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Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes

Acting Director, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Department of Justice
Participates in 2 items

Ms. Harman-Stokes is the Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL). The Office supports the Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) and is responsible for helping ensure the Department’s compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government Act, and other privacy-related laws, regulations, and policies. In addition, the Office has a central policy-making role in the Department’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals affecting privacy, both domestically and internationally. Ms. Harman-Stokes has directly participated in international negotiations designed to harmonize high standards for protection of privacy and civil liberties in the law enforcement and national security contexts. Before joining DOJ, she was the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. financial regulator that supervises and enforces US law in derivatives markets. She was the first CPO and the senior advisor for ensuring data protection and privacy in all agency programs and operations. She has been a consultant to multinational companies on international data protection and privacy law, and was a corporate officer and Associate General Counsel and was responsible for the data protection and privacy program at a company collecting sensitive biometric and other data in 110 countries. She has chaired various committees and working groups in the Federal Privacy Council and has hosted data privacy symposia. She also was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells US), received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the American University School of International Service. She is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional-US and Government (CIPP/US, CIPP/G).   

Sessions in which Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes participates

Thursday 20 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Ms Claudia Berg, Information Commissioner's Office (Moderator)

Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Speaker)

Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Speaker)

Ms Clarisse Girot, OECD (Speaker)

Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes, Department of Justice (Speaker)

Friday 21 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
3:30 PM
3:30 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)

Mr Philippe Dufresne, Office of the Privacy Commissioner Canada (Speaker)

Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes, Department of Justice (Speaker)

Mr Joaquín Pérez Catalán, Spanish Data Protection Agency (Speaker)

Sessions in which Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes attends

Tuesday 18 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Welcome Session and Opening Remarks
45 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare

Plenary

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)

Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Speaker)

Prof Pasquale Stanzione, GPDP (Speaker)

Mr Peter Winn, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Speaker)

Ruth Berry, U.S. Department of State (Speaker)

Prof. Fabrizio Marrella, Ca' Foscari University (Speaker)

Mr Didier Reynders, DG Justice (Presenter)

9:45 AM
9:45 AM

Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare

Ms Josefina Román Vergara, INAI (Moderator)

Olivier Sylvain, Federal Trade Commission (Speaker)

Mr Adrian Lobsiger, FDPIC - Swiss DPA (Speaker)

Michihito Kojima, Personal Information Protection Commission (Speaker)

12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Transatlantic Cross-border Data Transfers
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare

Plenary

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Moderator)

Mr Peter Winn, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Estelle Massé, Access Now (Speaker)

Emma Bate, Information Commissioner's Office (Speaker)

Mr Bruno Gencarelli, EC DG Justice - International Affairs and Data Flows (Speaker)

This panel will explore the interconnected nature of transatlantic cross-border data transfers with a var...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Mr Alan Raul, Sidley Austin / Harvard Law School (Moderator)

Benjamin Fitzpatrick, US DoJ (Speaker)

Prof Theodore Christakis, University of Grenoble (Speaker)

Mr Norman Barbosa, Microsoft Corporation (Speaker)

Mr Christian Svanberg, CO:PLAY LAW (Speaker)

Dylan Cors, US DoJ (Speaker)

To combat global criminal and national security threats, governments across the world seek and...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Privacy in the U.S. Federal Government
30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare

Keynote

Kirsten Moncada, OMB (Keynote speaker)

An overview of the framework and the legal and policy requir...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
WELCOME RECEPTION AT SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN ROCCO
30 minutes, 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Terrena

Panel

We will have inaugurate the second edition of the Privacy Symposium on Tuesday 18th of April and enjoy the

Wednesday 19 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Biometric Data Compliance
1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Prof Theodore Christakis, University of Grenoble (Moderator)

Shara Monteleone, GPDP (Speaker)

Ms Isabelle Landreau, IDEMIA (Speaker)

Ms. Catherine Jasserand, KU Leuven CiTiP (Speaker)

11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Mr Giangiacomo Olivi, Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario (Moderator)

Paul Nemitz, European Commission (Speaker)

Mr Ioan-Dragoș Tudorache, European Parliament (Speaker)

Ms Kate McKenzie, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Ms. Elham Tabassi, NIST (Speaker)

12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Content Moderation and Data Access
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Rebekah Tromble, George Washington University (Speaker)

Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge (Moderator)

Dr Attila Péterfalvi, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Speaker)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Mr Rob van Eijk, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) (Moderator)

Dr Andreas Zavadil, Austrian DPA (Speaker)

Marc Elshof, Dentons (Speaker)

Marek Jansen, Google (Speaker)

4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Making AI Privacy by Design and Compliant
1 hour, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna

Plenary

Saskia Vermeer-de Jongh, HVG Law LLP (Moderator)

Ms Elise Lassus, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (Speaker)

Ms Kate McKenzie, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Sophie Nerbonne, CNIL (Speaker)

5:30 PM
5:30 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Sala Archivio

Flavia Giglio, KU Leuven CiTiP/imec (Speaker)

Jan Czarnocki, KU Leuven (Speaker)

Thursday 20 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
9:30 AM
9:30 AM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Prof Peter Swire, Georgia Institute of Technology (Moderator)

Mr Nino Tlapak, DORDA (Speaker)

Mr Daniel Drewer, Europol (Speaker)

10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Keynote on Japanese Data Protection
30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Michihito Kojima, Personal Information Protection Commission (Keynote speaker)

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Privacy and National Security
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Join a group of national security experts from Europe and United States ...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Privacy and Defense
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Ms. Joo Y. Chung, US Department of Defense (Moderator)

Manuela Siano, Italian Data Protectin Authority (Speaker)

Paula Pacios, SHAPE (Speaker)

Willem Bochmann, NLD Ministry of Defence (Speaker)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Sala Archivio

Panel

Fabrice Naftalski, Ernst & Young Société d'Avocats (Moderator)

Dr Marie-Louise Gächter, Data Protection Authority of the Principality of Liechtenstein (Speaker)

Rochelle Osei-Tutu, U.S. Department of Commerce (Speaker)

Helena Koning, Mastercard (Speaker)

Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna

Panel

Ms Clarisse Girot, OECD (Moderator)

Sophie Nerbonne, CNIL (Speaker)

Mr Bruno Gencarelli, EC DG Justice - International Affairs and Data Flows (Speaker)

Ruth Berry, U.S. Department of State (Speaker)

Nick Ashton-Hart (Speaker)

The question of how to reconcile privacy, innovation, and global trade can be a challenging one, as actors involved in the debate on cross-borde...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Mr Peter Eberl, European Commission (Moderator)

Prof Peter Swire, Georgia Institute of Technology (Speaker)

Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA (Speaker)

Andrea Stazi, Google (Speaker)

Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society (Speaker)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Privacy and Democracy
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna

Panel

Mr Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin (Moderator)

Ms Frederike Kaltheuner, Human Rights Watch (Speaker)

Ms. Kari Laumann, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)

Ruth Berry, U.S. Department of State (Speaker)

Kirsten Moncada, OMB (Speaker)

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Closing Session
1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)

Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Speaker)

Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Speaker)

Luca Bolognini, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Speaker)

Ms Josefina Román Vergara, INAI (Speaker)

Mr Peter Winn, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Friday 21 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
WELCOME / REGISTRATION
9 hours, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Spazi Espositivi Room

The Welcome Desk to collect your badge and conference bags is...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Mr Pierre-Yves Lastic, EFDPO (Moderator)

Dr Ulrich Kelber, The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Speaker)

Ms Alisa Vekeman, EC DG Justice (Speaker)

Rochelle Osei-Tutu, U.S. Department of Commerce (Speaker)

12:15 PM
12:15 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Gallia Daor, OECD (Moderator)

Mr Peter Winn, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)

Junichi Ishii, Japan PPC (Speaker)

Ms Alisa Vekeman, EC DG Justice (Speaker)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Towards Common Certification Mechanisms?
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Santa Margherita - Auditorium

Plenary

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)

Alain Herrmann, National Comission for Data Protection (CNPD) (Speaker)

Ms Chiara Romano, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Speaker)

David Mudd, BSI (Speaker)

Emanuele Riva, ACCREDIA (Speaker)

Ms Shannon Coe, DoC US International Trade Administration (Speaker)

Evelyn Goh, Infocomm Media Development Authority (Speaker)

Junichi Ishii, Japan PPC (Speaker)

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Plenary

Mr Pieter Gryffroy, Timelex (Moderator)

Mr Olivier Matter, European Data Protection Supervisor (Speaker)

Mr Lucio Scudiero, Legance (Speaker)

Prof Teresa Scantamburlo, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Speaker)