PROGRAMME
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Accreditation |
| 14:00 - 14:05 | Introduction by the organisers |
| 14:05 - 14:15 | Welcome by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
"The airport data journey: From booking to boarding" Keynote Speech by Lynn Vleugels, Data Protection Officer at the Brussels Airport Company |
| 14:30 - 16:00 |
Boarding call for privacy: what your ticket doesn't tell you about your data"
This panel will look at questions like:
Moderator: Frida Österman, Trainee Supervision and Enforcement, EDPS Speakers:
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| 16:00 - 16:10 | Closing remarks: Dr. Gwendal le Grand, Deputy Head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Networking Coffee |
SPEAKERS
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Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor
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Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 6th 2019.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was, among others, an adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, and the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Poland. He also represented Poland in the committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski was also the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) between 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor. After the death of the Supervisor - Giovanni Buttarelli in August 2019 - he replaced Mr. Buttarelli as acting EDPS.
His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing. |
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Lynn Vleugels, Data Protection Officer at Brussels Airport Company
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Lynn Vleugels is the Data Protection Officer at Brussels Airport Company. She has a legal background, holding a degree in Law and an LL.M in IP/ICT Law, and began her career as a privacy & data protection consultant. She has now been working for nearly five years as DPO at BAC, focusing on Data protection & AI compliance challenges in the aviation sector. Lynn combines legal expertise with hands-on experience in a highly complex and regulated aviation environment. With a surname that literally means “wings”, the airport is a particularly fitting domain for her professional journey. |
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Stephanie Mihail, Legal Officer, Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board
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Stephanie MIHAIL, Legal Officer at the Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board ('EDPB'). She previously worked as a Legal officer at the European Commission (DG CNECT). Prior to that, she worked as a legal researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, with a focus on data protection and privacy and as senior legal advisor at Deloitte. From 2006-2013, she worked as a solicitor in Athens. |
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Ana Regidor, Head of Privacy Regulatory, Amadeus
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Ana Regidor is Head of Privacy Regulatory at Amadeus, a leading European travel‑technology provider. With over 20 years of privacy experience in the travel industry, she brings deep legal, technical, and operational expertise to support secure, privacy‑centric digital transformation. She regularly contributes to industry and regulatory discussions on data protection, particularly in relation to airport processes and next‑generation passenger experiences. A Spanish qualified lawyer, Ana previously served as Amadeus’ Data Protection Officer and Chief Privacy Officer. |
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Marco Stefan, Legal Officer Supervision and Enforcement Unit, EDPS
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Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Professor of Personal Data Protection Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Vagelis Papakonstantinou is a Professor on Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), focusing also on Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, and the broader topic of technology regulation. He is the director of VUB's Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL), as well as, a core member of VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and the Brussels Privacy Hub.
Since the early 2000s Vagelis Papakonstantinou has participated in the law-making committees for the release of all major EU, Council of Europe and Greek laws and regulations on personal data protection (the Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA, the EU PNR Directive, Convention 108+, the GDPR, the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive, Greek law n.4624/2019).
Since 2018, when the GDPR became applicable, he has participated either as a partner through VUB’s CDSL or as an external expert in EU-funded research projects of a total worth of more than 100m Euros.
In addition to the above, through MPlegal, a niche technology law firm, Vagelis Papakonstantinou practices business law with a particular emphasis on technology start-ups and mid-size companies.
For the period 2016-2021 he has been a member (alternate) of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. For the period 2021-2024 he has been the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of Greece's centre-right (governing) political party Nea Demokratia - ND. Before these, he had been a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation (for two terms). |
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Dr. Gwendal Le Grand, Deputy Head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
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Dr. Gwendal Le Grand is the Deputy Head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which he joined in October 2021. The EDPB Secretariat is in charge of providing legal support for the drafting of EDPB documents, making available IT solutions to ensure communications between the national data protection authorities, handling EDPB media relations, and organising all EDPB meetings. He is also particularly involved in the Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF), and the Support Pool of Experts (SPE) which aim to assist DPAs on their investigations and enforcement activities of significant common interest. He was previously the Deputy Secretary-General at the French DPA. He started his career in academia as an associate professor in networking and security. Gwendal received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in July 2001. |
