Nicole Alonso grew up in New Jersey, and discovered her passion for technology after spending a summer learning to code at Google’s NYC office following her senior year of high school. She studied economics at Claremont McKenna along with computer science at Harvey Mudd prior to dropping out after her sophomore year after starting a fintech company with her co-founder Liam Brennan-Burke. She’s now the co-founder and CTO of Syro, a full-lifecycle secrets management solution encompassing and automating secret access, usage, leakage scanning, detection, remediation, and compliance reporting.

David is a lawyer in private practice. He previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Amit P. Mehta on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked at another international law firm. He graduated Columbia University with a both law and business degrees, where he served on the Columbia Law Review and authored a student article on the California Consumer Privacy Act. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary.

Chris Caren joined Turnitin in 2009 as Chief Executive Officer. Chris led the transition of Turnitin from a company focused on plagiarism prevention to one that provides solutions that promote academic integrity, streamline grading and feedback, and improve outcomes across educational levels and content areas. Chris previously worked for Microsoft Corporation as GM of Microsoft Business Solutions. Although his career has focused on software businesses, he comes from a family of scientists and educators. He holds an MBA with distinction from Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor of science in Engineering from Stanford University.

In 2013 Governor Jay Inslee appointed Michael to be the Chief Information Officer for the State of Washington and subsequently to be the Director of Washington Technology Solutions. Michael was responsible for creating the State Office of Cyber Security and the Office of Privacy and Data Protection. Michael left State service in November of 2017 to join Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences where he servies as the CTO.

Michael spent 15 years building software and software companies serving as Founder, CEO, CTO, VP Product and VP Biz Dev, for a variety of startups including Qpass, Mixxer, Atlas Accelerator and Photorocket.

Michael holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound.

William Covington is the Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a Teaching Professor. He also directs the Technology, Law and Public Policy Clinic (Tech-Law Clinic) at the University of Washington School of Law. A graduate of New York University (1972) and the University of Michigan School of Law (1977), Covington has spent over twenty-five years working in technology-driven fields. He has served as regulatory counsel for Group W Cable and later in a similar capacity with McCaw Cellular Communications. Covington leads lobbying efforts, wrote or assisted in the writing of over twenty land use laws, served on numerous commissions and frequently appeared before federal, state and local regulatory bodies where he worked to create regulatory structures which balance public sector-private sector interests. He received the Dean’s Medal for Service in 2013.

Ashwini is an entrepreneur, former CISO and security expert. She is the co-founder and CEO of Eydle (www.eydle.com), an AI and cybersecurity startup that protects enterprises from scams. Previously, she held the roles of CISO, Director of Research and Lead Architect at TransUnion-backed Spring Labs. She has led engineering and product development at companies such as Qualcomm and Appian. Ashwini has a PhD and master's degrees in computer science and security from TU Munich, Carnegie Mellon and IIT Bombay. She has authored over 25 research articles. Her research has been recognized by the Federal Trade Commission, has been used to support a seminal privacy-related case in the US Supreme Court, and has been cited in the Big Data and Privacy report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Her work has been covered by the popular press including NPR, Scientific American and New Scientist.

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Linden Rhoads is a Seattle technology and life science entrepreneur and investor. From 2008-2014, Rhoads was Vice Provost for the UW Center for Commercialization. During her tenure at UW, Rhoads negotiated the transfer of Fluke Hall to the UW and oversaw the launch of the university’s first incubator, the entrepreneur-in-residence program, and programs that support researcher-innovators.

She is a member of Governor Inslee’s Council of Economic Advisors and serves as a board member of the Committee on Advanced Tuition Payment and College Savings. She serves on the Executive Steering Committee of the UW Innovation Roundtable. She has served on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the UW School of Law, from which she earned a J.D., on the steering committee to build the Allen Center for Computer Science, on the board of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at the Foster School, and on the board of UW’s Henry Art Gallery.

Sheri serves as a deputy director of policy and outreach for Governor Jay Inslee, and also serves as his senior policy advisor for general government, working on a diverse set of issues including cybersecurity and data privacy, cannabis, gambling, open government, and contracting/procurement. Prior to this role, she spent four years as a deputy director for the Washington State Auditor’s Office and nine years as a legislative analyst for the Association of Washington Cities. Sheri has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Public Administration from the Evergreen State College.

Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law, a First Amendment amicus brief clinic, an intensive editing workshop, and business torts at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.

Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (7th ed. 2020), and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2016), as well as over 100 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog.

He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Volokh worked for 12 years as a computer programmer. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old.

My focus for over twenty years has been working to protect data, both in government and the private sector. I served as Washington State's first Chief Privacy Officer from 2015-19 and went on to the UCLA School of Law, where I teach Internet Law, and Privacy and Cybersecurity.

My recent publications include articles on AI Ethics with a focus on the dangers of Big Data and on Antitrust in the high-tech industry.

In my tech career, I served as an executive at Starwave Corporation and at RealNetworks, Inc. in Seattle. These leading Internet companies pioneered audio and video technology for the Internet and created popular destinations such as ABCNews.com and ESPN.com.

I received an A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and my J.D. from Stanford Law School. I frequently write about privacy and Internet law issues for the Seattle Times, and L.A. Times.

I'm also the author of “Analog Days: How Technology Rewrote Our Future” and currently teach both at UCLA and the UW School of Law.