The
inaugural Cloud Law event taking place in London November 25th with
participating enterprise general counsel and professional advisers is
set to address the regulatory complexity confronting cloud computing in
Europe.
With an extensive panel of experts, the event aims to navigate
enterprises through the complex regulatory and legal issues arising from
outsourcing and untangling the European Data Protection Directive.
“The long term interests of all stakeholders in the development of
cloud computing are only served if those with shared values come
together and agree clearer rules of the road than is currently the
case,” commented Dervish Tayyip, Assistant General Counsel of Microsoft
who will be speaking at the conference. “It is a solvable problem and in
the interests of all those stakeholders that we start now. We should
not wait”
The event will throw a spotlight on the privacy and security concerns
of capital markets seeking to outsource critical-business information
in the cloud. It will also assess how cloud computing which could
deliver significant cost efficiency and innovation for the healthcare
system, nevertheless raises issues for compliance with patient
confidentiality.
Harmonized standards “would go some way to improving and enhancing
buyer confidence, which will in turn accelerate adoption of cloud
services leading to a genuinely competitive marketplace of cloud
services,” commented Phil Dawson, CEO at Skyscape. “This has already
been proven to be the case with the UK government’s approach to cloud
computing”
Stephanie Liston, Senior Counsel, Charles Russell LLP will provide an
insight into how the US Patriot Act potentially conflicts with European
legislation and whether propositions for confining data to geographies
is realistic.
Other key questions the conference will cover include: Why should
small and medium businesses turn to the cloud? Why is encryption the key
to your data safety? Who is responsible for data governance in the
cloud and how should companies address the privacy requirements and
policies for data storage? How should enterprises manage cyber security
threats? What does the right to privacy entail in the cloud?
Cloud Law will provide outstanding content, crafted into a one-day
conference producing a solution-oriented debate capable of driving
policy changes for the legal and regulatory barriers resulting from
cloud computing.
Speakers include Phil Dawson, CEO, Skyscape, Anthony Foy, CEO,
Workshare, Dervish Tayyip, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft, Conor
Ward, Consultant, Hogan Lovells International LLP, Doug Clark, Cloud
Leader, IBM UK & Ireland, Maurice Woolf, General Counsel, Interoute
Group, Frank Jennings, Partner, DMH Stallard LLP, Mark Bailey, Partner,
Speechly Bircham amongst others.
Registration offering discounted prices ends 31 October 2014. www.cloud-law.eu