Privacy Conference

Jeanne Dillschneider is a Member of the German Bundestag since 2025 and the Chairwoman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Saarland since 2023. She serves as the group coordinator for her parliamentary group on the Digital Affairs Committee, where she advocates for cybersecurity, data protection and usage, as well as digital civil rights, among other issues. She is also a member of the Defense Committee, where she contributes her expertise in the field of cybersecurity. In addition, Jeanne Dillschneider is a lawyer specializing in data protection and IT-law.

Meike Kamp was elected as the new Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in October 2022. Between 2010 and 2019, the lawyer already worked at the authority in the field of data protection, media and freedom of information. From 2005 to 2010, she worked at the Independent Centre for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein. Before her election, Meike Kamp worked as a meeting representative in the Federal Council for the Bremen State Representation in Berlin.

Michael Will was first appointed President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision with effect from 1 February 2020 and was reappointed for a further five-year term with effect from 1 February 2025.

After studying law in Würzburg and completing his legal traineeship in Bamberg, he began his professional career as an administrative lawyer in the services of the Free State of Bavaria at the government of Upper Franconia in Bayreuth in 1995. After moving to the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in 1997 and to the Bavarian State Chancellery in 2000, Michael Will became head of the Department of Public Safety and Order in the Landshut District Office in 2002. At the same time, he was Managing Director of the Zweckverband für Rettungsdienst und Feuerwehralarmierung Landshut. In 2006, he returned to the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as an advisor in the subject area of road law. 

In 2009, Michael Will was appointed Head of the Data Protection Department at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior for Sport and Integration. He also held the office of the official data protection commissioner there and was a member of the Data Protection Commission of the Bavarian State Parliament. 

On behalf of the Bundesrat, he accompanied the entire deliberations of the Council Working Party on Data Protection and Exchange of Information (DAPIX) on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from 2012 to 2015 and also performed the tasks of the country observer in the committee pursuant to Art. 93 of the GDPR, which is involved, for example, in the adoption of adequacy decisions by the European Commission.

Valentina Daiber was appointed to the Management Board of Telefónica Deutschland as Chief Officer for Legal & Corporate Affairs with effect from 1 August 2017. In this role, she is responsible for the areas of Legal, Compliance, Corporate Security and Data Protection, as well as the company’s regulatory affairs, its relations with authorities and government bodies, and Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability (ESG). She also heads Telefónica’s representation in the capital and the BASECAMP in Berlin. Prior to this, the qualified lawyer served as Director Corporate Affairs at Telefónica Germany, where she was responsible for regulatory law, competition law, telecommunications law and media law, as well as for cooperation with political bodies and associations. 

Valentina Daiber joined Telefónica Deutschland – then still operating as Viag Interkom – in 1999, initially working as a regulatory affairs officer. From 2004 onwards, she held various management positions within the group. Before her career at Telefónica Deutschland, she worked at the Institute of European Media Law in Saarbrücken and for the former State Authority for Private Broadcasting in Ludwigshafen. 

Valentina Daiber completed her first state examination in law at Saarbrücken University and her second state examination in law at the Higher Regional Court of Zweibrücken (Palatinate). She was born in 1967 in Neunkirchen (Saar).

Félicien Vallet is Head of AI department at the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority. His role is to coordinate the actions related to Artificial Intelligence within the institution. Félicien Vallet is also a regular contributor to the LINC, CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory. Before joining the CNIL, he was a researcher at the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) and working on the topics of automatic information extraction, multimedia content analysis and speech signal processing. He holds engineering and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Télécom Paris (obtained in 2007 and 2011 respectively).

Dr. Hans-Joachim Arnold (59) has been holding different managerial positions in Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s Corporate Legal & Compliance Department since joining Deutsche Lufthansa AG in 2018. He has been serving as Head of Lufthansa Group Compliance & Data Protection since June 2021. He is also a Supervisory Board member at Austrian Airlines AG, Vienna, and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of AMECO Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Corporation, Beijing, China. 

As Lufthansa Group Data Protection Officer, Dr. Hans-Joachim Arnold and his data protection teams conceptually design and further develop Lufthansa Group's Data Protection Management System. He and his teams also provide advice to all Lufthansa Group companies that are responsible for processing personal data to meet data protection requirements. 

He is also heading Lufthansa Group’s Corporate Compliance Office, which is responsible for the conceptual design and further development of Lufthansa Group's Compliance Management System as well as supporting Lufthansa Group’s companies in Compliance matters. Lufthansa Group’s Compliance Management System includes the Compliance Modules Anti-Money Laundering, Capital Markets, Competition, Embargo & Export Control, External Workforce and Integrity. 

Before joining Lufthansa, he served as Senior Legal Counsel and as General Counsel in different companies of the German utility company RWE AG. 

Dr. Hans-Joachim Arnold holds a PhD in Law and is a fully qualified German lawyer admitted to the bar in Germany. 

Paula Cipierre is the Global Head of Privacy at HCLTech, where she is responsible for data protection across 60 countries and for more than 230.000 employees worldwide. Paula has spent over a decade researching and working at the intersection of privacy, data ethics, and the digital world. Prior to HCLTech, she served as the Head of Privacy & Public Policy at Palantir Technologies and as the Director of Data Ethics & Innovation at ada Learning GmbH. Paula holds a BA summa cum laude in French Literature, European Cultural Studies, and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and an LLM with distinction in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh. She is a certified expert in German, EU and Asian privacy laws, information security management lead auditor, and AI governance professional.