Peter has worked as Google’s Global Privacy Counsel since 2006. 

He counsels Google teams on how to build products that respect privacy and comply with laws around the world. He regularly meets with privacy officials and leaders worldwide in the interest of dialogue. Peter has managed hundreds of regulatory inquiries, and advocated issues of privacy law before many courts. 

Prior to joining Google, Peter worked for 10 years at Microsoft, as EMEA privacy leader and Director of Regulatory Compliance. 

Peter is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is an elite swimmer.

Emily Hancock is Director, Senior Associate General Counsel (Head of Product, Privacy & IP) and Data Protection Officer for San Francisco-based Cloudflare, Inc., where she provides strategic leadership on global data privacy issues, working cross-functionally with product, security, policy and legal teams to advance Cloudflare’s mission of helping to build a better Internet through privacy-first security, performance and reliability services. Emily has nearly 20 years of experience practicing data protection law. Before joining Cloudflare in 2018, Emily was Vice President, Legal at Evernote. Prior to that, Emily held positions at Yahoo and in private practice working on a wide variety of data protection matters.

Prof. Ulrich Kelber has been the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since January 2019. He holds a degree in computer science and was a member of the Bundestag for Bonn from 2000 to 2019, as well as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection from December 2013 to April 2018.

A father of four, Didier Reynders was born in Liège on 6th August 1958. In 1981, he obtained a degree in law at the University of Liège. Guest lecturer at the universities of Liège and Louvain, he has never really left the academic life until he became on 1th December 2019 European Commissioner for Justice. 

After presiding the Belgian railways and the Belgian Airways Agency, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the PRL (Liberal party), before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1992. 

On 12th July 1999, he became Minister of Finance (until 6th December 2011) and, on 18th July 2004, (concurrently) Deputy Prime Minister (until 30th November 2019). 

He was Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance) from 11th October 2004 until 14th February 2011. 

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs from 6th December 2011 until 11th October 2014. 

He became Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Cultural Institutions on 11th October 2014 (until 30th November 2019). 

He has also been Minister of Defense since 9 December 2018. 

Since 1th December 2019 he is European Commissioner for Justice, in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.

Barbara Thiel was the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony from 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2023. Prior to that, she held various positions at both the state and municipal level, including at the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, the Lower Saxony State Audit Office and as a department head at the Hannover Region. Barbara Thiel has a teaching position at the University of Göttingen and is the author of numerous publications, expert lectures and commentaries on the GDPR and the BDSG. She is also a member of the editorial board of the ZD.