David J. Navetta | Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

David has extensive experience enabling his clients’ data leverage and monetization strategies, business plans, and products and services as they confront the novel and rapidly evolving complexities in this space. He combines deep knowledge of the privacy, security, and data landscape with practical risk-informed compliance advice, which is highly valued by technology and traditional companies seeking to build their data and technology strategies.

David has advised clients on a multitude of privacy, data, and technology-related issues, including data ownership and use rights, compliance with U.S., federal, and international privacy laws, data localization and transfers, commercial technology transactions, identity management, data brokerage, advertising and media data issues, data mapping, consent-flow management, privacy and cyber financial reporting, and privacy and data due diligence related to hundreds venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, and IPO transactions.

David is a pioneer in the data protection space and is regularly sought after to handle complex and cutting-edge data security and protection issues, including data breach response, cybersecurity risk management, incident response planning and preparedness, cyber insurance coverage, and running multidisciplinary tabletop and scenario-base exercises for information security teams, top management, and boards. He is a leading voice on incident response strategies, communications, and impact mitigation, and has helped thousands of companies successfully respond to security incidents, including navigating the SEC’s cyber security rule, and developing materiality assessment processes and playbooks.

David’s clients range from startups to Fortune 500 multinationals across all industries, including ecommerce, data brokers, consumer products, hospitality, social media, technology, health care, AI, finance, and energy. He co-founded a Chambers USA-ranked law firm and is a top-ranked attorney in multiple categories by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in privacy, cybersecurity, and incident response. David is also recognized by Legal 500 USA, and WWL: Data for his experience in privacy and data security.

David’s career has included roles such as U.S. practice group leader of a prior technology firm’s Chambers ranked practice, global co-chair of another major law firm’s data protection practice, and assistant general counsel at AIG. David has also held leadership positions in the American Bar Association, including chairing the Science and Technology Law Section’s Information Security Committee. He frequently speaks and writes, is interviewed on technology, privacy, and data security issues, and is a highly respected in the field.

Gene Fishel | Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Gene Fishel is a member of Troutman Pepper Locke’s Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) practice, based in the Richmond office. He brings extensive regulatory experience, having most recently served as senior assistant attorney general and chief of the Computer Crime Section in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, and as special assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia for 20 years.

As a regulator, Gene has reviewed thousands of database breach incidents and investigated hundreds of cybersecurity, privacy, and consumer protection violations, including as part of multistate attorneys general teams. He has been a pillar in the charge for sweeping reforms to privacy and computer crime laws, having drafted and shepherded dozens of successful bills involving database breach notification, electronic records, identity theft, computer trespass, and child exploitation statutes, among others. In his supervisory capacities, he led the professional development of attorneys and computer forensic examiners, overseeing more than 1,000 prosecutions and computer forensic investigations for complex criminal cases in Virginia.

With an exemplary understanding of applying existing law to evolving cybersecurity and privacy problems, he guides clients navigating such issues and advises them at every stage of a matter.

Additionally, Gene frequently counsels clients and speaks on a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) related regulatory, litigation, and ethical matters, including navigating state and federal compliance requirements; engaging with regulatory bodies; and addressing enforcement actions and policy developments that impact their operations.

Dan Waltz | Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Dan Waltz focuses his practice on the intersection of industry and government. He regularly counsels clients in connection with government procurement and compliance issues, including Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), domestic preference, mergers and acquisitions, and small business issues. Dan also leverages his knowledge of the government to handle complex regulatory investigations, inquiries and other regulatory matters at the federal, state and local level, emphasizing practical and sophisticated outcomes for his clients.

Before joining the firm, Dan served as assistant attorney general in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where he represented government agencies in investigations, litigation, and government procurement. Dan’s pro bono practice is focused on legal clinics in the Chicago area, where he represents the most vulnerable communities in a variety of legal matters.

I. State-level data privacy laws | 12:00pm – 12:30pm

II. Attorney general enforcement actions | 12:30pm – 1:00pm

Break | 1:00pm – 1:10pm

III. Complexities and impacts on businesses and consumers | 1:10pm – 2:10pm