Nadya Purtova

Talks

Invited keynotes, presentations and panels

  1. Invited speaker, “When cognitive legal dreams and syntactic information machines collide”, Symposium “Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Explainable AI”, organized by Human-Centered AI and Governing Digital Societies, Utrecht University, 16 October 2025;
  2. Invited speaker, International Seminar titled “Digital Environments and Law,” Pascual Madoz Research Institute at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), 13-14 November 2025’
  3. Invited speaker, “Why personal data-centric legal protection against wrongs of profiling fails and what to do about it”, Leiden-London meeting, organized by the Europa Institute, Leiden University, and the Common Market Law Review, 28 June 2024, Leiden.
  4. Invited speaker, panel “Transforming GDPR into a risk-based harm tool alongside specific A.I. regulation. Meeting separate but complementary needs” CPDP2024 (International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection), 23 May 2024, Brussels.
  5. Keynote speaker, “Regulating computer code for legal protection against digital wrongs” Summer School, Tubingen, Germany, 13 May 2024.
  6. Invited speaker, “Data as an economic good, data as a commons and data governance” (with Gijs van Maanen) Data Research and Governance Network (DRAGoN) seminar, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 9 March 2024.
  7. Keynote speaker, “Why personal data-centric legal protection against information wrongs fails and what to do about it”, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Annual Spring Conference ‘Data Protection Reform’, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK, 22 March 2024.
  8. Invited speaker (invitation declined), “Enhancing Personal Data Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” co-organised by The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner’s Office, 10-11 January 2024.
  9. Invited speaker, “Why “personal data” fails as a regulatory target of EU data protection law and what to do about it” at the International Future Rule of Law and Digital Economy Forum, December 16th and 17th (Beijing, China), organised by Renmin Law School and Renmin Law and Technology Institute.
  10. Invited speaker, Knut Selmer Memorial Lecture, 8 November 2023, University of Oslo. “Understanding Information for legal protection of people against information-induced harms”.
  11. Invited speaker, “Data as an economic good”, paper discussion at HDR & ECR reading group at ADM+S Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Australia, hosted by Mark Andrejevic (online, together with Gijs van Maanen)
  12. Invited speaker, symposium “Data protection as the law of everything(?)”, Open University, 22-23 September 2022, Heerlen, the Netherlands
  13. Keynote “Identification and identifiability under the GDPR: theoretical foundations and recent developments”, at the Nationale Privacycongress 2022, Leiden, 4 November 2022
  14. Invited expert, roundtable“Data protection issues in data sharing scenarios within AML/CFT PPPs” organized by the “Public-Private Partnerships on Terrorism Financing” (ParTFin) project, Max Planck Institute (MPI) for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg, Germany) and Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) (The Netherlands), 4 July 2022 (online)
  15. Invited talk “Health data commons” at the Biocommons meet-up, organized by Waag, Amsterdam, 31 August 2022 https://waag.org/nl/event/biocommons-meetup-2-met-bart-jacobs-nadya-purtova/
  16. Invited talk “The data problem: is it “the data problem” and can data sharing fix it?” Expert roundtable “Why Data Infrastructures Need Data Laws? Examining the Digital Industrial Policies of the EU and India” organized by IT for Change (India) and Friedrich Ebbert Stiftung, Berlin, 20 June 2022.
  17. Invited talk “From knowing by name to personalization: meaning of identification under the GDPR” at the Future of Tech and Society DG Event, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, 28 February 2022, online.
  18. Invited expert, Expert workshop on property in personal data organized by the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Affairs, 29 October 2021, The Hague
  19. Invited roundtable speaker, Roundtable “Socializing Data Value. How Can Data Governance Meet the Challenge?”, organized by IT for Change and Friedrich Ebbert Stiftung, May 11-12 2021, online.
  20. Invited talk “Code as personal data and implications for using the GDPR to regulate algorithms”, the Expert Talk series of the GOAL research project, University of Muenster, Germany, 18 February 2021, online.
  21. Invited discussant speaker on the presentation “Finding a common(s) language for a European-led data governance,” at the International Workshop on Governing “European values” inside data flows, 29 January 2021, Amsterdam, online.
  22. Invited speaker, at the Conference on Innovation and Digitalisation in Law of the University of Vienna, 22 October 2020, online (discussing work of a PhD, and presenting on the meaning of identification under the GDPR).
  23. Invited speaker at the PI.Lab round table on multi-party computation and anonymisation, with a talk on “Anonymisation and the relation to the GDPR”, 17 July 2020, online.
  24. Invited expert at “The future of the Data Economy in the EU” expert workshop organised by the Commission, 22 October 2018, Brussels; Invited presentation (“All data is personal”) plus participation in discussion.
  25. Invited speaker, panel “25 years of TILT”, CPDP2019 (International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection), January 2019, Brussels (“Property rights in personal data: an update”).
  26. Invited panellist, panel “Mechanisms for Securing Algorithmic accountability: Legal and extra-legal Approaches” co-convened by Karen Yeung, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance 2018 Conference, 4-6 July 2018, Lausanne (speaking on “Data, relationships & legal protection. Code as personal data & the nature of data protection law”)
  27. Invited speaker at the Yearly Conference of the Privacy and Identity Lab (7 December 2017, Utrecht) on “The law of everything. Broad concept of personal data and future of European data protection law”
  28. Invited speaker at the workshop “Expansion of health data ecosystem”, University of Maastricht, 9-10 November 2017, speaking on the viability of the idea of health data commons.
  29. Invited speaker, speaking on “If property in personal data makes sense after the Big Data turn”,the 2017 CeLPU International Conference ‘Exploration of a NewRegulatory Paradigm for the Advancement of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (8-9 September 2017,Vancouver, Canada), co-organised by Seul National University, South Korea, and Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada.
  30. Keynote speaker at the conference “Big Data: New Challenges for Law and Ethics” in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22-23 May 2017 (http://videolectures.net/nadya_purtova/), speaking on the Commons framework for data governance.
  31. Invited speaker in the series of public lectures of the Tilburg Data Science Center, Tilburg, 20 April 2017 (“Data Protection Law as the Law of Everything”)
  32. Invited panellist at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Tilburg, 6-8 July 2016 (Panel “Protecting consumers in “big data” markets: a cross-disciplinary approach”, presentation title “Health data for common good, group privacy and dilemmas of (health) data commons”)
  33. Keynote speaker at the opening of the Tilburg Data Science Center, Tilburg, 25 May 2016 (“Big Data and the question of personal data (co-)ownership.”)
  34. Invited presentation at Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Oslo, Norway, 22 September 2015 (speaking on “Challenging conceptual boundaries between personal data and information: implications for legal protection of privacy.”)
  35. Keynote speaker at the Expert Workshop “Consumer Privacy in Network Industries”, held by Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Brussels, 24 February 2015 (“Property rights in personal data as a test-case for personal data policies”)
  36. Invited panellist at the Masterclass “Privacy and National Security in the Digital Age”, organised by Tilburg Law Review, Tilburg, 5 march 2015
  37. Invited presentation “Coherence of the EU data protection reform” (based of the book chapter co-authored with C. Cuijpers and E. Kosta) at the Conference “Coherence in EU Internet Law”, organised by the Copenhagen Business School, 9-10 October 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
  38. Young scholar-discussant (with prof. Corien Prins as an invited prominent scholar and chief discussant)at the Evening of Science and Society (Avond van Wetenschap en Maatschappij), Ridderzaal, 6 October 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands
  39. Keynote speaker at International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation, 7-12 September, 2014, Patras, Greece (“The Matrix as a new metaphor to guide data protection law”)
  40. Invited panellist at Debate Café “Virtual Property on the Internet”, 24 April 2014, University of Maastricht (on property in personal data)
  41. Invited presentation at Consilience 2013 Conference on Data Protection and Cyber Security in India, Law and Technology Committee of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, May 2013
  42. Invited panelist at “For your eyes only – Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Social Networks,” Brussels, 29-30 November 2012 (“Property rights in personal data”)
  43. Invited expert at the Workshop on Economic value of privacy, organized by European Commission and Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Amsterdam, 7-10 October 2012
  44. Invited expert presentation at Workshop on Economics of Personal Information, speaking on the US and EU debate on property rights in personal data, organized by European Commission and Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Brussels, 28 March 2012

Chair

  1. Panel convenor and chair,panel“Escaping ‘the law of everything’. Should we separate ADM regulation from data protection to fix the GDPR’s regulatory overreach?”, TILTing perspectives, 19-21 May 2021
  2. Track chair, track “Data Protection(s) in a Data-driven Society” within TILTing Perspectives 2019 Conference, May 2019
  3. Panel convenor, panel“Protecting against data-driven harms in a data-driven world” at TILTing 2019 Conference, 15 May 2019, Tilburg
  4. Convenor and chair, Expert workshop “Future of Data Protection Law. Towards the law of everything?”, 20-21 November 2018, Tilburg
  5. Panel convenor and chair, panel “Personal data: still relevant trigger for protection in a data-driven society?” at CPDP2018 (International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection), 24-26 January 2018, Brussels
  6. Panel co-chair and speaker, panel “Data protection law as the law of everything? How the GDPR copes with limits.” at CPDP2018 (International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection), 24-26 January 2018, Brussels
  7. Co-chair of the conference committee of ‘TILTing perspectives on Law, Technology, and Regulation: Under Observation’, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University (2015)

Conference presentations of accepted papers or abstracts

  1. Van Maanen, G. and Purtova, N. (2022) “What thinking of data as an economic good can (not) teach us about data governance”, PLSC-style paper discussion, Digital Legal Talks 2022, 24 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  2. Purtova, N. (2021) “From knowing by name to personalization: meaning of identification under the GDPR”, TILTing perspectives conference (TILTing2021), 21 May 2021, Tilburg, the Netherlands, online.
  3. Purtova, N. (2020) “Meaning of Identification under the GDPR”, paper workshop at the SectorPlan conference, 2 December 2020
  4. Purtova, N. (2018) “Data, relationships & legal protection. Seeing Data Protection as future law for Data Justice” Data Justice conference in Cardiff, 21-22 May 2018
  5. Purtova, N. (2018) “Law of everything? Expanding notion of personal data & future of EU data protection law”, at CPDP2018, 26 January 2018, Brussels
  6. Purtova, N. (2017) “Data portability: the data protection side” TILTing perspectives conference, May 2017, Tilburg, the Netherlands
  7. Purtova, N., Kosta, E. (2013) “Data protection challenges of mHealth: the case of a diabetes smartphone application”, presented at IV European Conference on Health Law, October 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
  8. Purtova, N. (2013) “Illusion of personal data as no one’s property: reframing the data protection discourse”, presented at CONSENT, March 2013, Malta
  9. Purtova, N. (2012) “Re-thinking (yet again) the core of the right to data protection: options and implications”, presented at APC2012, October 2012, Amsterdam
  10. Purtova, N. (2010). “Property rights in personal data: second life of an old idea”, 3rd International Conference “Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection: An Element of Choice”, 29-30 January 2010, Brussels, Belgium
  11. Purtova, N. (2008). “A European perspective on instrumentalist theory of propertization of personal data”, “The future of… Conference on Law & Technology,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 28 – 29 October 2008
  12. Purtova, N. (2008). “Conceptualization of the data processing problem in the US and EU”, The First International Workshop on Identity in the Information Society, 28-30 May 2008, Arona, Lago Maggiore (Italy)