Phillipe Latombe
French member of Parliament
French Member of Parliament
Tuesday 19 May I Opening Night & Pre-events
Opening Night
As is tradition, the CPDP 2026 conference will set off with the Opening Night – an evening of reflection, debate, and reconnecting with one another. The Opening Night organised in collaboration with Brussels Privacy Hub will unfold in two acts:
Act I will welcome Philippe Latombe (MP France) and Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon (Co-Director Brussels Privacy Hub) for a fireside chat exploring the issues shaping the future of privacy and data protection, with insights on some of today’s most pressing challenges: international data transfers, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, the protection of minors online, and the complex interplay between EU lawmaking and the role of Member States.
Act II will bring together Alicia Asín Pérez (CEO Libelium) and Simon Denny (Artist & HFBK Hamburg) for a reflective dialogue, who will explore the start-up culture and the tech founders’ paradox, the ideology of disruption and technological progress, asking where innovation really resides and what to expect from regulatory attempts to govern data and AI practices.
Practical Information
When: 19 May 2026
Time: free entrance starting at 18:00; cocktail reception at 20:00
Where: Maison de la Poste I Grande Halle
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
Brussels Privacy Hub - Belgium
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton Law School of law, where she held the chair in IT law and Data Governance until 2022. She was Principal Legal Engineer at Immuta Research for six years. Sophie is the author and co-author of several legal articles, chapters and books on data protection and privacy. She has been Editor-in-chief of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law, for almost a decade and is now Honorary Editor. She has also served as a legal and data privacy expert for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for the Cooperation and Security in Europe, and for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Alicia Asín Pérez
Libelium
Engineer, CEO and co-founder of Libelium
Simon Denny
HFBK Hamburg
Artist & Professor of Time Based Media HFBK Hamburg
Registrations for CPDP 2026 are open!
Join us from 19-22 May 2026 at Maison de la Poste in Brussels
CPDP 2026 Pre-events
Digital Rights Lounge. Powered by Privacy Camp
LGBTIQ+ Rights in the Digital Age
Ahead of CPDP 2026, we’re bringing the Privacy Camp community together for the Digital Rights Lounge, a vibrant space to connect, question, and reimagine what digital rights can do.
Digital technologies increasingly shape how LGBTIQ+ people express themselves, organise politically and access services. Yet these same technologies can expose communities to discrimination, profiling, surveillance and exclusion. This edition of the Digital Rights Lounge explores the intersection between digital rights and LGBTIQ+ rights, bringing together activists, researchers and policymakers to discuss how digital infrastructures affect queer lives and what can be done to effectively protect rights in the digital age.
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When: 19 May 2026
Time: 13:00-16:30
Where: BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, Brussels (Belgium)
Workshop
What happens to privacy when today’s encrypted data becomes readable tomorrow?
The post-quantum transition is often framed as a distant issue. However, it is already a present one, including for the privacy community. Vast amounts of personal, medical, financial, and behavioral data are being collected, stored, and encrypted today under assumptions that are expected to hold for a long time. Yet “store now, decrypt later” attacks are not a theoretical model. They rest on the realistic prospect that stored encrypted data may be retroactively compromised by large-scale quantum computers, constituting a structural threat to long-term privacy.
This workshop is designed to bring the CPDP audience into the core of the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition debate. Its premise is simple: migrating to PQC is not a purely technical upgrade. Decisions taken now on standards, timelines, hybrid deployments, and certification rules will determine how future systems will preserve fundamental privacy properties such as confidentiality, unlinkability, and forward secrecy.
The core of the workshop focuses on privacy-sensitive sectors. Here, the transition to post-quantum cryptography raises hard questions: long-term confidentiality, re-identification risks linked to new cryptographic primitives, operational constraints introduced by larger keys and signatures, and the interaction between PQC, data retention, and regulatory obligations. This session may take the form of expert talks and/or a structured Q&A, emphasizing real-world challenges.
By framing PQC as a privacy issue, this workshop aims to make the post-quantum transition tangible and relevant to the CPDP community
Organisers: Eindhoven University of Technology, CryptoExperts, Privacy Salon
Practical Information
When: 19 May 2026
Time: Full Day
Location and registration link to be announced soon.