WEBINAR: DATA ETHICS: HYPE OR HOPE?

PLEASE REGISTER AT: https://damanewengland.org/meetinginfo.php?id=26&ts=1578924197

DAMA New England is excited to announce that Daragh O Brien and Dr Katherine O'Keefe will be joining us (all the way from Ireland) to present on Data Ethics.

Information Management is at a tipping point. The tools and technologies we have developed have great potential but bring with them great risks. This is increasingly recognized by industry leaders, front-line workers, legislators, and regulators. In this session, you will get a whistle-stop tour through:
- How we got here,
- Why it matters,
- What it means,
- What we can do to ensure that how we manage and use information in the 21st century is trusted and trustworthy, and
- What lessons we need to learn from the past.

About the Speakers:

Daragh O Brien is the Founder and Managing Director of Castlebridge, a leading Information Governance, Privacy, and Strategy consultancy based in Ireland. He has a degree in Business & Legal Studies from University College Dublin, and is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Prior to founding Castlebridge, Daragh worked for over a decade for a leading Irish telecommunications company in roles as diverse as Call Centre operations, Single View of Customer Programme management, and Regulatory Compliance and Governance. He a regular presenter and trainer at conferences in the UK and worldwide. Apart from his consulting and education work, Daragh is also Data Privacy Officer for DAMA International, a faculty member at the Law Society of Ireland, and a contributing research partner to the Adapt Centre in Trinity College Dublin. He lives in Wexford in the South East of Ireland and can be reached at [masked] or on twitter: @daraghobrien. In 2016, he was ranked by Onalytica as the 24th most influential person on Twitter in Information Security (including Data Governance and Data Privacy).

Dr Katherine OKeefe is the Director of Training and Research at Castlebridge. Katherine has worked on a range of projects for clients in sectors as diverse as the non-profit sector, airlines, telecommunications, transport, and education. She has worked extensively with Public and Private sector organisations in Ireland and elsewhere, including providing data protection support for a number of charities, providing training and advisory support in the retail electrical supply sector and in the leading water/gas supply utility in Ireland.
Katherine is on the teaching faculty of the Law Society of Irelands Diploma Centre and lectures on Data Protection and Governance at University College Dublin. She also leads practical workshops on Data Governance, Data Ethics and conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments internationally.

She is a contributor to Information Ethics Research at the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin, and is on the steering committee for the ADAPT Centres ELITE-S fellowship at Dublin City University. She has designed and developed international professional accreditation schemes for Information Management and was a contributing editor to the DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge 2nd edition.

Katherine is the co-author of Ethical Information Management: Concepts, Tools, and Methods with Daragh O Brien. In 2016, one of her essays received a highly commended distinction in the IRMS Alison North New Professionals Awards, and she was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award in 2017.

In 2019 she was recognized as one of the DPO 200 by the Data Protection World Forum for significant contributions to the privacy and security sectors.