Webinar: The EU Digital Package Omnibus – Hogan Lovells
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Professor Theodore Christakis, co-director of the Chair, will participate in a webinar on the EU Digital Package Omnibus on January 14, 2026.
The webinar aims to provide an overview of the political and regulatory context of the Digital Omnibus, as well as discussing the key amendments that affect the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive and the EU AI Act.
The sessions will address the following issues:
- Overview of the key amendments: what are the positives, what are the negatives, and where are the opportunities to go further and avoid leaving the job half-done?
- GDPR: A more risk-based approach to the definition of personal data? Why rethinking Special Category Data under the GDPR?
- ePrivacy: What changes to the Terminal Equipment (“Cookies”) rules and Article 88b, and what do they mean in practice?
- AI Act: Is a pause of the overall regime necessary, and what would it mean in practice?
Panelists:
- Etienne Drouard (Partner – Hogan Lovells)
- Carolina Brånby (Director of Digital Policy, Confederation for Swedish Enterprise)
- Luca Bolognini (President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation)
- Stefan Brink (Managing Director – Institut wida/Berlin)
- Mark Leiser (Academic, Author, and Legal Consultant)
- Nathalie Laneret (VP Government Affairs and Public Policy – Criteo)
- Barry Scannell (Partner, William Fry LLP Member of Irish Government’s AI Advisory Council)
- Theodore Christakis (Professor of European Law, Chair Responsible AI University Grenoble Alpes).
Link to register for the event and consult the program is available here.