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Calum Conejo-Watt
Head of Data Governance & Quality, ADSS
Calum is the Head of Data Governance and Quality at ADSS with over 10 years’ experience in the financial services and data management space. He focuses on brining data fundamentals to the business around data quality, cataloguing, ethics, and governance to enable the best possible start for building data products. He has previously worked for a financial institutions and consultancies including Barclays, Morgan Stanley & Fidelity and enjoys the challenge of solving technical as well as ethical & privacy data issues. Calum is also Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) and ODI Data Ethics Facilitator and enjoys opportunities where he can put these into practice.
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Alexander Dittel
Partner, Wedlake Bell
Alex is a data protection expert and commercial lawyer with significant in-house and private practice experience who also acts as Data Protection Officer for numerous clients. He advises on compliance, transactional, regulatory and dispute maters with domestic and international elements. Working at a start-up, Google and top technology law firms in the City in the past, he has developed a pragmatic problem solving style appreciated by his clients. Alex is a regular contributor to Privacy Laws & Business and PLC Magazine and the editor of the firm's data protection podcast.
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David Jevons
Partner, Oxera
David is a technology economist advising firms, courts and regulators on the impact of technology on society. He has 19 years’ experience across a wide range of sectors including energy, water, healthcare and financial services as well as digital markets.
He provides expert advice on privacy, liability, fairness and competition in digital markets. This includes product design, investments, mergers and public policy choices.
David delivers insights from data using econometrics and data science tools, and behavioural insights using experiments and simulation tools. He has advised companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, Liberty Global and ASML, as well as regulators and consumer bodies.
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Tom Reynolds
Chief Economist, ICO
Tom is an economist specialising in data protection and privacy issues. He has more than 15 years of experience in regulatory and competition economics, primarily in digital markets and telecommunications.
He leads the ICO’s economic functions and oversees economic analysis across the full range of ICO activities, including consideration of policy impacts, research into the value of privacy and input to investigations, enforcement and litigation.
In a recent Privacy Laws & Business article he introduced a data protection and privacy audience to some foundational economic ideas and applied them in the context of data protection.
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Bethan Watts
Director of Projects, Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum
Originally qualified as a competition lawyer, Bethan has spent over ten years at the Competition and Markets Authority, working predominantly on investigations into suspected anti-competitive conduct and leading work at the CMA on issues relating to digital competition such as its Mobile Ecosystems market study and investigations into Google, Apple and Amazon.
Since January 2023, Bethan has been on secondment to the UK Digital Regulation Co-operation Forum, initially as its Interim Chief Executive and currently as Director of Projects, overseeing the portfolio over of work being undertaken jointly by the four regulators in the DRCF (the CMA, ICO, Ofcom and the Financial Conduct Authority).