Tech conference focusses on looking after your data properly

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Where your data is stored, how you protect your business against cyber crime and how new European data protection laws are going to affect the Channel Islands were all topics covered in this year's Offshore Cloud Conference.

Organised by cloud service provider, Calligo, the conference involved a wide range of speakers including the CI Information Commissioner, Emma Martins and the Managing Parter of Bedell Cristin, Advocate David Cadin.

170 people booked to attend the conference, which took place at the Royal Yacht Hotel yesterday, and offered 30 talks by 16 speakers covering the following areas:

Cloud - What does the future hold?

Does data lock in and location matter in today's distributed world?

Does the EU-US Privacy Shield offer protection for Channel Island businesses

Randomware Prevention - Lessons from the front line

The EU General Data Protection Regulation - How is it going to affect the Channel Islands?

Does data lock in and location matter in today's distributed world?

Does the EU-US Privacy Shield offer protection for Channel Island businesses?

Randomware Prevention - Lessons from the front line

Keynote: The real-world ramifications of the General Data Protection Regulation

Calligo's CEO and co-founder Julian Box commented: "From our point of view it's partly about education, as when we started, we didn't feel 'cloud' was well understood in the CI. And now with all the changes in data protection laws, data residency and so forth, the conference is focussing heavily on what people should be doing in terms of data protection, as its changing beyond any recognition, and we've covered all the different bases, insurance policies to the EU/US Privacy Shield which gets quoted a lot - but the CI aren't signatories, so what does it actually mean for people?

"People will walk away today knowing a lot more about how important looking after data has become, and what changes are coming in terms of your responsibilities as a Board of Directors, and as a business, and people will have a much clearer idea of what that's going to be, and what could happen if you don't do it right."