DC_THURS on Privacy-Safe Data Engineering Workflows w/ Graham Thompson

Graham Thompson, founder and CEO of Privacy Dynamics, and Pete will discuss the pain points around privacy-safe data engineering workflows and why businesses should embrace the opportunity to improve them. A Microsoft and Apple veteran, Graham will shed light on how his experience helping enterprises transition to the cloud led him to found Privacy Dynamics, a one-click privacy tool that offers data and analytics engineers immediate access to high-quality data. About our guest: Graham Thompson is the founder and CEO of Privacy Dynamics, whose mission is to empower innovative and ethical data teams with safe, accurate data. Prior to founding Privacy Dynamics, Graham worked on multiple teams at Microsoft, including Azure Developer Relations and Civic Technology, where he helped customers navigate privacy policies such as GDPR as they moved to the Azure cloud. Graham has spearheaded several privacy research engagements with Microsoft Research and leading academics, which has led to innovations such as SmartNoise, an open source toolkit that injects noise into data to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information and manage exposure risk. Graham holds an M.B.A from the University of San Francisco and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. ************************** About DC_THURS: DC_THURS is a series of live online interviews with leading data professionals, with a special focus on open source contributors and startups. Each conversation is led by Pete Soderling, founder of Data Council (https://www.datacouncil.ai/) & Data Community Fund (https://www.dcf1.vc/). While replays are available, live attendees get a unique chance to have their questions answered by our guest - so if you can, make sure to join us live on Thursdays at 9:30am PT! Subscribe to our channel to be notified about upcoming episodes. For past episodes, check out the DC_THURS playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAesBe-zAQmHRsPAHvfx9_lffWPrl3icC