Stephen Almond

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U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office

Executive Director, Regulatory Risk

Stephen Almond, Executive Director for Regulatory Risk, leads the ICO’s teams charged with engineering information rights into the fabric of new ideas, technologies and business models as part of our dynamic digital economy, including through the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum.

Prior to joining the ICO, Stephen led a World Economic Forum initiative to promote the adoption of a more agile, innovation-enabling approach to regulation with governments and tech firms worldwide. He previously worked in leadership roles across the UK Government, including creation of the White Paper on Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and roll-out of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, which invested in regulatory sandboxes and similar initiatives to unlock technological innovation.

 

Contributions by Stephen Almond

  • Web Scraping and the Rise of Generative AI
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2025
  • The Future for Biometrics
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2025
  • Adtech Privacy: Pay, OK, Another Way?
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
  • Generative AI and Privacy: Laying the Foundations for Responsible Use
    Speaker at AI Governance Global 2024
  • PETS: How Can We Drive Progress? National Strategies and Regulator Perspectives
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • A Global Initiative to Elevate Safeguards Against Data Scraping
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • UK Paves the Way on PETs Research: Lessons Learned All Over the World
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • The Silver Lining: How to Navigate Privacy and the Cloud
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • No Sludge Here: Avoiding Deceptive Design Practices
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • Global Regulatory Roundtable
    LBS Speaker at IAPP ANZ Summit 2023
  • Generative AI and Bots: Privacy Risks, Business Opportunities and the Way Ahead
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • The London Effect: the UK's Approach to Data and AI Governance
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • PETs: A New Best Friend for the Privacy Professional?
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • PETs: A New Best Friend for the Privacy Professional?
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023
  • The ICO's Innovation Services and What They Can Do for Your Business
    Moderator at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023
  • Online Safety: The Interplay Between New UK Regulation and Data Protection
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2023