Vivienne is Managing Director and Chief Privacy Officer at the London Stock Exchange Group, leading the global Privacy Office and overseeing global privacy strategy and practice.

Previously, Vivienne was the Chief Privacy Office at Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters, and Managing Director and Global Head of Privacy Legal & Head of International for the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Group at Citi.  Prior to joining Citi in 2000, Vivienne worked in private practice in London.

Vivienne chairs the International Regulatory Strategy Group Data Working Group, is on TheCityUK EU Technical Advisory Group, and is the Vice Chair on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).  Vivienne is also on the Business and Law Advisory Board of St Mary’s University, the Alumni Advisory Board of Pembroke College Oxford University, and is on the Founding Editorial Board for the Journal of AI and Ethics.  Vivienne was recognised in the 2019 PrivSec200 list of privacy and security professionals across Europe.

Vivienne is on the Advisory Board of Women in Banking and Finance, having been President and CEO from 2017-2020.  Vivienne is a recognized gender champion and leader having been awarded the Champion for Women Award at the Women in Banking and Finance Awards for Achievement 2016.  Vivienne received the 2019 WeAreTheCity Rising Star Editor’s Choice Award in recognition of her tireless efforts in the diversity space, and as an individual who is pushing for change within her industry.  Vivienne placed in the top 20 Executive Women Role Models in the HERoes List 2020, was awarded Woman Solicitor of the Year in the Law Society Excellence Awards in 2020, and has many years of experience leading a broad range of diversity initiatives and groups both within firms and across sectors.  Vivienne was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours in 2021 for services to financial services and gender diversity.

John Whittingdale was appointed Minister of State for Media and Data in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 14 February 2020.

He previously served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from May 2015 until 14 July 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Maldon in 1992.

Elizabeth Denham was appointed the UK’s Information Commissioner in July 2016 for a five year term, building on her previous experience as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Elizabeth is committed to being a firm but fair regulator protecting information rights and supporting innovation and economic growth. She has overseen an expansion of the ICO and has led on pioneering work safeguarding the public including setting standards for children’s privacy and introducing a regulatory sandbox. Her investigation work has focused on complex data ecosystems explaining to the public how and why their personal data is being used. This includes an investigation into mobile phone extraction by police from victims and witnesses of sexual offences, and an investigation into the use of personal data by data brokers in direct marketing.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth has led the ICO’s efforts to provide timely, practical advice on complying with data protection while preventing and detecting the spread of the virus. She has provided evidence to parliamentarians and spoken to ministers about finding practical privacy-friendly solutions.

In December 2020 she was the inaugural recipient of the Society Medal by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for her contribution to making digital technology good for society.

Roger Taylor is chair of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. He has worked as an entrepreneur, a regulator and a writer. He has argued for a rebalancing of control over data and information towards citizens and civil society. He is chair of Ofqual, the qualifications regulator and a member of the advisory panel to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. His has written two books: God Bless the NHS (Faber & Faber (2014) and Transparency and the Open Society (Policy Press 2016). He co-founded Dr Foster which pioneered the use of public data to provide independent ratings of healthcare. He worked as a correspondent for the Financial Times in the UK and the US and, before that, as a researcher for the Consumers' Association.

Simon joined the ICO in October 2018 as a member of the Executive Team. Simon is responsible for leading the work of the Regulatory Innovation and Technology Directorate, ensuring delivery of ICO strategic goals through stakeholder liaison, guidance, research and international activity.

His work includes helping the ICO identify, understand and address emerging technologies with privacy implications, supporting the ICO’s innovation agenda, and making the ICO itself more ‘tech savvy’.

Prior to this appointment, Simon led a global privacy consulting practice at Promontory, an IBM company, leading projects across Europe, the US and Asia. He previously led a similar team for Deloitte in the UK.

Simon is qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and a long time ago read English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford.

Sherry Madera joined LSEG via Refinitiv as the Chief Industry and Government Affairs Officer in March 2019 from City of London where she was Economic Ambassador to Asia and Special Advisor.  After the merger of Refinitiv and London Stock Exchange Group, Sherry now leads a team across all the LSEG divisions including Capital Markets, Post Trade and Data & Analytics.
Sherry is a unique combination of ex-investment banker and ex-diplomat.  Previously, as Minister-Counsellor at the British Embassy in Beijing, Sherry was responsible for promoting trade and investment between the UK and China. She has focused on Financial and Professional Services and Technology, as key industries of international growth.  She played a leading role in the regular UK-China and UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogues, and Prime Ministerial Summits, and helped develop policy objectives as well as inward and outward investment opportunities between the UK and Asia.
Sherry holds various leadership roles including a position as a Non-Executive Director/Council member at the University of Nottingham, Advisory Board member of Hong Kong Cyberport, Chair of International at IBDE (International Business & Diplomatic Exchange), and is the Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance.

Søren brings over 25 years of Financial Markets experience in delivering mission critical transformational projects for financial institutions. His responsibilities include complex transformations of financial institutions, Innovation in Financial Markets leveraging new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Quantum & Blockchain, and post-trade initiatives around intelligent operations, reference data management, collateral management and OTC-derivatives processing. Prior to re-joining IBM in 2013 Soren was Managing Director for SunGard Global Services in Europe developing and delivering service solutions around SunGard products working with several tier 1 European clients. Having previously worked at financial organisations such as Morgan Stanley, Paribas Capital Market and HBOS Treasury, he brings a practitioner's view to the challenges faced by customers today. Søren has, since January 2017, been an advisor to the Consultative Working Group of ESMA’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee (FISC) advising European Regulators on Technology & Innovation, he is also on the advisory board and on the Steering Committee of the Cloud Data Management Working Group of the EDM-Council.

Fabio M. Natalucci is a Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department with responsibility for the IMF’s global financial markets monitoring and systemic risk assessment functions. He is responsible for the Global Financial Stability Report that gives the IMF’s assessment of global financial stability risks. Prior to joining the IMF, Fabio was a Senior Associate Director in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where he conducted research and current analysis on the relationship between monetary policy, financial regulatory policy, and financial stability. Between October 2016 and June 2017, Mr. Natalucci was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Financial Stability and Regulation at the U.S. Department of Treasury. His responsibilities included leading U.S. engagement on financial regulatory cooperation in the G-20, representing the U.S. Treasury at the Financial Stability Board, coordinating between domestic and international post-crisis regulatory reforms, and monitoring developments and vulnerabilities in global financial markets. Fabio holds a PhD in Economics from New York University

Diana Paredes is the CEO and Co-Founder of Suade, a software platform that enables financial institutions to understand and deliver their regulatory requirements. Prior to founding Suade, Diana had a successful career in investment banking, covering all asset classes at Barclays and Merrill Lynch, across sales, trading & structuring. Whilst working in the industry, she saw an opportunity to innovate and launch her current Fintech/Regtech start up. She believes that a data-driven approach to regulation is the key to preventing the next financial crisis. 

Jeni Tennison, Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser, the Open Data Institute Jeni Tennison is the Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser of the Open Data Institute, which has a mission to work with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem. She gained a PhD in AI from the University of Nottingham then worked as an independent consultant, specialising in open data publishing and consumption. She was the technical architect and lead developer behind legislation.gov.uk, before joining the ODI as Technical Director in 2012, becoming CEO in 2016 and Vice President in 2020. She served on the W3C's Technical Architecture Group from 2011 to 2015 and co-chaired the W3C’s CSV on the Web Working Group. She is the co-chair of the Data Governance Working Group within the Global Partnership for AI. She also sits on the Advisory Boards for the Open Contracting Partnership, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Information Law and Policy Centre; on the UK's Health Tech Advisory Board; and is an adviser to the Board of OpenUK. She loves board games and is the proud co-creator of the open data board game, Datopolis.

Joe heads up the UK Government team responsible for the UK's data 'adequacy' arrangements with the EU and other international partners. The team works out of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, the lead department on data protection policy.
The UK intends to expand the list of adequate destinations in line with its global ambitions and commitment to high standards of data protection. Doing so will provide both UK organisations and our international partners with more straightforward and safe mechanisms for international data transfers.
Joe's prior roles include serving as Deputy Head of Digital Trade Policy in the Department for International Trade and as a lawyer and public policy advisor in private practice where he advised organisations on data privacy issues in a variety of contexts.

As Manager for Sustainability, Ben is developing UK Finance’s policy positions, engagement and outreach in the fields of climate risk, green finance and broader sustainability, with a focus in 2021 on net zero and COP26. Prior to joining UK Finance Ben was a civil servant working on international and domestic climate policy, including being on the UK delegations to COP20 and COP21 and then establishing a UK-China green finance technical assistance programme. 

Dawd Haque is the Global Lead for Regulatory Market Initiatives, Transformation & Strategy at Deutsche Bank. As such, he is the primary representative of Deutsche Bank Corporate and Investment Bank at multiple Trade Associations Committees and Working Groups globally. In particular ISDA due to his extensive background in Derivatives.  Dawd is an advisory board member for several of their Market infrastructure providers and a Global Steering Committee member for DTCC Deriv/Serve. A member of the British Standards Institute IST/012 Financial Services Committee which undertakes standard setting in the United Kingdom and supports ISO TC/68 in the creation of global standards for financial Services and Eurofiling, a partnership between policy makers and experts from various disciplines in the use of standards in regulatory policy. Dawd attends the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Globally Important Financial Institution (GIFI) Relationship Group.  He chairs Financial Industry Best practice groups and frequently collaborate with other Market participants and infrastructure providers to create solutions to shared regulatory obligations. Dawd works with regulatory policy makers in many of the jurisdictions in which they operate in both policy creation and clarification to ensure the bank and the Industry are able to meet their obligations. He is particularly proud of the work he has done in advising Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructure (CPMI), International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on global transparency standards. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Dawd has worked at Barclays, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Northern Rock and BNP Paribas on the implementation of Regulatory obligations before which he has worked in various Front Office and Middle Office roles at Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS and the EBRD.

Peter joined Herbert Smith Freehills' cyber security and intellectual property practices in 2019. Peter specialises in cybersecurity disputes, intellectual property disputes and IT disputes. He regularly advises clients in respect of cyber breach response, investigations, regulatory communications, and litigation arising from cyber disputes.

Peter's intellectual property background means he has significant experience of dealing with issues arising from the disclosure of proprietary information.

Peter also represents technology sector clients in respect of software code development, copying, brand issues and patent disputes, and has represented clients in litigation in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal. He also frequently acts for large IT clients (supplier and customer) in respect of complex IT contracting disputes.

Peter also provides advice relating to the management and exploitation of intellectual property assets, including patent and trade mark portfolios, and has extensive experience of providing non-infringement and freedom to operate opinions in heavily patented fields.

Miriam leads the firm's data protection and privacy practice and has over 15 years' experience in data advising clients on complex issues in this highly regulated area. Miriam's experience in the data space includes advising clients on the full life-cycle of data protection issues including policy design and implementation, global compliance advice, disaster recovery, data retention and destruction, and data breaches. Miriam advises a number of clients both domestically in the UK as well as international clients who are nonetheless subject to the extra-territorial application of the GDPR.

As well as providing advice to clients, Miriam is heavily involved in the firm's thought leadership, including analysis of legal and industry developments and their impact for the benefit of both clients and our practice. She has been interviewed on Talk Radio about GDPR; been quoted numerous times in Law360, Financial News, and other publications regarding GDPR and data issues, and spoken at numerous external events including the BSI Conference at the British Embassy in Seoul and the AFME European Compliance & Legal Conference. 

Miriam is also an active participant in a number of external data law committees, including the City of London Law Society Data Law Committee; the LexisNexis Data Protection Intelligence Group; and the Franco-British Data Society.

Belinda is Head of Legal for Data Protection & IP at Lloyds Banking Group. She has over 20 years’ experience as a lawyer specialising in data, technology & IP on behalf of banking, financial services and insurance clients and also on behalf of large technology providers. Before moving in-house, Belinda was a partner at two leading City law firms.

Bojana is the President of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP's Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), a preeminent global information policy think tank located in Washington, DC, London and Brussels. With more than 20 years of experience and deep knowledge of global data privacy and cybersecurity law, compliance and policy, she has a proven industry record in designing strategy, and building and managing data privacy compliance programs. Bojana was one of 20 privacy experts to participate in the transatlantic “Privacy Bridge Project” from 2014 – 2015 that sought to develop practical solutions to bridge the gap between European and US privacy regimes.

Currently, Bojana sits on the Datum Future Advisory Board, the Internet Commission Advisory Board, the OECD’s Privacy Guidelines Expert Group and the Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law Data Protection Consultation Board, as well as the Advisory Board of the Tech, Law and Security Program (TLS) at the American University Washington College of Law. She participates in many industry groups and is a regular speaker at international privacy and data security conferences. Bojana was also the recipient of the 2019 International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Vanguard Award, which recognizes privacy professionals for outstanding leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection.

Prior to joining CIPL, Bojana served for 12 years as the Global Director of Data Privacy at Accenture, and worked for eight years as Principal Consultant with Privacy Laws & Business.

Beju leads on Digital Innovation within the Digital Strategy & Consulting function of the Bank of England. 
His broad portfolio covers payments innovation, data innovation and data standardisation. 
He has a background in Artificial Intelligence.

Philip is a Partner in Eversheds Sutherland’s Global Privacy & Cyber Security Group and has over 20 years’ experience in advising on data privacy and technology matters. Philip is passionate about data driven innovation and strategy. He is an expert in data privacy, cyber security & information rights. Philip guides clients through the issues arising from the creation, licensing and exploitation of rights in content, data and software on mobile, cloud and new media platforms. Philip specialises in fraud prevention, cyber risk, data strategy, risk management, ID, biometrics, facial recognition, profiling, big data, AI, automation, behavioural targeting, loyalty and social media (and its influence). Philip is experienced in the Financial Services and Insurance, Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT), Entertainment and Retail Sectors. However, Philip also seeks to apply experience from one sector to innovate in others. Philip is a Member of the Society for Computers & Law (SCL) and IAPP. Philip has substantial secondment experience, including as acting Head of Legal (non-contentious) for Nokia (UK).

Kate Dodgson is a project manager, researcher and lawyer specialising in technology and innovation in the peace, justice and humanitarian sectors. She advises NGOs, governments, UN agencies and technology companies on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and the legal and ethical implications of applying them in humanitarian and development contexts. She is the co-lead of the Humanitarian Data Science and Ethics Group (DSEG) along with UN Migration, and was the lead author of the most comprehensive humanitarian AI ethics guidelines to date: A Framework for the Ethical Use of Advanced Data Science in the Humanitarian Sector.

Adrian Weller is Programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for data science and AI, where he is also a Turing AI Fellow leading work on trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). He is a Principal Research Fellow in ML at the University of Cambridge, and at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence where he is Programme Director for Trust and Society. His interests span AI, its commercial applications and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society. He serves on several boards including the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. He is co-director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) programme on Human-centric Machine Learning, and a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global AI Council. Previously, Adrian held senior roles in finance.

As Group Head of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Business Accelerator, Sneha is responsible for creating and scaling new high growth businesses for LSEG.

Sneha was previously Managing Director of the Global Risk Managed Services business for Refinitiv and Managing Director of Africa for Thomson Reuters. In these roles, Sneha drove significant growth through partnerships with leading international bodies, and developed solutions in close collaboration with public and private sector organisations to help fight illicit financial flows, digitize land rights, develop financial and capital markets and empower women and youth. Over her career, Sneha has also served in business leadership, operational, product development, program management and trading roles.

Sneha is passionate about the role entrepreneurs can play in helping to solve important global problems, and mentors several underrepresented founders. She is on the Board of the African Leadership Foundation, which is building alternative education models for the continent. She is also actively involved in several impact-related initiatives at the UN, WEF, Young Presidents Organization and One Young World.

Dr. Lee SCHLENKER is the founder and principal of the Business Analytics Institute. Lee is a globally recognized consultant and keynote speaker on the themes of leveraging AI, data analytics and digital ethics. Over the past two decades, he has led two dozen missions in banking and finance, telecommunications, public works and service industries.

David James Brunner is Founder & CEO of ModuleQ, an AI solutions startup headquartered in Silicon Valley that provides professionals with proactive, mission-critical business intelligence and insights, giving them a competitive information edge. He holds a PhD in Information, Technology, & Management from Harvard University and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Prior to founding ModuleQ, David worked in the Tokyo and San Francisco offices of the Boston Consulting Group.

Caitlin Fennessy is the Research Director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Caitlin also leads the IAPP’s privacy engineering initiative and serves as an in-house privacy expert. Prior to joining the IAPP, Caitlin was the Privacy Shield Director at the U.S. International Trade Administration. Caitlin joined ITA in 2009 and spent the next ten years working on international privacy and cross-border data flow policy issues. Caitlin served an adjunct professor of international privacy law at the University of Maine School of Law in 2016 and 2015 and at the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2014. Before her time at ITA, Caitlin worked in the National Security Division of the Office of Management and Budget and with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Caitlin has a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in social policy from Northwestern University.

Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association, the Global Open Banking Trade Association.  Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking Movement and campaigns for common technical standards and a consistent liability models across the Globe.

Richard works with clients to use sophisticated technology to address complex legal, regulatory and business matters, including financial fraud investigation, compliance process enhancement and customer remediation. ​

Richard brings over 20 year’s experience having held senior positions in software engineering, strategy consulting, cloud-based data analytics and forensics. ​

Richard brings deep domain expertise in developing and applying bespoke analytics solutions through the entire lifecycle, from original idea, through to implementation and benefit realisation. ​

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Richard held a position within EY’s Forensics and Integrity Services. ​

Previously Richard was European Head of Software & Science for Opera Solutions working in Big Data analytics. During this time he lead a team that won a global analytics competition sponsored by Kaggle and Expedia to personalize hotel search results.​

He has also published and presented at numerous data analytic conferences and has acted as an advisor to the UK Government and EU on technology transfer programmes.

Linda Thielová serves as a Privacy Counsel at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In her role, Linda provides guidance on GDPR, ePrivacy and global privacy-related obligations to support product innovation and assist with compliance efforts for a wide spectrum of organizations from both private and public sectors. She also conducts training and workshops on the global privacy landscape and contributes to various publications and conferences on a regular basis. Linda is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPP/US) and earned a Master’s in Law and Legal Science from Masaryk University Brno. 

Nina is an experienced Information Governance (IG) strategy leader and expert in leading complex global regulatory, IT and business transformation programmes to deliver world-class data and governance solutions. ​

Nina’s experience includes formulating data strategies that align competing cross-functional agendas to achieve compliance and risk reduction objectives.​

Nina specialises in combining IG knowledge across legal, compliance, privacy and risk with technology transformation experience: aligning stakeholders and building global business transformation programmes which drive changes in culture and behavior underpinned by effective technology and user adoption. She has led the development and implementation of global data analytics, governance, ECM, archiving, monitoring and classification solutions; control frameworks; regulatory compliance with financial services, data protection, privacy,  and records retention regulations.​

Nina’s experience enables her to lead a broad range of data related programmes and effectively gain stakeholder and executive approval and drive long term business transformation, solving real business problems and developing pragmatic solutions which help clients to drive forward their compliance and data strategic objectives.