This week we're in conversation with Adam Ford, who is Managing Director ANZ for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (full bio below).

IAPP is the largest and most comprehensive privacy community around the globe.

We have a wide-ranging conversation about the trends and emerging demands on the privacy profession, the role privacy practitioners are playing in AI governance challenges, and how to grow the profession in the future.

FULL BIO:

Adam Ford leads the IAPP in the ANZ region. With the support of the global IAPP team, this role embeds Adam amongst a rapidly growing community over 83,000 organizational and individual members with privacy, data protection and AI governance at the core of their responsibilities. Prior to this role, Adam has had 25 year’s experience within the public finance, private equity & non-profit sectors.

Links:

https://iapp.org/

Privacy Governance Report https://iapp.org/resources/article/privacy-governance-report/

AI Governance in Practice Report 2024 https://iapp.org/resources/article/ai-governance-in-practice-report/

Credits:

Editing and post-production by Martin Franklin (East Coast Studio) eastcoaststudio.com.au

Music by Bensound.com

#114 Adam Ford on the evolution of the modern privacy professional