Restrictions on data usage and transfer vary significantly across the globe. Notable examples such as GDPR and CCPA garner headlines, but as efforts to regulate privacy proliferate globally organisations must adhere to an ever more fragmented series of rules. Could PETs help solve that challenge?
- Determining what cross-border PET implementation looks like in practice
- Understanding the regulatory perspective on PETs as a tool to build compliance for data in transit and use across borders
- Understanding the necessary considerations to be made when forming both internal cross-border data sharing practices and external data sharing initiatives
Shashi Gowda
Shashi Gowda is CEO and co-founder of Devr and a member of its board of directors. A seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur, Shashi brings over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, big data and emerging tech industries.
Devr provides tools for enterprises to design and orchestrate data privacy, enabling rich open ecosystems for data monetization with continuous compliance.
Shashi champions advances in digital transformation, data privacy and continuous compliance using emerging technologies such as Blockchain and AI. He is passionate about bringing technologies into highly regulated industries which enable them to innovate with data, in an era of growing privacy concerns, regulatory complexity, and high costs of non-compliance.
Before founding Devr, Shashi was CTO of Virtual Control and supported the sale of its AI and ML solutions to Agilent Technologies. Prior to that, Shashi held various technology design and leadership roles, at both corporates and at early-stage companies, and has worked across Asia, Europe, and the US.
Shashi earned his bachelor’s degree in bio-medical engineering from Boston University.
Odvar Bjerkolt
John Bowman
John Bowman, joined IBM’s Chief Privacy Office in October 2022 with a primary mission to deliver client success and drive growth in IBM, including advising on enhancements to support regulatory compliance, helping to create a deployment framework, and commercialisation of select CPO assets. Previously, John was a Senior Principal in Promontory, a Business Unit of IBM Consulting, having joined the company in 2014. John’s client engagements included managing privacy change programmes, preparing applications for Binding Corporate Rules, helping organisations prepare for regulatory audits, and advising on issues of risk, compliance, and public policy. Prior to joining Promontory, John worked at the UK Ministry of Justice where he was Head of EU and International Data Protection Policy. In this role, he served as the UK government’s lead negotiator on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). John served on the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) European Advisory Board 2019-2020 and has over 25 articles published on privacy-related topics.
Dr. June Brawner
Dr. June Brawner is a policy advisor at The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. She leads the Society’s work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) within the Data and AI policy team, which is developing policy and promoting debate that helps the UK safely and rapidly realise the growing benefits of data science and digital technologies.
June’s career in academic and policy research spans the US, UK, and Central / Eastern Europe, with a focus on environmental data for policymaking. Prior to her current role she worked as a research consultant and has previously completed fellowships with the Fulbright Commission and Columbia University’s Council for European Studies.
As an anthropologist, June is especially interested in the ‘social life’ of data: the cultural and political factors that hinder or promote the equitable use of data for research, innovation, and decision-making. To this end, she sees upholding the right to privacy as a key technical and social challenge in using data for societal benefit.
