, Lead, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice and Chicago Office Managing Partner, Sheppard Mullin

Check-in begins at 08:00

Training begins at 09:00

You can attend the training class only, or you can add this training to your main conference registration (additional registration fee required).

Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection training 1 April.
Workshops 1 April
Conference 30-31 March

Washington D.C.

What you will receive:

A day-long class led by an experienced instructor.
Participant guide — print copy to be picked up on-site.
Instruction and content developed by the world’s foremost experts in privacy and data protection exclusively for the IAPP.
Review questions and a comprehensive assessment to check your mastery of the subject matter.

What you will take away:

Knowledge you need to advance a career in privacy and related fields.
In-demand skills you can start applying right away.
A vocabulary of essential privacy terminology.

Preparation for advanced privacy training and IAPP certification.

What to expect:

Instructor-led IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection training provides a base understanding of privacy principles and operations to organizations and individual professionals.

Foundations enables companies to quickly and thoroughly train their staffs to meet growing privacy responsibilities in areas such as marketing, human resources, technology and finance. The training also defines a common privacy vocabulary that ensures staff members understand each other’s priorities and can express privacy needs clearly to all levels of their organizations.

The curriculum covers key privacy and data protection concepts, the Fair Information Practices, the data life cycle, major approaches to and overviews of privacy legislation around the world, and emerging issues in privacy. It also includes case studies of successful and unsuccessful responses to privacy and data protection issues.

For individual professionals, Foundations supplements their existing skills and prepares them for IAPP certification training and new privacy-related careers. Organizations interested in training groups of employees with Foundations should contact IAPP sales for information on group/enterprise pricing.

Learn more about the conference and on-site trainings.

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Meet our 2026 conference agenda chairs

Laura Donahue

Julian Flamant

Anick Fortin-Cousens

D. Reed Freeman

Adam Greene

Liz Lyons

Candace Martin

Mariano Peruzzotti

Nandita Rao Narla

Abhishek Tiwari