This session during the Consero Chief Privacy Officer Forum examines the legal–technical translation tax: the operational drag and risk created when legal frameworks, privacy obligations, and accountability models are not mapped directly onto system architecture, data flows, and AI lifecycle controls. Drawing on experience as a former CISO, long-time technologist, and data privacy attorney, Amy Mushahwar will lead a practical discussion on how CPOs can eliminate translation layers and embed legal intent directly into technical design and decision-making.
- Where Translation Fails in AI Systems: Why legal abstractions (assessments, policies, approvals) break down when they are not anchored to model behavior, data provenance, access paths, and vendor dependencies.
- AI Velocity as a Governance Stress Test: How continuous deployment, foundation models, agentic workflows, and third-party AI tooling outpace static compliance processes—and why governance must operate at system speed.
- From Legal Requirements to Technical Controls: Mapping privacy, safety, and accountability obligations to concrete mechanisms: data minimization, logging and attribution, model monitoring, access controls, and system documentation.
- Risk Communication Without Abstraction: How to brief executives and boards using system dependencies, failure modes, and business impact rather than compliance labels or AI hype.
- Durable, Not Perfect, Governance: Effective organizations establish interoperable metrics, artifacts, and review points that allow legal, privacy, security, and engineering to communicate while operating within their own domains. Continuous integration is the goal, but even operational dialogue and alignment is success.
Speaker:
- Amy S. Mushahwar, Partner; Chair, Data Privacy, Security, Safety & Risk Management, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Time: 11:30 a.m. CT
Location: The Drake Hotel, 140 E Walton Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
