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2024 Digital Trust Summit Highlights
THIRD ANNUAL DIGITAL TRUST SUMMIT - A Leadership Summit for CEOs and Board Members
March 28, 2025
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
The Watson Institute at Brown University, The Conference Board, NASDAQ, Mayer Brown and Bank of America are convening the third in-person Digital Trust Summit at Brown University. The purpose of the Digital Trust Summit is to bring together CEOs and Board members to engage in a thorough discussion of ways of shaping digital culture to create true data leadership – thereby driving value and, importantly, reducing exposures to loss.
At the Summit, CEO and Board member participants will explore ways in which they can set the intention to innovate through a culture of data ethics. This framework will allow leaders to anticipate, address and implement a culture that enhances responsible data stewardship.
The first Digital Trust Summit was held in March 2023. Guests praised the event as unique and containing “Davos-plus” content on generative AI and data leadership.
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Why CEOs and Board Members Need This Summit.
Data is your company’s most important asset. Unlike other assets, however, data does not appear as an express line item on a balance sheet. Good will does. Digital innovation is on the rise. Generative AI and other emerging technologies are fueling this innovation.
Trust is key for innovative technologies to thrive. Trusted companies are 400% more successful than those that are not.
Generative AI continues to take the business world by storm. AI has achieved great things like early detection of pancreatic cancer. If it is trusted it can contribute up to 15.7 trillion to our global economy by 2030. It has also led to mishaps like AI misidentifying paying customers as shoplifters, recommending the wrong cancer medication to people and chatbots cursing at customers.
While the promise of trusted data is high, trust in technology is at an all time low. At 2024 Davos, AI risks were identified in the top 10 for respondents to the World Economic Forum’s annual risk survey. The EU has adopted an AI Act and Colorado has as well. There are now 100 countries in six continents with regulatory frameworks.
Companies investing aggressively in their digital strategies have created value for their shareholders. Companies that have placed responsible data stewardship at the center of their strategy are successful. Some of those exceeding 3 trillion in market cap have been the earliest adopters of data-forward leadership.
This conference brings together CEOs, board members and governmental leaders to discuss solutions for effective data.
MOderators
Heidi Mitchell
Award Winning Journalist
AI/Technology contributor, Wall Street Journal
Amy Nordrum
Executive Editor
MIT Technology Review
Special Guest Speakers
Senator Richard Blumenthal
US Senator of Connecticut
Luncheon Speaker
Amandeep Gill
United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
Former, Ambassador/Permanent Mission of India to the CD, Geneva
Speakers
Lara Abrash
Chair
Deloitte US
Cal Al-Dhubaib
Founder
Pandata
Malik Boykin
Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (CLPS)
Brown University
Aldo Carrascoso
CEO & Co-Founder
Vivum Computing
Rumman Chowdhury
Data Scientist and Social Scientist and CEO
Humane Intelligence
Vilas Dhar
President and Trustee
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Lisa Edwards
Executive Chair Diligent; Board Member Colgate-Palmolive
Ivana Feldfeber
Director and Co-founder
DataGenero
Peter Gleason
CEO
National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
Shalini Govil-Pai
Vice President & General Manager of TV, Google
Board Director, YouGov
Chris Hetner
Former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor to the SEC Chair
Cyber Risk Advisor, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
Chair Cybersecurity and Privacy, Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
Board of Directors, Simulint
Senior Advisor, The Chertoff Group
Research Affiliate, MIT Sloan School of Management
Matthew Hiltzik
Founder and CEO
Hiltzik Strategies
Felix Knoll
COO/CRO and Co-founder, Board Member
Cranium
Will Lee
CEO
ADWEEK
Byron Loflin
Global Head of Nasdaq Board Advisory and Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
Jocelyn Mangan
CEO and Founder
Him for Her and illumynBoard Member, Wag Group Inc. and Papa Johns International
Jesús Mantas
Global Managing Partner IBM; Biogen Board Of Directors
Njeri Mutura
Assistant General Counsel
Microsoft
Emalick Njie
CEO
Ecotone AI
Wayne Peacock
President and CEO
USAA
Ben Rossen
Associate General Counsel of AI Policy and Regulation
OpenAI
Steve Roycroft
CEO RANE
Dottie Schindlinger
Executive Director
Diligent Institute
Bonita Thompson
Managing Director
Chief Executive Alliance
Kris Shrishak
Senior Fellow
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Cid Wilson
President & CEO
Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR)
Harry Xu
CEO
Breeze ML AI
2024 Agenda
- 9:00
Welcome
- Dr. Lori Esposito Murray, Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board and former President
- Jon Van Gorp, Chair, Mayer Brown
- Christina Paxson, President Brown University
- 9:20
Fireside Chat
- Lesley Stahl, CBS News 60 Minutes
- Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America
- 9:45
Current and Future State of Technology
- Francis J. Doyle III, Provost, Brown University
- Lara Abrash, Chair of Board, Deloitte
- Heather Gentile, Executive Director of Product management watsonx.governance, IBM
- Ellie Pavlick, Professor, Brown University; Research Scientist, Google Deepmind
- Ben Rossen, AI Policy & Regulation, Legal, Open AI
- Kevin Lavin, CEO, Ankura
- 10:30
Current and Future State of Deployment
- Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, MIT Technology Review
- Emalick Njie, CEO, Ecotone
- Jocelyn Mangan, Board Member, Papa Johns, Wag, ChowNow; Founder, Him for Hers
- Robin Washington, Board Member, Alphabet Inc., Salesforce, Honeywell
- Malik Boykin, Assistant Professor, Brown University, Cognitive Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
- Matthew Hiltzik, Founder, President, and CEO of Hiltzik Strategies
- 11:15
Break
Video: Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Humane Intelligence; Time Top 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence - 11:30
Senator's Remarks
- Arsen Kourinian, Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, Mayer Brown
- US Senator Jack Reed
- US Senator Richard Blumenthal
- US Senator Amy Klobuchar
- Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation; Member, UN Advisory Body on AI
- 11:55
Current and Future Legislative and Regulatory Environment
- Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, MIT Technology Review
- Kris Shrishak, Senior Fellow, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
- Vilas Dhar President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
- Kemba Eneas Walden, President, Paladin Institute; former acting national cyber director
- Howard Waltzman, Partner and Co-Leader, Public Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs, Mayer Brown
- 12:15
Lunch & Fireside Chats
- Lesley Stahl, CBS News 60 Minutes with Amandeep Gill, United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology; Former Ambassador/Permanent Mission of India to the CD, Geneva
- Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director, Diligent; with Jesus Mantas Global Managing Partner IBM and Board Of Directors, Biogen
- 13:30
How to Take Advantage of Business Opportunities
- Dan Bigman, CEO, Chief Executive Group
- Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; National AI Advisory Committee
- Shalini Govil-Pai, VP & GM TV, Google; Board Director, YouGov
- Byron Loflin Global Head, Nasdaq Board Advisory and Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
- Lisa Edwards, Chief Executive, Diligent; Board Member, Colgate-Palmolive
- Ivan Pollard, Lead on AI Hub, The Conference Board
- Bonita Thompson, Chief Executive Alliance
- 14:15
How to Address Business Risks
- Dan Bigman, CEO Chief Executive Group
- Lisa Ferri, Partner and Co-Leader of Life Sciences and Intellectual Property, Mayer Brown
- Felix Knol, COO/CRO and Co-Founder, Board Member, Cranium
- Chris Hetner, Cyber Risk Advisor, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD); Former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor to the SEC Chair
- Brad Peterson, Partner, Technology & IP Transactions, Mayer Brown
- John Mancini, Partner, Intellectual Property, Mayer Brown
- Njeri Mutura, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
- 15:00
Break
- US Senator Richard Blumenthal
- 15:30
How to Address Social Opportunities and Risks
- Heidi Mitchell, Wall Street Journal (see article in WSJ's January 22, 2024 special edition on AI)
- Cid Wilson, President & CEO, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility
- Harry Xu, CEO and Co-Founder BreezeML; UCLA CS Professor
- Cal Al-Dhubaib, Founder, Pandata
- Ivana Feldfeber, Director and Co-Founder, DataGenero
- 16:15
CEO's Perspectives on Governance of AI
- Heidi Mitchell, Wall Street Journal
- Hoan Ton-That, CEO and Co-Founder Clearview AI
- Steve Roycroft, CEO, RANE
- Will Lee, CEO, Ad Week
- Aldo Carrascoso, CEO & Co-Founder, Vivium Computing
- Dr. Lori Murray, Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board and former President
- 16:35
Fireside Chat
- Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, MIT Technology Review
- Peter Gleason, CEO, NACD
- Wayne Peacock, CEO, USAA
- 17:00
Closing
- Paul Washington, Executive Director, ESG Center at The Conference Board
- 17:15
Adjournment & Reception