Privacy By Design

​We are excited to welcome Toni Dumas, privacy and cybersecurity attorney, law professor, and co-founder of Data Pilots, Inc., for this practical workshop on designing products people trust.

​What you will learn You're already thinking about how your product works and what it's like to use. This workshop adds one more lens: the information you ask people for, and what you do with it. Every time someone signs up, fills out a form, or uses a feature, you're asking them to trust you. The choices you make about what to collect, and why, shape whether they actually do. We'll cover privacy by design principles — a simple, people-first framework for designing any signup, form, or feature so it earns trust from the start.

​What to bring Come with something you're actively building — a signup flow, a form, a feature, or even just an idea. You'll work through an example with the group and apply the framework to your own product. No legal, privacy, or coding background needed.

​What you will leave with A clearer way to think about trust in anything you design, plus a reusable handout you can come back to whenever you're building something new.

​Bio: Toni Dumas is passionate about helping small businesses and founders build lasting trust with the people they serve. A privacy and cybersecurity attorney and law professor, she started out designing websites and has spent years advising companies on privacy and trust in their digital products. As co-founder of Data Pilots, Inc., she has learned to build as a founder herself, and recently completed the first DC Founder Institute Penn West program. She also runs the privacy and trust consultancy Data Risk Group LLC.