September 22, 2020 | Washington, DC

8:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Andrew Smith

Director

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission 

8:40 am An Overview of Data Portability: Concepts and Terminology

Peter Swire

Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

9:00 am Data Portability Initiatives in the European Union, California, and India: 

Case Studies

This panel will discuss the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 

the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other data portability initiatives, 

including lessons learned from those efforts.

Moderator: 

Guilherme Roschke

Counsel for International Consumer Protection

Office of International Affairs

Federal Trade Commission

Panelists: 

Inge Graef

Associate Professor of Competition Law

Tilburg University

The Netherlands

Rahul Matthan

Partner, Head of the Technology Practice

Trilegal

India

Karolina Mojzesowicz

Deputy Head of Unit for Data Protection

Directorate General for Justice and Consumers

European Commission 

Stacey D. Schesser

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

Consumer Protection Section – Privacy Unit
Office of the California Attorney General 

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

Senior Counsel

Future of Privacy Forum

10:15 am Break

10:30 am Financial and Health Portability Regimes: Case Studies

This panel will discuss efforts to implement data portability in the financial and health 

sectors, and lessons learned from those efforts.

Moderator: 

Katherine White

Division of Privacy and Identity Protection

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission 

Panelists: 

Michael S. Barr

Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy

Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy

Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law 

University of Michigan

Dan Horbatt

Chief Technology Officer

Particle Health

Bill Roberts

Head of Open Banking

The Competition and Markets Authority

United Kingdom

Don Rucker 

 National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

11:45 am Break

12:00 pm Reconciling the Benefits and Risks of Data Portability 

This panel will discuss the attributes, benefits, and challenges of data portability 

initiatives, with an eye towards the twin aims of protecting consumers and promoting 

competition.

Moderator: 

Ryan K. Quillian

Deputy Assistant Director

Technology Enforcement Division 
Bureau of Competition

Federal Trade Commission 

Panelists: 

Pam Dixon

Founder and Executive Director

World Privacy Forum

Ali Lange 

Public Policy Manager 

Google

Gabriel Nicholas

Research Fellow

New York University School of Law

Hodan Omaar

 Policy Analyst

 Center for Data Innovation

Peter Swire

Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair of Law and Ethics

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

1:15 pm Break

1:30 pm Realizing Data Portability’s Potential: Material Challenges and Solutions

This panel will discuss several key concerns confronting data portability initiatives: 

security, privacy, standardization, and interoperability.

Moderator: 

Jarad Brown

Division of Privacy and Identity Protection 

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission 

Panelists: 

Erika Brown Lee

Senior Vice President

Assistant General Counsel for Privacy and Data Protection 

Mastercard

Sara Collins 

Policy Counsel

Public Knowledge

Bennett Cyphers 

Staff Technologist

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Michael Murray

President

Mission:data Coalition 
Julian Ranger

Executive President and Founder

Digi.me

2:45 pm Closing Remarks

Ian R. Conner

Director

Bureau of Competition

Federal Trade Commission