European Privacy KnowledgeNet

Personal data now moves through most parts of daily life — the apps we use, the services we rely on, and the systems that increasingly make decisions on our behalf. As artificial intelligence, cross-border data flows and more complex digital services reshape how the world operates, protecting people and their rights in practice has never been more demanding or more collaborative.

The GDPR remains Europe's reference point for data protection, but everyday privacy work now reaches well beyond it: into AI governance, cybersecurity and a fast-growing body of European digital regulation, and into how products and organisations are actually built and run. These questions rarely fit one discipline, so they are best worked through together: by lawyers, DPOs, engineers, security teams, regulators and everyone else who deals with them in practice.

The European Privacy KnowledgeNet exists for these conversations. Organised by volunteers across IAPP KnowledgeNet chapters throughout Europe, it brings practitioners together for a full day of practical exchange. Free to attend, and open to anyone.

Since 2024, EPNK has brought this community together once a year in Munich. Programmes, speakers and slides of every edition are collected under Editions.