Speakers

Ryan McKenney is the General Counsel for Compliance and the Director of Government Relations at Quantinuum, a leading integrated quantum computing company. In these roles, he lead legal compliance efforts and direct government relations efforts from Quantinuum’s Washington DC office. Previously, Ryan McKenney was an attorney in the Privacy and Technology Transactions group at Orrick LLP where he focused on tech transactions, CCPA and GDPR Regulation, and cyber policy compliance.

Ryan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US and CIPP/E) for both American Privacy Law and GDPR, and holds graduate certificates in AI and Business from Wharton and in Blockchain and Quantum Computing from MIT. He is a co-founder and chair of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)'s Legal Committee and an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School, where he teaches classes about technology and privacy and AI, and Vanderbilt Law School, where he teaches courses on AI and Quantum Technology.

At Vanderbilt Law School, Ryan served as the Symposium Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and acted as student counsel in the Youth Advocacy Clinic. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with honors, where he was an Ingram Scholar.