Academic Session III

  • Panel
  • Class Room
  • Friday 22.05 — 16:00 - 17:15

Organising Institution

CPDP

Belgium

The three academic sessions are an integral part of CPDP's mission to connect scholarship with practice and policymaking. In 2026, Academic Session II examines questions of data protection, privacy, and digital governance more broadly. Papers were selected through an open call and presented to foster exchange beyond academia. The session features Inequality by Infrastructure: How Regulatory Data Infrastructures Produce Infrastructural Inequalities (Giulia Campaioli, Sruthi Vanguri, Mattéo Bard & Stefania Milan), Where Trust Fails: Mapping Location-Data Provenance Risks in Europe (Eduardo Brito & Liina Kamm), Beyond Modern Dualisms: Reconstructing Techno-Theology through Animism and Divine Ethics (Xu Xu & Qiao Yan), and Permission Impossible? Consent, Competition, and the Future of Financial AI under the European Financial Data Space (Àndrés Chomczyk Penedo).

Speaker

Giulia Campaioli

University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

Giulia Campaioli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DATAGOV, ERC-funded project at the University of Amsterdam. She has a PhD in Anthropology and Communication from University Rovira I Virgili, Spain and in Collective Health at University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Networks of digital care is the forecoming book based on her doctoral dissertation - a feminist multimodal ethnography of civil society responses to technology-facilitated gender-related violence across Brazil, Spain, and Italy. Drawing on her background in Psychology and Anthropology, her work explores the datafication of society and its impacts on health, identity, and social relationships. Within DATAGOV, Giulia investigates how health data infrastructures (re)produce inequalities in Brazil and Italy.

Speaker

Eduardo Brito

Cybernetica AS, University of Tartu - Estonia

Eduardo Brito is a Security Engineer and Researcher at Cybernetica AS, Industrial PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Tartu, and Visiting Researcher at CEPS and TU Berlin. His research focuses on trustworthy digital infrastructures, with an emphasis on Proof-of-Location systems, distributed protocols, and verifiable trust mechanisms in digital environments. He works on designing systems that enable auditable and cryptographically grounded evidence of real-world events, contributing to the development of secure and accountable digital systems.

Speaker

xu xu

InnerMongolia University - China

Speaker

Àndrés Chomczyk Penedo

School of Law (ICADE) - Universidad Pontificia Comillas/LSTS/VUB - Spain

Andrés Chomczyk Penedo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Law (ICADE) of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He remains as an affiliated researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society large research group, where he obtained his PhD in Law, and as a senior fellow in digital finance at the Brussels Privacy Hub of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. During his PhD studies, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions doctoral fellow and worked in several EU-funded projects.