Angela M. Hinton was the first Chief Counsel to the City of Atlanta’s Department of Information Technology. Over 13 years, Ms. Hinton served the City’s CISO and the Information Security Governance Board. She tailored Information Security policies, and related compliance and education strategies for all levels of City Government. As Senior Corporate Counsel at VMware, Ms. Hinton leveraged her cybersecurity and privacy experience in a unique role supporting the U.S. Government Relations Team with analysis of twenty-two States’ legislative initiatives regarding data privacy, cybersecurity and algorithmic regulation. She also advised the Information Security Team in negotiating customer security requirements and drafted publicly facing privacy datasheets for a portfolio of cloud and SaaS offerings. Currently, Ms. Hinton is the Education Lead on Project Cerebellum, an AI Think Tank to establish best practices, standards, and frameworks for AI and related technologies.

Ms. Hinton held several positions in the American Bar Association and was the only State/Local attorney on the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, where she is a member of the Sub-Committee for Cybersecurity. She is also on the AI Committee of the ABA Section of Science and Technology. She earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law and received her B.A., with distinction, from State University of New York in Albany.