POST - GDPR Conference Aberdeen

The Conference will feature a series of seminars focusing on key areas of the GDPR. The seminars will include practical exercises, tips and suggestions to help your organisation.

Closing Panel session: Data Protection Panel Experts; You will also have opportunities to ask a panel of data protection experts about the issues that are bothering you and to hear what other organisations are concerned about.

This one-day comprehensive GDPR Conference, will investigate what the General Data Protection Regulation means to the business critical processes.

Attend Scotland’s Leading GDPR Conference to gain a deeper understanding of the regulation, leave the Conference equipped with a roadmap to compliance.
Non-compliance will be costly, those who aren’t compliant face fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover or €20 million.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been described as the biggest data protection change in a generation. It’s set to alter the way businesses handle data for the foreseeable future. Regardless of BREXIT, this is too important and is going to be implemented as confirmed in the Queen’s Speech.

The Conference, will investigate what GDPR means to businesses. Gain a deeper understanding of the Regulation and leave the Conference equipped with a high-level roadmap for change. Identify how change to achieve compliance and making privacy by design work for your company, ensuring that it is not just a tick box exercise.

Not being able to demonstrate senior management governance and privacy by design is core to your organisation and may be costly. This includes due diligence and contractual changes with your supply chain and for those organisations you provide services to.

The GDPR Conference will cover

– GDPR for HR Professionals
– Data Protection Impact Assessment
– Direct Marketing
– GDPR for Recruitment Companies
– GDPR Impact on Finance

– What’s Safe in the Cloud
– Protecting Your Data Storage
– GDPR Encryption & Technology
– Privacy Policies & Notices
– Accountability & Governance

Who should attend?

– Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Financial Officers (CFOs)
– Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
– Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
– Heads of Business Units
– Heads of Enterprise Risk Management

– Data Breaches and Notification Procedures
– Compliance, Auditors IT Operations
– Commercial & Physical Security Officers
– HR and Business Continuity Heads
– Programme and Project Managers and Legal Advisors

What will I get out of it?

Interactive seminars to kick-start your GDPR preparation
An opportunity to share thoughts and experiences with other organisations and to reflect on practice within the sector
A chance to ask the experts in Q&A panel sessions

Seminars

Each seminar will be a 30-minute session led by an expert consisting of the following:

20-minute presentation
10-minute Q&A

Speakers

Richard Preece – Chief Training Officer – OSP Cyber Academy

Richard is an experienced international hybrid consultant and leader. He enables organizations to become more strategically agile and resilient, to exploit the opportunities and minimize the dangers of the current and future digital hyper-connected world.

He is a chapter author for Managing Cybersecurity Risk – How Directors and Corporate Officers can protect their businesses. He has written a follow-up chapter on the use of scenario workshops to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), due to be published in November 2017.

He has also co-authored a recent Whitepaper, GDPR: A Catalyst to Drive Real Action Around Privacy and Security

Richard Parlour – Chairman EU Task Force on Cybersecurity Policy

Richard is Chairman of the EU Task Force on Cybersecurity Policy for the Financial Sector, and has been a member of the DCMS Cyber Experts Working Group. He is also on the Bank of England Financial Markets Law Committee Brexit Advisory Group.

An experienced international financial markets lawyer. His career started with Clifford Chance’s derivatives team, he put together the first oil price master swap agreements, and helped in the establishment of the oil market participants regime. He was seconded to London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) as in house general counsel, and has worked in Brussels with the European Institutions.

He advises on regulatory compliance systems, using a new tool to improve efficiency and effectiveness, as well as developing new products such as cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding platforms. His firm has a particular specialism in deterrence of economic crime, cyber investigations and training. His due diligence network now covers 140 countries.

Guest Speaker – John Barrass – Deputy Chief Executive PIMFA

Public Policy and Government Relations, including Brexit, EU related business and anti-financial crime activity, impact of GDPR post Brexit.
As part of his work he runs PIMFA interests in Public Policy and Government Relations, including Brexit, EU related business and anti-financial crime activity.

Prior to joining PIMFA, John was Head of CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity in EMEA which followed over 12 years running international regulatory policy for the UK Government, the Securities and Investments Board, and the Financial Services Authority.

He spent the first 12 years of his career in HM Diplomatic Service immersed in Soviet and East European Affairs but with the fall of the Berlin Wall felt that it was time to move on.

John was educated at Cambridge University, England, and has a Masters degree from the University of Essex.