DPI: UK 2025 speakers provided thoughtful analysis on current data protection and AI trends

2025 conference recap

Delegates at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2025 met in London to talk through the current data protection and AI issues impacting their companies and institutions. Children’s online safety, enforcement trends and insights, AI governance, transborder data flow and adtech regulation were essential topics of discussion during breakout sessions.

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Jim Al-Khalili, host of the long-running BBC Radio 4 production “The Life Scientific,” talked about how human communication is woven into the fabric of our reality.

Author and lawyer Susie Alegre shared her insights on the ethical dilemmas surrounding new technologies and how we can protect our fundamental rights.

Information Commissioner John Edwards covered multiple topics his office is currently working on, including data collection, children’s privacy, data breach impacts and AI oversight.

Kate Jones, CEO of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum, shared her ideas on how to advance artificial intelligence while maintaining trust with the public.

Dr. Carl Öhman reviewed his research about what happens to the data of the deceased, as well as other ideas covered in his new book, “The Afterlife of Data.”

Sir Chris Bryant spoke to Janine McKelvey about government priorities on AI and upcoming data protection regulation.

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2025 keynote speakers

Jim Al-Khalili

Author, Broadcaster, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey

As host of the long-running BBC Radio 4 production “The Life Scientific,” Jim Al-Khalili is known as one of the U.K.’s best science communicators. In his address, Jim showed that information is not just about human communication, it is woven profoundly into the fabric of reality.

Susie Alegre

International Lawyer, Fundamental Rights, Tech and AI Regulation, Author

Susie Alegre’s book “Human Rights, Robot Wrongs,” dives into the profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies and the threats posed to our fundamental human rights — the right to life, liberty and fair trial, the right to private and family life and the right to free expression — and how we can protect those rights.

John Edwards

Information Commissioner, U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office

John Edwards spoke on the continued work of the Information Commissioner’s Office — empowering people through information by championing innovation and privacy-respectful practices. He endeavors to bring the public greater certainty on some of the biggest issues of today like children’s privacy, advertising technology, AI and biometrics.

Kate Jones

CEO, Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum

Kate Jones leads the DRCF which brings together four U.K. regulators to deliver a coherent approach to digital regulation for the benefit of people and businesses online. DRCF has unveiled a three-year vision; with aims such as unlocking digital innovation and economic growth, supporting regulator effectiveness, protecting and empowering people online. In her role, Kate draws on her background as a diplomat, international lawyer and researcher focused on the value of cross-sectoral approaches to governance.

Carl Öhman

Assistant Professor in Political Science, Uppsala University

In Dr. Öhman’s new book, “The Afterlife of Data,” he explores the question of what we should do with the data of the deceased, whether our digital afterlives are really our own, and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.

 

Keynote conversation

Sir Chris Bryant

Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Janine McKelvey

General Counsel, Group Data and Ethics Officer, BT Group

 

Sir Chris Bryant shared insights and updates on government priorities relating to data protection and digital policy.

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