Privacy Officers Network

The Privacy Officers Network (PON) gives Senior Privacy Officers an opportunity to meet their specific peer group regularly to exchange views on matters of common interest in a confidential environment. 

Some meetings are roundtables with national Data Protection Commissioners while others are private discussions among group members, giving participants the opportunity to exchange insights and experience which provide solutions to common problems.

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PON meetings are held at least 3 times a year. Meetings are normally hosted by member organisations. Some meetings are roundtables with national Data Protection Commissioners and their senior staff. Within Europe these meetings have been held in:

UK; Luxembourg; Spain; Netherlands; Belgium; Sweden; Finland; Russia, Portugal & Greece (in London); Ireland; Germany; France; Czech Republic, Hungary; Italy; Poland; Switzerland; Portugal.

International meetings (outside of Europe) include:

Roundtable with the Data Protection Commissioners of Australia and Argentina, (in Montreux, Switzerland); a meeting on Binding Corporate Rules and European HR issues (in Washington DC, USA); Canada's Unique Privacy Challenges: Employment, Outsourcing, Federal-Provincial Jurisdictional Issues (in Toronto, Canada); Asia-Pacific Briefing (in London, UK); Scanning Data Protection Horizons in the Asia-Pacific Region (in Strasbourg, France); Employee surveillance in Europe: Balancing privacy rights and management control (in Madrid, Spain);Integrating privacy into your compliance programme in Israel (in Tel Aviv, Israel).

Hosts have included: Linklaters; Deloitte; Bird & Bird; Deutsche Telekom AG; De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek; Dresdner Kleinwort; Arthur Cox; Microsoft; Ernst & Young; CMS Cameron McKenna.

PON Participants

Accenture • Arnold & Porter • Barclays Bank • Boeing • BP • BT • Centrica • Covington & Burling • Citibank • CSC Computer Sciences • Deloitte • DLA Piper • eBay • Ernst & Young • Esso • Fujitsu • General Electric • Halliburton • HBOS • Hewlett Packard • HSBC Bank • IMS Health • JPMorgan Chase Bank • Kodak • Lenovo • Linklaters • Masons • MBNA Europe Bank • McDonald's • Microsoft • Novartis • Oracle • Procter & Gamble • Prudential • Schering-Plough • Sony

PON Member Benefits

PON enables senior privacy officers involved in the practical implementation of privacy initiatives to meet and exchange ideas and creates a professional network of support for members.

PON members have a unique opportunity to exchange views with regulators who are responsible for creating and implementing policy, and to discuss the development of future privacy initiatives. There is an exchange of ideas and experience on national and international privacy laws and related policy developments and the ways that member organisations organise their compliance functions.

Privacy Laws & Business provides the secretariat.

Price

Annual PON Membership - 3 meetings & papers within a year – £1,500 + 20% VAT
Annual PON Double Membership - 6 meetings & papers within a year – £2,250 + 20% VAT

Flexible PON Membership - 3 meetings & papers only from meetings attended, over two years – £1,700 + 20% VAT
Flexible PON Double Membership - 6 meetings & papers only from meetings attended, over two years – £2,550 + 20% VAT

One PON meeting - 1 meeting & papers – £675 + 20% VAT
Additional person from the same organisation - 1 meeting & papers - £400 + 20% VAT

You can be flexible on the number of people attending the meetings and how you share attendance between different people within your organisation.

For more information about PON membership, contact Stewart Dresner or Glenn Daif-Burns at Privacy Laws & Business.