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May
10
Wed
GDPR Practitioner Certificate @ Leeds
May 10 @ 10:00 am – Jun 7 @ 4:30 pm
GDPR Practitioner Certificate @ Leeds | Leeds | England | United Kingdom

This course will teach you everything you need to know to be a successful Data Protection Officer as required by the GDPR. The course takes place over four days (one day per week) and involves lectures, discussion and practical exercises. This is followed by a written assessment on day 5. Candidates are then required to complete a project (in their own time) to achieve the certificate.

May
11
Thu
GDPR Practitioner Certificate @ Bristol
May 11 @ 10:00 am – Jun 8 @ 4:30 pm
GDPR Practitioner Certificate @ Bristol | Bristol | England | United Kingdom

This course will teach you everything you need to know to be a successful Data Protection Officer as required by the GDPR. The course takes place over four days (one day per week) and involves lectures, discussion and practical exercises. This is followed by a written assessment on day 5. Candidates are then required to complete a project (in their own time) to achieve the certificate.

May
15
Mon
K(NO)W Identity Conference @ Washington, DC
May 15 – May 17 all-day
K(NO)W Identity Conference @ Washington, DC | Washington | District of Columbia | United States

Will provide business leaders, privacy and security experts, tech innovators, and senior policy makers the forum to discuss the future of identity. By utilizing the world’s best event technology, K(NO)W connects attendees digitally and physically unlike ever before.

May
16
Tue
IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2017 @ Toronto
May 16 – May 18 all-day
IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2017 @ Toronto

The Privacy Symposium is known for delivering world-class education on the most critical issues facing Canadian privacy pros each year. With timely training, hands-on workshops and two days of conference programming, the Symposium is the must-attend event in data privacy.

May
17
Wed
Stockholm Internet Forum 2017 @ Stockholm
May 17 – May 18 all-day
Stockholm Internet Forum 2017 @ Stockholm | Stockholms län | Sweden

Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is an international forum for in-depth dialogue and discussions on how a free, open and secure internet promotes human rights and development worldwide. Stockholm Internet Forum 2017 will take place at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm on May 17-18 2017.

TILTing Perspectives 2017: ‘Regulating a connected world’ (PLSC Europe) @ Tilburg
May 17 – May 19 all-day
TILTing Perspectives 2017: ‘Regulating a connected world’ (PLSC Europe) @ Tilburg  | Tilburg | Noord-Brabant | Netherlands

Technology is transforming society on many fronts. In recent years, we have seen the rise of social media and the sharing economy, a sustained move from atoms to bits, and the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, smart devices, and robotics. Along with these developments we see a continuous stream of new legal and regulatory issues. For every problem solved, two new problems seem to surface.

When looking at current phenomena, it is particularly notable that that everything seems to be connected. Individuals are being connected through networks and data flows from and through connected devices; the field of Data Science seems to revolve around connecting the dots between various bits of data and between data and persons. Disciplines and regulatory domains are also increasingly connected: contemporary issues require involvement from legal scholars, regulation and governance scholars, and social scientists, who must work together, but who also occasionally clash. Similarly, different domains of law become intertwined, such as public law and private law or data protection and intellectual property, but do not always coexist harmoniously. Regulation is no longer the prerogative of sovereign states; rather, complex interconnected multi-level governance arrangements are at play.

Conference theme

These developments and transformations give good reason to adopt ‘Regulating a connected world’ as the theme for the 5th Bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society. While recent TILTing conferences had a specific focus, ‘robotics and neurotechnologies’ in 2011, ‘health and surveillance’ in 2015, the 2017 conference will open the floor to an entire spectrum of topics and disciplines under the broad umbrella of law, technology and society.

The conference

TILTing 2017 brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and civil society at the intersection of law and regulation, technology, and society to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and suggest answers to contemporary challenges related to technological innovation. The conference will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for papers.

The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. But within the context of these general tracks, we are adopting an open and bottom-up organizational strategy: it is up to you (the participants) to determine what happens at the conference and how. With that in mind, we invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, to propose papers, workshops, panels, mini-symposia and the like, both within and in addition to the large tracks. If you have an idea and would like to check whether it fits the open theme of the conference, feel free to contact [email protected]

GikII Workshop

TILTing 2017 will contain a ‘GikII’ inspired event. On Friday afternoon, or even Friday all day submissions permitting, we will host a GikII style Workshop. GikII brings together the worlds of law, technology and popular culture.

Governance of Emerging Technology 2017 @ Phoenix
May 17 – May 19 all-day
Governance of Emerging Technology 2017 @ Phoenix | Phoenix | Arizona | United States

The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:

Law, Policy and Ethics held at the new

Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ

May 17-19, 2017!

Call for Abstracts – Now Closed

The conference will consist of plenary and session presentations and discussions on regulatory, governance, legal, policy, social and ethical aspects of emerging technologies, including (but not limited to) nanotechnology, synthetic biology, gene editing, biotechnology, genomics, personalized medicine, human enhancement technologies, telecommunications, information technologies, surveillance technologies, geoengineering, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The conference is premised on the belief that there is much to be learned and shared from and across the governance experience and proposals for these various emerging technologies.Some particular themes that will be emphasized at this year’s conference include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, drones, CRISPR/gene editing, big data, data analytics, transnational coordination, technology unemployment, internet of things, neuroscience, privacy, longevity, bitcoin/blockchain, and digital health.

Keynote Speakers:

Gillian HadfieldRichard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics USC Gould School of Law

Stuart Russell, Professor at Berkeley, is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence

Craig Shank, Vice President for Corporate Standards Group in Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA)

Plenary Panels:

Innovation – Responsible and/or Permissionless

Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Senior Researcher/Research Manager at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Wendell Wallach, Consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Gene Drives, Trade and International Regulations

Gary Marchant, Regents’ Professor of Law, Professor of Law Faculty Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Arizona State University

Andrew Maynard, Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Director, Risk Innovation Lab, School for the Future of Innovation in Society Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Jennifer Kuzma / Goodnight-North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Distinguished Professor in Social Sciences in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at North Carolina State University

Greg Kaebnick, Director, Editorial Department; Editor, Hastings Center Report; Research Scholar, Hastings Center

Marc Saner, Inaugural Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Department of Geography

Big Data

George Poste, Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) (http://www.casi.asu.edu/), Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State University

Pilar Ossorio, Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on the faculties of the Law School and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the Medical School, University of Wisconsin

Responsible Development of AI

Wendell Wallach, Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Kay Firth-Butterfield, Barrister and part-time Judge who has worked as a mediator, arbitrator, business owner and professor in the United Kingdom

Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Center for Civic Media, and a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute

Subbarao Kambhampati, Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

  Existential and Catastrophic Ricks

Julius Weitzdoerfer, the 2014 Charles & Katharine Darwin Research Fellow and Director of Studies in law at Darwin College, and an affiliated lecturer teaching EU Environmental and Sustainable Development Law, CSER, University of Cambridge

Catherine Rhodes, Academic Project Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at CSER, University of Cambridge

Margaret E. Kosal,  Associate Director of the Sam Nunn Security Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tony Barrett, Co-Founder and Director of Research of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

Cybersecurity (half-day) — more coming soon!

May
18
Thu
GDPR Interactive Workshop @ Paris
May 18 – May 19 all-day
#DataDrivenLife – EDPS workshop on Digital Ethics @ Brussels
May 18 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
#DataDrivenLife - EDPS workshop on Digital Ethics @ Brussels | Bruxelles | Bruxelles | Belgium

On 18 May 2017, the EDPS is hosting a workshop on Data Driven Life (digital ethics) in Brussels.

With the support of the Ethics Advisory Group, the workshop will explore the positive and negative consequences of data-driven changes on society and on individuals to pursue their own life choices.

Data Driven Life will be about people rather than technology – citizens, users, consumers and communities – with a view to understanding how the use of data is propelling changes in society. With discussions ranging from health and scientific research, banking and insurance, humanitarian intelligence, citizenship to smart cities, the workshop targets a specific audience of academics and practitioners from the scientific and research fields.

This is the second workshop in the series organised by the EDPS advancing the global debate on the ethical dimension of the digital revolution. With the establishment of the Ethics Advisory Group and a well-received first workshop on the relationship between data protection and digital ethics, the debate was launched in 2016.

In October 2018, the EDPS and the Commission for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Bulgaria will jointly host the 2018 International conference of Data Protection and Privacy.

Commissioners (ICDPPC). With digital ethics as the core theme of the conference, the conference will also see the culmination of the work of the Ethics Advisory Group.

We look forward to welcoming experts from all disciplines to the Data Driven Life workshop. Priority will be given to participants from the research community, both hard and soft sciences.

The event will be webstreamed. To register, please send us an email.

May
19
Fri
The Right to Data Portability @ Brussels
May 19 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
The Right to Data Portability @ Brussels | Bruxelles | Bruxelles | Belgium

The right to data portability is listed among the most important novelties within the GDPR, both in terms of new control rights granted to data subjects and in terms of its intersection between data protection and other fields of law (for example, competition law, intellectual property, consumer protection, etc.). Despite of its internet social media origins, that perhaps continue to shape its public perception, the right to data portability, particularly if interpreted in an expansive manner, may find application in numerous fields and industries involved in personal data processing. Its exact content is, therefore, of crucial importance. This lunchtime seminar is aimed at highlighting the raison d’ etre of this new right to data portability, its potential scope, as well as its relationship to other individual rights within the GDPR.

The programme is now available.

The workshop will be held from 12:30 – 14:30 at the Institute of European Studies. Lunch will be included.

The event is free to attend but capacity is limited, so registration is required. For more information please contact [email protected].

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