The Privacy Symposium aims at promoting international dialogue, cooperation, and knowledge sharing on data protection, compliance, and innovative technologies.
With over 200 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 to comply with Art. 38 GDPR obligations and receive certificates of attendance.
Privacy Symposium 2024
in Venice
10-14 June 2024
Some of our 2023 speakers
Dr Nataša Pirc Musar
President of the Republic of Slovenia
Didier Reynders
European Commissioner
Andrea Jelinek
President of the European Data Protection Board, President of the Austrian Data Protection Authority
Pasquale Stanzione
President, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali
Wojciech Wiewiórowski
European Data Protection Supervisor
Peter Winn
Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, US Department of Justice
Ana Brian Nougrères
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, OHCHR
Bjørn Berge
Deputy Secretary-General of Council of Europe
Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior
Director President, ANPD
Ginevra Cerrina Feroni
Vice President, Italian Data Protection Authority
Josefina Román Vergara
Commissioner, INAI
Patrick Penninckx
Head of Information Society Department, Council of Europe
Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci
Head of the Data Protection Unit at Council of Europe
Patricia Adusei-Poku
President of NADPA
Emma Bate
Director of Legal Service, ICO
Paul Nemitz
Principal Advisor in the Directorate General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission
Guido Scorza
Member of the Board of the Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority
Paula Hothersall
Director of International Regulatory Cooperation, ICO
Dott. Agostino Ghiglia
Member of Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority
Ulrich Kelber
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information at BfDI
Claudia Berg
General Counsel, ICO
Monique Cossali Sauvain
Head of the Legislative Projects Unit, Swiss Federal Office of Justice
Clarisse Girot
Head of the Data Governance and Privacy Unit, OECD
Olivier Sylvain
Senior Advisor, FTC
Olivier Matter
Team Leader for International Cooperation, EDPS
Massimo Marelli
Head of Data Protection Office, ICRC
Manuela Siano
Lawyer/Senior Official, Italian Data Protection Authority
Caroline Goemans-Dorny
DPO, Head of the Data Protection Office, INTERPOL
Katherine Harman-Stokes
Acting Director of US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Peter Kimpian
Data Protection Unit at Council of Europe
Zdravko Vukić
Director of the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency
Marie-Louise Gächter
Head of the Data Protection Authority of the Principality of Liechtenstein
Adrian Lobsiger
Data Protection and Information Commissioner, FDPIC
Lela Janashvili
President of the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia
Alain Herrmann
National Comission for Data Protection of Luxembourg
Caroline Gloor-Scheidegger
Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
Hielke Hijmans
President of the Litigation Chamber, Belgian DPA
Julie Brill
Chief Privacy Officer and Corp. Vice President, Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corp
Peter Fleischer
Global Privacy Counsel, Google
Barbara Cosgrove
Chief Privacy Officer, WORKDAY
Fabrice Naftalski
Global Head of Data Protection Law Practice at Ernst & Young Société d'Avocats
Giovanni Francescutti
Global Sales Manager, DNV BUSINESS ASSURANCE
Rob van Eijk
Managing Director for Europe at Future of Privacy Forum
Catherine Lennman
Swiss Data Protection Authority
Luca Bolognini
President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation
Paolo Balboni
Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at ECPC within the Maastricht University
Veronica Jarnskjold Buer
Head of Department Technology, Norwegian DPA
Kari Laumann
Head of Section for Research, Analysis and Policy & Project Manager for the Regulatory Sandbox at the Norwegian DPA
Andreas Zavadil
Austrian DPA
Elham Tabassi
Chief of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST
Tanya Suarez
Board Member of AIOTI, Founder of IoT Tribe, CEO of BlueSpecs
Nicola Bernardi
President of Federprivacy, Italian association of privacy professionals
Pierre-Yves Lastic
Secretary-General EFDPO
Avv Vincenzo Colarocco
President of Circolo dei Giuristi Telematici
Cosimo Monda
Director of the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity
Kate McKenzie
Senior Counsel, US Department of Justice
Latif Ladid
President of IPv6 FORUM
Thomas Hahn
Chief Expert Software, Siemens AG
Laure Le Bars
President of QuiC
Yuri van Steenwijk
President of the International Board of ELSA
Estelle Massé
Senior Policy Analyst and Global Data Protection Lead at Access Now
Cécile Théard-Jallu
Partner at De Gaulle Fleurance, Co-Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Law Committee of the International Bar Association
Sébastien Ziegler
President of the IoT Forum, and European Centre for Certification and Privacy
Full List of Speakers 2023
Please check the full list of speakers at the event
Our priority objectives:
Knowledge Sharing
Dialogue and Cooperation
Enhance Data Protection Compliance
Official Sponsors & Partners 2023
Organising Committee
Administration and Communication Partners 2023
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.
Support Partner
Sponsors 2023
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