Objective

The conference aims to provide legal practitioners and data protection specialists with the necessary guidance to handle implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It will offer an opportunity to discuss with key legal experts the challenges and issues at stake. To complete the picture, international data transfers and recent European case law will also be addressed.

Key topics

• GDPR implementation in practice: the new Working Party 29 guidelines, compliance challenges and strategies for data processors and controllers, added-value for digital citizens
• First assessment of data protection authorities’ new tools for consistent GDPR implementation: One-Stop- Shop, new consistency mechanism, DPAs’ new enforcement powers and harmonisation of sanctions
• Big data in the bigger European picture: GDPR & Convention 108 complementarity
• Current issues and novelties regarding international data transfer mechanisms: adequacy decisions, standard contract clauses (SCCs), binding corporate rules (BCRs), codes of conduct and privacy seals
• Update on recent European case law