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Courtney Barton is Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Marriott International. In this role, she leads the Global Privacy team and counsels on legal issues concerning data privacy and protection, cybersecurity, information management, new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biometrics, marketing, advertising technology, and a broad range of compliance and litigation matters. In addition to her current role, Courtney has experience as the in-house privacy lead for two global Fortune 500 companies and as an outside counsel at Am Law 100 law firms. She has been a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals since 2009 (CIPP/US) and has served on the IAPP Privacy Bar Advisory Board. She is the Co-Founder and former Co-Chair of the Data Privacy and Security Forum for the Association of Corporate Counsel for the National Capital Region (ACC-NCR), a former member of the Board of Directors for ACC-NCR and served on the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for the United States Department of Homeland Security. Courtney is a frequent speaker on data privacy and security issues, as well as on e-discovery and other litigation-related topics. She is a graduate of Colby College, Tulane Law School, holds an MPH from Harvard University, and a certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University. She is a member of the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Louisiana (inactive) bars and is the co-editor of Managing E-Discovery and ESI: From Pre-Litigation to Trial (ABA, 2011), with Michael Berman and the Hon. Paul W. Grimm.