Agenda

Time	Session	Panelists
	Monday, 7 June 2021 (all times EDT)
10:00 — 10:15	Welcome and overview	Massey, Weinlein, Withers
10:15 — 11:30	GDPR three years on: From the page to practice	Backhouse*, Greenstein, Harriman, Liguori, McDermott
	The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went fully into effect on 25 May 2018. We convene online just over three years later, at a time when organizations and regulators are facing the challenge of operationalizing, and enforcing, privacy and data security compliance programs of all shapes and sizes. A panel of distinguished practitioners will focus on how organizations and regulators are grappling with their respective obligations under the GDPR and what a defensible compliance program looks like in practice.
11:30 — 12:00	Break
12:00 — 13:15	Information governance roundtable	Artz, Brupbacher*, Harriman, Louveaux, McDermott
	Leading in‐house legal and technical professionals from global corporations will lead a dialogue on information governance considerations pertaining to cross‐border data transfers, privacy, and data security that organizations should be focused on to facilitate and monitor compliance and minimize legal exposure. They will discuss how their information governance programs are organized, changes to these programs in light of new data protection regimes, and investigation of data incidents, both in terms of internal corporate compliance and external consumer‐facing programs. They will share how interactions with regulators have changed under GDPR and offer perspectives on how they are addressing the challenge of competing legal regimes and requirements developing outside of the EU.

Time	Session	Panelists
	Tuesday, 8 June 2021 (all times EDT)
10:00 — 11:45	Data protection authority (DPA) roundtable	Buchta, Greenstein, Jelinek, Jones, O'Carroll, Schroeder*, Wimmer
	Global DPAs will lead a dialogue on their respective challenges and priorities in both their enforcement and advisory roles under global data protection regimes. The dialogue will also address technological developments being adopted and implemented in business, such as the use of end‐to‐end encryption in international transfers, ephemeral messaging, and artificial intelligence (AI), and how they are shaping the outlook of regulators, legislators, and organizations.
Time	Session	Panelists
	Wednesday, 9 June 2021 (all times EDT)
10:00 — 11:15	Taking a different path: Privacy and data security in China	Dickinson, Jiang, Shi, Sun, Withers*
	The People's Republic of China (PRC) has implemented several new laws significantly impacting privacy and data security, including the Multi‐Level Protection Scheme (MLPS), the foreign investment law, and the cryptography law. This panel will unpack these relatively new laws, explore their practical consequences for doing business in China or with Chinese‐based entities, and lead a dialogue on practical suggestions for maintaining the integrity of personal data, client confidences, and intellectual property.
11:15 — 11:45	Break
11:45 — 13:00	A global issue: Extraterritorial reach of privacy and data security laws and regulations	Buchta, Jones, Louveaux, Massey*, Wimmer
	Privacy and data security laws and regulations are proliferating internationally. Some purport to be comprehensive, some are sector‐specific, and others address very narrow situations. No matter what the intended scope of the laws, they may contain provisions that intentionally, incidentally, or inadvertently reach outside the borders of the nation, state, province, or municipality that adopted them, leading to compliance headaches, traps for the unwary, and occasional litigation over applicability or enforceability. Even "data localization," which may appear to be strictly domestic, may have significant extraterritorial impact on foreign and multinational organizations. This panel will present concrete examples, explore the applicable principles of long‐arm jurisdiction and choice‐of-law, and propose strategies for the avoidance or resolution of conflicts.
13:00 — 13:15	Closing	Massey, Weinlein

*Panel Moderator

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The Sedona Conference (TSC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and educational institute dedicated to the advanced study of law and policy in the areas of antitrust law, complex litigation, intellectual property rights, and data security and privacy law. The mission of TSC is to move the law forward in a reasoned and just way through the creation and publication of nonpartisan consensus commentaries and through advanced legal education for the bench and bar.