Ms Alison Howard
Alison Howard is an assistant general counsel in the privacy legal team at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, and leads Microsoft's global Office of Data Protection. She assists with Microsoft's efforts around the EU's General Data Protection Regulation and global regulations, engaging with data protection authorities and supporting Microsoft's data protection commitments to customers.
Before joining Microsoft in 2005, she was an associate at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle. She was a journalist at newspapers in California and Idaho before becoming a lawyer.
She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, her M.A. in international journalism from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has CIPP/E and CIPP/US certifications.
Sessions in which Ms Alison Howard attends
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Sala Archivio
Ms Catherine Lennman, Swiss Data Protection Authority (Moderator)
Dr Lela Janashvili, Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia (Speaker)
Mr Milan Marinović, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (Speaker)
Paula Hothersall, ICO (Speaker)
Auditorium Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Panel
Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci, Council of Europe (Moderator)
Monique Cossali Sauvain, Federal Office of Justice (Speaker)
Paula Hothersall, ICO (Speaker)
Mr Bruno Gencarelli, EC DG Justice - International Affairs and Data Flows (Speaker)
Auditorium Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Plenary
Ms Caroline Gloor-Scheidegger, FDPIC (Moderator)
Ms Awa N’Diaye, T-PD (CoE) (Speaker)
Anu Talus, Finland (Speaker)
Helga Þórisdóttir, The Icelandic Data Protection Authority - Personuvernd (Speaker)
Ms Alessandra Pierucci, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Speaker)
Mr Omar Seghrouchni, CNDP (Moroccan Data Protection Authority) (Speaker)
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, 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)
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)
Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare
Plenary
Dr Ulrich Kelber, The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Moderator)
Prof Peter Swire, Georgia Institute of Technology (Speaker)
Mr Peter Kimpian, Council of Europe (Speaker)
Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare
Plenary
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Moderator)
Mr Peter Winn, 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)
Auditorium Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Plenary
Ms Anna Cataleta, P4I - Partners4Innovation - Digital360 (Moderator)
Mr Agostino Ghiglia, Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Speaker)
Ms Laura Liguori, Portolano Cavallo (Speaker)
Ph.D., LL.M. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, CRCLEX (Speaker)
Mr Marco Scialdone, Euroconsumers (Speaker)
Mr Enrico Pelino, GPA studio legale (Speaker)
Mr Carmine Andrea Trovato, Italian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Sala Archivio
Plenary
Ms Alessandra Pierucci, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Moderator)
Giovanna De Minico, Università di Napoli (Speaker)
Mr Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin (Speaker)
Mr Luigi Montuori, Italian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Veronique Cimina, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) (Speaker)
Estelle Massé, Access Now (Speaker)
Luca Tosoni, Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Speaker)
Patrick Penninckx, Council of Europe (Speaker)
Ms Elise Lassus, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (Speaker)
Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Speaker)
Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Terrena
Panel
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Mr Pierre-Yves Lastic, EFDPO (Moderator)
Mr Zdravko Vukić, Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (Speaker)
Ms Judith Leschanz, PrivacyOfficers.at (Speaker)
Ali Zanjani, Austrian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Mr Cosimo Monda, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Speaker)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Julie Brill, Microsoft (Keynote speaker)
Steve Wood, PrivacyX Consulting (Moderator)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Panel
Ms Alessandra Pierucci, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Moderator)
Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA (Speaker)
Mr Peter Eberl, European Commission (Speaker)
Dr Hielke Hijmans, Belgian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Helena Koning, Mastercard (Speaker)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Paul Nemitz, European Commission (Moderator)
Estelle Massé, Access Now (Speaker)
Dr Hielke Hijmans, Belgian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Caroline Goemans-Dorny, INTERPOL (Speaker)
Mr Gwendal Le Grand, EDPB (European Data Protection Board) (Speaker)
Mr Gilad Semama, Privacy Protection Authority (Speaker)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Steve Wood, PrivacyX Consulting (Moderator)
Luca Tosoni, Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Speaker)
Ms Cecilia Àlvarez Rigaudias, Meta (Speaker)
Ms Luisa Di Giacomo, CNAC / IIP (Speaker)
Ernesto Caffo, Telefono Azzurro (Speaker)
Auditorium 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)
Auditorium Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Michihito Kojima, Personal Information Protection Commission (Keynote speaker)
Auditorium Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Dr José Luis Piñar, CEU San Pablo University. Google Data Governance Chair (Moderator)
Ms Josefina Román Vergara, INAI (Speaker)
Mr Joaquín Pérez Catalán, Spanish Data Protection Agency (Speaker)
Mr Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) (Presenter)
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Aula Mario Baratto
Panel
Charlotte De Thaye, Timelex (Moderator)
Matthew Goodbun, BSI (Speaker)
Francesca Rotolo, Università Ca' Foscari of Venice (Speaker)
Mauro Cicognini, Rexilience (Speaker)
Auditorium 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, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)
Auditorium 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, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Speaker)