DPDPA Leadership Conclave · Chapter 01
Mumbai 2026
Operationalising DPDPA. Who will lead in India's trust era?
The first chapter of the series. Expected first week of September 2026, 10:00–15:00. Venue central to Mumbai, being fixed.
What is settled
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Four themes
The agenda works within the Trust Operating Model. Sessions are designed for practical takeaways, not theoretical discussion.
How the room works
Hands-on executive workshops cover consent architecture, privacy engineering, AI governance, privacy impact assessments, cybersecurity, vendor management, incident response, board governance and enterprise operating models.
Who sits in the room
Speakers are curated across government, technology, regulation, enterprise, academia and civil society, and are published on this register once confirmed.
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The minds behind this conclave
Strategic Advisor at the DPDPA Forum, and Executive Chair and Curator of this conclave. Parveen has come to be seen as one of India's prominent AI governance leaders; her work sits at the intersection of regulation, artificial intelligence, data protection, digital policy and responsible innovation.
With over two decades in enterprise technology, she has led large-scale AI systems in speech recognition and enterprise platforms across Microsoft, Oracle, EMC Corporation and Sapient. Her DPDPA and AI-governance operationalisation work spans India, the USA and the EU, across enterprises, governmental bodies and GCCs.
She holds a B.Tech in Computer Systems from the University of British Columbia, is an Algorithms, AI & Civil Liberties Fellow (top 8 from Asia) with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and trained in public policy at the National Law School of India University. She is the author of a paper on programmatic AI compliance, founder and CEO of United Regulation, and owner of the AI Trust and Governance Conclave.
parveen@dpdpaforum.orgThe chapter record
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