Events

The Council of Europe (CoE), CPDP Conferences and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) invite you to celebrate the Data Protection Day with a special edition of CPDP, taking place on 28th January 2025 in the European Commission’s “Charlemagne’’ building, Brussels, Belgium and online. The event will focus on the evolving mandate of data protection, particularly its essential role as safeguard of our democratic society against excessive intrusions in the citizens’ privacy by public or private actors.

The EDPS is hosting the 74th meeting of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Technology (IWGDPT) on 18 and 19 November 2024 as part of the activities to mark its 20th anniversary and to strengthen international cooperation in technology monitoring. The meeting, open only to members of the IWGDPT, is co-organised in collaboration with the Group’s secretariat held by the German Federal Commission for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

On 24 October 2024, the EDPS organises a seminar to discuss with relevant stakeholders the concept note: “Towards a Digital Clearinghouse 2.0”. With this event, the EDPS aims to help shape the debate about the future of digital governance and effective enforcement in the digital world, by discussing the future of cross-regulatory cooperation and addressing the current governance fragmentation, both at European and national level.

EDPS and ENISA are co-organising the cyber exercise PATRICIA - Personal dATa bReach awareness in Cybersecurity Incident Handling, a table-top exercise focusing on personal data breach management. This initiative is organised in the framework of the EDPS 20th-anniversary activities and European Cybersecurity Month Campaign on 3 October 2024 from 08:45 to 16:00 in the EDPS premises.

The EDPS and the World Bank co-host the 2024 edition of the International Organisations Workshop on data protection - IOW on 23 and 24 September in Washington DC, US. This is the first edition of the Workshop convened outside of Europe reinforcing the global nature of the International Organisations’ network.