The advent of GDPR, growing consumer concern about personal data breaches and increased public policy focus on the ethical implications of big data and AI are rapidly becoming a priority for businesses of all sizes. This workshop brings together a variety of experts to discuss the current landscape in ethics, data and cybersecurity with business stakeholders.

This day-and-a-half workshop will give businesses the opportunity to hear from and engage with international experts on the impact and challenges of ethics, privacy and cybersecurity issues through the following themed sessions

Program Overview

SESSION 1: Setting the scene of ethics and privacy practice in Big Data and AI

SESSION 2: Skills and training to address the ethics, privacy and cybersecurity issues

SESSION 3: Ethics in Cybersecurity: research and practice in Europe

SESSION 4: Managing Data Privacy: multinational enterprise perspective

SESSION 5: Ethical Hacking: challenges and training

SESSION 6: Policy and Regulatory perspective

Workshop Program

Tuesday 11th June 2019

09.30-10.00: Registration

10.00-10.10: Welcome, Bert Gordijn, DCU Institute of Ethics

10.10-10.45: Landscape in Big Data and AI Ethics policy: Dave Lewis, ADAPT Centre

10.45-11.20: Data Ethics and Privacy in Practice: Katherine O’Keefe, CastleBridge Associates

11.20-12.10: Skills and Training in Ethics, Privacy and Cybersecurity
Highlevel briefing on national and internaitonal training intiatives and QA:

  • Second level & Undergrad Ethics Training: Linda Hogan, TCD
  • Masters training in Data Privacy: Rob Brennan, DCU
  • PhD Training: PROTECT network, Dave Lewis, TCD
  • Postdoctoral training – standards and regulation: Markus Helfert DCU
  • Legal CDP in Data Protection: Eoin O’Dell, TCD
  • Practioner training in ethics of cyber security: Gwen Morgan, DCU
  • MOOC in Cybersecurity & Ethics: Dominik Hermann, University Bamberg

12.10-13.30: Lunch and Showcase

13.30-14.15: Ethics in Cybersecurity

  • Markus Christen – CANVAS - Business and Policy Landscape: Where Europe is at the moment in terms of their research agenda and what the role of CANVAS is. Describe the status quo and how the EC will use the results of CANVAS to formulate deeper research and implement policies and mention what the follow up of CANVAS will be.

14.15-14.45: MA Data Protection and Privacy

  • Data Governance, GDPR and Cybersecurity: Dr Rob Brennan, ADAPT DCU, School of Computing
  • Data Privacy: The Role of Law: Dr John Quinn, DCU School of Law and Government
  • The Role of the Data Protection Officer: Speaker to be confirmed Irish Computer Society

14.45-15.15: Coffee Break

15.15-16.45: Managing Data Breaches

  • Talk title TBC: Petros Efstathopoulos, Symantec Ireland
  • Talk title TBC: Johann Roturier, Symantec Ireland

16.45: Day 1 Wrap up

Wednesday 12th June 2019

09.00-10.45: Ethical Hacking

  • Teaching Ethical hacking as a matter of assurance, risk and auditing in business: Erka Koivunen CISO F-Secure
  • Ethical problems for hackers (unintentional discoveries, managing demands from clients): Florian Grunow ERNW (PEN Tester)

10.45-11.15: Coffee

11.15-13.00: Policy and Regulatory Perspective

  • Also about the EC but more in operational terms What is Europe doing in relation to cybersecurity in business? How does the No More Ransom website work? What do we need to more of and less of to improve cybersecurity in Europe?: Cosmin Ciobanu, ENISA
  • Speaker to be confirmed, Irish Data Protection Office

13.00: Workshop wrap up

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-17.00: Canvas project consortium meeting

List of speakers

Linda Hogan, TCD

Rob Brennan, DCU

Dave Lewis, TCD

Markus Helfert, DCU

Eoin O’Dell, TCD

Gwen Morgan, DCU

Markus Christen, N/A

Petros Efstathopoulos, Symantec Ireland

Johann Roturier, Symantec Ireland

Erka Koivunen, F-Secure

Florian Grunow, ERNW, PEN Tester

Demosthenes Ikonomou, ENISA

Speaker from Irish DPO,