ICEL IT LAW CONFERENCE 2015

Friday 26th June , 9.30am – 5pm (Registration 9am)

Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin 2

6 CPD points

The conference focused on recent development in Data Protection, Privacy and Intellectual Property Law.

To view the programme, click here.

Confirmed speakers and topics

Chair of morning session: The Hon. Mr  Brian Cregan SC

The Hon. Mr Frank Clarke SC – Conflicting Obligations: cross border duties of disclosure and privacy in both public and private law.

Helen Dixon, Data Protection Commissioner – Regulatory Priorities under a Better Resourced Data Protection Régime

Marie Charlotte Roques Bonnet, Head of EMEA Privacy Policy, Microsoft – What assistance industry needs for laywers to prepair for the new data protection regulation, plus Schrems and New York Warrant cases considered from an industry perspective.

Claire Morrissey, Partner, A&L Goodbody – The interaction between data subject access requests and discovery

Patricia McGovern, DFMG Solicitors – Impact of the Unified Patent Court on IP practice

Paul Anthony McDermott BL – Data protection litigation – current trends and future development

John Tully BL, Carlow Institute of Technology – The emerging tort of misuse of private information

Dr Kristina Irion, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Amsterdam – How cloud computing transforms the (legal) relationship between individuals and their digital assets

Dr Eleonora Rosati, University of Southampton – An overview of recent ECJ copyright judgments

Gerard Kelly, Partner, Mason, Hayes and Curran – Copyright litigation in Ireland