The Privacy Symposium aims at promoting international dialogue, cooperation, and knowledge sharing on data protection, compliance, and innovative technologies.
With over 300 authorities and experts sharing their perspectives, the PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM provides a venue for data protection professionals, experts, authorities and researchers to meet and discuss:
- Latest and upcoming changes in data processing regulations
- International cooperation and convergence in data protection
- Emerging technologies and data protection compliance
- Future demands and needs for data protection compliance
- Research and innovation in data protection and compliance
Enhance your skills through deep dive in sessions with authorities and experts, and receive certificates of attendance that facilitate DPO’s compliance with training and updating obligations under Art. 38 GDPR.
Privacy Symposium 2025
in Venice
12-16 May 2025
Featured speakers 2024
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Council of Europe Secretary General
Ana Brian Nougrères
UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Privacy
Anu Talus
EDPB Chair
Alvaro Bedoya
US FTC Commissioner
Leonardo Cervera Navas
EDPS Secretary General
Josefina Román Vergara
GPA, INAI Commissioner
Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize
Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior
ANPD Director President
Pasquale Stanzione
Italian GPDP President
Omar Seghrouchni
CNDP President
Audrey Plonk
OECD Head of Division
Brando Benifei
MEP
Clarisse Girot
OECD Head of Unit
Isabelle Vereecken
EDPB Head Secretariat
Edvardas Sileris
Head of the European Cybercrime Centre, Europol
Karolina Mojzesowicz
European Commission DG Justice, Deputy Head of Data Protection Unit
Katherine Harman-Stokes
Acting Director, US Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Emily Keaney
ICO Deputy Commissioner
Marcel Haag
European Commission, DG FSMA, Director for Horizontal Policies
Jan Philipp Albrecht
Former MEP, H Böll Foundation
Marie-Laure Denis
CNIL President
Ulrich Kelber
BfDI Federal Commissioner
Beatriz de Anchorena
AAIP Director
Alain Herrmann
CNDP Commissioner
Ginevra Cerrina Feroni
Vice President, Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority
Peter Kimpian
Secretary to the Committee of Convention 108, Council of Europe
Antonia Carzaniga
Counsellor, WTO
Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe
Secretary General, CNIL
Bertrand du Marais
Commissaire, CNIL
Guido Scorza
GPDP Commissioner
Barbara Cosgrove
Workday Inc. VP and CPO
Attila Péterfalvi
Hungarian Supervisory Authority President
Catherine Lennman
Swiss Data Protection Authority
Hielke Hijmans
Belgian DPA Litigation Chamber President
Julie Brill
Microsoft CPO
Luca Bolognini
Italian Institute for Privacy President
Pierre-Yves Lastic
EFDPO Secretary General
Alessandro Mantelero
Polytechnic University of Turin
Milan Marinović
IPIPDP Commissioner
Dijana Šinkūnienė
Lithuanian PDPSA Director
Lela Janashvili
Georgian PDPS President
Claudia Berg
ICO General Council
Tobias Judin
Norwegian DPA Head of Section
Cecilia Àlvarez Rigaudias
Meta EMEA Privacy Policy Director
Kate McKenzie
Senior Counsel, US Department of Justice
Patrizia Gigante
San Marino DPA President
Andreas Zavadil
Austrian DPA Head of Department
Zdravko Vukić
Croatian PDPA Director
Maarten Daman
ECB & ESRB DPO
Spiros Tassis
Chair of HADPP, Partner POTAMITISVEKRIS
Paolo Balboni
ECPC, Maastricht University
Marco Scialdone
Euroconsumers
Peter Swire
J.Z. Liang Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Cosimo Monda
Director, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity
Théodore Christakis
Professor of International and European Law
Renato Monteiro
X Global Head of Privacy
Helena Koning
Mastercard Assistant General Counsel and DPO
Selina Zipponi
Dedalus Group DPO
Daniel Drewer
Europol DPO
Tanya Suarez
AIOTI, IoT Tribe, and BluSpecs
Afonso Ferreira
CNRS Programme Manager
Rosario Imperiali d’Afflitto
Founder Officine Dati
Herke Kranenborg
Maastricht University
Sébastien Ziegler
Privacy Symposium Chair
Full List of Speakers
See the full list of speakers for Privacy Symposium 2024
Our Priority Objectives
Knowledge Sharing
Dialogue and Cooperation
Enhance Data Protection Compliance
Official Sponsors & Partners 2025
Organising Committee
Administration and Communication Partners 2025
The secretariat of the conference is provided by the foundation Mandat International, with the support of the Italian Institute for Privacy (IIP), Archimede Solutions, IoT Lab, and Dunavnet.
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