NSW: Privacy as a foundation of trust

Emma Hossack, CEO, Medical Software Industry Association

Emma Hossack is the CEO of the Medical Software Industry which represents the health software industry in Australia. Its 150+ member companies manage, collect and store over 95% of the health information in Australia. Emma is currently a Director of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Member of the National Aged Care Advisory Council and on the University of Melbourne Law School Foundation Board.

Prior to the MSIA appointment, Emma was the CEO of Extensia, a Commonwealth Research Collaborative which she commercialised to become a leading Australian supplier of software solutions and technologies for the health care sector. Emma is also a past President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ.

Before acquiring Extensia, Emma practised with a National Law Firm based in Melbourne. Emma completed a Master of Laws at Queensland University of Technology, majoring in consent models and privacy compliant sharing of health information through technology.

Carolyn Lidgerwood, Head of Privacy, Rio Tinto

Carolyn Lidgerwood is Head of Privacy at Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company.  

Carolyn manages Rio Tinto’s global privacy and data protection (data privacy) compliance program and advises on data privacy issues across Rio Tinto’s global operations (35+ countries).   At the centre of Rio Tinto’s data privacy compliance program is its global Data Privacy Standard (see at https://www.riotinto.com/sustainability/policies) that sets out the minimum rules that apply whenever and wherever Rio Tinto processes personal data, and helps to build a culture of data privacy awareness and compliance.  
Carolyn has worked as a lawyer since the early 1990s, specialising in privacy law and broadcasting law and in developing and implementing compliance programs.  

Prior to joining Rio Tinto in 2011, Carolyn worked in both the private and public sectors, starting her legal career as Associate and Research Assistant to The Hon MEJ Black AO QC, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.  Carolyn’s other roles have included General Counsel & Company Secretary for Southern Cross Media in Melbourne and Special Counsel at Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers in Sydney.   Carolyn was previously a board member of iappANZ (with the other speakers today) and is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Privacy Law Committee (alongside Olga)!   

Professor Peter Leonard, Principal, Data Synergies Pty Ltd

Peter Leonard is a Sydney based data and technology business lawyer.

As principal of Data Synergies, many of his clients are data analytics services providers and business developing and implementing data driven projects and AI applications. 

He is a part-time Professor of Practice (across the Schools of Management and Governance, and Information Systems & Technology Management) at UNSW Sydney Business School.

Peter serves on the NSW Government Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, tasked “to guide and provide strategic oversight for the use of AI in government”.

He also serves on a number of advisory boards, including for the National Farmers’ Federation’s Farm Data Project, the UNSW Canberra Institute for Cyber Security, and the Australian Digital Marketing Association’s Regulation Group. 
Peter was founding partner of Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin.
 

Samantha Yorke, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Australia

And moderated by Olga Ganopolsky, General Counsel – Privacy and Data, Macquarie Group Limited

Olga Ganopolsky is the General Counsel - Privacy and Data at Macquarie Group Limited.  In her role, Olga looks after data and privacy in the 28 jurisdictions that Macquarie operates in. Olga is a seasoned privacy and regulatory lawyer and has had extensive experience in most things data and privacy, ranging from building privacy facing compliance frameworks and functions, defending class actions and other litigation, conducting privacy audits, advising on data breaches, credit reporting matters and on complex data related commercial arrangements where data is a vital and valuable asset.  In the last few years, much of Olga's work has involved the privacy law reform process, most recently in implementing the mandatory data breach legislation in Australia, which came into effect in February 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect in May this year, and the implementation of these new requirements in a global commercial setting.  As part of working in the financial services industry Olga has worked closely on numerous credit reporting related matters, advising on issues as they pertain to credit providers and in her former role, as the General Counsel of the Veda Group as it was then, a credit reporting business.  Olga is also the Chairperson of the Law Councils', Business Law Privacy Committee and co-chair of the NSW Law Society Privacy and Data Committee. Olga is a key contributor to seminars and publications on this subject.