Joining our hosts Catarina Santos and Caine Glancy is Paul Holland, CEO and Founder of Beyond Encryption, bringing over 40 years of experience in secure communications, identity verification, and fraud prevention.

As safety and privacy regulations begin to overlap, organisations are facing a new challenge, how do you protect users while still complying with the UK GDPR?

In this session, we’ll explore:

• Where safety obligations may conflict with data protection principles
• The role of encryption and identity verification
• What DPOs need to consider when using third-party safety tools
• Practical steps organisations should take as the Online Safety Act comes into force

This week Catarina Santos is joined by Mark Farrell, who recently made his debut on the podcast and quickly became a favourite with our community.

Mark brings valuable experience from his time at the ICO, and tomorrow’s session will explore recent updates around data protection complaints, alongside practical lessons and insights from a major project he and Catarina are currently working on.

In this session, Compliance Isn’t Culture: Fixing the Awareness Gap, special guest, Kathryn Brooks will join our hosts Caine Glancy and Catarina Santos to explore why policies and procedures alone are not enough to create a culture of data protection within an organisation.

The discussion will focus on why awareness programmes often fail to influence behaviour, and what organisations can do to embed data protection into everyday working practices rather than relying solely on annual training exercises.