Speakers

Christine Blaes is responsible for the advertising market-related business areas of Axel Springer SE. She focuses on the area of conflict in the combination of law and business in the context of data-driven and data-protected advertising. She is also active in the BVDW in on the topic Consent Management. Since graduating with a degree in business administration, she has been employed in marketing and sales at large publishing houses for 15 years and has held various positions at Axel Springer since 2013.

Kirsten Bock's area of expertise is international and European data protection law. As the head of the European Privacy Seal unit at the Independent Center for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein, she founded the European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe). Bock is currently responsible for International Affairs and represents the supervisory authorities of the German states in working groups of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in the area of Key Provisions and was the lead rapporteur for certification.

Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in privacy. She was ranked among the top 25 Women of Influence, recognizing her contribution to the global economy and named one of the top 100 Innovators Worldwide for her passionate advocacy of Privacy by Design. She was chosen as one of the ‘Power 50’ by Canadian Business magazine for her tireless efforts as a privacy champion and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Guelph.

Eda Ertuğrul is an outstanding expert in the field of data protection, IT security and preference management. As Account Executive for the DACH region at OneTrust, she supports companies in introducing effective software solutions and implementing automation to meet the ever-increasing data protection and security requirements.

With a background in IT, Riccardo brings more than 8 years of experience in online marketing, web analytics and digital compliance. Riccardo advises clients in the finance, health, education and e-commerce sectors on data strategies and data protection in online marketing.

Dr. Ramona Greiner studied philosophy, art history and literature. In addition to her doctorate, she worked in startups, the art trade, and brand consulting. Since 2017, she has been working as a Digital Analytics and Data Ethics Consultant at FELD M in Munich. She teaches "Business & Society" at Munich Business School and deals with digital ethics and the social shaping of digitization also on a political level.

Peter Hense is a litigator at Spirit Legal. He works in international IT and technology law, data protection and litigation (privacy litigation). He focuses on advertising technology, sensor data, machine learning and the ethics of automated decision-making systems (accountable AI).

Prof. Dr. Thomas Höppner is a Partner at the law firm Hausfeld, specializing in competition law in digital markets. He has spearheaded advertising-related complaints against Apple and Google, leading to penalties in excess of EUR 6 billion. In 2023, he published his new book “Digital Advertising and the Google Ecosystem”.

Nina is an international marketing professional and the main moderator for HoDP 2023. Working in agencies for more than seven years, she consulted clients such as A1, abbvie, Kwizda and win2day, supporting them with their digital transformation processes. She helped scale Refurbed as the Head of Marketing before joining the MedTech startup ExaktHealth where she now faces a completely new set of challenges in data privacy.

Attorney Dr. Rainer Knyrim is a partner and founder of Knyrim Trieb Rechtsanwälte OG, Austria’s first data protection and IT law boutique established in 2017 with a focus on supporting businesses in developing and using new technologies. Knyrim is the editor-in-chief of the Austrian data protection law review Datenschutz konkret. His certifications comprise the EuroPriSe certificate as a legal expert as well as the CIPM, CIPT and CIPP/E certifications from IAPP.

Dr. Gregor König is the Group Data Protection Officer at Erste Group, Austria’s largest banking group. Previously he worked in a management position at the Austrian Data Protection Commission and as its deputy managing member since 2010. He is a substitute member of the Data Protection Council and a lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland. König has authored numerous publications and lectures on data protection in Austria and abroad.

Gisela Krenn has been working for Austrian Standards plus GmbH since 2008, first in the training department, since 2017 as Portfolio Manager in Non-Product Certification. There she is responsible for personal certifications, e.g. risk manager, as well as the accredited monitoring body according to Art. 41 GDPR regarding the code of conduct for address and dialogue marketing companies.

Carolin Loy is originally a lawyer and after her 2nd state examination she dealt with civil law and as an assessor with insolvency law. Since April 2020, Ms. Loy has been a member of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht), where she is responsible as Deputy Head of Department for the area of "Internet, Telemedia and Apps". As of September 2022, she is also Head of Staff Unit for European Cooperation.

Passionate about privacy and data security, Alessandro supports the coordination of international operations within PrivacyRules, a global alliance now covering 60+ countries all over the world with legal, cybersecurity and cyber crisis communication experts. Other than supporting the activities coordination, Alessandro research and creates content and material on data protection-related matters with an international perspective.

Lou Montulli is well-known for creating some of the web's fundamental technologies, among them the HTTP cookie. He invented the cookie to enable critical new features on the web while protecting the privacy of web users. Against his original intention, the technology was used to track and target users across domains. Montulli joined Netscape as a founding engineer - and also invented the blink tag, server push, client pull, HTTP proxying and more.

Klaus Müller is a Founder and Co-CEO of JENTIS is responsible for the commercial side of JENTIS. Klaus, a former Google executive and founder of successful companies, quickly recognized the great potential in JENTIS technology and the value it will have for marketers and media professionals worldwide. JENTIS is an international team of developers, data experts, mathematicians, marketing experts and scientists that aims to revolutionize the way people interact with online data.

Thomas (Tom) Peruzzi is Spokesman of the Executive Board and CTO of Virtual Minds, the adtech specialist belonging to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. In this role, he is responsible for the corporate strategic direction of the technology provider as well as the holistic strategic development of the platform portfolio.

Plank's professional career began at Regionalmedien Austria (RMA), where he worked for seven years and was able to gain experience in various corporate divisions. He then spent four years as managing director of the medium-sized digital agency adverserve, where he was able to contribute his years of expertise in the field of digital marketing.

Martin Possekel looks back on 30 years of professional experience with positions at KPMG and in the managements of companies in Lufthansa Group and Otto Group. In 2012, he became a Managing Partner at Future Marketing where he is responsible for the business areas of technology, data protection and data strategy.

Jonas Rashedi has been working in the data field for over 10 years. He specializes in data and has developed techniques that allow companies to operate their business more efficiently and profitably with data. Through his work as a consultant, he has supported companies in various development and expansion phases and acquired expert knowledge on a wide range of tools.

Stefan Santer is the Enterprise Sales Director & Industry Relationships Privacy Expert at DIDOMI, a leading provider of consent and preference management solutions in Europe. Previously, Stefan was CEO and co-founder of the e-commerce start-upPharmaciegasse. In addition, Santer looks back on years of experience in legal consulting on business and data protection topics for international law and tax consulting firms such as KPMG.

Matthias Schmidl is the deputy Head of the Austrian data protection authority. Before joining the agency, he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Administrative Court of Justice (VwGH). He was also an officer at the Federal Chancellery Constitutional Service and the office of the Data Protection Commission. Schmidl studied law at the University of Vienna and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands.

Natalie Ségur-Cabanac is the Head of Regulatory & Compliance and DPO at Hutchison Drei Austria. She was previously a legal advisor for the telecommunications company ONE GmbH. Ségur-Cabanac is a board member of ISPA and a co-founder and board member of privacyofficers.at. She holds a law degree from the University of Vienna.

Thomas joined the analytics industry at a young age, always keeping an eye on the current needs of the market and always one step ahead of technological developments. After a stint as Head of Web Analytics at e-Dialog, he founded his own web analytics agency, Webrocket, in 2014. There, he developed an innovative solution for server-side tracking which led to the founding of JENTIS.

Dr. Evelyn Thar is CEO and owner of Advance Metrics, a consulting company specialising in online marketing, analytics and digital marketing compliance. She is also a lecturer at several universities and regularly lectures on data privacy in online marketing and analytics.

Alexandra Vetrovsky-Brychta is a Business Director at Onlyfy and the first female president of the Dialog Marketing Association (DMVÖ) in Austria. Previously, she has held CEO positions in various data-driven and media companies like Bisnode or Herold Business Data. As a general manager of FVH Forum Verlag Herkert, Vetrovsky-Brychta was responsible for the growth of the Austrian business.

Jürgen Weichert has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of sales, marketing and business development in the online industry. He is responsible for the development of new business fields, markets customers and partners at JENTIS. Before he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Usercentrics.

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