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 2023
IAPP 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

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Conferences to attend:
Privacy Engineering Conference in Santa Clara | September 2023
Sibos in Toronto | September 2023
IAPP 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 Grant
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