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The Workshop offers privacy scholars from diverse fields the opportunity to receive extensive, constructive commentary on their works-in-progress. We invite submissions on a variety of privacy-related topics and from a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, law, social science, computer science, engineering, communications, and public policy.

The Workshop format is designed to facilitate discussion and commentary on papers that can benefit from them. Therefore, the Workshop will give preference to projects and papers that are sufficiently along to be read and critiqued, but not yet submitted for publication. There will be no presentations, only commentators and feedback from participants. Participants are expected to read all papers beforehand. Also, because feedback from a broad range of disciplines is important for interdisciplinary privacy scholarship, we ask that all participants stay for the entire one-day workshop.

Important Dates:

Abstracts due: August 20, 2017, by 5 PM

Selections made no later than: September 3, 2017, by 5 PM

Papers due and commentators assigned: September 20, 2017, by 5 PM

2nd PrivacyWeek; organised by the „Chaos Computer Club Wien“ in Vienna, Austria.
This year will be focused on BigData and Data trails (on/offline).
One week full of Talks, Panels, Workshops and special Events for Journalists, Teachers and Developers.

Some of the talks will be available via livestream – Visit the Website privacyweek.at.

The GDPR Practitioner Certificate (GDPR.Cert) is the qualification for those undertaking the role of Data Protection Officer under the new General Data Protection Regulation (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.

We would like to invite you to attend the second Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Symposium on Computing Research Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs in Washington, DC on October 23-24^th, 2017. The goal of the symposium is to illustrate the current and future impact of computing research in ways that will inspire a broader picture of how computing research impacts the world, and also inspire computer scientists to go after new problems they might not otherwise think about.

Over the past decade, the Computing Community Consortium has hosted dozens of research visioning workshops and written timely white papers to imagine, discuss, and debate the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. This symposium draws from these topics into a program designed to illuminate current and future trends in computing and the potential for computing to address national and societal needs. Farnam Jahanian, interim president of Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the past NSF CISE Assistant Director and the current chair of the CSTB Board, will be discussing computing research and its impact on societal and national priorities in his plenary address. There will also be a research poster session highlighting the work from about 40 early career faculty members from across the country.

The two days are organized around four main themes, with confirmed speakers listed below:

• Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities
  • Intelligent infrastructure is already transforming our nation’s cities and communities, but the technological revolution is just now beginning. This session will highlight some of the major advances taking place now, while at the same time emphasizing the substantial body of research, much of it crossing disciplinary boundaries, that still needs to be done.
    • Confirmed speakers include:
      • Michael Dunaway (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) – Plenary Speaker
      • Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara) –Panelist
      • Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara) – Panelist
      • Megan S. Ryerson (University of Pennsylvania) – Panelist
• Security and Privacy for Democracy
  • Computing research enables new technology to help society cope with information security and privacy risks. This session will explore how differential privacy enables new understanding of the population while protecting privacy.
    • Confirmed speakers include:
      • Roger Dingledine (Tor Project) – Panelist
      • Simson L. Garfinkel (U.S. Census Bureau) – Panelist
      • Phillipa Gill (UMass-Amherst) – Panelist
      • Daniela Oliveria (University of Florida) – Panelist
      • Dan Wallach (Rice University) – Panelist
• AI and Amplifying Human Abilities
  • This session will examine the emerging role of AI in augmenting human abilities in new and powerful ways. Speakers will also ground their remarks in application areas ranging from health, transportation, universal access, data analysis, and education.
    • Confirmed speakers include:
      • Thad Starner (Georgia Tech) – Plenary Speaker
      • Jeffrey P. Bigham (Carnegie Mellon University) – Panelist
      • Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) – Panelist
      • Cliff Young (Google) – Panelist
• Data Algorithms and Fairness
  • Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determines how businesses target advertisements to consumers. As data-driven decisions increasingly affect every corner of our lives, there is an urgent need to ensure they do not become instruments of discrimination, barriers to equality, and threats to social justice.
    • Confirmed speakers include:
      • Solon Barocas (Cornell University) – Panelist
      • Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research / NYU) – Panelist
      • Nick Diakopoulous (Northwestern University) – Panelist
      • Lynn Overmann (Laura & John Arnold Foundation) – Panelist

The symposium will be held at the InterContinental Washington, DC Hotel at the Wharf on October 23-24, 2017. It is aimed at those interested in the social and policy implications of computing research, and members of the computing community who wish to learn more about current trends in computing and its implications for addressing societal needs. To learn more and see the full list of speakers, please check out the Symposium Website and Agenda.

If you are interested in attending, please register for the Symposium here by September 15^th. The CCC will cover all local expenses at the event (hotel and food). If you need additional financial assistance for travel, please contact us.

We hope you will be able to join us. If you have any questions, please contact CCC Director Ann Drobnis at [email protected].

The "right to privacy" is a human right.

And yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to protect this privacy. For deliberately as well as unintentionally we leave behind "digital tracks". Ever new technological advances are also being used to gather more and more accurate data about us. These "digital footprints" can help us to discover something new or to understand ourselves and our environment better. They have an impact on our daily lives, our health, our cohabitation and our social fabric. But they also serve as a decision-making base on whether we get a job, an education or a loan or not. And the data stored about us has an impact on future generations, even beyond our demise.

The PrivacyWeek seeks and provides answers to the questions that are becoming ever more important for us as individuals and our society. An extraordinary conference and workshop week in Vienna. For those with whom their privacy is important.

From 23rd to 29th October, the PrivacyWeek is particularly concerned with the data and data traces that we leave online and offline. Data providers, BigData, anonymisation of data, tracking as well as analysis and evaluation of user data.

Find out what data companies are storing about you, how they evaluate them, and how to deal with the ever-increasing amount of data others are collecting about you. Numerous lectures and workshops with international experts provide you with knowledge as well as practical tips. A whole week of concentrated information!

In addition to our broad-based program, there are 3 focus days this year with the focus on special target groups: journalists, programmers and educators.

You can find a first impression of the planned program here.

At other conferences, you often only have lectures, which are partly made up of product and company presentations.
The PrivacyWeek offers more:

No product or company presentations.
Workshops, in order to put the learned knowledge into practice.
Discussion and questioning.
"Ask the Experts". After a series of short impulses, you have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge in a small group.
An interactive exhibition will show you the data lanes you leave online.
Streaming of selected lectures, which will also be available after the PrivacyWeek.

This year, too, we will be able to present a series of high-caliber lecturers. In nearly 100 individual events, we provide you with first-class information on the subject of "privacy in the digital age". No sales pitches, no product presentations - but high-quality lectures and workshops. We are still expanding our program.

Tickets for the PrivacyWeek are now available.

Online in advance until 15.10.2017 with transfer or credit card.
Or (in the sense of anonymous participation) in the cash sale on the spot.

The Executive Women’s Forum Annual Conference provides the most comprehensive and unbiased overview of the current industry landscape for women executive business decision-makers.

The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) Annual Conference provides an exclusive opportunity to personally interact with more than 400 global thought leaders in the fields of Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy. During this three-day event, members collaborate on round-table exercises, incident simulations, panel discussions and working groups. Exposure to new ideas and approaches, best practice management of everyday issues and learning from observing the best and the brightest is an excellent and abundant return on investment.