Programme

   Full programme below, or download it as a pdf.

 

Part 1
Wednesday, 8 May 2019

15.15

Registration and Tea

15.45

Welcome

Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

15.50

Introduction

Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

  • Which data protection law issues are of most concern to data controllers and data processors?

16.05

Demonstrating compliance by keeping records (Art. 30 GDPR)

Steve Wright, CEO, Privacy Culture, and Formerly Interim Data Protection Officer, Bank of England

Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

16.45

Practical responses to data breaches post GDPR, notifications to the DP Commission and to data subjects, and related record-keeping (Art. 33 GDPR)

Denis Kelleher, Head of Privacy EMEA, LinkedIn

Chair: Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

17.20

Which types of guidance would data controllers and data processors like from the Data Protection Commission?

Conference participants

Chair: Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

17.30

Close

19.30

Dinner at a restaurant

Senior Data Protection Commission Staff have been invited to the dinner as guests of the conference

 

Part 2 Thursday, 9 May 2019

09.00

Registration and Coffee

09.30

The role of Data Protection Officers/Privacy Officers and the Data Protection Commission’s engagement with them (Arts. 37-39 GDPR and Section 34 DPA)

Dennis Kelleher, Data Protection Officer, LinkedIn

Chair: Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

  • Potential conflict of interests and DPOs’ protected employment status
  • Where do DPOs’ legal obligations begin and end?
  • The case of the Department for Social Protection’s Public Service Card
  • Who should take responsibility in various situations e.g. HR, IT, Compliance and DP Managers?

10.15

Parallel sessions

Data protection by design and default (GDPR Art. 25)

Rachael Gallagher, Manager, Data Privacy, Deloitte Ireland
Nicola Flannery, Senior Manager, Deloitte Ireland

Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

  • How implementing Privacy by Design can support compliance with GDPR and leverage privacy-as-a-sell

Data protection impact assessment (GDPR Arts. 35-36)

Doug McMahon, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

Chair: Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

  • Social media monitoring: Listening to your customer

11.00

Coffee

11.20

Access requests

Sadhbh O'Sullivan, Senior Associate, McCann FitzGerald

Chair: Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

  • Experience of handling access requests involving large numbers and/or complex requests
  • Associated record-keeping. (GDPR Art. 15)
  • Responding to Data Protection Commission enquiries and complaints. ( GDPR Art. 31 and Part 6, DPA)

12.00

Integrating Ireland’s data protection law into everyday business: The Data Protection Commissioner’s perspective

Helen Dixon, Commissioner for Data Protection

Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

13.00

Lunch

14.00

Enforcement: Defending your reputation

Chair: Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

How the Data Protection Commission conducts civil and criminal investigations

Joanne Neary, Solicitor, Data Protection Commission, Ireland

Cases from the Data Protection Commission’s Special Investigations Unit

Tony Delaney, Head, Special Investigations Unit, Data Protection Commission, Ireland

Aggravating and mitigating factors behind the size of fines

Ken Macdonald, Head of the UK ICO’s Regional Offices including Northern Ireland

15.00

Parallel sessions

On-boarding and oversight of processors

Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

ChairDaniel Cooper, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

  • Examples of contractual provisions commonly accepted and rejected.
  • How to determine levels of liability (Art. 28 GDPR);
  • Questions occurring when selecting a processor;
  • On-going oversight and review

Legitimate Interest Assessments

Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

ChairSadhbh O'Sullivan, Senior Associate, McCann FitzGerald

  • Proposed Methodology and Guidance (Art. 6.1 (f) GDPR)

15.45

Tea

16.00

International transfers of personal data (Arts. 44-50 GDPR and Section 37 DPA)

ChairLaura Linkomies, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business

Impact of Brexit in Ireland – cross-border data flows

Ken Macdonald, Head of the UK ICO’s Regional Offices including Northern Ireland

International transfers outside the EEA

Linda NiChualladh, EMEA Assistant General Counsel, IP and O&T Law Group, EMEA, Citi, Ireland
Daniel Cooper, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

  • Future amendments to Standard Contractual Clauses.
  • More companies applying to Ireland for BCRs?

16.40

GDPR implementation across the EU: How do Ireland’s national derogations compare with other EU Member States? (DPA Sections 36-55, 60-61 and 162 and Arts. 88-89 GDPR)

Emma Redmond, Senior Director for Privacy and Data Protection, Ancestry

Chair: Doug McMahon, Partner, McCann FitzGerald

17.20

Issues on the near horizon

Paul Lavery, Partner, McCann FitzGerald
Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann FitzGerald
Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

17.30

Close and Drinks

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Conference Speakers