Data opportunities in Ireland

Conference: Ireland leads the way in privacy regulation across the EU

06 February 2025

McCann FitzGerald, Dublin

Overview

Date: Thursday 6 February 2025
Times: 09.00 to 17.30 GMT
Location: McCann FitzGerald, Dublin
Type: In-person and Online

CPE Credits: up to 6

Irish CPD & CCPS: 6 hrs 20 mins

All of the content of the conference qualifies for Irish Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours. It also qualifies for the subset of CPD known as Client Care and Professional Standards (which used to be known as RPD).

Everyone attending in person or on-line will be entitled to 6 hours 20 minutes of CPD. This will also cover and exceed their requirement for CCPS for the entire year. If they attend in person, it will cover and exceed the yearly in-person CPD requirement (which is 5 hours of the overall 25 hours CPD requirement).

In addition, McCann FitzGerald will be able to issue CPD/CCPS certificates to attendees which they can then use as evidence of meeting CPD and CCPS requirements.

Keynote: Dr Des Hogan, Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner on Opportunities and Challenges within the EU Data Regulatory Environment.

This event will help you:

• Understand regulatory issues in Ireland as the gateway to doing business in Europe
• Expand your data sharing opportunities while respecting data protection law
• Learn from top regulators, specialist lawyers and DPOs from different sectors
  

Benefits of attending this unique event

1. Explore how to put your data sharing opportunities on a sound legal basis with particular emphasis on AI risks
2. Learn how to navigate both the GDPR and the EU AI Act
3. Hear how Ireland’s Data Protection Commission works with all the sectoral regulators in Ireland’s Digital Regulators Group
4. Discover Ireland’s influential data protection role in the EU particularly with the EDPB
5. Understand the risk of claims for non-material damage to help determine whether to pay such claims. Max Schrems organisation, noyb, has now gained approval to mount collective action cases in the EU
6. Prevent reputational harm to your organisation
7. Learn tactics which balance commercial aims and legal frameworks
   
8. Networking opportunities with participants and speakers

Speakers include:

• Regulators: Data Protection Commission, EDPB, Commissions for Telecoms, Media, and Competition and Consumer Protection
• Companies and Law Firms: OpenAI, Workday, Vodafone, Anthropic, Autodesk, Pembroke Privacy, Trinity College Dublin, Cooley, Linklaters, McCann FitzGerald

A Privacy Laws & Business event in association with:

Registration

To register click Book Now and select your option at the top of the page.

Note: Fees for in-person and online participation are the same

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@privacylaws.com.

*PL&B Report Subscribers - How to claim your free place

• To qualify for a free place at this event, you must subscribe to the International and/or UK Report and register your place by the Free Place Deadline, 17 January 2025, by emailing info@privacylaws.com.
• Please indicate whether you wish to attend in-person or online
• Any registration after 18 January 2025 will be charged the applicable registration fee.
• Single User Subscribers can claim 1 free place
• Multi-User Subscribers can claim up to 2 free places
• Enterprise Subscribers can claim up to 4 free places
• Any additional registrations over your allotted free places will be charged at the applicable rate