Business Excellence Seminar: GDPR

Date: 6th March 2018

Location: Greenhills Hotel

Time: 9.00 am – 12.00 pm

Registration: 8.30am

Are you and your business ready for the upcoming GDPR legislation? From IT to HR and business administration, the new GDPR legislation will impact every part of in business, government and non-profits. This is a must attend event.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on the 25th May 2018, replacing the existing data protection framework under the EU Data Protection Directive.

 

Topics covered with this event include:

 

  • A business overview of GDPR preparations
  • Understanding data cataloguing
  • GDPR – Our journey so far
  • A risk-based approach to achieving & maintaining GDPR compliance

 

Agenda:

8.30am   Registration/networking

9.00am Start/Introduction

9.10am Garrett O’Neill – Assistant Commissioner with Responsibility for Compliance and Policy Guidance, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

9.50am Marie Murphy, Director of Operations, Fort Privacy Partners

10.30am – Finn O’Boyle, PMP Programme Manager, Axa Partners

11.10am- Paul O’Brien, Managing Director, CalQRisk

11:45am Q and A

12pm Event Close

 

Speaker Bios

 

Garrett O’Neill, Assistant Commissioner with Responsibility for Compliance and Policy Guidance, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

Garrett is Head of Consultation in the Private and Financial sectors in the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. He is an experienced Assistant Commissioner with a demonstrated history of working as a Solicitor in the public and private sectors. Skilled in advising on all data protection compliance issues to the Insurance, Banking, Retail, Telecommunications, State agencies etcetera. He is also a member of the EU Article 29 Working Group for the past 5 years.

Marie Murphy, Director of Operations

Marie is co-founder and operations director of Fort Privacy Partners which offers a full range of operational, legal and technical data protection solutions. Marie is a Certified Data Protection Officer(CDPO) with a background in business and communications. Previously CEO of an internet start-up, she has first-hand experience of the data protection challenges facing business. As a result, her work focuses on providing practical, operational advice and solutions that can be applied to business. Marie also specialises in Privacy by Design and trains on the topic for the Irish Computer Society as part of their European Certified Data Protection Officer Programme. Marie’s philosophy is that data protection is not just about compliance. Done properly, it enables organisations to build trusted relationships with their customers and it ultimately benefits their business by enhancing the business reputation.

Finn O’Boyle, PMP Programme Manager, Axa Partners

Finn has been managing large business projects and programs for the past 10 years and been with AXA and formerly Genworth for the past 7 years. Originally an enthusiastic IT programmer, he has worked across consumer goods, public sector, consulting and financial services on different projects focusing mainly on business process design and change management with all functions. He has been leading the AXA Partners CLP GDPR programme since February 2017.

Paul O’Brien, Managing Director, CalQRisk

A co-founder of CalQRisk, Paul has extensive business experience managing multinational companies at operations, general management, and director levels. A marine engineer, he has knowledge of the petrochemical, mechanical engineering and energy industry sectors. He has implemented operational excellence programmes at division level and is an expert in management by objectives. A trained ‘black belt’, he has acted as an assessor of the EFQM award and has led the implementation of a division wide Six Sigma programme. He has driven the integration of complex acquisitions on three continents. Paul is an instinctive risk assessor, with a specialty in alignment of business objectives with the risk context. “Taking a risk-based approach to achieving and maintaining GDPR is expected by the regulator – achieve compliance by managing the risks to the data subject and to the business.”

 

 

If you would have an interest in attending this event, please contact Limerick Chamber Event Manager Caoimhe Moloney, cmoloney@limerickchamber.ie or call 061 217607