Become a DPDP-ready privacy lawyer in 3 weekends. No tech background needed. Start from the Act and the Rules and finish being able to take a company from zero to compliant, live with partners from AZB & Partners, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., Saraf and Partners and Chandhiok & Mahajan, with templates, notes and AI workflows.
That is the proposition behind Batch 2 of the Integrated Academy for Law & AI (IALA) Online Certificate Course on Data Privacy Law, DPDP Implementation & AI, which begins on November 15, 2026. Registrations close before the first lecture, and only a few days now remain.
The timing is not incidental. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is law and the DPDP Rules were notified on November 13, 2025. Every organisation in India must be compliant by May 13, 2027. Penalties run up to ₹250 crore per breach category, Data Protection Officer and Privacy Counsel are among the fastest growing legal roles in the country, and there are not enough trained privacy professionals to meet the demand.
The course is built to take participants through DPDP compliance in the sequence a real engagement actually unfolds, rather than as a reading of the statute.
Why This Course?
Practitioner-led faculty. Partners and counsel from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., AZB & Partners, Saraf and Partners and Chandhiok & Mahajan, along with a practising Data Protection Officer and a legal AI consultant. The lawyers who build privacy programmes for a living, not just teach about them.
Implementation, not just theory. Participants move from the framework to data mapping, consent architecture, privacy documentation, breach response and a career roadmap, producing the artefacts a client actually asks for: the processing register, the notice, the DPA, the breach intimation.
Batch 2 goes deeper on AI. Two dedicated modules, one on DPDP compliance for AI systems (training data, scraping, erasure requests and profiling) and one on the privacy document stack and AI vendor contracts, plus a module on applying AI tools to privacy work with guardrails.
No technical background required. Every concept is explained from a legal and practical standpoint.
Weekend format. Eight live lectures on Zoom across three weekends, with lifetime access to recordings on the Advanced plan, built for law students and working professionals alike.
What Will You Learn?
Module 1: The DPDP Framework: What Actually Changed. The 2023 Act and the 2025 Rules read together, the roles under the Act, and penalty exposure.
Module 2: Data Mapping and the Processing Register. Building the data inventory, the processing register and data flow diagrams.
Module 3: Consent Architecture for Digital and AI Products. Notices under Rule 3, the consent lifecycle and Consent Managers.
Module 4: DPDP Compliance for AI Systems. Training data, scraping, erasure requests and profiling.
Module 5: The Privacy Document Stack and AI Vendor Contracts. Policies, SOPs, DPAs and AI vendor terms.
Module 6: Rights, Breach Response and Retention. Rights requests, Rule 6 safeguards and breach intimation.
Module 7: AI Workflows for Privacy Practice. Five AI tools applied to real privacy tasks, with guardrails on what should never go into a prompt.
Module 8: Building a Career in Tech, Data, Privacy and AI Regulatory Law. Scoping the role, the market and a roadmap to DPO and Privacy Counsel.
Course Faculty
The faculty includes Varun Pathak (Equity Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.), Shagun Badhwar (Partner, AZB & Partners), Archana Iyer (Counsel, AZB & Partners), Gauhar Mirza (Partner, Saraf and Partners), Shreya Gupta (Partner, Chandhiok & Mahajan), Arrpita K Bhatt (Data Privacy and Media Lawyer), Dipanjan Dey (Data Protection Officer, HDB Financial Services) and Agastya Shukla (Legal Operations & AI Consultant).
Programme Details
Duration: 8 live lectures across 3 weekends, 2 lectures each day
Dates: November 15, 21, 22 and 28, 2026
Mode: Online, live via Zoom
Eligibility: Law students (UG and PG), young lawyers and litigators, in-house counsel, compliance and privacy professionals, and Company Secretaries and CAs moving into privacy. No prior technical background required.
Fee: ₹2,999 for the Basic plan and ₹3,999 for the Advanced plan (recommended). Both plans include the 8 live lectures, live Q&A with every speaker and the certificate. The Advanced plan adds lifetime access to recordings, six course e-books running to 430+ pages (Curated Course Notes, Annotated DPDP Act and Rules, Template Pack, Implementation Guide, AI Prompt Library and Career Kit) and access to the IALA Privacy Network.
Certification: Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate in Data Privacy, DPDP Implementation & AI from IALA
For Register: Click Here
Contact Information
Email: contact@iala.in
Phone: +91 92325 93090
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