Our first speakers

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.

Lothar Determann practices and teaches international data privacy, technology, commercial and intellectual property law. 

At Baker McKenzie in San Francisco and Palo Alto, he has been counseling companies since 1998 on data privacy law compliance and taking products and business models international. Ad-mitted to practice in California and Germany, he has been recognized as one of the top 10 Copy-right Attorneys and Top 25 Intellectual Property Attorneys in California by the San Francisco & Los Angeles Daily Journal and as a leading lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500, Thompson Reuters, IAM and others. For more information see www.bakermckenzie.com. Contact: ldeter-mann@bakermckenzie.com. 

Prof. Dr. Determann has been a member of the Association of German Public Law Professors since 1999 and teaches Data Privacy Law, Computer Law, AI Regulation and E-commerce Law at Freie Universität Berlin (since 1994), University of California, Berkeley School of Law (since 2004) and UC Law SF (since 2010), Stanford Law School (2011) and University of San Francisco School of Law (2000-2005). He has authored more than 175 articles and treatise contributions, including Healthy Data Protection (http://ssrn.com/abstract=3357990), Electronic Form over Sub-stance (http://ssrn.com/abstract=3436327) and No One Owns Data (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3123957), as well as 6 books, including Determann’s Field Guide to Data Privacy Law (6th Edition, 2025, also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese), California Privacy Law - Practical Guide and Commentary on U.S. Federal and California Law (5th Ed. 2023) and Determann's Field Guide to Artificial Intelligence Law (2024, also available in Chinese, German, Spanish and Turkish – French and Korean versions forthcoming).

Alain Herrmann joined the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) in 2012 and was appointed Commissioner in 2021. He currently oversees the “Compliance” and “Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Technologies” divisions. His work focuses on AI governance, responsible innovation, GDPR certifications, international data transfers, EU large scale IT system audits, and broader digital regulatory frameworks. He is actively contributing to preparing the CNPD for its upcoming responsibilities under the AI Act and the Data Governance Act. 

Alain has extensive expertise in data protection and artificial intelligence ecosystems at national, European and international levels. Before joining the CNPD, he held several positions in the private sector, mainly in the fields of information technology and information security.

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.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Kugelmann studied at the universities of Mainz and Dijon. After his Pd.D. in European media law he qualified at the university of Mainz. He is author of numerous publications especially on the European fundamental rights, European law, media law, security law and data protection law. In 2008 he became a fully tenured professor at the German Police University with a specialization for public law with a focus on police law including international and European Law. In 2015 he was elected for President of the Authority for the protection of data and the freedom of information of Rhineland-Palatinate and in 2023 he was re-elected for a second term. He is the editor of a commentary on the data protection law of Rhineland-Palatinate and co-editor of a commentary on the GDPR.

Frederick Richter has been director of the Data Protection Foundation since it was founded in 2013. Previously, he worked as an advisor for network policy in the German Bundestag and as data protection officer for a trade association. 

Frederick studied law at the University of Hamburg and earned a master‘s degree in IT law at the Universities of Vienna and Hanover. He is a member of the Federal Government's Digital Strategy Germany Advisory Board, of the Advisory Board of the Plattform Privatheit at Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. 

He is permanent author of the professional journal "Privacy in Germany" (PinG).