Leah Mooney

AI Governance and Privacy Lead, Wotton Kearney

About

For more than 20 years, Leah has provided legal, regulatory, governance, risk and compliance services to corporate and government entities. She is best known for helping clients to understand data privacy, cyber security and technology risk and compliance, with a particular focus on responding to complex data breaches, security of critical infrastructure, countering foreign interference, and high-risk AI technologies.

Speaking at Australian AI Safety Forum 2026

AI Safety: Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity in the Age of Intelligent Systems

7 July 2026 · 11:45 am – 12:25 pm · Sutherlandworkshop

AI systems are now embedded across organisational workflows, yet most governance, privacy and cybersecurity frameworks were never designed for autonomous, data hungry, vendor dependent technologies. The result: AI is accelerating long standing organisational weaknesses—data leakage, insecure integrations, opaque supply chains, unclear accountability and overconfidence in automated outputs. This session examines AI safety through the intersecting lenses of privacy, data governance, cybersecurity, and software supply chain resilience. Using realistic scenarios, the panel will explore how AI systems create new attack surfaces, amplify poor quality data, complicate incident response, and expose organisations to regulatory, operational and national security risks. The discussion is designed to be practical, provocative and cross disciplinary, giving legal, risk, cyber, governance and executive leaders a clear view of what “safe AI” requires in real world.