Opening General Session

Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google

Kent Walker works at the intersection of technology, policy and legal issues, overseeing Google’s engagement with governments around the world.

Keynote Conversation
Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer, IAPP
Salman Rushdie, New York Times Bestselling Author of Knife and The Satanic Verses.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time, Salman Rushdie asserts the greater our collective freedom to tell stories about our world determines the degree of freedom that we have in the society in which we live.

Keynote Conversation
Travis LeBlanc, Partner, Cooley
Maya Shankar, Cognitive Scientist; host of “A Slight Change of Plans” podcast.

Maya Shankar brings together behavioral science and storytelling to help us understand how we respond to big life changes