Founders play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI-powered businesses, and navigating data privacy challenges is key to their success. But understanding your legal obligations and how to fulfill them ethically isn’t so straightforward. Depending on factors like industry, geography, and the nature of the data you’re collecting, your business will need to meet unique requirements to stay in compliance. How should founders go about tackling an issue so nuanced?

The Nasdaq Center is excited to host this important panel discussion tailored specifically to founders and aspiring entrepreneurs who are navigating the complex landscape of strong data privacy in the era of artificial intelligence. We’ll be joined by executives from Transcend and Jasper to share valuable insights and practical solutions that will help founders who are leveraging AI technology mitigate risk by addressing privacy concerns early on.

Key Takeaways:

Founders’ Guide to Privacy in the Era of AI:

• Understanding the privacy landscape and its impact on startups and emerging ventures.
• Navigating privacy regulations and compliance requirements to foster trust and credibility.

Privacy by Design:

• Integrating privacy considerations into the early stages of AI product development.
• Balancing privacy requirements with user experience and business goals.

Startup-Specific Privacy Challenges:

• Addressing privacy concerns in data collection, storage, and processing for startups.
• Mitigating privacy risks when working with third-party vendors and partners.

OUR SPECIAL GUESTS

Alex Rindels

Corporate Counsel, Jasper

Alex is Corporate Counsel at Jasper, a generative AI start-up that develops content creation tools for businesses. As Jasper’s only in-house counsel, Alex advises the company on commercial, corporate, intellectual property, and data privacy/security law, all within the context of the practical applications of generative AI. Prior to joining Jasper, Alex was an associate at Mintz Levin in Boston.

Brandon Wiebe

General Counsel and Head of Privacy, Transcend

Brandon Wiebe is the General Counsel and Head of Privacy at Transcend. Backed by Accel and Index Ventures, Transcend makes it easy for companies to encode privacy across their tech stack, and is trusted by leading brands to provide easy-to-implement solutions for full stack data governance, consent, data subject rights management, and more. Brandon brings nearly a decade of privacy experience in the technology sector to Transcend, where he leads all legal and privacy efforts. Most recently, Brandon served as Associate General Counsel of Privacy and Product for Segment before and after its acquisition by Twilio. Previously, Brandon served for many years as a corporate counsel for the technology sector, as well as a privacy analyst.

Robutra Burroughs

Board Member, The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center

Roburta Burroughs is helping Fortune 500 companies make digital transformation easier. She is a trusted advisor and leader in Account Management and Customer Success in SaaS sales and success. She is a strategic thinker skilled at problem-solving and a passionate champion of under-estimated entrepreneurs. Roburta has experience in Fintech and Financial Services, with exposure to HR, Healthcare, Technology, and Retail. In addition, she brings experience as a high-level account manager, relationship manager, and customer success manager working with Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon, Adobe, Amgen, Baxter Health, Cytokinetics, DocuSign, Dell, eBay, Facebook, Expedia, Google, Intel, Juniper, and Microsoft. Ms. Burroughs is recognized for her exceptional performance managing across organizations, teams, and continents.

Before WalkMe, the leader in digital adoption, Roburta worked at Nasdaq. Ms. Burroughs had responsibilities driven by the urgency and high-level analysis and communication for Investor Relations Professionals and C-Suite executives who were her customers. She also worked for Mixpanel with product and marketing teams to inform them about data analysis and predictive analytics. In addition to her extensive experience working with IR teams at the highest business levels, she is the Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee for the Nasdaq Center Advisory Board. As one of the earliest advocates for the Center’s mission of accelerating access and equity in the field of entrepreneurship, Roburta helped secure one of the first funders and engaged numerous other Board Advisors and advocates to the work of the Center while enabling the creation and impact of multiple content and support mechanisms for entrepreneurs. Roburta was the creator and host of “the Breakthrough” – a segment focusing on the advancement of entrepreneurs we don’t usually see. (Women, POC, and others). She has and continues to moderate many conversations about entrepreneurship for the Center and beyond.

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