Erin Relford is an accomplished engineer, creative writer, and content producer with a remarkable 25-year career showcasing deep domain expertise across geotechnical, oil and gas, waste management, media and entertainment, healthcare, robotics, and professional services.

Her expertise as a governance, risk, and compliance professional in Cybersecurity and IT audit has been instrumental in shaping successful programs for renowned organizations such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., 21st Century Fox, and Mattel, Inc. Currently, a Senior Privacy Engineer at Google, Erin’s expansive portfolio spans speculative markets and emerging products in Robotics, Health, and AI. A distinguished speaker and thought leader in Robotics Privacy, Erin served as privacy lead for projects at Deepmind, Waymo, X, Intrinsic, Mineral, and Everyday Robots, and published her robotics privacy framework, developed at Google, with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

She notably advised on groundbreaking products such as PaLM-SayCan, Google’s first Class I medical device DermAssist, and is a recipient of the 2023 EnCore Award. She has also been featured on PBS' Roadtrip Nation, Google's Coursera Cybersecurity Certificate course, and at SXSW. Her diverse endeavors at Google encompass go-to-market strategy for internal tooling solutions, AI principles red teaming, data observability and ethics, CSAM trust and safety, and various regulatory compliance initiatives including the Digital Markets Act, EU Data Act, and EU AI Act.
Beyond her technical role, Erin is a dedicated contributor to the tech community, serving as an on-air talent for Women Techmakers, Google, and AnitaB.org.

Her engagement extends to highly selective cohorts such as Stanford's Fall 2024 Ethics, Technology and Public Policy for Practitioners, Harvard Law's inaugural 2025 AI and the Law Executive Education program, and a graduate of the Aspen Policy Academy's Influencing AI From The Outside program.

As a content producer, Erin developed The Only Girl in the Room, a STEM engagement YouTube series for women looking for a tech career. She also served as Co-President of Sister Circle Media, a non-profit organization working to increase women of color representation in the Entertainment and Media industry, and Emerging Technology Committee Chair for WiTH’s Knowledge Circles for Impact Mentorship Program.

As a writer, Erin‘s 2017 book, Panties in a Bunch, measured the experiences of women in tech working in entertainment, probing the intersectionality of race, gender, and STEM in male-dominated industries.

Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Erin holds a bachelor's degree in information systems from the University of Houston. A proud member of ISACA and IAPP with several certifications, Erin’s commitment to the industry is building excellence in user trust. In her spare time, Erin enjoys baseball and participating in networking circles supportive of women.