Keynote: [Your Data] Here, There and Everywhere: Why Privacy Starts with Engineering

Privacy should not be confined to policy documents or consent screens. It lives in code, interfaces, applications and products. As technology evolves faster than regulation, the future of privacy depends on how well we can engineer it into the systems we design. This keynote examines how privacy engineering is redefining what it means to “do privacy” in a changing world. We’ll discuss its evolution as a discipline, the frameworks and methods shaping application privacy today and the contextual gaps that demand attention from researchers, regulators, and industry leaders. 

Dr. Kim Wuyts is a leading privacy engineer with close to 20 years of experience in security and privacy. Before joining PwC as Manager Cyber & Privacy, Kim was a senior researcher at KU Leuven where she led the development and extension of LINDDUN, a popular privacy threat modeling framework. Her mission is to raise privacy awareness and get organizations to embrace privacy engineering best practices. She is a guest lecturer, experienced speaker, trainer and invited keynote at international privacy and security conferences such as OWASP Global AppSec, RSA, Troopers, CPDP and IAPP DPC. Kim is also a co-author of the Threat Modeling Manifesto, and program co-chair of the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering.