The IAPP Asia Privacy Forum returns to Singapore next week, bringing with it even more speakers and sessions than last year’s inaugural event. And this year, the timing coincides with Privacy Awareness Week events across the region.

The 2015 Asia Privacy Forum has been expanded to include a day and a half of educational programming on May 5 and 6, with new practical work sessions that focus on active learning and peer-sharing as well as content from both local and global experts. Online registration has closed, but registration remains available on site.

“We want to bring privacy pros in the Asia-Pacific region more of what they want and need for their daily work, and this year that means more of the great thinkers and voices in privacy coming together to network, learn and debate,” explained IAPP Publications Director Sam Pfeifle, who’ll be taking part in the event and presenting the Benchmarking Your Privacy Programme session with Accenture’s Merel Schwaanhuyser, CIPP/E.

What else can you expect at this year’s Forum?

The event will open with a general session featuring the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission’s Aileen Chia and JP Morgan Chase’s Zoe Strickland, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, CIPT.

Chia will discuss the commission’s enforcement priorities, reflections on the first year of the full privacy law being in place and the future of privacy in Singapore, while Strickland will share how one of the world’s largest financial institutions does privacy.

The first day of programming will continue with The Lowest Common Denominator, a session featuring National University of Singapore Dean Simon Chesterman and NYMITY’s Terry McQuay, CIPM, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, on key topics including the major areas of privacy regulation in the Asia-Pacific region and what actions are likely to result in universal compliance. A session on data classification will feature Standard Chartered Bank’s Benjamin Gerber, AvePoint’s Dana Simberkoff, CIPP/US, Straits Interactive's Dick Wong and Microsoft’s Alfred Wu on how to tackle the difficult task of classifying data when privacy is so dependent on context.

Tuesday’s educational offering conclude with a session on privacy as a competitive differentiator in Asia with MasterCard’s Derek Ho, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPP/US, Chuo University’s Hiroshi Miyashita, and TNS Malaysia’s John Smurthwaite, and one on cross-border data transfer with Baker & McKenzie’s Ken Chia, CIPT, and Merck’s Hilary Wandall, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM.

After breakfast on Wednesday, the day starts with a practical work session on identifying and managing cyber-risk with Franck Baron of International SOS, the Pan Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association and the International Federation of Risk and Insurance Management Associations; Shireen Advani Lee, CIPP/US, of International SOS, Alix Grice of BT Legal, and Robert Shields of Informatica.

The educational offerings continue with Martin Abrams of the Information Accountability Foundation, JoAnn Stonier of MasterCard Worldwide and Merck’s Wandall on the big question, “Big Data Ethics: You Can, But Should You?” followed by Straits Interactive’s Kevin Shepherdson, CIPM, on how to conduct a successful and efficient privacy impact assessment.

The closing session this year will feature Google’s Keith Enright, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Former U.S. Department of Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry.

Enright will discuss how you can use a solid privacy foundation to drive innovation. Kerry, who has been instrumental in international privacy discussions surrounding data transfer, will talk about the future of interoperability and how Asia fits into the global privacy community.

And, of course, there will be networking opportunities across both days, including the evening welcome reception at the end of the day Tuesday. For all the details, check out our event page here.