Schedule

Grande Halle

Opening Remarks

Grande Halle

Responding to Digital Responsibility: Turning Entropy into Governance

IAPP

Grande Halle

Privacy and New Technologies

Council of Europe

Grande Halle

Assessing Fundamental Rights Risks of AI: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead

FRA

Grande Halle

The DSA as a tool in the fight against gender-based violence

LSTS

Grande Halle

How to Reconcile Data Protection, Resilience and Cybersecurity Goals in Today’s Digital World?

Microsoft

Grande Halle

The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence: How Generative AI Threatens the Renewable Energy Transition, and who Stands to Benefit from it

AlgorithmWatch

Grande Halle

CPDP Cocktail sponsored by EDPS

EDPS

Maritime

AI Act in Action: Compliance, Oversight, and Enforcement

Utrecht University

Maritime

A Stress Test for the EU’s Digital Rule Book: Ensuring AI Governance is Grounded in Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights

Article 19

Maritime

Towards the Digital Fairness Act: How to Better Protect People from Harmful Commercial Practices Online

BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation

Maritime

Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act: Who, What, and How

Bocconi University

Maritime

The UN’s New Cybercrime Convention: A Boon to Law Enforcement or a Danger to Fundamental Rights?

Georgia Institute of Technology

Maritime

Future of social media: what’s the recipe for pluralism, long-term user value and safety in recommender systems?

Panoptykon Foundation

Maritime

The Ultimate CPDPUB Quiz at Foyer

Data Protection Scholars Network

Orangerie

The Transformation of EU Cybersecurity Law

University of Luxembourg

Orangerie

Databases and AI Training

CEU San Pablo University, South EU Google Data Governance Chair

Orangerie

Balancing Data Protection and Workplace Justice: GDPR’s Role in Employee Rights and Representation

Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTIP) - KU Leuven

Orangerie

Academic Session I - The GDPR within a continuously reforming digital environment

CPDP

Orangerie

Navigating regulatory complexities: Enforcing data protection in the field of AI

EDPS

Orangerie

AI Governance in Africa: Bridging Trust, Ethics, Equity and Regulation

University of Bradford and CPDP Africa

Class Room

Out of Alignment: Conflicting Trends in the Governance of Advanced Artificial Intelligence

AI Collaborative

Class Room

Closing the Digital Backdoor: Strengthening Vulnerability Management to Combat Spyware

Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte

Class Room

Modelling Privacy Threats of Medical Data and Health Data Spaces

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Class Room

Can a fair power balance be achieved in the Web ecosystem with the help of Computer Science research?

Inria

Class Room

Strengthening trust in computing technologies for detecting illegal deception online

Interdisciplinary Center for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg

Class Room

Empirical methods for fairer AI – Lessons from auditing a Dutch public sector risk profiling algorithm

NGO Algorithm Audit

Le Baixu

Bias, Discrimination and Data Protection in the Age of GPAI

University of Turin, Law Department

Le Baixu

Effective Transparency and User Controls: Are We Close to a Breakthrough?

Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG)

Le Baixu

Aligning Cybersecurity Information Sharing with the European Data Protection Framework

TILT (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society)

Le Baixu

Global Perspectives of Regulating Genetic Data in Scientific Research: What Else Beyond Privacy?

Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL), VUB

Le Baixu

Common EU Data Spaces: Fundamental Rights, Competition and Innovation in Digital Ecosystems

ALTI - VU Amsterdam

Le Baixu

Correcting Wrong (AI) Data: Can the Right to Rectification be of Help?

Open Universiteit

Cinema - Culture Club

A bit, a prompt, how to create void on cyberspace

Artist Keynote

Cinema - Culture Club

Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer

Book Session

Cinema - Culture Club

Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rule of Law

Book Session

Cinema - Culture Club

Aesthetic Resistance: A poetic artist deconstructs surveillance and control

Artist Keynote

Cinema - Culture Club

Artivism Keynote by CPDP.ai net-artist-in-residence Frederik De Wilde

Artist Keynote

Machine Room - Workshops

Lessons for Private Enforcement: Pioneering GDPR Class Actions in the Netherlands

Pels Rijcken Advocaten

Machine Room - Workshops

Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments in the AI Act: Let’s Get Serious!

European Center for Not-for-Profit Law / Brussels Privacy Hub / Danish Institute for Human Rights

Machine Room - Workshops

The New Digital Cold War: What Does Trump Really Want? Why Is Europe Losing? What’s at Stake?

TechFreedom

Machine Room - Workshops

The e-Evidence Regulation Soon Going Live! Implementation Challenges, Unresolved Issues and Intersection with Other Legal Instruments

University of Luxembourg

Music Room - Workshops

AI & Children: How to deliver on rights-respecting innovation?

5Rights Foundation

Music Room - Workshops

Privacy Studies Journal I: Gaining New Perspectives on Privacy – From Eye-tracking, via AI, to Historical Houses

Privacy Studies Journal

Music Room - Workshops

Privacy Studies Journal II: Publishing Privacy –Transdisciplinary Exchanges for PSJ and Beyond

Privacy Studies Journal

Music Room - Workshops

Music to Whose Ears? Beauty for Whose Eyes? Economic and Societal Fairness in a Data-Driven Cultural and Creative Industry

Uppsala University

Music Room - Workshops

Get Started with AI Literacy!

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens

Music Room - Workshops

How to Shape the Future of Consumer Protection: Privacy by Design (ISO 31700) in the World of AI

Cybereco

Living Room - Workshops

Shaping GPAI Governance: Developing Effective Self-Regulation

SRIW e.V.

Living Room - Workshops

Transforming Content Moderation with a 'Designing from the Margins' Approach

Rathenau Instituut

Living Room - Workshops

Reclaiming Algorithm Impact Assessments: Towards Participatory AI Governance

d.pia.lab, LSTS, VUB

Living Room - Workshops

Beyond the Click That Fits Everyone's Needs: How to Communicate Privacy Issues to Distinct User Attitudes

Nexus Institut

Board Room - Workshops

Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving

Center for European Policy Studies

Grande Halle

Designed to Hook: The Roots of Platform Addiction and Ways Forward

Bits of Freedom

Grande Halle

Bridging the Gap with PETs: Governments' Opportunity to Lead on Innovation and Privacy

Google

Grande Halle

Emerging Patterns in EU Digital Regulation

CPDP

Grande Halle

Feeling ‘Unsafe’ in Online Spaces: Young Peoples' Perspectives on Online Harms and Online Safety

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Grande Halle

Navigating the Interface Between the AI Act and GDPR: Combining Innovation and Privacy in Europe

EDPS

Grande Halle

The use of AI by the Judiciary in LatAm Countries: Hallucination or Opportunity?

Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School

Grande Halle

Wired Minds and Mental Cracks - CPDP Cocktail partnered with CFG

Centre for Future Generations

Maritime

Towards a Safe Harbour for Public Interest AI Research

Mozilla Foundation

Maritime

Delivering on Children’s Rights Online: An Improved Digital World for All?

5Rights Foundation

Maritime

Back to Basics: How Data Protection Principles Apply to AI Systems

CPDP

Maritime

The Evolution of PETs in Digital Ads: Genuine Privacy Innovation or Market Power Play?  

Mozilla

Maritime

EDPL Young Scholar Award

Lexxion

Maritime

From Food Commons to Data Spaces: Shaping Data Governance for and with Sustainable Food Systems

Wageningen Social and Economic Research

Orangerie

Advertisement Intelligence by European Security Agencies

interface - tech analysis and policy ideas for Europe

Orangerie

Enforcing EU's Digital Regulations in Court - How Can Civil Society Step in?

Luminate

Orangerie

Risking Fundamental Rights? The Myriad Ways of Risk in EU Law and Policy

Fraunhofer ISI

Orangerie

Balancing (AI) Act: Risk Assessment and Mitigation under the GPAI Code in Practice

Microsoft

Orangerie

Elevating AI Oversight: the Crucial Role of Regulatory Sandboxes and Competent Authorities under the AI Act

FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute

Orangerie

Governing AI in Europe: Advancing Fundamental Rights through Regulatory Enforcement

Center for AI and Digital Policy

Class Room

The Law Enforcement Directive - A Closer Look at the Current State of GDPR’s Counterpart

FIZ Karlsruhe GmbH - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure

Class Room

Generative AI in Academia: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities Beyond IP

Haifa Center for Law & Technology, University of Haifa

Class Room

Data protection for European law enforcement: taking stock of the relationship between privacy rights and effective policing in a challenging technological landscape

Europol Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN)

Class Room

Future Digital Infrastructures for Climate Change: A Solution That Brings Along Its Own Challenges?

Center for Quantum & Society, Quantum Delta NL

Class Room

The DPO Universales: Crossing Borders on a Bumpy Road

DPO Track by Uber

Class Room

The Economic Benefits of Having a DPO

CNIL

Le Baixu

Cyberviolence, Vulnerability, and the Challenges of AI

CArE project: Securing individuals’ human rights against technology-facilitated cyberviolence

Le Baixu

Cyber Surveillance and Data Violence in Palestine: Protection, Practice, and Legality

Örebro University

Le Baixu

When Is a Summary of Data Used to Train GPAI Sufficiently Detailed?

Institute for Information Law (IViR)

Le Baixu

"Sovereign AI": Navigating Strategic Autonomy, Transatlantic Frictions, and Global Governance in the Age of Generative AI

AI-Regulation,com, Multidisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University Grenoble Alpes

Cinema - Culture Club

Will the Books Save Us? Searching for New Utopias

Book Session + Workshop

Cinema - Culture Club

Eyes Have Ears: Analog Synaesthesia and Early Machine Vision and Hearing Systems in Artistic Research

Artist Keynote

Cinema - Culture Club

The Click Trap – How pop-up ads undermine democracy and what it means for EU Digital Policy

Screening+Discussion

Cinema - Culture Club

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

Book Session

Cinema - Culture Club

Migrants in the Digital Periphery- New Urban Frontiers of Control

Book Session

Cinema - Culture Club

Reclaiming Digital Agency: Art, Research & Resistance in the Age of Platform Power - CODE 2025

CODE

Machine Room - Workshops

Beyond the GDPR Report: Unpacking Key Insights, Navigating Implementation Challenges, and Offering Practical Solutions for Robust Compliance

EU Cloud Code of Conduct

Machine Room - Workshops

The AI Race in the Metaverse

MetaverseUA Chair

Machine Room - Workshops

Technical Investigation in Compliance Assessments

SURF

Machine Room - Workshops

Introducing FRAIA: The Fundamental Rights and Algorithms Impact Assessment

Utrecht University

Music Room - Workshops

Assessing AI: Ensuring Fundamental Rights and Data Protection Compliance in Practice

European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)

Music Room - Workshops

EDPB Website Auditing Tool: An Easy Way to Check Cookie Compliance

European Data Protection Board (EDPB)

Music Room - Workshops

AI in Healthcare: Challenges and Risks – Addressing Liability, Secrecy, and Informed Consent Issues

Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence (MIAI)

Music Room - Workshops

DPO Meets DPA to Discuss Their Relationship

Flemish supervisory committee for the processessing of personal data (Vlaamse Toezichtcommissie)

Music Room - Workshops

Social Media Architecture and Democracy: From Twitter to the Fediverse

TU Delft

Music Room - Workshops

Auditing Social Media Platforms: Public, Non-Public, and Alternative Data Access Methods under the DSA & GDPR for Public Interest Research

University of Lausanne

Living Room - Workshops

EU OWI-Quest: Battle for an European Open Web Index - Safeguarding Fundamental Rights in a Digital World

University of Kassel: Project PriDI: Privacy-enhancing Digital Infrastructures

Living Room - Workshops

When Free Isn’t Free: The Human Cost of ‘Pay or Okay’

EDRi European Digital Rights

Living Room - Workshops

What if Employees Were to Monitor Their Own Wellbeing?

HIVA KU Leuven

Board Room - Workshops

GDPR Procedural Regulation - Reinforcing Trust in GDPR Enforcement

powered by TikTok

Board Room - Workshops

Building Internal AI Governance: Challenges, Models, and Privacy Insights

Dastra

Board Room - Workshops

AI Act in Practice – Case-Based Analysis of AI Act Compliance

Spirit Legal

Grande Halle

AI Regulation and the Limits of Data Protection 

The Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Grande Halle

Innovation beyond Big Tech

Open Markets Institute

Grande Halle

GDPR and Collective Redress

noyb

Grande Halle

Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza

Access Now

Grande Halle

The EU's Next Move on Online Advertising

AWO

Grande Halle

Protecting the Digital Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School

Grande Halle

Closing Remarks

Grande Halle

CPDP Cocktail sponsored by CAIDP

Center for AI and Digital Policy

Maritime

The World Is Watching – Us Lawyers?

PinG (Privacy in Germany) & DAV (Deutscher Anwaltverein)

Maritime

Navigating Regulatory Challenges in Soft Biometric Technologies

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch DPA)

Maritime

AI Vulnerability and Dependency on Social Media

RESOCIAL Project (Leiden University) & VULNERA (Brussels Privacy Hub)

Maritime

International Data Transfers and Stakeholders on the Ground

CPDP

Maritime

Data Protection Authorities’ Cooperation in the Age of AI: The Network Effect

European Commission (DG JUST)

Maritime

Over-enforcement or Under-protection: Can the AI Office Strike a Balance in the Enforcement of General Purpose AI?

ALTEP DP

Orangerie

The “Encryption Challenge” faced by LEAs in Criminal Investigations

CDSL

Orangerie

From Principles to Practice: The Role of Fundamental Rights and Ethics Assessment in the Review Process of EU-Funded Projects

European Commission, Research Ethics and Integrity Sector, DG RTD (EU) and Politecnico di Torino (IT)

Orangerie

Beyond Algorithmic Management: Will the AI Act, the Platform Work Directive and the GDPR Be Enough to Guarantee Workers’ Digital Rights?

European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)

Orangerie

Is My Boss a Bot? The Role of Data Protection in Algorithmic Recruitment and Employment

Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

Orangerie

More than buzzwords: the vital connection between (personal) data, AI and digital public infrastructures

Data Privacy Brasil

Orangerie

Japan's “Act on the Protection of Personal Information“ Triennial Review and Current Status for AI Regulation

Meiji University

Class Room

DPAs and Certification Systems: How Good Are They as Compliance Instruments?

CPDP

Class Room

Effective Remedies for AI-Induced Harms: Lessons Learned from GDPR Enforcement by Data Protection Authorities

Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe (CDT)

Class Room

The Problem of Many Heads: Fragmented Accountability in Multi Agency Public Safety

eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies

Class Room

Academic Session III - International Approaches to Digital Regulation

CPDP

Le Baixu

Academic Session II - Regulating Artificial Intelligence through the European AI Act

CPDP

Le Baixu

Reclaiming Personhood in the Age of Disruption

Brussels Privacy Hub

Le Baixu

The Vision Thing: From Black Mirror to Foresight Planning

CRISP

Le Baixu

Researcher Access in the DSA: State of Play and Next Steps

Institute for Information Law (IViR)

Cinema - Culture Club

On Privacy and Technology, Book launch

Daniel J. Solove

Cinema - Culture Club

Best books

Daniel J. Solove

Cinema - Culture Club

Data Protection Law and Emotion

Book Session

Cinema - Culture Club

AI, Sacred Violence, and War- The Case of Gaza

Book Session

Machine Room - Workshops

Research Data Access under the DSA: Expectations, Realities, and Open Questions

Society for Civil Rights (GFF)

Machine Room - Workshops

Dealing with Regulatory Complexity: A Legal Design Workshop

Technical University of Munich

Music Room - Workshops

AI, Healthcare & the Law: A Privacy-by-Design Challenge

Data Protection Moot Court / Department of Innovation and Digitalization in Law, University of Vienna

Music Room - Workshops

A Dialogue on AI and Data Governance When the World is Watching—a Deliberation with Early-Career Researchers

ADAPT Centre (Ireland) and Joint Research Centre (Italy)

Music Room - Workshops

Balancing Security and Fundamental Rights: Curbing the Spyware Trade in the EU Market

The Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe (CDT Europe)

Living Room - Workshops

Take Your Head Out of the Clouds: Examining the Socio-Environmental Materiality of AI and 'the Cloud'

EU AI and Society Fund & European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Living Room - Workshops

Paving the Way from Privacy to Trust

UGent-imec