Lukas Bühlmann

Lukas Bühlmann is partner and co-head of MLL-Legal's digital, data privacy & e-commerce group. He advises and represents a broad range of Swiss and international clients in the internet and e-commerce sector, in the health sector, in the tourism industry as well as for public transport providers. He regularly advises clients in data protection, e-commerce,  advertising as well as numerous legal aspects of the digital economy. In 2019, he has been appointed Legal Expert to the International Trade Centre (Geneva) and advises the ITC as well as a foreign governments on legislative projects with regard to data protection as well as cybersecurity. 

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Lee A. Bygrave

Dr. Lee A. Bygrave is professor at the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, where he is Director of the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. He has functioned as expert advisor on technology regulation for numerous organisations, including the European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, UK House of Lords Committee on the Constitution, and Norwegian government. Lee is regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on data protection law, and his work has been cited with approval by the EU Court of Justice.

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Carmen De la Cruz

Carmen De la Cruz is a Technology Lawyer and Notary Public based in Crypto Valley / Zug in Switzerland. Carmen has worked for many years as Inhouse IT lawyer at Tech and Telecommunication Companies before acting as private practitioner and partner of boutique law firms.

Carmen's focus is on emerging technologies such as AI, IOT or blockchain and related legal topics such as data protection, IP, telecommunication / infrastructure, commercial law, etc. With her broad experience in technology, data protection, commercial law etc. she supports clients to start, grow and develop business.

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Rob van Eijk

Dr. Rob van Eijk serves as the Future of Privacy Forum's Managing Director for Europe. In this role, van Eijk implements FPF's agenda in Europe, overseeing its day-to-day operations. Prior to serving in this position, he worked at the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) for nearly 10 years. Van Eijk is a technologist with an B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, an M.Sc. from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science of Leiden University, and a Ph.D. from Leiden Law School, focusing on online advertising (real-time bidding).

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Matthias Eigenmann

Matthias holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Fribourg and passed the Zurich bar exam in 2013. He spent several years at the Lausanne-based technology boutique id est attorneys where he advised clients on technology law and data protection matters before joining the PwC inhouse legal team to support the firm's digital transformation. Since 2020, Matthias operates as an independent legal advisor and works closely with Decentriq on legal aspects of privacy-preserving technologies.

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Claudius Ettlinger

Claudius Ettlinger has been acting as Data Protection Officer with Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB) AG, Switzerland's largest and state-owned railway company, from 2017. He started his career with the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer specializing in litigation. Before joining SBB, he spent several years as in-house counsel with a major Swiss bank. Claudius is a qualified Swiss lawyer and holds an LL.M. from the London School of Economics.

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Kristin Haram Førde

Kristin Haram Forde is a partner in Bull & Co Lawfirm, Oslo Norway, with more than 20 years of experience from IT and technology law. Kristin is a member of the Board of Directors at Bull & Co, and co-founder (together with Kristian Foss) of the Privacy Factory, which is Bull's website for privacy matters. She is a member the professional committee for Data Privacy in the Norwegian Bar Association. She regularly gives lectures on privacy and technology matters, and she is considered an inspiring and knowledgeable lecturer. She is a mentor for students and an external examiner for the Masters' theses in Technology and Data Privacy law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.

Her main legal focus is data protection and technology matters, with a special interest in use of data and data flows. She is co-organizer of the Alpine Privacy Days in Switzerland.

Bull & Co is a modern and industry focused law firm with a strong privacy, technology and intellectual property group.

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Kristian Foss

Kristian Foss heads the privacy practice in Bull & Co Lawfirm, Norway, where he is a partner. He is a member of the Expert Committee for ICT law at the Norwegian Center for continuing legal education with more than 20 years of experience from IT and technology law.

His main legal focus is data protection and IT-contracts. Kristian served two years as president in IT IP Law Group Europe, is member of Itechlaw and co-initiator of the Alpine Privacy Days in Switzerland.

Kristian's experience as an in-house lawyer, negotiator, entrepreneur and board member has given him a commercial and solution-oriented approach legal support of business objectives.

Bull & Co is a modern and industry focused law firm with a strong privacy, technology and intellectual property group.

Andreea Lisievic

Andreea Lisievici is a Romanian lawyer, having advised on data protection matters since the very early stages of cloud computing emergence. Due to her passion for technology, her expertise has grown focused on technical areas like online tracking, mobile apps, connected devices and internet of things. After working in one of the biggest Romanian law firms for many years and then creating a boutique law firm dealing with data protection issues, in 2019 she moved to Sweden where she worked for Volvo Car Corporation. Since May 2022 she is part of Boeing's global privacy team.  

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Georg Philip Krog

Previously Georg has been a researcher at UiO, Ruhrgas Scholar at Max Planck Institut, Fulbright Scholar at Stanford Law School, Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, Visiting Scholar at World Intellectual Property Organisation. He has experience doing 10 years of legal consulting. He is Chief of Legal Counsel at Signatu and Special Counsel to the Swiss law firm Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep (MLL). In addition, he is author of numerous legal publications and co-author of and contributor to several standards (W3C, ISO, GA4GH). Georg holds a Cand. Jur. (MSc Law) from the University of Oslo.

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Christian Kunz

Dr. Christian Kunz is an attorney and partner at the law firm Bär & Karrer in Zurich. He advises clients on data, data protection and technology law including cybersecurity and cybercrime matters, conducts large-scale internal investigations and e-discovery projects and assists clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings before Swiss and foreign authorities.

He holds a law degree and doctorate from the University of Zurich, an LL.M. from UC Berkeley, a CAS in Cyber Security from ETH Zurich, a CAS in Forensics and is certified as CIPP/E by the IAPP. He regularly gives speeches, participates in panel discussions and publishes in his areas of expertise. He has been the IAPP KnowledgeNet Chapter Chair for Switzerland since January 2022.

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Federico Marengo

Senior Privacy Consultant at White Label Consultancy.
Federico Marengo is a data protection consultant that previously worked for TNP Consultants and Data Business Services. I hold an LL.M. (University of Manchester), and I'm a PhD candidate (Bocconi University, Milano). As a PhD researcher, my research deals with the potential and challenges of the GDPR to protect data subjects against the adverse effects of Artificial Intelligence. I'm TA in two courses at Bocconi University and I'm the author of "Data Protection Law in Charts. A Visual Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation", e-book released in 2021.

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Jutta Oberlin

Since 2020 Jutta Sonja Oberlin has worked in the data protection team at Google. In her role, she works on projects related to data protection and data security with a global reach. These range from the publication of white papers on national and international regulations to confidential large-scale projects. Before Google, she worked for the data protection officer of the Canton of Schaffhausen and for several years in consulting in the BIG4 environment. She regularly publishes on data protection issues in Swiss, German and international specialist media/journals and is a frequent speaker at various events in Switzerland and abroad, such as events at the Europa Institute of the University of Zurich, IAPP, Association of German Data Protection Officers, University of Lucerne (LITS), PrivSec, University of Liechtenstein etc. She has been the Young Privacy Professional Lead of the IAPP in Switzerland since January 2020 and the IAPP Chair for Switzerland since January 2021, and the OneTrust Privacy Connect Chair for the Basel region since December 2020.

Nicolas Passadelis

Nicolas Passadelis is the Head of Data Governance at Swisscom. In this role, he is responsible for defining the guardrails for the group-wide processing of data and assisting the organization in implementing necessary compliance measures. Previously, he worked for almost 17 years at an international law firm, where he was a partner in the ICT/Data Protection practice group. Nicolas is a lecturer on data protection law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and co-editor of a handbook on data protection law.

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Michael Reinle

Michael Reinle is partner and member of MLL Legal's ICT & Digital practice group. He has sound experience in advising clients in the software and IT business, in the health sector, in telecom and data analytics. He advises clients in complex data privacy projects, such as data transfers to the USA, setting up data collaboration platforms, the multi-jurisdiction implementation of surveillance measures, etc. In addition, Michael Reinle has a strong experience in advising clients about the protection of IP and IP-related rights in the context of the digital economy. Michael Reinle is a regular speaker on data privacy law, big data, and new technologies.

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Daniel Schönberger

Daniel Schönberger, General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer, Web3 Foundation (W3F) is a Swiss qualified attorney with over 20 years of experience in the information technology space. He holds a law degree from the University of Zurich (magna cum laude) and an LLM in medical law and ethics from the University of Edinburgh (with distinction). The Web3 Foundation (W3F) is a Swiss foundation with the objective to nurture a decentralized and fair internet (e.g. Polkadot and Kusama) where users control their own data, identity, and destiny. At W3F Daniel is in charge of all legal, regulatory, government affairs and public policy matters. Earlier in his career Daniel acted as the Swiss Country Legal Counsel of Hewlett-Packard. The last 13,5 years before joining W3F Daniel served as Google's Head of Legal for Switzerland & Austria. He was also the legal lead on Google's AI policy work in EMEA, and a part of Google's responsible innovation and AI principles efforts. Daniel is a corporate generalist with strong expertise in copyright, privacy and data protection, content regulation matters, cloud projects, license agreements and competition issues. He is still on a steep learning curve regarding financial and capital market regulation relating to all things crypto assets. Daniel published several academic papers on legal, ethical and philosophical aspects of AI, including with Oxford University Press. He is a member of the executive board of the Research Centre for Innovation Law of the University of St. Gallen (FIR) and a member of the board of trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA). In 2018 Daniel was awarded the McLagan Prize by the University of Edinburgh.

David Sturzenegger

Born in Zurich, David is a mechanical engineer by training and obtained in 2015 a PhD degree from ETH Zurich in electrical engineering. From his time at the big-data company Teralytics, he has several years of experience in working with highly sensitive data and leading teams of senior data scientists and software engineers. Since 2019, David is with Decentriq where he is Head of Product, leveraging privacy-preserving technologies to help organizations collaborate on sensitive data.

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Cécile Théard-Jallu

As a partner at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés, Cécile Théard-Jallu specializes in the fields of innovative technologies, data protection / cybersecurity, commercial law, contracts and intellectual property.

She helps clients through the definition and implementation of their innovation strategies (regulations relating to healthcare products and activities, including telemedicine, HDS, 3D printing, connected objects, platforms, Big & Smart Data, social robots, artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, Smart Healthy Cities, or mobility around the patient pathway...).

Since the beginning of her career, she has carried out numerous missions involving data protection, including the GDPR, the French Data Protection Act and French or European cybersecurity regulations, in various regulatory, contractual and auditing missions, on behalf of both industrial companies and service providers, in France and abroad (R&D, marketing or commercialization phase). She is a certified advisor to companies in the process of being certified as compliant with the GDPR by the Europrivacy ® consortium, the first certification scheme of its kind, financed by H2020 funds.

She represents De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in the Cyber & Security Hub of the Systematic Cluster and has been appointed as an expert for France in the European project TEHDAS, aimed at building the regulation of the future European Health Data Area.

Vice-Chair of the "Health/Life Sciences" committee and member of the "Technology" committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), she has been listed for several years in the Best Lawyers ranking published in partnership with Les Echos, in the "Biotechnologies" and "Information Technologies" sections for France.

Very involved in the connected health ecosystem, in particular for medical devices players, she has written numerous articles in the specialized press and regularly hosts conferences in the sector.

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Dr Sébastien Ziegler

Dr Sébastien Ziegler serves as President of the Europrivacy International Board of Experts, President of the International Internet of Things Forum (IoT Forum), and as Rapporteur on Emerging Technologies at the ITU (SG20). Sébastien has a PhD in Management with a specialization in Information Systems at the Faculty of Economy and Management of the University of Geneva. He graduated in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, followed by a Master in Environment, a MBA in international administration (HEC Geneva), and complementary executive courses at Harvard Business School in Boston, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and EPFL. Founder of several organisations and companies, he also coordinated European research projects and is currently participating in several research projects on data protection. With a multi-disciplinary academic profile, combining international law, science, and economics, he is a relentless promoter of research, innovation and international cooperation. 

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