Director, Research Centre for Law and Digitalisation and Chair of European and International Information and Data Law, University of Passau

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Director, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Honorary Professor at the University of Munich

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Presentation "The Effects of Legal Data Regimes on the Global Data Race"

Florian Moeslein is Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law. He previously held positions as Professor at the University of Bremen and as Associate Professor at the University of St. Gallen. Born in 1971 in Germany, Florian Moeslein graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 1998, after having received the degree "licence en droit" at the University of Paris in 1996. He has also studied business administration and graduated in 1997 with the degree "Diplom-Kaufmann". Moreover, Florian Moeslein holds an LL.M. in International Business Law from the University of London (1999) and a doctorate from the University of Hamburg (2007); he also qualified as a practitioner under German Law (2001, Zweites Staatsexamen).

Presentation "Regulatory Competition in Data Law"

Anna Romandash a Howard S. Brembeck Fellow at the Fourth Freedom Forum. She is an award-winning journalist from Ukraine. Romandash is an author of Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyond which includes her stories on the Russo-Ukrainian war. 

Presentation "Data Governance in Fragile Contexts Security vs. Transparency"

Sapir Academic College, School of Law

Presentation "A Matrix of Data Regulation in the Age of AI"

Prof. Orit Fischman-Afori, PhD, LL.B. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), is a Law Professor at the Striks Faculty of Law, College of Management, Israel. Prof. Fischman-Afori’s main fields of research are Intellectual Property, Law and Technology, and Information Law. Prof. Fischman-Afori served as Dean of the Striks Faculty of Law beginning in 2016 through 2019, as a member of the Israeli Competition Law Tribunal (District Court, Jerusalem) in 2017-2020, 2022-2025, as a guest researcher at Cambridge University in 2013 and as a guest researcher at University of California, Berkley in 2007. Prof. Fischman-Afori was elected as President Elect of ATRIP – International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property.
Research Interests and teaching: Intellectual Property, Law and Technology, Competition law, Corporate Law.
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Presentation "A Matrix of Data Regulation in the Age of AI"

Sina Häusler has been a doctoral student and research associate at Dresden University of Technology since 2023. There she works on a project funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation on the subject of “platform work and data protection in a national and international perspective.” In addition, she teaches EU law and EU politics as a lecturer at the City University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Before the project migrated to Dresden University of Technology, Sina was a doctoral student and research associate at University of Bremen.

Presentation "Interdisciplinary Reflections on Data Protection for Online Workers"

Siddharth Peter de Souza is a post-doctoral researcher at the Global Data Justice Project at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested, and plural settings, and he is interested in the role that social movements and civil society can play in shaping governance frameworks. He has recently published a monograph titled Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World (Cambridge University Press 2022) which discusses how rule of law indicators need to be reimagined to account for legal pluralism, and contexts and countries in the Global South. Siddharth is also the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture which seeks to build legal literacy and awareness in India and develops projects that aim to demystify how the law is communicated. Siddharth was previously a PhD researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin, a German Chancellor Fellow, at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, and a Judicial Clerk at the High Court of Delhi.

Presentation "Three Ideas for Data Law from Environmental Law: Harm, Responsibility, and Rights"

Gargi Sharma is the Communications and Development Manager at the CLIMA Fund, a collaboration among four public foundations mobilising the philanthropic sector to resource grassroots climate justice solutions. Between 2019 and 2021, she was a researcher and policy officer in the Global Data Justice project at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. As a human rights activist, advocate, and lawyer, Gargi focuses on uplifting broad-based, locally-led, and locally-accountable solutions addressing the most pressing crises of our time. She has an Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University.

Presentation "Three Ideas for Data Law from Environmental Law: Harm, Responsibility, and Rights"

University of Naples L'Orientale

Presentation "Responsible Data Sharing for AI - A Test Bench for EU Data Law"

Danielle Borges holds a PhD in Law and a master’s degree in International, Comparative and European Law from the European University Institute (EUI). She also holds a master’s degree in Public Health from the Brazilian School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ).
In the last years she has undertaken research in the areas of human rights, data protection, regulation of essential services, consumer and comparative law in the European Union and in South America. Danielle is also a lawyer admitted to practice law in Brazil and Portugal and a member of the International Law Association (ILA).

Presentation "User’s consent in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)"

Marco Botta is a professor at the European University Institute, in Florence (Italy), where he is a Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for a Digital Society. In addition, he is a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Department of Legal Studies of the Central European University, in Vienna (Austria). Between 2017 and 2022, Prof. Botta was a senior research fellow, and later an affiliated research fellow, at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, in Munich (Germany).
In 2010, Prof. Botta defended his doctoral thesis in the Law Department of the EUI, which was later published as a monograph by Kluwer Law International. In 2018, Prof. Botta received the professorship habilitation in 'Law of the Economy' from the Italian Ministry of Education. 
Prof. Botta is the author of several publications in peer-reviewed legal journals, mainly focussed on EU competition and State aid law. His research currently focuses on data sharing modalities in the contest of the emerging EU digitalization acquis.

Presentation "User’s consent in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)"

Alexandre Humain-Lescop is a PhD candidate in digital and data protection law at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris - France). His research, notably funded by the banking and financial sector, focusses on ways to improve data subjects' control over the sharing of their personal data. He examines in particular the overall ecosystem and models of data sharing, as well as the various mechanisms, tools and interfaces that enable data subjects to exercise control.

Presentation "Laws Around the World Encouraging Data Sharing Models: What Data Protection Objectives Can Be Pursued?"

Zhenbin is a Lecturer in Law (Assistant Professor) at the University of Essex, School of Law. He is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law. He focuses on algorithmic governance at the intersection between law and computation. He uses China’s ‘social credit’, ‘smart court’ and the regulations of data and algorithms as major sites of analysis, with some comparisons to European and American practices. 

Presentation "Regulating Gatekeepers: A Comparative Analysis of Big-Tech Data Accountability in the US, EU and China"

Franziska Sucker is associate professor at the School of Law, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management (CLM), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she teaches international trade law and co-assistant dean of postgraduate affairs at CLM . She holds a doctorate in law from the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany (summa cum laude) and serves as executive co-treasurer of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) (since 2018). Prior to working in South Africa, she was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (2006‒2010) and a legal adviser in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ/GIZ), Accra (Ghana) for the Good Governance Programme, Revenue Mobilisation Support (in 2006). Franziska is co-editor (with Kholofelo Kugler) of the book 'International economic law: (southern) African perspectives and priorities' (2021).

Presentation "Can we speak of ‘African Data Law’? The Example of Rules Regulating Cross-Border Data Flows"

Alex Beyleveld is a legal, economics and policy professional with experience in the public, international public, private, NGO and academic sectors. Alex holds a PhD from the Graduate School of Economic Globalisation and Integration at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, is an admitted legal practitioner of the High Court of South Africa (enrolled as an attorney) and is currently a senior researcher at the Mandela Institute (Wits Law School). Alex predominantly works on issues of economic law (international trade, competition and taxation for the most part), technology and public policy, with a particular focus on economic development, inequality and inclusion.

Presentation "Can we speak of ‘African Data Law’? The Example of Rules Regulating Cross-Border Data Flows"

Barbara Lazarotto is a PhD researcher at the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is also a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow on the Legality Attentive Data Scientists project.

Presentation "B2G-Data Sharing"

Nelson Otieno Okeyo is a Kenyan, currently a doctoral researcher in the field of business and human rights at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and a PhD candidate at the University of Bayreuth. He has worked as a legal practitioner in Kenya before proceeding to conduct doctoral research in the area of Data Protection Impact Assessment with a focus on the African continent. 
Nelson has undertaken governance and data protection consultancies; certified trainings on data protection; and research fellowships with Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa, African Digital Future, Information Law Society Law Center, University of Milan, Italy and the Kenya School of Internet Governance (KICTANet).

Presentation "Towards Multiple Ecologies of Norm Development in Digital-Rulemaking in the 21st Century"

Gabriel Zanatta Tocchetto is a Brazilian PhD candidate in Law in the field technology regulations and Law at PUCPR with CAPES/PROEX scholarship (2021) and PhD Candidate in Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, under a cotutelle agreement. Worked as a guest researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a DAAD/CAPES scholarship (2022/2023). Has a Masters in Law from Faculdade Meridional with CAPES/FAPERGS scholarship (2018/2020) and holds a postgraduate degree in Business Law from Faculdade Estácio (2020/2021). He is a licensed attorney since 2018 and holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Faculdade Meridional Imed (2013/2017). 

Presentation "Towards Multiple Ecologies of Norm Development in Digital-Rulemaking in the 21st Century"

Matt Malone is an Assistant Professor at the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law in Kamloops, Canada.  His main research interest pertains to the various ways law protects secret information, especially in the context of trade secrecy, confidential information, access to information, privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity.  He also maintains a broad interest in legal issues pertinent to modern workplaces, in particular workplace investigations. Prior to joining the Faculty, Matt practiced law full-time in California.  He is called to the bar in British Columbia, California, and New York

Presentation "Data Localization, Hegemony, and the Popular Will"

Zeynep Ülkü Kahveci is a PhD Candidate at Istanbul University and a teaching and research assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University's Faculty of Law. She obtained an LLM degree from Harvard Law School in 2018. She has been a part of Harvard Law School-Berkman Klein Center's CopyrightX project as a teaching fellow. 

Presentation "The Need for Emphasis on “Fair Terms” in Data Contracts on a Global Level"

Dr. María Vásquez Callo-Müller is a researcher and consultant on digital trade issues. She is part of the Trade Law 4.0 project, working as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lucerne. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital technologies and trade, particularly in the areas of intellectual property rights (copyright and trade secrets), data governance, and cybersecurity. She regularly consults international organizations on digital trade and data policies. María holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Bern, as well as an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition) and a Master of Advanced Studies in International Law and Economics (MILE) from the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. She is admitted to practice law in Peru.  

Presentation "The Making of the Global CBPR Forum"

Ridwan is the Co-Founder of Tech Hive Advisory, where he steers the technology policy team. He supports global businesses by advising on data protection laws and strategies, privacy program implementation, and monitoring. Ridwan is also the Co-Founder of PrivacyLensAfrica and Privacy Bar & Bants, where he uses visualisation and podcasting to draw attention to data protection in Africa. He is also a researcher having published widely on the nexus between technology and the law.

Presentation “Navigating the Data Transfer Maze Understanding Intra-African Approaches to Data Transfers”

Mercy is a technology policy researcher with a keen focus on privacy and data protection in Africa. Mercy is currently working as a Policy Analyst for Africa at the Future of Privacy Forum where she follows and analyzes privacy and data protection developments in Africa. She is also the Co-Founder of PrivacyLens Africa which uses visualisation to highlight the state of data protection legislation in Africa.

Presentation “Navigating the Data Transfer Maze Understanding Intra-African Approaches to Data Transfers”