Laurie Robinson Haden

Author and CEO of Corporate Counsel Women of Color

Laurie Robinson Haden is the President and CEO of Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC). In 2004, Laurie founded CCWC to advance women of color attorneys and foster diversity in the legal profession. She formerly worked for 18 years in multiple leadership roles at the CBS Corporation (now media and entertainment juggernaut Paramount+), including Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Litigation. She has been recognized by Savoy magazine as one of the country’s “Most Influential Black Lawyers.” Laurie and her husband David Haden have recently launched a 501 (c) (3) non profit foundation, Parents Supporting Excellence in Education in Prince George's County, Maryland, where they partner with area schools in their community to provide equal educational access and resources to students. For seven years, Laurie was a member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund board. She serves on the Board of Visitors of Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington and North Carolina Central School of Law, where she served as chair (2022-2023) and is on the Compensation Committee of the National Sales Network. Laurie is the author of It's Time to Shine: A Guide for Professionals of Color on How to Advance Their Career. Laurie earned her Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina Central University (magna cum laude) and her Juris Doctor from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington.

Dominique Shelton Leipzig

Author and Partner at Mayer Brown

Dominique Shelton Leipzig is a Chambers-ranked partner in Mayer Brown's Los Angeles office and a member of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. She leads the firm’s Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management team. She also serves as leader of the firm’s Global Data Innovation team and, in that role, Dominique advises CEOs and Board Members on their fiduciary duty of oversight as it relates to emerging digital and data technologies, including generative AI. She is one of the country’s top privacy, artificial intelligence and data lawyers and her considerable experience helps clients navigate the evolving legal compliance issues related to privacy, artificial intelligence and data security for their digital data initiatives. In her forthcoming book, Trust: Responsible AI and Data Leadership, Dominique has pioneered a step-by-step approach for successfully optimizing digital technology through responsible data stewardship.

Dominique has trained over 50,000 professionals in the area of data privacy, AI and data leadership. She is known for translating complex technical concepts into actionable information that leaders can use to establish effective governance and enjoy resilience in a fast-paced regulatory environment. Dominique shows non-technical executives how to achieve success with their data by following trusted AI/privacy/security legal frameworks and accelerating digital opportunities. She brings clarity to chaos by providing executives and general counsel with actionable information they can use to properly assess and mitigate enterprise risks like privacy and cyber, while moving ahead with smart innovation to optimize technological advances, like generative AI, at speed and scale.

By founding and leading the firm’s Global Data Innovation team Dominique has established the AM Law 50’s first-ever multidisciplinary group focused on data leadership. She also founded and established the first-ever day-long program on generative AI, privacy and cyber governance for CEOs and Board Members called the Digital Trust Summit. The 60+ CEOs called it “Davos-plus” in that the conversation stimulated the CEOs and Board Members to reimagine their oversight roles and data leadership.

In an environment with over 160 countries adopting data protection laws and 37 countries across six continents considering artificial intelligence laws, Dominique draws upon her decades of experience to spot trends by reviewing legislative developments globally and helping clients to issue spot and map to trends even before they become final laws. In this way, Dominique has focused on a strategy of leveraging global trends so companies can future-proof their investments in technology – by mapping, in advance, to trusted legal frameworks for privacy, data security and AI. In this respect, Dominique helps companies to look around corners and avoid costly digital blind-spots while leveraging technology in a way that is highly profitable. Dominique’s advice has also helped clients heighten goodwill and demonstrate data leadership in the areas of AI, privacy, security and data more broadly.

Dominique is the co-founder and co-CEO of NxtWork, a non-profit dedicated to diversifying the C-suite and the boardroom. She has received many accolades. She was recently named a “Legal Visionary” by the Los Angeles Times. In addition to her forthcoming Forbes book called Trust, her two other landmark books Transform and Implementing the CCPAi (2nd Ed), cover data leadership. In those books, Dominique pioneered the concept of data as a pre-tangible asset in what she calls “our post-data world.”

She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional by the IAPP. She is also certified in AI Governance. She has been certified in Board governance by the UCLA Andersen School of Business and the Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Diane King Hall

Award-winning Anchor and Broadcast Journalist

Diane King Hall is an award-winning broadcaster known for her personable anchoring, and insightful reporting in the dynamic world of business, economics and geopolitics. She has spent much of her career broadcasting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She has been seen on Yahoo Finance, CBS, CNN, and NY1. Throughout her career she has interviewed CEOs, celebrities and well-known voices in their respective fields such as Jamie Dimon, Arianna Huffington, Ian Bremmer, and Will Smith. With a knack for simplifying complex macro concepts, she has become a trusted voice on air, online and in person.