On February 2nd, the Canadian Bar Association will be co-sponsoring a one-day Consumer Protection conference in Atlanta with the American Bar Association. The conference will be held at the Atlanta Aquarium (with a welcome reception at the World of Coca-Cola on the evening of February 1st) and features discussions on various cutting-edge topics such as: government enforcement priorities in advertising/marketing and other areas, compliance challenges, best practices when responding to government investigations, regulation and disruptive technologies, claim substantiation in new or evolving industries, privacy/data protection in a digital world, and international trends.
We have a wide variety of accomplished speakers including: the Honorable Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, Federal Trade Commission, Honorable Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, Matthew Boswell, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Competition Bureau, Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Consumer protection officials from the Florida, Virginia, and Nebraska State Attorney Generals’ Office and corporate counsel from UPS, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Google and many others.
For more details, please see the agenda: here.
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