Working together and sharing information can enhance efficiency and uncover untapped opportunities, allowing for the full potential of data-sharing to be realised. However, data is often kept isolated and restricted in order to prevent it from being compromised and to comply with various regulations. Professionals will share their experiences on how they have improved collaboration both within their organisations and with external partners, the challenges they have faced and how they have overcome them, and the potential for partnerships created by PETs.
Synthetic data technology is becoming increasingly popular among companies. It allows them to create new products and services and refine existing ones in a safe and cost-effective way. The synthetic data landscape is constantly evolving, and it is essential for companies to build AI toolboxes they can trust. However, there is considerable tension regarding generative AI, and regulated enterprises need to ensure that their AI toolbox can be audited, understood, and explained.
Synthetic data can play an important role in achieving an efficient toolbox. It offers a safe and cost-effective way to test and refine products and services by generating data that mirrors real-world scenarios. With applications ranging from mitigating data-sharing risks to improving real-world data quality, synthetic data is a powerful tool for enterprises looking to stay ahead of the curve.
Sal Kimmich
Sal Kimmich is the Technical Community Architect for the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), where they bring together over a decade of expertise in computational architecture and cybersecurity. They started their career sharing Python scripts with other computational neuroscientists in the wild world of supercomputing. A decade later, they are still paying attention to the algorithmic side of open source tech. Before joining CCC, Sal worked as a scalable SecDevOps Machine Learning engineer and brought those contributions to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). They have focused on practical automation around security best practices like Security Slams. Sal aims to make maintainers’ work rewarding, to create tech demos that dazzle, and to showcase the world-class Open Source Projects for Confidential Computing and beyond.
Amir Tabakovic
Amir Tabakovic is an independent advisor and lecturer in Switzerland and Spain with the objective of closing the gap between privacy and data-driven innovation.
His business experience includes an executive role at the machine learning pioneer BigML and a digital innovation leadership position at one of the top Swiss retail banks.
Amir is an honorary lifetime member and former member of the board at global digital financial services industry association, Mobey Forum where he is currently chairing the Expert Group on Data Privacy in the Age of AI."
David Pollington
Ryan Lasmaili
Ryan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.
Antonio Rocha
Jessica Tay
Marilia Aires
Geoff Smith
Geoff is currently the Data Protection Officer for Booking Holdings Financial Services building Fintech capability within one of the words largest Online Travel Agencies. His operational experience spans across multiple sectors including Banking, Insurance, Travel, Hospitality, Public Sector, E-commerce and Energy both domestically and globally at FTSE100 and Fortune 250 companies. Geoff is Visiting Professor at Loughborough University where he lectures on Data Ethics & Trust, including topics such as digital leadership, ethical frameworks, and decentralised technologies. He is an advocate for human centred design and is currently involved in a number of projects focused on empowerment tech.
- Health Sector
- Financial Sector
- Data Governance
- Legal Requirements
Privacy Enhancing Tech offers a secure way to use data, promising to unlock new use-cases. However, uncertainty around the legal status of data processed by PETs might impact their adoption. This session will explore the legal implications of using Privacy Enhancing Technology and how they impact key privacy principles such as: transparency, anonymisation, data transfers, etc.
Odvar A. Bjerkholt
Odvar is a Principal Data Lawyer at BT Group, supporting their ambitious digital transformation. This includes advising on AI use-cases, deployment of new technology and operational data management issues. Odvar has over 8 years of hands-on experience advising on complex and multi-jurisdictional privacy projects and has a strong interest in Privacy Enhancing Technology and is actively exploring new ways BT can use data in a secure way by leveraging new tools.
Meriem Bacoup-ouarem
In the modern world of data privacy regulations, it is no longer possible to join data sets collected from different sources for different purposes without a lawful basis such as explicit consent. This session will introduce the latest innovations in data collaboration, clean rooms and enablement strategies that leverage privacy-enhancing technologies to fast-track analytics programs.
Maurice Coyle
There is brewing curiosity about how advertising manages to break through the third-party problem despite privacy concerns. Discuss the significant risks that signal loss poses for both advertisers and publishers if ads cannot be shown on platforms. Explore how technology takes precedence over privacy concerns when new parties join conversations about advertising partnerships, even within large marketplaces like Magnite. Is the key to breaking through the third-party problem lie in a high enough financial incentive?
This panel discusses the importance of having all stakeholders on board, from legal compliance to security teams, to ensure the effective implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies. There must be an acknowledgement that technology obstacles are common in two-sided marketplaces, where one party may be more familiar with the technology involved than others, causing pilot projects to fail at early stages. In order to solve these problems, there needs to be a focus shift from technology implementation to enabling value across different functions. Learn more about the organisational hurdles for implementing PETs and how cross-functional collaboration can overcome them.
Jovan Powar
Jovan is a security and privacy researcher with the Alan Turing Institute’s FAIR programme, working on foundational and practical concerns around the responsible adoption of AI and PETs in the financial services industry. In his PhD (pending examination) at the University of Cambridge he worked on risk management frameworks for data privacy and socio-technical system modelling for data governance projects.
Joerg Steinhaus
Elli Papageorgiou
Elli is a privacy and data protection professional working in the technology and payments industry, with a strong academic background. She has been advising on various privacy topics including biometric authentication, digital identity, data analytics and anonymization. Currently working with Mastercard's Data and Services business unit providing privacy by design advice on innovative data solutions. Admitted to practice law in New York and Athens, Greece.
Cédric Wahl
An ambitious forward-thinker, Cédric has been working in the convergence space of Applied Maths, Distributed Computing and Finance for the last 25 years. Backed by a strong academic background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, he has built and led the exploit of large, distributed risk management compute systems for some of the most complex financial derivatives.
Leveraging his knowledge of cryptography and investment banking privacy issues, Cédric then moved onto founding Société Générale’s Blockchain Lab in 2015.
Now Co-Founder and CTO of Secretarium; a deep-tech trustless network start-up, committed to reshaping data ownership for the Web by providing privacy-preserving smart contract apps secured by PETs, he is driven by the desire to create a future where everyone controls their own data and can demonstrate honesty.
Enrico Bagli
Bringing a decade of experience in data-driven innovation, I specialize in steering projects at the crossroads of data science and finance. My commitment is to amplify the impact of digital transformation while exploring cutting-edge technologies. My primary objective is to assist my company and its customers in navigating the era of the AI revolution successfully.
As data becomes more valuable, it's important for data scientists to leverage privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) while ensuring the integrity of their results through appropriate legal and governance frameworks, including audits. However, it's also crucial for PETs to be made more accessible to non-technical users. To make PETs work effectively, all players, from legal compliance to security teams, must come together. It's also important to focus less on technology and more on enabling value across different functions.
While the digitisation of information continues to grow, organisations must be strategic about preserving privacy. Regulations, governance, and policies are all at the forefront of standardising data collaboration practices. While they may differ by nation, industry, or even project type or scope, data-driven enterprise customers understand the importance of these standards. To stay on top of developments in the PETs landscape, it's important for data-driven enterprises to understand how it has changed, how it will evolve, and what the top priorities should be.
Joanne Biggadike
Antonio Rocha
John Bowman
John Bowman, joined IBM’s Chief Privacy Office in October 2022 with a primary mission to deliver client success and drive growth in IBM, including advising on enhancements to support regulatory compliance, helping to create a deployment framework, and commercialisation of select CPO assets. Previously, John was a Senior Principal in Promontory, a Business Unit of IBM Consulting, having joined the company in 2014. John’s client engagements included managing privacy change programmes, preparing applications for Binding Corporate Rules, helping organisations prepare for regulatory audits, and advising on issues of risk, compliance, and public policy. Prior to joining Promontory, John worked at the UK Ministry of Justice where he was Head of EU and International Data Protection Policy. In this role, he served as the UK government’s lead negotiator on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). John served on the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) European Advisory Board 2019-2020 and has over 25 articles published on privacy-related topics.