As privacy regulation, AI governance, and cybersecurity requirements continue to evolve globally, members of Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets team will be speaking on legal developments at several upcoming webinars, conferences, and CLE programs. Explore the events and hot topics below. For many of these programs we can arrange free passes for clients and are noted below. We look forward to connecting with you!

State Privacy Law

  • On October 6, 2026, join Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles), Kyle Dull, Senior Associate (New York/Miami) and Alara Abbasi, Associate (Los Angeles) for a live webinar: U.S. Privacy Rights Traps: Navigating the Differences Among State Laws and Lessons from California’s Enforcement Wave. One state’s privacy law won’t cover the rest — and California is enforcing the gaps. Learn to map which laws reach your business, set a highwater-mark standard or address outliers, handle rights requests without over-verifying, and fix the cookie-banner and opt-out failures California is now penalizing. For more information click here. Free passes are available! To reserve yours, please reach out to Elizabeth Roby.
  • October 6th – 9th, IAPP will host its Privacy.Security.Risk + AI Governance Global 2026 Conference in Seattle, WA. On October 8th at 4:00pm PDT, join Kyle Fath, Partner (Los Angeles/New York) alongside Julie Rubash and Matt Pearson of Didomi for an engaging breakout session: Custom Privacy Strategies Where Litigation and Regulation Collide. For more information, click here.
  • October 21, 2026, NBI is hosting a live online webinar Data Privacy and Cybersecurity: Hot Topics and Trends. Join Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles), Sammuel Kim, Associate (New York) and Alara Abbasi, Associate (Los Angeles) for Session 6 of the program, 2:45pm – 3:30pm, to discuss Minimizing Risks and Conducting Data Protection Assessments and Audits. For more information click here. Free registration is available! To reserve yours, please reach out to Elizabeth Roby.

Adtech / Marketing

  • 2026 Association of National Advertisers’ Masters of Advertising  Law Summit, November 2-4, 2026. Members of the SPB Data Team will be leading insightful sessions focused on emerging privacy challenges and compliance strategies.  We will be hosting a client dinner.  If you will be attending ANA contact Elizabeth Roby for details.
    • November 3, 2026 11:25am – 12:10pm join Kyle Dull, Senior Associate (New York/Miami), Sallie Mae’s Genevieve Bonan, Associate General Counsel, and SuperAwesome’s Amy Lawrence, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Legal for ANA: Breakout 5B: The Youth Privacy Frontier: Legal and Safety Imperatives. This session provides in-house counsel leaders with an essential roadmap through the shifting regulatory landscape—spanning FTC enforcement and COPPA developments, state-level Age-Appropriate Design Codes (AADCs), heightened state privacy protections for teens, app and AI specific regulation, and emerging youth online safety mandates. Attendees will explore the legal implications surrounding targeted advertising restrictions, risk assessments, age assurance and estimation technologies, consent mechanisms, and default safety settings, and leave with actionable strategies to align innovative marketing campaigns and e-commerce with rigorous child and teen privacy compliance.
    • November 4, 2026, 7:45am-8:45am, Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles), Marisol Mork, Partner (Los Angeles) and Kyle Dull, Senior Associate (New York/Miami), will host an engaging roundtable: ANA: Roundtable 9: Strategic Cookie Management: Tracking Technology Compliance, Challenges and Strategies.
  • Attending the 2026 Internet Advertising Bureau State Privacy Law Summit, November 18, 2026? Julia Jacobson, Partner (New York), will be attending and speaking on an engaging panel exploring: Managing Consent and Transparency for Automated Personal Data Processing. More details to follow. For latest updates, visit here.

AI and Automated Decision Making

  • October 13, 2026 join Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles), with Michael Kelly, Partner (San Francisco/Palo Alto) and Sammuel Kim, Associate (New York) as they host a virtual webinar: ADMT Rules for Employers from 2:30pm – 4:40pm ET. California, Connecticut and Colorado regulation of employers’ use of automated decision-making technology go into effect in 2027.   Learn what will be required of these and other laws governing AI in the human resources context,. For more information click here. Free passes are available! To reserve yours, please reach out to Elizabeth Roby.
  • October 14, 2026, PLI is hosting a 1-day live and in-person program on Advanced Internet of Things 2026: Deeper Dive, Practice Wisdom. As a part of this program, from 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lydia F. de la Torre, Of Counsel (Palo Alto), will moderate an exciting panel on Transparency and Privacy for Connected and AI-Enabled Devices featuring Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles), alongside Senior Director of AI Governance and Product Legal at Credo AI, Linsey Krolik, and Irene Mo, Senior Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI Counsel at Rivian. For more information, click here.
  • November 10, 2026, Alan Friel, Partner (Atlanta/Los Angeles),and Julia Jacobson, Partner (New York), come together for an online CLE opportunity with NBI to discuss: AI Vendor Claims and Contracts. AI vendors make bold promises about accuracy, uptime, and security. Their contracts often tell a different story. This program gives business law attorneys a practical framework for evaluating AI vendor claims against contractual reality: what to look for, what to push back on, and how to negotiate terms that protect your clients. You’ll examine how standard AI vendor agreements shift risk to the customer, which provisions warrant the hardest scrutiny, and what regulators and courts are beginning to expect when companies rely on AI vendor representations. Walk away with a due diligence plan and negotiation strategies you can put to work immediately. Free passes are available! To reserve yours, please reach out to Elizabeth Roby.

International

  • On October 15, 2026, join Julia Jacobson, Partner (New York), alongside Lisa R. Lifshitz, Torkin Manes and Sam de Silva, CMS UK for an in-person and virtual session on Global Tech Law Update: What Canadian Lawyers Need to Know. This session offers Canadian technology lawyers a practical, comparative overview of emerging tech laws and regulatory frameworks across key jurisdictions, including developments relating to the EU Data Act and evolving U.S. approaches, and broader trends in AI regulation, platform governance, and cybersecurity. Hear from international experts on how these changes are shaping compliance, risk, and opportunity—and what they mean in an increasingly complex and evolving regulatory landscape for your practice. Gain actionable insights to advise clients operating globally with confidence. For more information click here.
  • On October 28-29, 2026 Scott Warren, Partner (Tokyo/Shanghai), will be at the 23rd China International Compliance Summit in Shanghai, China, an in-person event.  Besides acting as Chair for the first day, he will be presenting on Cross-Border Data Transfers: How it Impacts Your Investigation, Litigation or Dispute Resolution.  His presentation will focus on the evolving challenges of transferring data for investigations and evidence for disputes.  For more information, click here. If interested in attending, please reach out to Helen.Su@Linworld-group.com.  

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