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A little work & life update - I’m beyond excited to share that I’ve joined Transcend as a Staff Product Designer ✨ The last 5 years in health tech shaped how I think about design in ways I’ll carry forever. Working with people’s most sensitive health data taught me that data rights aren’t just a compliance checkbox, they’re deeply human. After taking an eventful year off to be a first-time mom and watch my baby become a toddler 🐣, I returned to a world where AI is changing everything rapidly, which only strengthened my belief that data privacy needs thoughtful, human-centered design. Looking forward to do just that at Transcend. Onward and upward 🌱 P.S. Special shoutout to Rowan Stewart for all of your support in getting me here! Reunited & it feels so good 🫶

The booth got busy fast. Two days. One question on repeat: How do you move faster on AI without creating a compliance mess behind you? We ran a quick AI readiness survey at the #IAPPSummit26 booth to kick off the conversation, and the response was 🔥 Everyone who participated was entered to win a MacBook. Today we pulled a winner live! 👇 Congrats to Jaap Hoorenman CIPP/e, who took the survey, stuck around, and walked away with a MacBook Neo. 🎉 Huge thank you to everyone who stopped by, shared their perspective, and took the survey. The survey data is already telling a bigger story. More on that soon. #AIReadiness #IAPPSummit26 #DataPrivacy

Transcend has launched Agentic Assist and the Transcend MCP Server, bringing agentic AI capabilities directly into enterprise privacy and governance workflows. Ben Brook, CEO and Co-Founder of Transcend, on the shift it enables: "Once privacy teams get on top of their backlogs, they become more strategic partners in the business, engaging in technology strategy more deeply, and going from bottleneck to enabler." Aimee Cardwell, CIO/CISO in Residence at Transcend, on the calculus it changes: "Every CIO I talk to wants their teams moving faster, but until now, privacy and governance haven't had the tooling to keep up. There's no longer a tradeoff between working smarter and working safely." The two products address the same underlying problem from different angles. Agentic Assist is built directly on Transcend's integration layer, meaning it already understands an organisation's systems, data flows, and workflows from day one. That context is the difference between an agent that can actually complete assessments, triage cookies and fulfil data subject requests, and one that simply generates recommendations that the team still has to execute manually. The Transcend MCP Server lets teams administer Transcend from within the AI tools they already use, whether Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Cursor, without switching to the Transcend dashboard to initiate requests, run assessments, or manage consent configurations. Both products are built with enterprise-grade controls. Agentic Assist operates within each customer's own Transcend instance with no cross-tenant data sharing. The MCP server requires user authentication, and every tool call runs within the organisation's own environment. The market context matters. Gartner estimates enterprise applications with task-specific AI agents will increase eightfold by the end of 2026, but warns that 40% of agentic AI projects risk cancellation without governance, observability and ROI clarity. Privacy teams are currently the slowest link in enterprise AI adoption. Luke Arno, wilkins randy, Sam Ackerman, MBA, Alex Meyer, Morgan Sullivan, Michael Jensen, Kate Parker, Cameron Ivey, Tyler Maschger, Jeniffer Lumish, Nic Stergion, Gabrielle Ruane, Jared Marcell

Why are compliance teams still doing manually what the rest of the enterprise is automating? 🚀 Today we're announcing 1) Agentic Assist and 2) the Transcend MCP Server. Two purpose-built agentic tools for privacy and governance teams. One works inside Transcend. The other works inside your AI tools. Both take action on your behalf—completing assessments, triaging cookies, managing DSR ops—rather than handing you a recommendation and leaving you to do the work. We're at #IAPPSummit26 in D.C. this week. Come see them live at booth #158. And see a peak of how Agentic Assist aids with assessments pre-population below.

This isn't a panel where people play nice and agree on everything. On Monday, March 30 at 1:45 PM EDT, we're bringing together the people who actually write privacy laws, enforce them, and live inside them every day, for an unfiltered debate on where compliance, legislation, and enforcement really overlap. On the panel: 🎙 Elise Houlik — Chief Privacy Officer, Intuit 🎙 Rep. Steve Elkins — Minnesota House of Representatives, author of the nation's strongest state consumer data privacy law 🎙 Michael Macko — Deputy Director of Enforcement, California Privacy Protection Agency Moderated by Transcend's Head of Brand and Corporate Communications, Andrew Moon. Expect an inside look at where California and Minnesota are focusing enforcement right now, from AI governance to vendor management to data rights, so you can close gaps before they become regulator inquiries. Add it to your IAPP Global Summit agenda 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8tjqXQi #DataPrivacy #AIGovernance #PrivacyLaw #IAPPSummit26

Welcome to the Transcend team, Dianne Decena!

Welcome, Dianne! Every enterprise deploying AI is navigating the same challenge: making compliance infrastructure work across product lines, systems, workflows, and regions. The right partners accelerate that journey. Today we're welcoming Dianne Decena as VP of Partnerships to scale the ecosystem that helps enterprises operationalize compliant AI across even the most complex customer data environments. Dianne brings two decades of experience in technology alliances, channel, managed services, and professional services partnerships at companies like ThoughtSpot and Medallia (NYSE: MDLA). Read more about what she's building: https://lnkd.in/gw8aanG8

Transcend is headed back to Washington, D.C. 🏛️ IAPP Global Summit week is almost here and a lot has changed since last year. AI has gone from emerging priority to board-level mandate. New regs keep dropping. Privacy teams are being asked to do more with the same headcount. IAPP Global Summit is where the community figures out what that actually means in practice. We'll be right there with you. Here's where to find us March 30–31 👇 📍 Booth #158 — stop by for a live demo, meet the team, and grab some exclusive IAPP swag 🎙 Panel: Beyond Compliance Theater — Monday 3/30 at 1:45 PM. A lawmaker, a California regulator, and the CPO of Intuit walk into a room… 💻 Win a MacBook Neo — take our 2-minute AI Readiness survey at the booth for a chance to win. Winner announced live at 12:30 PM on 3/31 (must be present to claim). Official rules: https://lnkd.in/erZE-3gu 🎉 Heated Privacy after party — Monday night at Pitchers, DC. Buy tickets at lgbtqprivacy.org Full breakdown of everything happening at IAPP Global Summit 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8tjqXQi See you in DC 👋 #IAPPSummit26 #PrivacyLaw #AIGovernance #DataPrivacy

🤔 Can we use this data? The question everyone's asking, the answer no one seems to have. And without that critical clarity into your customer data, campaigns slow down, risk increases, and revenue opportunities are lost. With Transcend Preference Management, teams get a single, reliable view of customer permissions—so they can: - Confidently activate data across channels - Automatically sync preferences across your entire stack - Know exactly who you can reach, and how - Build trust by honoring user choices everywhere Learn more about how your team can help drive faster execution, better customer experiences, and more scalable growth ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gdRz9TX9

Privacy teams are being asked to move faster than their tools allow 🏃 Legacy platforms weren’t built for AI, real-time data flows, or global scale. And those gaps are starting to show! Teams are stuck in manual reviews, with limited visibility and growing risk. Switching has always been the hard part. But it doesn’t have to be. With Transcend’s Migration Uplift, teams are moving off legacy platforms in days, not months, without disrupting in-flight work. → Migrate core data in a day → Keep active workflows running → Go live fast Modern privacy should unblock the business, not slow it down. 👉 Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/g9eyDqsS