Karen Silverman

Karen is a leading global expert in practical governance strategies for AI and other frontier technologies. As the CEO and Founder of The Cantellus Group, she advises Fortune 50 companies, startups, consortia, and the public sector on how to manage cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly changing policy environment. Her expertise is informed by more than 20 years of practice and management leadership at Latham & Watkins, LLP where she advised global businesses in complex antitrust matters, M&A, governance, ESG, and crisis management. Karen chairs the board of a public benefit corporation developing complex content moderation tools. She is an SME for the Business Roundtable's Responsible AI Initiative, and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator and Karen sits on its Global AI Council. She serves on the boards of Krunam, AI.EDU, Legal Momentum and Not For Sale.

Ryan Lasmaili

Ryan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.

Naomi Lefkovitz

Naomi Lefkovitz is the Senior Privacy Policy Advisor in the Information Technology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce. She leads the privacy engineering program, which focuses on developing privacy risk management processes and integrating solutions for protecting individuals’ privacy into information technologies, including digital identity services, IoT, smart cities, big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence. In addition, she leads the NIST Privacy Framework team.

The International Association of Privacy Professionals named Ms. Lefkovitz their 2020 Vanguard Award winner. She also is a 2014, 2018, and 2020 Federal 100 Awards winner. FierceGovernmentIT named her on their 2013 “Fierce15” list of the most forward-thinking people working within government information technology.

Before joining NIST, she was the Director for Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Cybersecurity Directorate of the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President.  Her portfolio included the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace as well as addressing the privacy and civil liberties impact of the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiatives and programs.

Prior to her tenure in the Obama Administration, Ms. Lefkovitz was a senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Her responsibilities focused primarily on policy matters, including legislation, rulemakings, and business and consumer education in the areas of identity theft, data security and privacy.

At the outset of her career, she was Assistant General Counsel at CDnow, Inc., an early online music retailer.

Ms. Lefkovitz holds a B.A. with honors in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. with honors from Temple University School of Law.

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John Athanasiades

John Athanasiades leads National Bank of Canada’s Financial Crime and Corporate Security division which includes anti-money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing and corporate / internal threat investigations.  He is responsible for putting in place a robust risk management and mitigation program by continuing to develop and reinforce strategies surrounding these issues.  Prior to joining National Bank, he had a career of nearly 30 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police managing and collaborating on several national and international strategic initiatives and investigations involving national security, anti-money laundering, terrorism, financial crime and intelligence. Before he retired, he led the Financial Integrity Program for the RCMP in the province of Quebec.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from McGill University as well as completing a CAMS certification