Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer

Practical Privacy is a podcast for privacy professionals who want to understand how privacy and AI governance work in the real world. Hosted by Orla Dormer, the series brings together experienced practitioners to discuss common operational challenges , from scaling GDPR programs and answering data questions internally, to navigating AI governance and legacy tooling constraints. Each episode focuses on practical lessons, honest reflections, and what teams wish they had known earlier. This podcast is designed as a reference for privacy leaders looking to improve how privacy actually operates inside organisations.

Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer, a business show with 21 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Episode #3

  Why Privacy Can't Just Be a Compliance Checkbox | Vicky Owens

  Sep 22, 20269 minS2

  Too many stakeholders treat data privacy as a regulatory checkbox — tick it, forget it, move on. Orla Dormer talks with Vicky Owens, Data and Digital Senior Counsel at SkyShowtime, about why that mindset fails and how to fix it. Vicky shares why the classic "fines and reputational risk" pitch often doesn't land, and how reframing privacy around return on investment — better data, monetisation, competitive edge — changes the conversation. She also shares a real example: how spotting a spike in incidents among contractors led to a training fix that cut incidents by 45%. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/ Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer

  Engage Regulators Before They Come to You | Francisco Matos

  Sep 14, 202610 min

  New cybersecurity regulation like NIS2 is landing differently in every EU country — and a single incident can now trigger separate reports under multiple frameworks. Francisco Matos, Compliance Director at Legora and former Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity Law at Meta, joins Orla Dormer to explain how his team turned that fragmentation into a proactive regulator engagement strategy: cold outreach, a focused paper that got them invited to present at ENISA in Amsterdam, and lessons on building trust with regulators before you need them. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #1

  Building an AI agent governance framework at scale | Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska

  Sep 2, 202611 minS2

  Orla Dorner is joined by Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska, Group Head of Privacy, Digital & AI Governance at Prosus, to talk about building an agentic AI governance framework at scale. They discuss why traditional governance controls aren't enough once anyone in an organisation can build an AI agent, how to shift from one-off assessments to continuous risk monitoring, and why staying close to high-risk teams like HR and finance is critical as adoption accelerates. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/ Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #18

  Automating processor RoPAs & proving privacy's business value| Adrien Hug-Korda

  Aug 6, 202614 minS1

  Keeping a processor Record of Processing Activities up to date is one of the least glamorous—but most critical—operational challenges in privacy. In this episode, Orla Dormer is joined by Adrien Hug-Korda, European Data Protection Board Expert and former Privacy Director at Contentsquare , to discuss how privacy teams can automate processor RoPAs, manage large-scale processing operations, and build compliance processes that continue working as organisations grow. Adrien shares practical lessons from the digital marketing industry, explains how to avoid creating compliance processes that rely on constant manual effort, discusses handling DSRs in cookie-based environments, and offers advice on showing the business value of privacy programmes to leadership. If you're responsible for privacy operations, governance, or compliance at scale, this episode is full of practical ideas you can apply immediately. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #17

  Operationalising AI governance in a high-growth fintech environment | Taylor Galusha

  Aug 6, 20267 minS1

  What does practical AI governance actually look like day to day in a high-growth FinTech environment? In this episode of Practical Privacy, Orla Dormer speaks with Taylor Galusha, Lead Privacy and AI Counsel at Chime , about operationalising AI governance through scalable AI vendor assessments. Taylor explains why manual reviews are difficult to sustain, how robust playbooks can create consistency, and how AI can support the first draft of vendor assessment reviews when given clear guidance, examples, and logic trees. This episode explores how privacy and AI governance teams can move faster, escalate risks more clearly, and build stronger documentation — without removing human judgement from the final decision. Subscribe for more real-world conversations on privacy operations, AI governance, and scaling compliance without the noise. TrustWorks reduces operational drag through context-aware operations that align compliance with how the business actually works. Learn more at https://www.trustworks.io/

  ListenShow Notes

Recent guests on Practical Privacy with Orla Dormer. Study who booked and why before you pitch.

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.