Gary Davis

Senior Director, Apple

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Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal

Policy Advisor, EDRi

I​​txaso Domínguez de Olazábal (she/her), PhD, is a Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights (EDRi), specialising in data protection with a focus on commercial surveillance. Her work examines the intersection of technology, surveillance, and content governance, highlighting the need to protect both individual and collective rights, particularly for vulnerable communities within and beyond Europe. She has extensive experience in digital rights, including at 7amleh, where she addressed the extraterritorial impact of EU digital laws and corporate responsibility in violating rights across the Global Majority. In addition to her role at EDRi, Dr Domínguez de Olazábal is a professor of international relations and geopolitics.

Carolina Foglia

Head of Sector – Secretariat of the EDPB , EDPB

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Daniel Gueorguiev

Head of Global Institutional Affairs, Domyn

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Orla Lynskey

Chair of Law & Technology, UCL Laws

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Laura Lázaro Cabrera

Deputy Director and Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) Europe

Laura Lazaro Cabrera is Counsel and Director of the Equity and Data Programme at the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe Office in Brussels, where she leads the work promoting the effective protection of fundamental human rights in the implementation of European Union legislation regulating new technologies, notably the AI Act. Laura has a background in data protection, and previously worked in an international privacy NGO focussing on surveillance and harmful uses of automation by governments.

William Malcolm

Executive Director of Regulatory Risk & Innovation, UK ICO

William is Executive Director of Regulatory Risk & Innovation at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. He leads the ICO’s teams focused on regulatory supervision of AI, technology and innovation across UK business, including technology policy, regulatory sandboxes, industry engagement, and strategic collaboration with the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum. William also provides Executive level leadership of the ICO’s regulatory cyber, audit and assurance teams.

William has over 25 years of senior executive experience, focusing on legal, policy and regulatory leadership and is a frequent speaker on data protection, privacy and AI issues. Prior to joining the ICO William spent 15 years as a global legal and regulatory leader with a major US tech company as an advisor to senior product and leadership teams on compliance design and data strategy.

William is qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales and Scotland.

Chiara Manfredini

Legal and Policy Officer, BEUC

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Bianca-Ioana Marcu

Managing Director for Europe, FPF

Bianca-Ioana Marcu is the Managing Director for Europe at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where she advances thought leadership on data protection, privacy, and AI regulation from a global perspective. Leading a team of legal and policy experts in Brussels, Bianca’s work at FPF focuses on finding pathways for continued cooperation and dialogue on digital regulation, ensuring that strong respect for fundamental rights coexists alongside technology development.

Prior to joining FPF, Bianca was the Managing Director of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference, served as co-Director of the Belgian NGO Privacy Salon, as well as a Researcher in Law at the LSTS Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. With an LLM in International Law, Globalisation and Human Rights from Maastricht University, Bianca’s research and publications have previously focused on Data Protection as the Last Line of Defence (Springer Nature), the legal challenges of Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Minors (European Law Blog), and on AI regulation from the perspective of international law (FPF).

In addition to managing the Europe office, Bianca also coordinates FPF’s presence in Africa by centering African-led expertise, fostering inclusive collaboration, and advancing the global digital regulatory dialogue by connecting local priorities with global developments. Bianca also held roles in advocacy, with a focus on gender justice, and holds a Data Protection Officer (DPO) certification from the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity.

Lukasz Olejnik

Founder, Stealth Venture

Lukasz Olejnik is an independent researcher and consultant. He is a visiting senior research fellow at Department of War Studies (King’s College London). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from INRIA (France) and an LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh. He has been involved with institutions such as CERN and University College London, and has been affiliated with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Oxford’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He has published in leading venues and authored scientific papers, policy reports, and books, including Philosophy of Cybersecurity and Propaganda: From Disinformation and Influence to Operations and Information Warfare (CRC, 2024). His projects and commentary have appeared in outlets such as the Guardian, BBC, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph, and Bloomberg. He contributed to W3C work and served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group. He was a cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross, and provided expertise at the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Parliament.

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon

co-Director, Brussels Privacy Hub

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is co-Director of the Privacy Hub. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton Law School of law, where she held the chair in IT law and Data Governance until 2022. She was Principal Legal Engineer at Immuta Research for six years. Sophie is the author and co-author of several legal articles, chapters and books on data protection and privacy. She is Editor-in-chief of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law, and has also served as a legal and data privacy expert for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for the Cooperation and Security in Europe, and for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Vincenzo Tiani

EU Senior Policy Counsel, FPF

Vincenzo Tiani is an EU Senior Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, based in Brussels, where he primarily focuses on the intersection of data protection and AI.

Vincenzo holds an LL.M in IP and ICT Law from KU Leuven. He is an Adjunct Professor at IULM University in Milan, Italy, where he teaches copyright and data protection, and at EDHEC Business School in Lille, France, where he instructs on Digital Law and Data Regulation. Since 2022, he has been a Ph.D. candidate at the VUB University of Brussels and serves as the Programme & Dissemination Coordinator of the Brussels Privacy Hub, researching topics related to artificial intelligence and personal data protection.

Since 2017, Vincenzo has been a regular contributor to various Italian media outlets, including Wired, Vice, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, StartupItalia, and Domani, writing about European digital policies.

Prior to joining FPF, Vincenzo’s career included roles at the European Parliament, where he focused on European Copyright reform; EDRi, an NGO dedicated to protecting citizens’ fundamental rights online; and CDT, the Center for Democracy & Technology, an international organization that safeguards fundamental rights online and works to maintain a free and innovative Internet. From October 2020 to November 2024, he worked as the Resident Partner of PANETTA Law Firm in Brussels, representing the firm.

Vincenzo has been a member of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, an Italian NGO, since 2018, where he monitors European legislative developments and their impact on fundamental rights online. In spring 2020, he was appointed to the Italian Ministry of Innovation’s Data Task Force to assess the data protection impact of Covid-19 contact tracing apps. From 2022 to 2024, he served as an External Advisor on AI and Digital issues for the office of MEP Brando Benifei, co-rapporteur of the AI Act. In 2024, he joined the OECD expert group on Data Protection and AI.

Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska

Head of Privacy, Digital & AI Governance, Prosus Group

Monika Tomczak-Górlikowska is the Global Head of Privacy, Digital & AI Governance for the Prosus Group – a multinational consumer internet group with headquarters in Europe and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Monika also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Monika began her career at the Legal Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels. She is now based in Amsterdam and previously was the Senior Data Privacy Legal Counsel at Shell International Limited in London. Monika is a licensed attorney (adwokat) with over 25-years in practice. Prior to her in-house tenures she was in private practice, including at the offices of Miller, Canfield in Poland. She holds a Master of European Law degree (LLM cum laude) from the Law Department of the College of Europe in Brugge (Belgium). Monika has also served as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Forum on International Privacy Law and a member of the IAPP European Advisory Board. Monika is also hexalingual: she speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Portuguese fluently.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 2019.

Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.

The Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Art. 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed as Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor while in December 2019 he became the new Supervisor.

His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing.

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

Vice President for Global Privacy, FPF

Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is a globally recognized data protection law expert, with 15 years of experience in the field split between Europe and the U.S., spanning academia, public service, consulting and policy. She currently is Vice President for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit headquartered in Washington DC, coordinating FPF’s offices and partners in Brussels, Singapore, Nairobi, and New Delhi, and leading the work on global privacy and data protection developments related to new technologies, including AI. She is also a founding Advisory Board Member of Women in AI Governance, and an affiliated researcher to the LSTS Center of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor and is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly – the international organization reuniting data protection authorities around the world, as well as a member of the T20 engagement group of the G20 under Brazil’s Presidency in 2024.

She was elected to be part of the Executive Committee of ACM’s Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FaccT) Conference (2021-2022). Her scholarship on the GDPR is referenced by the Court of Justice of the EU, and in 2023 she won the Stefano Rodota Award of the Council of Europe for the paper “The Thin Red Line: Refocusing Data Protection Law on Automated-Decision-Making“, alongside her co-authors. Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna holds a PhD in Law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject under EU Data Protection Law, and an LLM in Human Rights (University of Craiova).