Wojciech Wiewiorowski
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 2019.
Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.
The Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Art. 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.
Monday 28 September Day One Plenary Agenda
Panel 3: GROWTH & SIMPLIFICATION – AI and Digital Omnibuses and beyond
- What does the EU economy need from its digital regulatory framework to scale globally, and how are the current simplification reforms responding to that need?
- What are the AI Act, Digital Omnibus, GDPR/ePrivacy and Data Act simplification efforts delivering in terms of reducing fragmentation, overlaps and improving predictability for operators across the EU?
- Beyond the Omnibuses, what further work is needed – and is the Digital Fitness Check the right framework to address remaining barriers to simplification?
- How can cross-sector industries benefit from greater regulatory coherence across AI, data and digital services?
- From the perspective of companies deploying the same product across 27 Member States, what does effective simplification look like in practice?