EDPL Young Scholar Award

  • Panel
  • Maritime
  • Thursday 22.05 — 16:00 - 17:15

Organising Institution

Lexxion

  • Academic 3
  • Business 1
  • Policy 2
The EDPL Young Scholar Award, organised by the European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL), is an annual competition for data protection researchers in the early stages of their career. The panel will feature the best authors of this year’s competition who will present the findings of their research and discuss it with the Award’s jury of renowned data protection experts. The panel will conclude with the announcement of the winner of the award and an award ceremony. Note: The panel organisers are grateful to the CPDP leadership for making an exception to the “one speaker-one panel” rule due to the EDPL 10-year anniversary.

Questions to be answered

  1. What was Zeitgeist during the launch of the GDPR and EDPL?
  2. What have been the most important developments in the past decade of EU privacy and data protection, from a legal, societal and technological perspective?
  3. Where will EU privacy and data protection stand 10 years from now?
  4. Who is the winner of the 2025 EDPL Young Scholar Award?

Moderator

Bart van der Sloot

Tilburg University - Netherlands

Dr Bart van der Sloot is associate professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University, and is the Editor in Chief of the European Data Protection Law Review. He has a dual background in philosophy and law and specialises in questions revolving around law and technology, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.

Speaker

Franziska Boehm

Leibniz-Institute for Information Infrastructure / Karlsruhe Institute for Technologies - Germany

Prof Dr Franziska Boehm is full Professor of Immaterial Rights at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and FIZ-Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. Franziska is conducting research on privacy and data protection, IP- and IT-law. She has been involved in numerous EU and national research projects and is an expert in third states data transfer (EU-US). She advises national as well as EU institutions on questions of privacy and data protection.

Speaker

Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche

Taylor Wessing - Germany

Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche is Partner at the law firm Taylor Wessing, Hamburg and a specialist lawyer for information technology law. He is the Head of the Technology, Media & Telecoms Practice Area and also coordinates the Taylor Wessing international US Group for Germany.

Speaker

Eleni Kosta

Tilburg University - Netherlands

Prof Dr Eleni Kosta is full Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands). Eleni is conducting research on human rights and technology, specialising on privacy and data protection, as well as on artificial intelligence and engages with a broad range of issues in the context of law and technology, such as eEvidence, Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of terrorism etc.

Speaker

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

European Data Protection Supervisor - Europe

Wojciech Wiewiórowski is the European Data Protection Supervisor. Before his EDPS appointment, he served as Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor, as Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data at the Polish Data Protection Authority, and as Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 Group.