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2023 Spotlight Finalists
 

Miranda Overett

Head of Communications
Xtendr

Miranda Overett

Head of Communications
Xtendr

Miranda Overett

Head of Communications
Xtendr

In times of rapid change in the data protection industry and new technologies surging every day, it is difficult to cut through the noise and find the right solution for your challenge.

Especially in the encryption space, a lack of information and abundance of misinformation can create confusion and the focus shifts back to the first line of defense.

But what if the defense breaks? Well, now there is Data-In-Use Encryption, which maintains data encrypted during processing, as the second line of defense. So even in the event of a data leak, data cannot be breached.

Will it be the new standard?

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Ryan Lasmaili

Co-Founder & CEO
Vaultree

Ryan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.

 

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Ryan Lasmaili

Co-Founder & CEO
Vaultree

Ryan has since childhood been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from project manager to senior analyst, reporting to executives in listed multinationals. Ryan is always looking for ways to improve and apply his out of the box thinking to solving major cybersecurity problems with his biggest undertaking to date solving today’s and tomorrow’s data encryption & protection challenges.

 

PETs have the potential to unlock trustworthy data-driven innovation across sectors. However, there remain barriers to their adoption including regulatory challenges, technical expertise and how to embed them in good organisational practice. In this session, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Royal Society and the UK’s Government Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) invite you to join a discussion on the challenges to lowering barriers to PETs adoption. 

 

Attendees will be presented with a series of often-faced technical, organisational and cultural challenges that potential PETs adopters may encounter and discuss best practices for mitigating them. We are keen to hear perspectives from attendees about other potential barriers they have faced and suggestions for how the government and regulators can support PETs adoption. 

 

The ICO, Royal Society and CDEI will also showcase the role of governments and public-private partnerships in this space. They will also look at how the UK government is leveraging PETs in practice, through new international initiatives, and policy and regulatory efforts.

Author:

Dave Buckley

Senior Technology Policy Advisor
Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation

Dave Buckley is a senior technology policy advisor at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, which leads the UK Government's work to enable trustworthy innovation using data and AI. He leads the CDEI’s work on privacy enhancing technologies to support responsible data access. He has led the development of CDEI’s PETs Adoption Guide, has conducted research into novel data intermediaries, and has worked with teams across the UK public sector to provide advice and guidance on the responsible use of data-driven technologies in the social care sector and in tackling online harms. Prior to joining the CDEI, he worked in a number of software and data engineering roles in the private sector.

He holds a Masters in Physics from Oxford University, and a Masters in Digital Culture from King’s College London, where he conducted quantitative research into hate speech on social media.

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Dave Buckley

Senior Technology Policy Advisor
Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation

Dave Buckley is a senior technology policy advisor at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, which leads the UK Government's work to enable trustworthy innovation using data and AI. He leads the CDEI’s work on privacy enhancing technologies to support responsible data access. He has led the development of CDEI’s PETs Adoption Guide, has conducted research into novel data intermediaries, and has worked with teams across the UK public sector to provide advice and guidance on the responsible use of data-driven technologies in the social care sector and in tackling online harms. Prior to joining the CDEI, he worked in a number of software and data engineering roles in the private sector.

He holds a Masters in Physics from Oxford University, and a Masters in Digital Culture from King’s College London, where he conducted quantitative research into hate speech on social media.

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Dr Mahi Hardalupas

Policy Advisor
CDEI
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Dr Mahi Hardalupas

Policy Advisor
CDEI

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Paul Comerford

Principal Technology Policy Advisor
ICO

Paul Comerford is a Principal Technology Adviser within the Technology and Innovation directorate at the ICO. Paul previously worked in academia as a lecturer, holding Computer Networks and Cyber security positions at several universities. Since joining the ICO in 2018, Paul is a lead on the development of UK GDPR guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and also ICO PETs guidance published in September 2023.

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Paul Comerford

Principal Technology Policy Advisor
ICO

Paul Comerford is a Principal Technology Adviser within the Technology and Innovation directorate at the ICO. Paul previously worked in academia as a lecturer, holding Computer Networks and Cyber security positions at several universities. Since joining the ICO in 2018, Paul is a lead on the development of UK GDPR guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and also ICO PETs guidance published in September 2023.

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Dr. June Brawner

Senior Policy Adviser for Data and Digital Technologies
The Royal Society

Dr. June Brawner is a policy advisor at The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. She leads the Society’s work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) within the Data and AI policy team, which is developing policy and promoting debate that helps the UK safely and rapidly realise the growing benefits of data science and digital technologies.

June’s career in academic and policy research spans the US, UK, and Central / Eastern Europe, with a focus on environmental data for policymaking.  Prior to her current role she worked as a research consultant and has previously completed fellowships with the Fulbright Commission and Columbia University’s Council for European Studies.

As an anthropologist, June is especially interested in the ‘social life’ of data: the cultural and political factors that hinder or promote the equitable use of data for research, innovation, and decision-making. To this end, she sees upholding the right to privacy as a key technical and social challenge in using data for societal benefit.

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Dr. June Brawner

Senior Policy Adviser for Data and Digital Technologies
The Royal Society

Dr. June Brawner is a policy advisor at The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. She leads the Society’s work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) within the Data and AI policy team, which is developing policy and promoting debate that helps the UK safely and rapidly realise the growing benefits of data science and digital technologies.

June’s career in academic and policy research spans the US, UK, and Central / Eastern Europe, with a focus on environmental data for policymaking.  Prior to her current role she worked as a research consultant and has previously completed fellowships with the Fulbright Commission and Columbia University’s Council for European Studies.

As an anthropologist, June is especially interested in the ‘social life’ of data: the cultural and political factors that hinder or promote the equitable use of data for research, innovation, and decision-making. To this end, she sees upholding the right to privacy as a key technical and social challenge in using data for societal benefit.

Author:

Nick Patterson

Senior Policy Advisor
ICO
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Nick Patterson

Senior Policy Advisor
ICO
 

Paul Comerford

Principal Technology Policy Advisor
ICO

Paul Comerford is a Principal Technology Adviser within the Technology and Innovation directorate at the ICO. Paul previously worked in academia as a lecturer, holding Computer Networks and Cyber security positions at several universities. Since joining the ICO in 2018, Paul is a lead on the development of UK GDPR guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and also ICO PETs guidance published in September 2023.

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Paul Comerford

Principal Technology Policy Advisor
ICO

Paul Comerford

Principal Technology Policy Advisor
ICO

Paul Comerford is a Principal Technology Adviser within the Technology and Innovation directorate at the ICO. Paul previously worked in academia as a lecturer, holding Computer Networks and Cyber security positions at several universities. Since joining the ICO in 2018, Paul is a lead on the development of UK GDPR guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and also ICO PETs guidance published in September 2023.

 

Dr Mahi Hardalupas

Policy Advisor
CDEI

Dr Mahi Hardalupas

Policy Advisor
CDEI

Dr Mahi Hardalupas

Policy Advisor
CDEI

With Big Tech dominating the internet for years, and monetising the public's data, there's now a growing concern about digitising cash for mass surveillance. We'll talk about privacy in the age of digital cash, and how Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) can help compromise state control imperatives, like AML and fiscal policies, with individual privacy needs.

Author:

Cédric Wahl

Co-Founder and CTO
Secretarium

An ambitious forward-thinker, Cédric has been working in the convergence space of Applied Maths, Distributed Computing and Finance for the last 25 years. Backed by a strong academic background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, he has built and led the exploit of large, distributed risk management compute systems for some of the most complex financial derivatives.  

 

Leveraging his knowledge of cryptography and investment banking privacy issues, Cédric then moved onto founding Société Générale’s Blockchain Lab in 2015.  

 

Now Co-Founder and CTO of Secretarium; a deep-tech trustless network start-up, committed to reshaping data ownership for the Web by providing privacy-preserving smart contract apps secured by PETs, he is driven by the desire to create a future where everyone controls their own data and can demonstrate honesty.

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Cédric Wahl

Co-Founder and CTO
Secretarium

An ambitious forward-thinker, Cédric has been working in the convergence space of Applied Maths, Distributed Computing and Finance for the last 25 years. Backed by a strong academic background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, he has built and led the exploit of large, distributed risk management compute systems for some of the most complex financial derivatives.  

 

Leveraging his knowledge of cryptography and investment banking privacy issues, Cédric then moved onto founding Société Générale’s Blockchain Lab in 2015.  

 

Now Co-Founder and CTO of Secretarium; a deep-tech trustless network start-up, committed to reshaping data ownership for the Web by providing privacy-preserving smart contract apps secured by PETs, he is driven by the desire to create a future where everyone controls their own data and can demonstrate honesty.

Exploring the challenges faced by stakeholders in the development and adoption of PETs, and how policy makers and regulators can address these challenges to enhance the uptake of PET across organisations. Based on the recently released OECD report on “Emerging privacy enhancing technologies”, a selection of innovative regulatory and policy approaches across OECD members and partner economies will be highlighted and discussed.

Author:

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze

Information Economist and Policy Analyst
OECD

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.

Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.

Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.

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Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze

Information Economist and Policy Analyst
OECD

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.

Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.

Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.

 

Emre Ozgur

Founder and CEO
Safe Sweat

Emre Ozgur

Founder and CEO
Safe Sweat

Emre Ozgur

Founder and CEO
Safe Sweat

Data has the power to drive advancements in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), which could unlock significant value in financial markets and lead to better outcomes for consumers, firms and the wider economy. However, in order to protect consumer privacy, it is important that data sharing occurs under certain conditions and with an appropriate legal basis.

 

In March 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Call for Input to explore the market maturity of synthetic data, and industry views of the potential for synthetic data to expand data sharing opportunities in financial services. This session will explore the key findings from the Call for Input, and discuss the FCA’s broader PETs programme.

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Pavle Avramović

Emerging Tech & Research
Financial Conduct Authority

Pavle leads the Emerging Technologies Hub at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He focuses on providing insights and thought leadership on how emerging technologies could impact financial services markets, consumers and regulators. His areas of focus include quantum computing, privacy enhancing technologies, synthetic data and distributed ledger technologies.

Previously he was closely involved in FCA’s efforts across RegTech and SupTech, including the TechSprint work programme. He also leads the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) Horizon Scanning Workstream and is a member of the World Economic Forum Quantum Security Working Group.

He holds a MSc in Digital Innovation and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and is an Industrial Fellow at the University of East London. He has co-authored papers for the Harvard Data Science Review, Alan Turing Institute and other organisations, including presenting at major conferences and research seminars.

 

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Pavle Avramović

Emerging Tech & Research
Financial Conduct Authority

Pavle leads the Emerging Technologies Hub at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He focuses on providing insights and thought leadership on how emerging technologies could impact financial services markets, consumers and regulators. His areas of focus include quantum computing, privacy enhancing technologies, synthetic data and distributed ledger technologies.

Previously he was closely involved in FCA’s efforts across RegTech and SupTech, including the TechSprint work programme. He also leads the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) Horizon Scanning Workstream and is a member of the World Economic Forum Quantum Security Working Group.

He holds a MSc in Digital Innovation and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and is an Industrial Fellow at the University of East London. He has co-authored papers for the Harvard Data Science Review, Alan Turing Institute and other organisations, including presenting at major conferences and research seminars.