The Sedona Conference Working Group 11 Annual Meeting 2024

Date:

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 8:45am to Friday, May 3, 2024 - 1:00pm

Location:
Four Seasons Hotel
Minneapolis, MN

Register today for the 2024 Annual Meeting of WG11, to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thursday-Friday, May 2-3, 2024. A welcome reception will be held in the evening of Wednesday, May 1, from 6:00-8:00 pm.

The meeting's primary focus will be on new drafts and brainstorming group outlines in need of WG11 member review and comment, inlcuding the following topics:

Draft Second Edition of The Sedona Conference Data Privacy Primer
Draft Commentary on Privacy and Security of Health Data
Legal implications of artificial intelligence in automated decision-making
Online tracking

The meeting will also feature the following sessions:

Privacy and data security legislative and regulatory update
Privacy and data security litigation update
Practical approaches to incident response in 2024
WG11 town hall

Hotel Reservation Information

We obtained a very favorable group rate at The Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis of $299 per night (plus tax) for a limited block of guest rooms on the nights of May 1 and 2. The block expired on April 8, and the Group Rate is now subject to availability. Reservation Information will be provided in your meeting registration confirmation email.

CLE

The Sedona Conference will seek CLE accreditation for this meeting in selected jurisdictions (except Virginia) as dictated by attendance.

Dialogue Leaders

Julian Ackert iDiscovery Solutions iDS Washington, DC, USA	Kate Baxter-Kauf Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP Minneapolis, MN, USA	Ellen Blanchard Norton Rose Fulbright Mercer Island, WA, USA	Maureen M. Brady McShane & Brady, LLC Kansas City, MO, USA
Kashif Chand New Jersey Division of Law Newark, NJ, USA	Chris Cronin HALOCK Security Labs Schaumburg, IL, USA	Melissa Dalziel Alston & Bird Atlanta, GA, USA	Starr Turner Drum Polsinelli Birmingham, AL, USA
Arianna Evers WilmerHale Washington, DC, USA	Sheryl Falk Crowe LLP Houston, TX, USA	Eric B. Gyasi BakerHostetler LLP New York, NY, USA	Josh Hansen Shook, Hardy & Bacon Denver, CO USA
Jenn Odell Hatcher Shook, Hardy & Bacon Kansas City, MO	Serge D. Jorgensen The Sylint Group Sarasota, FL, USA	Alice Jou Federal Communications Commission Washington, DC, USA	Amy E. Keller DiCello Levitt LLP Chicago, IL, USA
Jerami D. Kemnitz Littler Mendelson P.C. Minneapolis, MN, USA	Anya Korolyov HaystackID Chicago, IL, USA	Michael Macko California Privacy Protection Agency Sacramento, CA, USA	Wayne Matus SafeGuard Privacy Inc. Sarasota, FL, USA
Rachel Meagan May Eversheds Sutherland Washington, DC, USA	Colman McCarthy Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP Kansas City, MO, USA	Douglas Meal Cleveland State University College of Law Boston, MA, USA	David Moncure Spring, TX, USA
Tim Murphy Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Philadelphia, PA, USA	Jon Polenberg Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA	Jeremiah J. Posedel Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Chicago, IL, USA	Ruth Elizabeth Promislow Bennett Jones LLP Toronto, ON, Canada
Sara E. Romine Lockton Companies Dallas, TX, USA	David Sella-Villa South Carolina Department of Administration Columbia, SC, USA	Jim Shook Dell Technologies Johns Creek, GA, USA	Nichole Sterling BakerHostetler New York, NY, USA
Douglas S. Swetnam Indiana Attorney General Indianapolis, IN, USA	Hon. Eric C. Tostrud United States District Court for the District of Minnesota St. Paul, MN, USA	Jami Mills Vibbert Arnold & Porter New York, NY, USA	Wendy Jean Wagner Gowling WLG Ottawa, ON, Canada
Alexander M. White Privacy Commissioner for Bermuda Hamilton, Bermuda	Kenneth J. Withers The Sedona Conference Phoenix, AZ, USA	Paul Yovanic Jr. Seyfarth Shaw LLP Chicago, IL USA

WG11 Annual Meeting 2024 Agenda

Time	Session	Panelists
	Wednesday, May 1, 2024
6:00pm — 8:00pm	Evening Welcome reception
	Thursday, May 2, 2024
8:00am — 9:00am	Breakfast & Sign-in
9:00am — 9:15am	Welcome & Overview	Drum, Withers
9:15am — 10:30am	Data Privacy Primer, Second Edition
	A panel of WG11 drafting team members will lead a dialogue with all attendees on their outline of recommended changes for a Second Edition of the Data Privacy Primer that, among other updates, (1) revises the Primer to address key U.S. federal and state legislative and regulatory changes and case law updates since its publication and 2) expands the Primer to include certain international privacy laws.	Hansen, Kemnitz, McCarthy*, Swetnam, Wagner
10:30am — 10:45am	Morning break
10:45am — 12:00pm	Online tracking
	Online tracking technologies increasingly present unique challenges to organizations’ legal and marketing teams as technologies evolve, compliance obligations change, and laws that have been in place for years like the Video Privacy Protection Act and two-party wiretapping statutes are being reinterpreted and tested by consumers in online marketing contexts. A panel of brainstorming group members will lead a dialogue on their outline proposing principles to help guide compliance and consistency in this area looking toward further development of these as part of a potential Commentary.	Baxter-Kauf, Hatcher, Matus, Posedel, Sterling*
12:00pm — 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm — 2:00pm	WG11 town hall
	WG11 Steering Committee members will lead a dialogue amongst the WG11 members in attendance on progress made on the work product of the Working Group, and by the Working Group as a whole. WG11 member input will be sought regarding the future direction of WG11, including ideas for existing and new commentaries and projects. In addition, Steering Committee member Alex White, who serves as Bermuda’s first Privacy Commissioner, will provide an update on his office’s latest efforts to ensure compliance with Bermuda’s Personal Information Protection Act. He will also share some highlights from the Global Privacy Assembly, an annual meeting of global data protection authorities that was held in Bermuda this past fall.	Baxter-Kauf, Drum*, Evers, Kemnitz, McCarthy, Meal, Moncure, Murphy, Shook, White
2:00pm — 3:15pm	Draft Commentary on the Privacy and Security of Emerging Health Data
	The panel will lead a dialogue on the current state of the proposed Commentary, which has pivoted to developing a proposed new legislative framework to address privacy and security in health data. The prior draft Commentary addressed whether HIPAA adequately covers consumer health data and non-traditional health data uses, given HIPAA’s focus on healthcare providers that bill insurance, the proliferation of health data generated outside of the traditional medical and insurance fields, and the innovative new uses of health data in which companies are engaging. The drafting team, in conjunction with the Steering Committee, is considering building upon the existing outline while also developing a proposed legislative framework to address the proliferation of health data, including from a privacy and security standpoint.	Brady, Cronin, McCarthy, Romine*, Vibbert
3:15pm — 3:30pm	Afternoon break
3:30pm — 5:00pm	Privacy and data security legislative and regulatory update
	The panel will lead a dialogue on important updates in the U.S. federal legislative and regulatory space. It will also focus on important updates in U.S. state legislative and enforcement activity, focusing particularly on the enhanced consumer privacy laws set to take effect.	Chand, Jou, Macko, Murphy*, Swetnam
5:00pm — 7:00pm	Reception (guests invited)
	Friday, May 3, 2024
8:00am — 9:00am	Breakfast & sign-in
9:0am — 10:15	Practical approaches to incident response in 2024
	Tabletop exercises are a crucial tool to test incident response plans in simulated data breach scenarios. In this panel, dialogue leaders will address a simulated security incident and discuss how key stakeholders including organizations, their business teams, counsel, and forensic investigators can prepare for and respond to a data breach. During the tabletop, dialogue leaders will reference and utilize WG11’s draft Incident Response Guide, Second Edition, which provides updated guidance for organizations and practitioners as they navigate and adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and an expanding threat landscape.	Falk, Gyasi, Jorgensen, Moncure*, Promislow
10:15am — 10:30am	Morning break
10:30am — 11:45am	Privacy and data security litigation update
	The panel will lead a dialogue on not only the most significant court decisions regarding privacy and data security in the past year, but also court filings that raise novel claims and defenses (even if the cases themselves are pending or have settled), with the goal of bringing WG11 members up-to-the-minute on where the case law currently is – and more importantly, where it could be heading in the future.	Blanchard, Keller*, May, Tostrud, Yovanic
11:45am — 1:00pm	Legal implications of artificial intelligence in automated decision-making
	Generative AI presents an opportunity for more automated decision-making use cases than many privacy laws accounted for at the time they were enacted. A panel of brainstorming group members will lead a dialogue on their updated outline analyzing privacy issues related to use of AI in automated decision-making, particularly focused on how laws in this space can strike the appropriate balance between automated analysis and human oversight.	Ackert, Dalziel, Korolyov, Polenberg, Sella-Villa*
1:pm — 2:00pm	Grab & go lunch (provided)

*Panel Moderator

Date:

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 8:00am to Friday, May 3, 2024 - 2:00pm

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Registration

Regular Registration Fee:	$1495 USD
Government & Non-Profit Employee Registration Fee:	$1295 USD

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Our financial aid policy is available upon request.

Refund Policy

Refunds are available for cancellations made at least 21 days before the program is scheduled, less any credit card processing fees charged to The Sedona Conference. For cancellations made within 21 days of the program, no refunds are available but substitution of another individual from the same organization is permitted or a credit can be requested to be applied to a future Sedona program.