A collaborative panel series in Seattle, working to build and sustain relationships.

Smart Cookies runs about 90 minutes, in person, in Seattle: a 45 to 60 minute panel, then questions from the floor. There is no presentation deck and no vendor pitch, panels are by invitation only. A moderator leads the panel through a real topic, the kind that does not have a clean answer yet. The room is mostly senior and mostly practitioners: security and risk leaders, product and AI builders, privacy and legal officers, board members, founders, all willing to share honest and authentic experience learned over the course of their careers. We close with a hosted gathering so the conversation can continue.