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How do you best learn from the practical experience of your fellow international privacy professionals in a confidential environment? How do you gain insights, in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and trust, about how other companies manage privacy?
The answer that many leading companies and law firms have found effective, is to join the International Privacy Officers Network (IPON), which had its first meeting in 2005.
To understand and to manage your privacy risks in different contexts, from marketing to employment issues to laws dealing with mergers and acquisitions, you need to engage not only with leading lawyers, and national privacy regulators but also with your peer group of privacy officers and advisors from leading international companies. These Networks provide you with precisely this opportunity. Understanding privacy norms in international business and your legal duties provide you with a defensible position in the event of an investigation or prosecution, and help you protect your company’s reputation.
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Forthcoming Meetings:
Integrating privacy into your compliance programme in Israel
25 October, 2010
Host: Microsoft, Ra’anana (near Tel Aviv), Israel
The conference is for companies in Israel with international parents or subsidiaries.
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Portugal Roundtable
24 & 25 November, 2010
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal Briefing and Roundtable with Portugal’s Data Protection Authority.
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UK Information Commissioner Roundtable
27 January, 2011
London
A Roundtable Discussion with Christopher Graham, the UK's new Information Commissioner
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France Roundtable
5 & 6 April, 2011
Paris, France
France Lawyers Briefing and Commissioner’s Roundtable
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Previous European Privacy Officers Network Meetings
IPON Meetings
IPON meetings have included: a Roundtable with the Data Protection Commissioners of Australia and Argentina, Montreux, Switzerland (September 2005); a meeting on Binding Corporate Rules and European HR issues, Washington DC, USA (March 2006); Canada's Unique Privacy Challenges: Employment, Outsourcing, Federal-Provincial Jurisdictional Issues, Toronto, Canada (October 2006); Asia-Pacific Briefing, London, UK (December 2007); Scanning Data Protection Horizons in the Asia-Pacific Region, Strasbourg, France (October 2008).
At all meetings, there are exchanges of ideas, experience and solutions on national and international privacy laws and policies.
Reports
At closed sessions, members reveal in detail how they tackle specific issues. The subsequent members only reports provide a record which is checked with the speakers for accuracy. Confidentiality is a hallmark of these discussions to encourage disclosure and close networking.
Member Benefits
Membership of IPON is open to Privacy/Data Protection professionals and their advisors from organisations operating in more than one country. IPON members have global responsibilities for privacy.
Ultimately, you will do your job better and be recognised for it. You will gain the confidence that your decisions and policies will be strengthened by your greater appreciation of the norms established by your peer group. You will be able to better argue your case with top management based on the confidence that you know what works.
Privacy Laws & Business provides the secretariat.
IPON Participants
Abbott Laboratories • Accenture • Boeing • Citigroup • Covington & Burling • Deere • Deloitte • DLA Piper Rudnick • Eaton • eBay • Ernst & Young • ExxonMobil • Fujitsu • Halliburton • JP Morgan Chase Bank • Lenovo • Linklaters • Lubrizol • McDonald's • Microsoft • Minter Ellison • Novartis • Oracle • Schering-Plough • Towers Perrin
IPON Double Membership
Double membership gives your organisation six participant places a year, to be used in any way you choose across the three yearly meetings, at a fee of 1.5 times the cost of single membership. The double membership offers greater flexibility at a much reduced cost for your organisation.
Price
Annual IPON Membership - 3 meetings & papers within a year – £1,500 + 17.5% VAT
Annual IPON Double Membership - 6 meetings & papers within a year – £2,250 + 17.5% VAT
Flexible IPON Membership - 3 meetings & papers only from meetings attended, over two years – £1,700 + 17.5% VAT
Flexible IPON Double Membership - 6 meetings & papers only from meetings attended, over two years – £2,550 + 17.5% VAT
One IPON meeting - 1 meeting & papers – £675 + 17.5% VAT
Additional person from the same organisation - 1 meeting & papers - £400 + 17.5% VAT
For more information about IPON membership, contact Stewart Dresner or Glenn Daif-Burns at Privacy Laws & Business.
European Privacy Officers Network
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