Microsoft Ignite 2020 is next week, virtual, and FREE.

 As the title notes, Microsoft has made the Microsoft Ignite event this year free to attend. Scheduled for September 22-24, 2020, it will feature more than 700 sessions on all aspects of the Microsoft technology stack. You can read a preview of the event in Redmond Magazine here: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/09/17/microsoft-ignite-2020-preview.aspx

You can register here: https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

I also saw a post from Sharegate about their picks for the top sessions on Teams and securing Microsoft 365. You can find that post here: https://sharegate.com/blog/ignite-2020-sessions-manage-secure-teams-microsoft-365

Rebecca Richards, on the IAPP blog: COVID-19, privacy, and school recordings This is an incredibly important topic and it cuts a lot of different ways: 

• Privacy expectations of, for, and among students
• Privacy expectations for teachers
• Privacy expectations for students' and teachers' families
• Records management and disposition of potentially extremely sensitive information
• Freedom of expression, from both students and teachers, and concerns over others seeing and reviewing recordings
• Security of recordings, and, truth be told, of streams - not so much at the platform level as at the "my Zoom session doesn't use a password and I'm too lazy to see whether anyone is on the session that I don't recognize"
• The dynamic of things in the background at either end - toy guns being an example that's already come up

I hope the IAPP as well as other groups like AIIM and ARMA continue to think about, and offer guidance on, this issue. 

IAPP Opens Annual Call for Volunteers

From the email I received today: 

Here are our 2021 volunteer leadership opportunities:

• ANZ Advisory Board
• Asia Advisory Board
• Board of Directors
• Canadian Advisory Board
• Certification Advisory Boards
• Education Advisory Board
• European Advisory Board
• KnowledgeNet Chapter Chairs
• Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board
• Privacy Engineering Section Advisory Board
• Publications Advisory Board
• Research Advisory Board
• Training Advisory Board
• Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board
• Young Privacy Professional

Applications must be submitted by October 2, 2020. Additional details are available at https://iapp.org/connect/call-for-volunteers/ (must log in). 

MER Opens Call for Presentations for MER2021

 The MER Conference has opened its call for presentations for MER 2021. MER 2021 will follow a virtual format, with precons scheduled for May 20-21, 2021 and the conference proper scheduled for May 24-27, 2021. Submissions are required by October 16, 2020. More details can be found here: https://www.merconference.com/page/1595237/call-for-presenters