Engage with Europe’s experts on current data protection and AI issues

IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025 returns to Brussels for its 14th year. Join colleagues from across the data protection, AI governance and cybersecurity law professions to discuss the top issues affecting the region.

We have created an exciting agenda, filled with breakout sessions designed to help you overcome obstacles you are encountering at your company or institution. Our general sessions will showcase some of the brightest minds in Europe.

Congress 2025 is the best place to meet professionals from Europe and beyond. Get in touch with your friends from conferences past or connect with new colleagues. There will be plenty of structured networking events to attend, as well as breaks between sessions.

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Keynote speakers

Keynote debate

Moderator: Bojana Bellamy, CIPP/E

President, Centre for Information Policy Leadership

Theodore Christakis

Chair, Legal and Regulatory Implications of AI, Multidisciplinary Institute in AI, University of Grenoble Alpes

Sophie in ‘t Veld

Former Member of European Parliament, Advisory Council Chair, CDT Europe

Max Schrems

Honorary Chairman, noyb.eu

Eduardo Ustaran, AIGP, CIPP/E

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Hear our keynotes debate EU digital sovereignty in the Oxford Union format.

 

Keynote speakers

Carl Öhman

Assistant Professor in Political Science, Uppsala University

Dr. Öhman’s new book, “The Afterlife of Data,” explores the question of what we should do with the data of the deceased, whether our digital afterlives are really our own, and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.

Cristina Caffarra

Lead, EuroStack Industry Initiative; Co-founder, Competition Policy Research Network, CEPR; Honorary Professor, University College London

Dubbed the “high priestess of competition” by Politico, economist and antitrust expert Cristina Caffarra outlines an urgent path forward to build European digital sovereignty: EuroStack.

 

Featured speakers

Ignasi Belda

Director General at AESIA

Leonardo Cervera-Navas

Secretary General at European Data Protection Supervisor

Sarah Lacoche

Director General at French Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control

Philippe Latombe

Member of French Parliament, member of the CNIL

Anna Lucas

Director of Online Safety Supervision at Ofcom

Michael McNamara

Member, European Parliament; Co-chair at European Parliament's Working Group on the Implementation and Enforcement of the AI Act

Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider

Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information at Germany

Dale Sunderland

Commissioner at Data Protection Commission Ireland

Anu Talus

Chair, European Data Protection Board; Head at Finnish Data Protection Authority

Félicien Vallet

Head of AI Department at CNIL

Isabelle Vereecken

Head of Secretariat at European Data Protection Board

Axel Voss

Member at European Parliament

Get the latest on the issues impacting Europe

Hear speakers address today’s pressing concerns, including:

  • Adtech regulation and enforcement.
  • Anonymization and pseudonymization in AI.
  • AI governance: responsibility, implementation, compliance and regulatory updates.
  • Cross-border data transfers.
  • Cybersecurity: law requirements, incident response, governance.
  • Data retention and data subject rights.
  • European and global data protection enforcement trends and insights.
  • European regulatory developments: DMA, DSA, Data Act.
  • Employee and workplace privacy.
  • Intersection of digital laws and policies.

Make time to see old friends and make new acquaintances

Congress 2025 offers multiple opportunities to grow your network. Meet with your peers to ask questions and share best practices.

Location

Congress returns to the Square Brussels Convention Centre in the city’s Mont des Arts, convenient to historical and cultural attractions and offering a broad view of the cityscape.

SQUARE – Brussels Convention Centre
Glass Entrance
Rue Mont des Arts
B-1000 Brussels
Tel: +32 02 515 1300

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