The European Data Protection & Privacy Conference returns fully in-person in Brussels this year for the first time since 2019. Debating and discussing the most pertinent and timely data privacy issues through interactive panel discussions, speeches and interviews, this event is a staple in the European privacy community’s calendar, attracting more than 250 cross-sector delegates.
The 2022 edition of the European Data Protection & Privacy Conference will focus on the various European initiatives that aim to fulfil the block’s privacy and data sovereignty ambitions.
Topics of discussions will revolve around reflections on the intersection of the GDPR with the numerous digital files that have been introduced, debated and adopted in the past two years; considerations for privacy in the context of AI governance; how synergies can be created between different data privacy rulebooks worldwide and finally a focus on how our understanding of privacy may evolve as future technologies, such as the metaverse, emerge.
Didier Reynders,
European Commissioner for Justice
Grant Harris,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Industry and Analysis, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
GDPR and the new wave of Tech Regulation
Data Protection and AI governance
Global privacy frameworks & trusted data flows
Data Privacy and Future Technologies
Didier Reynders is European Commissioner for justice responsible for rule of law, data protection and other fundamental rights, as well as consumer protection, a position he has held since December 2019. Previously, he held several high-level political positions in Belgium including minister of defense, minister of foreign affairs, foreign trade and European affairs, minister of finance and deputy prime minister. From 2004 to 2011, he served as chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance). He was elected member of the Belgian Parliament in 1992. Prior to this, he was president of the National Railway Company of Belgium and the National Society of Airways. Reynders has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Liège, Brussels and Louvain until he became European Commissioner. He holds a degree in law from the University of Liège.
Commissioner for Justice, European Commission
Grant Harris is the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis. He was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7, 2022, and officially sworn in on April 19, 2022. Harris leads a staff of more than 225 trade and industry experts that produce innovative, high-quality, in-depth trade analyses and develop strategies to maintain the leading competitive edge of American industry throughout the world.
Harris has 20 years of private and public sector experience related to international relations, national security, and global business. Harris previously served as CEO of Connect Frontier LLC, a consultancy that he founded. In that role, Harris advised companies and organizations on strategy, policy, and mitigating risk with respect to doing business in emerging and frontier markets. Harris also served as an Adjunct Professor of Global Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and lectured on doing business in emerging markets at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Harris served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House from 2011-2015. In this role, Harris conceived of the historic U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which generated $37 billion in new commitments to support trade, investment, and development across Africa. As former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, Harris’ portfolio included East Asia. He also served on the National Security Council staff at the White House under President Bill Clinton and in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Additionally, Harris worked on cross-border transactions in Latin America as an attorney at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Harris holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a master’s in public affairs, with distinction, from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post; Harvard Business Review; Forbes; TIME; U.S. News & World Report; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy; Yale Journal of Law & Policy; Berkeley Journal of International Law; Israel Law Review; and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Industry and Analysis, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
*Pre-recorded speech
Aleid Wolfsen was appointed chair of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) in 2016. He had previously been a member of the Dutch DPA’s advisory board. Prior to his appointment as Dutch DPA chair, Mr Wolfsen held various positions in politics and the judiciary. Since 2019 Mr. Wolfsen is also deputy chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).
Deputy Chair,
EDPB
Joe Jones is Deputy Director for International Data Transfers with the UK Government. He leads the team responsible for UK Government policies relating to free and secure flow of data internationally. This includes work on data adequacy partnerships, alternative transfer mechanisms, and multilateral initiatives that promote the trusted exchange of data across borders. Prior roles include serving as the UK Government’s Deputy Head of Digital Trade policy and working in the private sector as a lawyer on international data issues.
Deputy Director - International Data Transfers
UK DCMS
*Remote participation
Karolina Mojzesowicz is the Deputy Head of Unit of the unit responsible for data protection at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers). She was one of the Commission’s representatives in the interinstitutional negotiations with Parliament and Council on the General data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She is now responsible for its implementation in
the EU. Mrs Mojzesowicz previously served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service, focusing on EU Competition law and International Trade law. In that capacity, she represented the Commission in numerous cases before the European Courts and before the WTO panels and Appellate Body. Mrs Mojzesowicz studied law in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany where she obtained her PhD in 2001.
Deputy Head of Unit Data Protection,
European Commission
Deputy to the Director for Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law,
European Commission
Peter Eberl is Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy in the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. He works on the legislative negotiations of the ePrivacy Regulation, the implementation of the ePrivacy Directive and the implementation and evaluation of the Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS), and on other cybersecurity and privacy issues. Peter has also contributed to the European Union’s common approach to contact tracing and warning apps and its implementation. Before moving to cybersecurity and privacy, he successfully negotiated the services part of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), and the net neutrality provisions in the Telecoms Single Market Regulation and the related BEREC net neutrality guidelines. Previously, Peter worked in DG Competition and in the private sector.
Deputy Head of Unit, Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy, DG CONNECT,
European Commission
Yordanka Ivanova is a Legal and Policy Officer in the European Commission in the unit responsible for AI Policy Development and Coordination. She is a member of the legal team who has drafted the Commission proposal for a Regulation on AI. Before joining the Commission, Yordanka worked as a researcher and attorney-at-law, advising companies on EU regulations, including in the area of data protection, consumer protection, digital services, financial services, cybersecurity and copyright.
Legal and Policy Officer for Artificial Intelligence,
DG CONNECT,
European Commission
Leonardo Cervera Navas is the Director of the Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the Data Protection Authority of the European Union.
Law graduate of the University of Málaga and master’s degree in European Law from the University of Granada (Spain). He was a fellow at Duke University in North Carolina (US) as part of the EU Fellowship Programme of the European Commission. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in HR management by Kingston University (UK). He is Member of the Malaga Academy of Sciences (correspondent in Brussels).
Leonardo joined the European Commission in 1999 and since then he has been working in the Data Protection field in the EU institutions. In 2010, he joined the EDPS, as Head of the Human Resources, Budget and Administration Unit and he was appointed Director in 2018. As Head of the Secretariat, he is a member of the Management Board of the EDPS, responsible for advising on data protection law and policy, and he is in charge of the coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the institution.
Director,
EDPS
Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP serving his second term and is the Head of Delegation of Partito Democratico in the European parliament. He is Rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Head of Delegation of Partito Democratico
European Parliament
*Pre-recorded speech
Monika Adamczyk works as a Cybersecurity Expert at the European Unit Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), where she focuses on cybersecurity and privacy of emerging technologies. Prior to joining ENISA, she worked in Poland as a data protection expert and a DPO and contributed to the work of the European Data Protection Board Technology Subgroup. Her professional experience includes also leading multiple IT projects at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria and delivering technical solutions to many commercial organizations and the federal government in the USA.
Cybersecurity Expert,
ENISA
*Remote participation
Teresa Martinez Sánchez, Head of the Innovation Area at the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD).
I have a technical background, I am an Aeronautical Engineer (M.Sc.), and I also have a Master’s degree in International Business Administration (MBA). I have developed my career for 12 years in the aeronautical field until a year ago when I joined the Technological Innovation Division at the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
My main current tasks are related to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence within the Technological Innovation Division which, as a support unit to the management of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, develops its work in relation to technological issues that have relevance in the protection of personal data, analyses the implications and alternatives of the state of the art of technology and generates the necessary knowledge to anticipate changes in it. It issues reports, recommendations and promotes measures that guarantee the compatibility of technological development with privacy, ensuring the rights of citizens.
Jefa de Área de Innovación Tecnológica,
Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
Barbara Cosgrove is vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, and is responsible for Workday’s global privacy, ML ethics, and compliance strategy and operations.
Barbara has extensive expertise in managing international data protection compliance programs, and implementing data governance policies, technology compliance standards and programs, and privacy-by-design frameworks. She has also served as the chief security officer for Workday.
Prior to joining Workday, Barbara led various compliance programs within Kaiser Permanente and PeopleSoft. Barbara holds a Juris Doctor degree from Widener Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Vice President & Chief Privacy Officer,
Workday
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Global Privacy Officer,
Head of EMEA Government Affairs,
Broadcom Inc
John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel,
ITI
Elise Houlik is Chief Privacy Officer at Intuit. In this role, she drives Intuit’s data stewardship vision and advises on complex privacy and interrelated regulatory issues. Her team is deeply engaged with the business on all matters related to product development, data governance, and information security. Elise joined Intuit in August 2022 and is based in New York.
Prior to joining Intuit, Elise served as Mastercard’s SVP, Assistant General Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection, where she led privacy work for the North American and Latin American & Caribbean markets, and for several global divisions including open banking, small / medium business and B2B platforms, digital payments and partnerships, start-ups, cryptocurrency / blockchain, marketing and communications, human resources, operations & technology, and corporate security. She formerly held the role of Associate General Counsel at Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, acting as the company’s Lead Privacy & Cybersecurity counsel for several years.
Elise is admitted in DC, MD, and NY (In House), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.
Chief Privacy Officer,
Intuit
Sermin is working as Senior Product Manager within Usercentrics and looking for privacy frameworks and legislative developments globally to implement within Usercentrics Consent Management Platform. Sermin is an experienced privacy and compliance professional with a successful background in driving privacy projects for multinational tech companies (Fintech, Marketing management platform,…). She carries years of experience in having implemented compliance and data privacy protection programmes and managed privacy policies at a company level at the intersection of privacy and business needs.
Senior Product Manager Data Privacy Frameworks,
Usercentrics
After the studies in Law, Marco started his professional career as part of the start-up project of iBazar, the first online auction website in Europe. From 2002 to 2007 he was Head of legal and Trust and Safety at eBay. In July 2007 Marco joined the Google Public Policy team. After almost 15 years at Google in high profile roles and different Countries, in April 2022 Marco joined public policy team at Meta as a Director Privacy Policy EMEA, supporting development of existing and new products in the #metaverse.
Privacy Policy Director,
Meta
Elisabeth Dehareng joined Baker McKenzie’s Brussels office in 2003 and is a partner since 2014 in the Information Technology & Communications and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. She was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2003. She is a member of the EMEA IP Tech Steering Committee.
Elisabeth is regularly mentioned in publications such as Legal 500 and Chambers.
Elisabeth advises clients in all fields of IT, IP and new technology law, with a special focus on data protection and privacy aspects. Her practice focuses on European and worldwide data protection compliance projects, in the field of which she advises on GDPR-readiness programs, cross-border data transfer strategies, processing of special categories of personal data, cybersecurity and data breaches management, and provides strategic advice on other areas such as internal compliance issues, digital media and online applications, as well as in relation to privacy litigation.
Elisabeth also advises on data protection aspects of corporate transactions and reorganizations.
Elisabeth also advises clients in relation to e-commerce, digital media and online applications, including legal aspects of big data and internet of things.
Partner,
Baker McKenzie
Ms. Pachl is the Deputy Director General of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, representing 46 independent national consumer associations from 32 European countries. Before this, she has held different positions at BEUC, starting as Legal Advisor, than working as Senior Policy and Institutional Affairs Advisor.
In her current role Ms. Pachl leads BEUC’s work on digital policies, consumer rights, redress and enforcement. She is also responsible for horizontal and strategic policy such as EU governance and Better Regulation and represents BEUC in High Level groups, for example in the European Commission’s “Fit 4 Future” platform, the stakeholder group of the EU’s Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and previously in the European Commission’s High Level Group for Artificial Intelligence.
With over 20 years of experience, Ursula is a seasoned consumer and digital rights lawyer and advocate who has helped to shape European consumer law and policy. In particular, she has developed BEUC’s co-ordinated law enforcement activities and works to expand these activities also to newer areas such as Data Protection Law infringements. She is passionate about mainstreaming consumer’s needs into EU policies. Digital rights and their enforcement are at the centre of her current work which aims at ensuring that the digital transformation takes the right direction, leading to a better society for all.
Prior to working for BEUC, Ursula worked for the Austrian Federal ministry for Health and Consumer Protection in Vienna and for the Austrian Consumer Information Association as a member of the consumer advisory board.
Ursula is the author of several articles in consumer law and policy journals and regularly comments on consumer issues in the media. She holds a master’s degree in law and a post-graduate degree in cultural management.
The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in the development of all Union policies.
Deputy Director General,
BEUC
Sebastião Barros Vale serves as the EU Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where he is following and analyzing privacy and data protection European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the European Data Protection Board and national Data Protection Authorities. He actively monitors the activity of EU institutions around privacy and data protection, including Communications and Proposals of the European Commission and legislative reports from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
He completed a traineeship at the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, where he contributed to the 1st Annual Review of the EU-US Privacy Shield and to the Commission Guidance on the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a qualified lawyer in Portugal, he practiced at the ICT practice area of Vieira de Almeida e Associados, assisting clients from the healthcare, retail, energy and financial sectors in complying with the GDPR and other privacy-related laws. Just before joining FPF, he worked as an in-house privacy expert at Johnson & Johnson.
Sebastião holds an LL.M in EU Law from the College of Europe (2016, Belgium), where he wrote his thesis on alternative international data transfer mechanisms after the invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbour Decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Two notable papers he published focused on the interplay between the GDPR and the EU’s DIrective on digital payment services (PSD2), and on how European anti-discrimination, consumer, and data protection rules shield consumers against pervasive online price personalization.
EU Policy Counsel,
Future of Privacy Forum
Fanny Hidvegi is Access Now’s Europe Policy and Advocacy Director based in Brussels. She develops Access Now’s European policy strategy, heads the regional work and represents the EU entity. Fanny is an Obama Foundation Europe Leader and a Marshall Memorial Fellow. Fanny was selected to be a member of the POLITICO Tech 28 Class of 2022. Fanny was a member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, she serves on the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Digital Technologies, and on the board of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU). She is a member of the European Parliament STOA Committee’s International Advisory Board.
Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Program of the HCLU where she engaged in strategic litigation with journalists and other NGOs, participated in the fight against the national data retention law in Hungary, and promoted privacy enhancing technologies. There, she gained experience on how to operate as a human rights advocate in a restrictive environment.
Fanny also worked as a consumer protection lawyer both in the public and the private sector. She has a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and she spent one academic year at the University of Florence. Fanny was once on Swiss national TV as Roger Federer’s biggest fan.
Europe Policy and Advocacy Director,
Access Now
Francis P. Crawley is a philosopher specialized in research ethics, integrity, and methodology, and data/AI ethics & law. He is the Executive Director of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA) and the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER) in Leuven, Belgium. He coordinated the GCPA-SIDCER European Fellowship in Research Ethics (EFRE). He is Co-chairman of the EOSC Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG) and serves as the EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law. He also chairs the International Data Policy Committee of the International Committee on Data (CODATA), International Science Council (ISC). He is a member of the FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme at FAIRsharing.org. He recently co-founded the Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI). He has acted as an subject matter expert for leading EU and international research organisations, including UNAIDS, the WHO, CIOMS, UNESCO, the European Commission, and the Council of Europe, as well as having worked extensively on health-research related topics in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Eastern Europe.
Chair, International Data Policy Committee, CODATA; Co-Chair, EOSC-Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG); Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI); Leuven, Belgium
Angel Serna is Senior Vice President, Political & Government Affairs, at Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). He leads Zurich’s advocacy efforts across the digital policy space to support and advance public policy positions related to the digital age, which matter to Zurich and the insurance industry. From July 2011 to June 2014, he was responsible as the Group’s Head of Communications for developing the Group’s communications strategy and managing Zurich’s Communications function.
Mr Serna joined Zurich in November 2006 as Head of Media Relations responsible for the management of Zurich’s media relations activities on a global basis. Before, he had been working as an economics editor and correspondent with the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), where he covered various industrial sectors and worked among other things as a foreign correspondent in Madrid, São Paulo and Washington, DC. He completed his studies at the University of Zurich with a Ph.D. in Economics.
Senior Vice President, Political & Government Affairs,
Zurich
Sebastian follows EU regulation related to privacy and data protection, as well as national legislative developments covering the digital economy more broadly in Ireland and Romania. He joined Cullen International from a consultancy company in Brussels, where he was a public affairs manager. Sebastian worked at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU in the team dealing with cybersecurity and telecom during Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2019. Previously, he worked for Deloitte Luxembourg advising the EU institutions on how to address the cyber and privacy challenges. Sebastian has an LL.M Master’s Degree in Law and Technology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Analyst,
Cullen International
Friederike Berfelde is a member of Brunswick’s Global TMT Sector Group and specializes in EU public affairs and communications for clients in the industry. She also focusses on competition issues.
Associate,
Brunswick Group
Patrick Grady is a policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, focusing on AI and content moderation. Previously, he was the project lead at the Internet Commission and worked in strategy at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Patrick holds masters’ in philosophy and political science.
Policy Analyst,
Center for Data Innovation
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and the UK’s place in the world. He is also the chairman of the EU-UK Forum and a member of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
Chairman,
Forum Europe
This year’s edition will focus on the European initiatives that aim to fulfil the block’s privacy and data sovereignty ambitions. Topics of discussions will revolve around reflections on the intersection of the GDPR with the numerous digital files that have been introduced, debated and adopted in the past two years; considerations for privacy in the context of AI governance; how synergies can be created between difference data privacy rulebook worldwide and finally a focus on how our understanding of privacy may evolve as future technologies, such as the metaverse, emerge.
*** TIMES ARE IN CET ***
Since the implementation of the GDPR nearly five years ago (*by the time of the conference), Europe is widely regarded as a global pioneer in tech regulation. This trend as a standard-setter in digital regulation intensified in 2022, most notably with the work on the DSA, the DMA, the AI Act and the acts under The European Strategy for Data. Complementarity and compatibility between these rules and consistent enforcement will be key for the digital economy to grow and thrive in Europe. This session will discuss the lessons learnt from the application of the GDPR and the functioning and limitations of its enforcement mechanisms as well as explore how these new and upcoming laws will interact with it.
Elisabeth Dehareng joined Baker McKenzie’s Brussels office in 2003 and is a partner since 2014 in the Information Technology & Communications and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. She was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2003. She is a member of the EMEA IP Tech Steering Committee.
Elisabeth is regularly mentioned in publications such as Legal 500 and Chambers.
Elisabeth advises clients in all fields of IT, IP and new technology law, with a special focus on data protection and privacy aspects. Her practice focuses on European and worldwide data protection compliance projects, in the field of which she advises on GDPR-readiness programs, cross-border data transfer strategies, processing of special categories of personal data, cybersecurity and data breaches management, and provides strategic advice on other areas such as internal compliance issues, digital media and online applications, as well as in relation to privacy litigation.
Elisabeth also advises on data protection aspects of corporate transactions and reorganizations.
Elisabeth also advises clients in relation to e-commerce, digital media and online applications, including legal aspects of big data and internet of things.
Aleid Wolfsen was appointed chair of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) in 2016. He had previously been a member of the Dutch DPA’s advisory board. Prior to his appointment as Dutch DPA chair, Mr Wolfsen held various positions in politics and the judiciary. Since 2019 Mr. Wolfsen is also deputy chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).
Karolina Mojzesowicz is the Deputy Head of Unit of the unit responsible for data protection at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers). She was one of the Commission’s representatives in the interinstitutional negotiations with Parliament and Council on the General data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She is now responsible for its implementation in
the EU. Mrs Mojzesowicz previously served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service, focusing on EU Competition law and International Trade law. In that capacity, she represented the Commission in numerous cases before the European Courts and before the WTO panels and Appellate Body. Mrs Mojzesowicz studied law in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany where she obtained her PhD in 2001.
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Fanny Hidvegi is Access Now’s Europe Policy and Advocacy Director based in Brussels. She develops Access Now’s European policy strategy, heads the regional work and represents the EU entity. Fanny is an Obama Foundation Europe Leader and a Marshall Memorial Fellow. Fanny was selected to be a member of the POLITICO Tech 28 Class of 2022. Fanny was a member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, she serves on the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Digital Technologies, and on the board of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU). She is a member of the European Parliament STOA Committee’s International Advisory Board.
Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Program of the HCLU where she engaged in strategic litigation with journalists and other NGOs, participated in the fight against the national data retention law in Hungary, and promoted privacy enhancing technologies. There, she gained experience on how to operate as a human rights advocate in a restrictive environment.
Fanny also worked as a consumer protection lawyer both in the public and the private sector. She has a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and she spent one academic year at the University of Florence. Fanny was once on Swiss national TV as Roger Federer’s biggest fan.
Sermin is working as Senior Product Manager within Usercentrics and looking for privacy frameworks and legislative developments globally to implement within Usercentrics Consent Management Platform. Sermin is an experienced privacy and compliance professional with a successful background in driving privacy projects for multinational tech companies (Fintech, Marketing management platform,…). She carries years of experience in having implemented compliance and data privacy protection programmes and managed privacy policies at a company level at the intersection of privacy and business needs.
This session will focus on data protection, and privacy issues in the context of the discussions held about the AI Act.
When presenting the AI Act in April 2021, the European Commission aimed to create a path towards trustworthy development and deployment of AI-driven systems in Europe, setting a framework that would promote innovation and reduce risks to fundamental rights. With AI already ubiquitous in our lives, its limitless opportunities and risks are well recognised. The increased amounts of data enabling sophisticated AI models that have the potential to solve the numerous challenges that the world face today raise questions about privacy, fairness, accountability, and ethics when the technology is applied to personal data – it is therefore critical that the right technological and regulatory tools are in place to mitigate possible flawed or harmful results caused by risks such as algorithmic bias, dark patterns or surveillance abuses. This session will analyse the latest updates on the AI Act currently being discussed at both Parliament and Council levels focusing on issues relating to the use of personal data, privacy, and the protection of other fundamental rights. It will explore the numerous layers of regulation for the governance of data, addressed by the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act and the Data Governance Act and debate the extent to which this constitutes a harmonised governance framework providing legal certainty. It will discuss what is needed at regulatory level but also at technological level to ensure that AI developments are framed by ethical and privacy principles. It will also explore how the use of AI can provide innovative ways of solving privacy and consumer protection issues.
Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP serving his second term and is the Head of Delegation of Partito Democratico in the European parliament. He is Rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Yordanka Ivanova is a Legal and Policy Officer in the European Commission in the unit responsible for AI Policy Development and Coordination. She is a member of the legal team who has drafted the Commission proposal for a Regulation on AI. Before joining the Commission, Yordanka worked as a researcher and attorney-at-law, advising companies on EU regulations, including in the area of data protection, consumer protection, digital services, financial services, cybersecurity and copyright.
John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Ms. Pachl is the Deputy Director General of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, representing 46 independent national consumer associations from 32 European countries. Before this, she has held different positions at BEUC, starting as Legal Advisor, than working as Senior Policy and Institutional Affairs Advisor.
In her current role Ms. Pachl leads BEUC’s work on digital policies, consumer rights, redress and enforcement. She is also responsible for horizontal and strategic policy such as EU governance and Better Regulation and represents BEUC in High Level groups, for example in the European Commission’s “Fit 4 Future” platform, the stakeholder group of the EU’s Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and previously in the European Commission’s High Level Group for Artificial Intelligence.
With over 20 years of experience, Ursula is a seasoned consumer and digital rights lawyer and advocate who has helped to shape European consumer law and policy. In particular, she has developed BEUC’s co-ordinated law enforcement activities and works to expand these activities also to newer areas such as Data Protection Law infringements. She is passionate about mainstreaming consumer’s needs into EU policies. Digital rights and their enforcement are at the centre of her current work which aims at ensuring that the digital transformation takes the right direction, leading to a better society for all.
Prior to working for BEUC, Ursula worked for the Austrian Federal ministry for Health and Consumer Protection in Vienna and for the Austrian Consumer Information Association as a member of the consumer advisory board.
Ursula is the author of several articles in consumer law and policy journals and regularly comments on consumer issues in the media. She holds a master’s degree in law and a post-graduate degree in cultural management.
The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in the development of all Union policies.
Francis P. Crawley is a philosopher specialized in research ethics, integrity, and methodology, and data/AI ethics & law. He is the Executive Director of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA) and the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER) in Leuven, Belgium. He coordinated the GCPA-SIDCER European Fellowship in Research Ethics (EFRE). He is Co-chairman of the EOSC Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG) and serves as the EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law. He also chairs the International Data Policy Committee of the International Committee on Data (CODATA), International Science Council (ISC). He is a member of the FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme at FAIRsharing.org. He recently co-founded the Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI). He has acted as an subject matter expert for leading EU and international research organisations, including UNAIDS, the WHO, CIOMS, UNESCO, the European Commission, and the Council of Europe, as well as having worked extensively on health-research related topics in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Eastern Europe.
Teresa Martinez Sánchez, Head of the Innovation Area at the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD).
I have a technical background, I am an Aeronautical Engineer (M.Sc.), and I also have a Master’s degree in International Business Administration (MBA). I have developed my career for 12 years in the aeronautical field until a year ago when I joined the Technological Innovation Division at the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
My main current tasks are related to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence within the Technological Innovation Division which, as a support unit to the management of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, develops its work in relation to technological issues that have relevance in the protection of personal data, analyses the implications and alternatives of the state of the art of technology and generates the necessary knowledge to anticipate changes in it. It issues reports, recommendations and promotes measures that guarantee the compatibility of technological development with privacy, ensuring the rights of citizens.
Sebastian follows EU regulation related to privacy and data protection, as well as national legislative developments covering the digital economy more broadly in Ireland and Romania. He joined Cullen International from a consultancy company in Brussels, where he was a public affairs manager. Sebastian worked at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU in the team dealing with cybersecurity and telecom during Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2019. Previously, he worked for Deloitte Luxembourg advising the EU institutions on how to address the cyber and privacy challenges. Sebastian has an LL.M Master’s Degree in Law and Technology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and the UK’s place in the world. He is also the chairman of the EU-UK Forum and a member of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
Didier Reynders is European Commissioner for justice responsible for rule of law, data protection and other fundamental rights, as well as consumer protection, a position he has held since December 2019. Previously, he held several high-level political positions in Belgium including minister of defense, minister of foreign affairs, foreign trade and European affairs, minister of finance and deputy prime minister. From 2004 to 2011, he served as chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance). He was elected member of the Belgian Parliament in 1992. Prior to this, he was president of the National Railway Company of Belgium and the National Society of Airways. Reynders has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Liège, Brussels and Louvain until he became European Commissioner. He holds a degree in law from the University of Liège.
Grant Harris is the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis. He was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7, 2022, and officially sworn in on April 19, 2022. Harris leads a staff of more than 225 trade and industry experts that produce innovative, high-quality, in-depth trade analyses and develop strategies to maintain the leading competitive edge of American industry throughout the world.
Harris has 20 years of private and public sector experience related to international relations, national security, and global business. Harris previously served as CEO of Connect Frontier LLC, a consultancy that he founded. In that role, Harris advised companies and organizations on strategy, policy, and mitigating risk with respect to doing business in emerging and frontier markets. Harris also served as an Adjunct Professor of Global Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and lectured on doing business in emerging markets at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Harris served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House from 2011-2015. In this role, Harris conceived of the historic U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which generated $37 billion in new commitments to support trade, investment, and development across Africa. As former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, Harris’ portfolio included East Asia. He also served on the National Security Council staff at the White House under President Bill Clinton and in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Additionally, Harris worked on cross-border transactions in Latin America as an attorney at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Harris holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a master’s in public affairs, with distinction, from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post; Harvard Business Review; Forbes; TIME; U.S. News & World Report; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy; Yale Journal of Law & Policy; Berkeley Journal of International Law; Israel Law Review; and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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The global privacy landscape continues to develop at speed with new laws in different countries (such as Brazil, China, Kenya, Australia, to only name a few) having been introduced, updated or coming into effect in the last two years. In the US, five States have now enacted their own privacy rules, efforts at both the FTC and Congress levels are ramping up for the design of a comprehensive nationwide data privacy framework, and a Global CBPR Forum developed with APEC and other countries has been established to better facilitate multilateral cooperation. The Executive Order recently signed by President Biden brings a new EU-US data transfer system one step closer. In the UK, the government recently released the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, a post-Brexit reform of its existing framework and is looking to enable free personal data transfers with countries for which the EU does not have adequacy decisions in place. Regional and national data sovereignty approaches are also becoming more prominent worldwide.
This session will explore the latest in data protection rules worldwide, how they converge and where tensions exist, what this means for current and future adequacy decisions with the EU, and how cooperation between different regions can be strengthened to foster synergies in privacy standards and boost trusted cross-border data flow.
Friederike Berfelde is a member of Brunswick’s Global TMT Sector Group and specializes in EU public affairs and communications for clients in the industry. She also focusses on competition issues.
Mr Gencarelli is Deputy to the Director for Fundamentals Rights and Rule of Law, and heads the International Data Flows and Protection unit at the European Commission. He was in charge of the Commission’s work in the area of data protection in the decisive phases of the legislative reform of EU data protection law. This included leading the Commission’s delegation in the interinstitutional negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council on the data protection reform (GDPR and “Law Enforcement Directive”). He also led the negotiations of several data transfer arrangements, including the EU-Japan mutual adequacy arrangement creating the world’s largest area of free and safe data flows. He recently co-led for the EU the negotiations with the UK on all aspects relating to justice and consumers in the context of Brexit. He is in currently in charge of the negotiations on a successor arrangement to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Mr Gencarelli previously served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service and as an assistant (référendaire) to a judge at the European Court of Justice after having practiced law in the private sector.
Barbara Cosgrove is vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, and is responsible for Workday’s global privacy, ML ethics, and compliance strategy and operations.
Barbara has extensive expertise in managing international data protection compliance programs, and implementing data governance policies, technology compliance standards and programs, and privacy-by-design frameworks. She has also served as the chief security officer for Workday.
Prior to joining Workday, Barbara led various compliance programs within Kaiser Permanente and PeopleSoft. Barbara holds a Juris Doctor degree from Widener Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Sebastião Barros Vale serves as the EU Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where he is following and analyzing privacy and data protection European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the European Data Protection Board and national Data Protection Authorities. He actively monitors the activity of EU institutions around privacy and data protection, including Communications and Proposals of the European Commission and legislative reports from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
He completed a traineeship at the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, where he contributed to the 1st Annual Review of the EU-US Privacy Shield and to the Commission Guidance on the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a qualified lawyer in Portugal, he practiced at the ICT practice area of Vieira de Almeida e Associados, assisting clients from the healthcare, retail, energy and financial sectors in complying with the GDPR and other privacy-related laws. Just before joining FPF, he worked as an in-house privacy expert at Johnson & Johnson.
Sebastião holds an LL.M in EU Law from the College of Europe (2016, Belgium), where he wrote his thesis on alternative international data transfer mechanisms after the invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbour Decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Two notable papers he published focused on the interplay between the GDPR and the EU’s DIrective on digital payment services (PSD2), and on how European anti-discrimination, consumer, and data protection rules shield consumers against pervasive online price personalization.
Angel Serna is Senior Vice President, Political & Government Affairs, at Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). He leads Zurich’s advocacy efforts across the digital policy space to support and advance public policy positions related to the digital age, which matter to Zurich and the insurance industry.
From July 2011 to June 2014, he was responsible as the Group’s Head of Communications for developing the Group’s communications strategy and managing Zurich’s Communications function. Mr Serna joined Zurich in November 2006 as Head of Media Relations responsible for the management of Zurich’s media relations activities on a global basis. Before, he had been working as an economics editor and correspondent with the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), where he covered various industrial sectors and worked among other things as a foreign correspondent in Madrid, São Paulo and Washington, DC. He completed his studies at the University of Zurich with a Ph.D. in Economics.
The advanced technologies, digital services and concepts that have recently emerged at the forefront of discussions around privacy, responsibility, and control over one’s data, have the potential of altering our understanding of what privacy, data ownership and consent are and will therefore inform future regulations needs in this area. The Metaverse, for example, will vastly increase the amount of personal data used to monitor habits, preferences and even physiological responses or brain wave patterns. Other technologies and digital services allow organisations to tailor services and products in an extraordinarily targeted way, creating a range of complex data privacy considerations for businesses and governments alike. Some experts see in Web3 – a decentralised Internet model built on blockchain and cryptographic encryption – a possible solution to challenges around data privacy, storage, security, ownership, and control.
This session will analyse the data protection and privacy concerns that are expected to be amplified as data-driven technological innovations and services continue to accelerate, and the role that PETs can play in alleviating risks. It will debate how these risks are currently being addressed by existing regulations on data and consumer protection and how it can be ensured that these policies remain up-to-date and dynamic enough to protect individuals’ interests while allowing for further technological advances.
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Leonardo Cervera Navas is the Director of the Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the Data Protection Authority of the European Union.
Law graduate of the University of Málaga and master’s degree in European Law from the University of Granada (Spain). He was a fellow at Duke University in North Carolina (US) as part of the EU Fellowship Programme of the European Commission. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in HR management by Kingston University (UK). He is Member of the Malaga Academy of Sciences (correspondent in Brussels).
Leonardo joined the European Commission in 1999 and since then he has been working in the Data Protection field in the EU institutions. In 2010, he joined the EDPS, as Head of the Human Resources, Budget and Administration Unit and he was appointed Director in 2018. As Head of the Secretariat, he is a member of the Management Board of the EDPS, responsible for advising on data protection law and policy, and he is in charge of the coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the institution.
Peter Eberl is Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy in the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. He works on the legislative negotiations of the ePrivacy Regulation, the implementation of the ePrivacy Directive and the implementation and evaluation of the Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS), and on other cybersecurity and privacy issues. Peter has also contributed to the European Union’s common approach to contact tracing and warning apps and its implementation. Before moving to cybersecurity and privacy, he successfully negotiated the services part of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), and the net neutrality provisions in the Telecoms Single Market Regulation and the related BEREC net neutrality guidelines. Previously, Peter worked in DG Competition and in the private sector.
Monika Adamczyk works as a Cybersecurity Expert at the European Unit Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), where she focuses on cybersecurity and privacy of emerging technologies. Prior to joining ENISA, she worked in Poland as a data protection expert and a DPO and contributed to the work of the European Data Protection Board Technology Subgroup. Her professional experience includes also leading multiple IT projects at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria and delivering technical solutions to many commercial organizations and the federal government in the USA.
Elise Houlik is Chief Privacy Officer at Intuit. In this role, she drives Intuit’s data stewardship vision and advises on complex privacy and interrelated regulatory issues. Her team is deeply engaged with the business on all matters related to product development, data governance, and information security. Elise joined Intuit in August 2022 and is based in New York.
Prior to joining Intuit, Elise served as Mastercard’s SVP, Assistant General Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection, where she led privacy work for the North American and Latin American & Caribbean markets, and for several global divisions including open banking, small / medium business and B2B platforms, digital payments and partnerships, start-ups, cryptocurrency / blockchain, marketing and communications, human resources, operations & technology, and corporate security. She formerly held the role of Associate General Counsel at Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, acting as the company’s Lead Privacy & Cybersecurity counsel for several years.
Elise is admitted in DC, MD, and NY (In House), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.
After the studies in Law, Marco started his professional career as part of the start-up project of iBazar, the first online auction website in Europe. From 2002 to 2007 he was Head of legal and Trust and Safety at eBay. In July 2007 Marco joined the Google Public Policy team. After almost 15 years at Google in high profile roles and different Countries, in April 2022 Marco joined public policy team at Meta as a Director Privacy Policy EMEA, supporting development of existing and new products in the #metaverse.
Patrick Grady is a policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, focusing on AI and content moderation. Previously, he was the project lead at the Internet Commission and worked in strategy at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Patrick holds masters’ in philosophy and political science.
Since the implementation of the GDPR nearly five years ago (*by the time of the conference), Europe is widely regarded as a global pioneer in tech regulation. This trend as a standard-setter in digital regulation intensified in 2022, most notably with the work on the DSA, the DMA, the AI Act and the acts under The European Strategy for Data. Complementarity and compatibility between these rules and consistent enforcement will be key for the digital economy to grow and thrive in Europe. This session will discuss the lessons learnt from the application of the GDPR and the functioning and limitations of its enforcement mechanisms as well as explore how these new and upcoming laws will interact with it.
Elisabeth Dehareng joined Baker McKenzie’s Brussels office in 2003 and is a partner since 2014 in the Information Technology & Communications and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. She was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2003. She is a member of the EMEA IP Tech Steering Committee.
Elisabeth is regularly mentioned in publications such as Legal 500 and Chambers.
Elisabeth advises clients in all fields of IT, IP and new technology law, with a special focus on data protection and privacy aspects. Her practice focuses on European and worldwide data protection compliance projects, in the field of which she advises on GDPR-readiness programs, cross-border data transfer strategies, processing of special categories of personal data, cybersecurity and data breaches management, and provides strategic advice on other areas such as internal compliance issues, digital media and online applications, as well as in relation to privacy litigation.
Elisabeth also advises on data protection aspects of corporate transactions and reorganizations.
Elisabeth also advises clients in relation to e-commerce, digital media and online applications, including legal aspects of big data and internet of things.
Aleid Wolfsen was appointed chair of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) in 2016. He had previously been a member of the Dutch DPA’s advisory board. Prior to his appointment as Dutch DPA chair, Mr Wolfsen held various positions in politics and the judiciary. Since 2019 Mr. Wolfsen is also deputy chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).
Karolina Mojzesowicz is the Deputy Head of Unit of the unit responsible for data protection at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers). She was one of the Commission’s representatives in the interinstitutional negotiations with Parliament and Council on the General data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She is now responsible for its implementation in
the EU. Mrs Mojzesowicz previously served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service, focusing on EU Competition law and International Trade law. In that capacity, she represented the Commission in numerous cases before the European Courts and before the WTO panels and Appellate Body. Mrs Mojzesowicz studied law in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany where she obtained her PhD in 2001.
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Fanny Hidvegi is Access Now’s Europe Policy and Advocacy Director based in Brussels. She develops Access Now’s European policy strategy, heads the regional work and represents the EU entity. Fanny is an Obama Foundation Europe Leader and a Marshall Memorial Fellow. Fanny was selected to be a member of the POLITICO Tech 28 Class of 2022. Fanny was a member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, she serves on the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Digital Technologies, and on the board of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU). She is a member of the European Parliament STOA Committee’s International Advisory Board.
Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Program of the HCLU where she engaged in strategic litigation with journalists and other NGOs, participated in the fight against the national data retention law in Hungary, and promoted privacy enhancing technologies. There, she gained experience on how to operate as a human rights advocate in a restrictive environment.
Fanny also worked as a consumer protection lawyer both in the public and the private sector. She has a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and she spent one academic year at the University of Florence. Fanny was once on Swiss national TV as Roger Federer’s biggest fan.
Sermin is working as Senior Product Manager within Usercentrics and looking for privacy frameworks and legislative developments globally to implement within Usercentrics Consent Management Platform. Sermin is an experienced privacy and compliance professional with a successful background in driving privacy projects for multinational tech companies (Fintech, Marketing management platform,…). She carries years of experience in having implemented compliance and data privacy protection programmes and managed privacy policies at a company level at the intersection of privacy and business needs.
This session will focus on data protection, and privacy issues in the context of the discussions held about the AI Act.
When presenting the AI Act in April 2021, the European Commission aimed to create a path towards trustworthy development and deployment of AI-driven systems in Europe, setting a framework that would promote innovation and reduce risks to fundamental rights. With AI already ubiquitous in our lives, its limitless opportunities and risks are well recognised. The increased amounts of data enabling sophisticated AI models that have the potential to solve the numerous challenges that the world face today raise questions about privacy, fairness, accountability, and ethics when the technology is applied to personal data – it is therefore critical that the right technological and regulatory tools are in place to mitigate possible flawed or harmful results caused by risks such as algorithmic bias, dark patterns or surveillance abuses. This session will analyse the latest updates on the AI Act currently being discussed at both Parliament and Council levels focusing on issues relating to the use of personal data, privacy, and the protection of other fundamental rights. It will explore the numerous layers of regulation for the governance of data, addressed by the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act and the Data Governance Act and debate the extent to which this constitutes a harmonised governance framework providing legal certainty. It will discuss what is needed at regulatory level but also at technological level to ensure that AI developments are framed by ethical and privacy principles. It will also explore how the use of AI can provide innovative ways of solving privacy and consumer protection issues.
Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP serving his second term and is the Head of Delegation of Partito Democratico in the European parliament. He is Rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Yordanka Ivanova is a Legal and Policy Officer in the European Commission in the unit responsible for AI Policy Development and Coordination. She is a member of the legal team who has drafted the Commission proposal for a Regulation on AI. Before joining the Commission, Yordanka worked as a researcher and attorney-at-law, advising companies on EU regulations, including in the area of data protection, consumer protection, digital services, financial services, cybersecurity and copyright.
John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Ms. Pachl is the Deputy Director General of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, representing 46 independent national consumer associations from 32 European countries. Before this, she has held different positions at BEUC, starting as Legal Advisor, than working as Senior Policy and Institutional Affairs Advisor.
In her current role Ms. Pachl leads BEUC’s work on digital policies, consumer rights, redress and enforcement. She is also responsible for horizontal and strategic policy such as EU governance and Better Regulation and represents BEUC in High Level groups, for example in the European Commission’s “Fit 4 Future” platform, the stakeholder group of the EU’s Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and previously in the European Commission’s High Level Group for Artificial Intelligence.
With over 20 years of experience, Ursula is a seasoned consumer and digital rights lawyer and advocate who has helped to shape European consumer law and policy. In particular, she has developed BEUC’s co-ordinated law enforcement activities and works to expand these activities also to newer areas such as Data Protection Law infringements. She is passionate about mainstreaming consumer’s needs into EU policies. Digital rights and their enforcement are at the centre of her current work which aims at ensuring that the digital transformation takes the right direction, leading to a better society for all.
Prior to working for BEUC, Ursula worked for the Austrian Federal ministry for Health and Consumer Protection in Vienna and for the Austrian Consumer Information Association as a member of the consumer advisory board.
Ursula is the author of several articles in consumer law and policy journals and regularly comments on consumer issues in the media. She holds a master’s degree in law and a post-graduate degree in cultural management.
The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in the development of all Union policies.
Francis P. Crawley is a philosopher specialized in research ethics, integrity, and methodology, and data/AI ethics & law. He is the Executive Director of the Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA) and the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER) in Leuven, Belgium. He coordinated the GCPA-SIDCER European Fellowship in Research Ethics (EFRE). He is Co-chairman of the EOSC Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence and Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG) and serves as the EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law. He also chairs the International Data Policy Committee of the International Committee on Data (CODATA), International Science Council (ISC). He is a member of the FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme at FAIRsharing.org. He recently co-founded the Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI). He has acted as an subject matter expert for leading EU and international research organisations, including UNAIDS, the WHO, CIOMS, UNESCO, the European Commission, and the Council of Europe, as well as having worked extensively on health-research related topics in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Eastern Europe.
Teresa Martinez Sánchez, Head of the Innovation Area at the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD).
I have a technical background, I am an Aeronautical Engineer (M.Sc.), and I also have a Master’s degree in International Business Administration (MBA). I have developed my career for 12 years in the aeronautical field until a year ago when I joined the Technological Innovation Division at the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
My main current tasks are related to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence within the Technological Innovation Division which, as a support unit to the management of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, develops its work in relation to technological issues that have relevance in the protection of personal data, analyses the implications and alternatives of the state of the art of technology and generates the necessary knowledge to anticipate changes in it. It issues reports, recommendations and promotes measures that guarantee the compatibility of technological development with privacy, ensuring the rights of citizens.
Sebastian follows EU regulation related to privacy and data protection, as well as national legislative developments covering the digital economy more broadly in Ireland and Romania. He joined Cullen International from a consultancy company in Brussels, where he was a public affairs manager. Sebastian worked at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU in the team dealing with cybersecurity and telecom during Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2019. Previously, he worked for Deloitte Luxembourg advising the EU institutions on how to address the cyber and privacy challenges. Sebastian has an LL.M Master’s Degree in Law and Technology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and the UK’s place in the world. He is also the chairman of the EU-UK Forum and a member of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
Didier Reynders is European Commissioner for justice responsible for rule of law, data protection and other fundamental rights, as well as consumer protection, a position he has held since December 2019. Previously, he held several high-level political positions in Belgium including minister of defense, minister of foreign affairs, foreign trade and European affairs, minister of finance and deputy prime minister. From 2004 to 2011, he served as chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance). He was elected member of the Belgian Parliament in 1992. Prior to this, he was president of the National Railway Company of Belgium and the National Society of Airways. Reynders has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Liège, Brussels and Louvain until he became European Commissioner. He holds a degree in law from the University of Liège.
Grant Harris is the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis. He was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7, 2022, and officially sworn in on April 19, 2022. Harris leads a staff of more than 225 trade and industry experts that produce innovative, high-quality, in-depth trade analyses and develop strategies to maintain the leading competitive edge of American industry throughout the world.
Harris has 20 years of private and public sector experience related to international relations, national security, and global business. Harris previously served as CEO of Connect Frontier LLC, a consultancy that he founded. In that role, Harris advised companies and organizations on strategy, policy, and mitigating risk with respect to doing business in emerging and frontier markets. Harris also served as an Adjunct Professor of Global Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and lectured on doing business in emerging markets at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Harris served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House from 2011-2015. In this role, Harris conceived of the historic U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which generated $37 billion in new commitments to support trade, investment, and development across Africa. As former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, Harris’ portfolio included East Asia. He also served on the National Security Council staff at the White House under President Bill Clinton and in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Additionally, Harris worked on cross-border transactions in Latin America as an attorney at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Harris holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a master’s in public affairs, with distinction, from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post; Harvard Business Review; Forbes; TIME; U.S. News & World Report; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy; Yale Journal of Law & Policy; Berkeley Journal of International Law; Israel Law Review; and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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The global privacy landscape continues to develop at speed with new laws in different countries (such as Brazil, China, Kenya, Australia, to only name a few) having been introduced, updated or coming into effect in the last two years. In the US, five States have now enacted their own privacy rules, efforts at both the FTC and Congress levels are ramping up for the design of a comprehensive nationwide data privacy framework, and a Global CBPR Forum developed with APEC and other countries has been established to better facilitate multilateral cooperation. The Executive Order recently signed by President Biden brings a new EU-US data transfer system one step closer. In the UK, the government recently released the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, a post-Brexit reform of its existing framework and is looking to enable free personal data transfers with countries for which the EU does not have adequacy decisions in place. Regional and national data sovereignty approaches are also becoming more prominent worldwide.
This session will explore the latest in data protection rules worldwide, how they converge and where tensions exist, what this means for current and future adequacy decisions with the EU, and how cooperation between different regions can be strengthened to foster synergies in privacy standards and boost trusted cross-border data flow.
Friederike Berfelde is a member of Brunswick’s Global TMT Sector Group and specializes in EU public affairs and communications for clients in the industry. She also focusses on competition issues.
Mr Gencarelli is Deputy to the Director for Fundamentals Rights and Rule of Law, and heads the International Data Flows and Protection unit at the European Commission. He was in charge of the Commission’s work in the area of data protection in the decisive phases of the legislative reform of EU data protection law. This included leading the Commission’s delegation in the interinstitutional negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council on the data protection reform (GDPR and “Law Enforcement Directive”). He also led the negotiations of several data transfer arrangements, including the EU-Japan mutual adequacy arrangement creating the world’s largest area of free and safe data flows. He recently co-led for the EU the negotiations with the UK on all aspects relating to justice and consumers in the context of Brexit. He is in currently in charge of the negotiations on a successor arrangement to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Mr Gencarelli previously served as a member of the European Commission’s Legal Service and as an assistant (référendaire) to a judge at the European Court of Justice after having practiced law in the private sector.
Barbara Cosgrove is vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, and is responsible for Workday’s global privacy, ML ethics, and compliance strategy and operations.
Barbara has extensive expertise in managing international data protection compliance programs, and implementing data governance policies, technology compliance standards and programs, and privacy-by-design frameworks. She has also served as the chief security officer for Workday.
Prior to joining Workday, Barbara led various compliance programs within Kaiser Permanente and PeopleSoft. Barbara holds a Juris Doctor degree from Widener Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Sebastião Barros Vale serves as the EU Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where he is following and analyzing privacy and data protection European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the European Data Protection Board and national Data Protection Authorities. He actively monitors the activity of EU institutions around privacy and data protection, including Communications and Proposals of the European Commission and legislative reports from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.
He completed a traineeship at the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, where he contributed to the 1st Annual Review of the EU-US Privacy Shield and to the Commission Guidance on the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a qualified lawyer in Portugal, he practiced at the ICT practice area of Vieira de Almeida e Associados, assisting clients from the healthcare, retail, energy and financial sectors in complying with the GDPR and other privacy-related laws. Just before joining FPF, he worked as an in-house privacy expert at Johnson & Johnson.
Sebastião holds an LL.M in EU Law from the College of Europe (2016, Belgium), where he wrote his thesis on alternative international data transfer mechanisms after the invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbour Decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Two notable papers he published focused on the interplay between the GDPR and the EU’s DIrective on digital payment services (PSD2), and on how European anti-discrimination, consumer, and data protection rules shield consumers against pervasive online price personalization.
Angel Serna is Senior Vice President, Political & Government Affairs, at Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). He leads Zurich’s advocacy efforts across the digital policy space to support and advance public policy positions related to the digital age, which matter to Zurich and the insurance industry.
From July 2011 to June 2014, he was responsible as the Group’s Head of Communications for developing the Group’s communications strategy and managing Zurich’s Communications function. Mr Serna joined Zurich in November 2006 as Head of Media Relations responsible for the management of Zurich’s media relations activities on a global basis. Before, he had been working as an economics editor and correspondent with the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), where he covered various industrial sectors and worked among other things as a foreign correspondent in Madrid, São Paulo and Washington, DC. He completed his studies at the University of Zurich with a Ph.D. in Economics.
The advanced technologies, digital services and concepts that have recently emerged at the forefront of discussions around privacy, responsibility, and control over one’s data, have the potential of altering our understanding of what privacy, data ownership and consent are and will therefore inform future regulations needs in this area. The Metaverse, for example, will vastly increase the amount of personal data used to monitor habits, preferences and even physiological responses or brain wave patterns. Other technologies and digital services allow organisations to tailor services and products in an extraordinarily targeted way, creating a range of complex data privacy considerations for businesses and governments alike. Some experts see in Web3 – a decentralised Internet model built on blockchain and cryptographic encryption – a possible solution to challenges around data privacy, storage, security, ownership, and control.
This session will analyse the data protection and privacy concerns that are expected to be amplified as data-driven technological innovations and services continue to accelerate, and the role that PETs can play in alleviating risks. It will debate how these risks are currently being addressed by existing regulations on data and consumer protection and how it can be ensured that these policies remain up-to-date and dynamic enough to protect individuals’ interests while allowing for further technological advances.
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Leonardo Cervera Navas is the Director of the Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the Data Protection Authority of the European Union.
Law graduate of the University of Málaga and master’s degree in European Law from the University of Granada (Spain). He was a fellow at Duke University in North Carolina (US) as part of the EU Fellowship Programme of the European Commission. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in HR management by Kingston University (UK). He is Member of the Malaga Academy of Sciences (correspondent in Brussels).
Leonardo joined the European Commission in 1999 and since then he has been working in the Data Protection field in the EU institutions. In 2010, he joined the EDPS, as Head of the Human Resources, Budget and Administration Unit and he was appointed Director in 2018. As Head of the Secretariat, he is a member of the Management Board of the EDPS, responsible for advising on data protection law and policy, and he is in charge of the coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the institution.
Peter Eberl is Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy in the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. He works on the legislative negotiations of the ePrivacy Regulation, the implementation of the ePrivacy Directive and the implementation and evaluation of the Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS), and on other cybersecurity and privacy issues. Peter has also contributed to the European Union’s common approach to contact tracing and warning apps and its implementation. Before moving to cybersecurity and privacy, he successfully negotiated the services part of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), and the net neutrality provisions in the Telecoms Single Market Regulation and the related BEREC net neutrality guidelines. Previously, Peter worked in DG Competition and in the private sector.
Monika Adamczyk works as a Cybersecurity Expert at the European Unit Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), where she focuses on cybersecurity and privacy of emerging technologies. Prior to joining ENISA, she worked in Poland as a data protection expert and a DPO and contributed to the work of the European Data Protection Board Technology Subgroup. Her professional experience includes also leading multiple IT projects at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria and delivering technical solutions to many commercial organizations and the federal government in the USA.
Elise Houlik is Chief Privacy Officer at Intuit. In this role, she drives Intuit’s data stewardship vision and advises on complex privacy and interrelated regulatory issues. Her team is deeply engaged with the business on all matters related to product development, data governance, and information security. Elise joined Intuit in August 2022 and is based in New York.
Prior to joining Intuit, Elise served as Mastercard’s SVP, Assistant General Counsel – Privacy & Data Protection, where she led privacy work for the North American and Latin American & Caribbean markets, and for several global divisions including open banking, small / medium business and B2B platforms, digital payments and partnerships, start-ups, cryptocurrency / blockchain, marketing and communications, human resources, operations & technology, and corporate security. She formerly held the role of Associate General Counsel at Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, acting as the company’s Lead Privacy & Cybersecurity counsel for several years.
Elise is admitted in DC, MD, and NY (In House), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.
After the studies in Law, Marco started his professional career as part of the start-up project of iBazar, the first online auction website in Europe. From 2002 to 2007 he was Head of legal and Trust and Safety at eBay. In July 2007 Marco joined the Google Public Policy team. After almost 15 years at Google in high profile roles and different Countries, in April 2022 Marco joined public policy team at Meta as a Director Privacy Policy EMEA, supporting development of existing and new products in the #metaverse.
Patrick Grady is a policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, focusing on AI and content moderation. Previously, he was the project lead at the Internet Commission and worked in strategy at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Patrick holds masters’ in philosophy and political science.
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International law firm We are diverse, industry savvy, global citizens. Our strength is our ability to adopt a new type of thinking and use cutting-edge legal technologies to help clients overcome the challenges of competing in today’s new world economic order. Fast evolving technologies have made it easier for companies to collect, use and transfer data globally. The regulation of data has expanded, imposing new standards and challenges. At the same time, the legal and business risks associated with non-compliance have escalated. We support and advise multinational companies on all aspects of data privacy, security and information management.
Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence.
With roots based in the rich technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. Through the combination of industry leaders Broadcom, LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade, CA Technologies and Symantec, the company has the size, scope and engineering talent to lead the industry into the future..
Broadcom is focused on technology leadership and category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is a global leader in numerous product segments serving the world’s most successful companies.
Broadcom combines global scale, engineering depth, broad product portfolio diversity, superior execution and operational focus to deliver category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions so its customers can build and grow successful businesses in a constantly changing environment.
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
Usercentrics is a global market leader in the field of consent management platforms (CMP). We enable businesses to collect, manage and document user consents on websites and apps.
We help organizations achieve full compliance with global privacy regulations while facilitating high consent rates and building trust with their customers. We believe in creating a healthy balance between data privacy and data-driven business, delivering solutions for every size of enterprise.
Usercentrics is active in more than 100 countries, with 2000+ resellers, and handles more than 61 million daily user consents.
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday. We have over 500 customers across Europe and an overall customer community representing 44 million workers. This includes some of Europe’s largest and most innovative companies, such as Airbus, Sanofi, Deutsche Bank, Primark, Siemens, and Blabla Car.
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