Upcoming events
Here’s a list of our planned events. Seats are limited so if you would like to attend, sign up by clicking on the Eventbrite link (when it is available) in the event description.
Online Event: IASME Governance and Cyber Essentials Certification
Thursday the 29th October 2020
The Northern Information Governance Forum is pleased to welcome Peter Loomes from the IASME Consortium who will be giving members the chance to find out more about the IASME Governance standard and CyberEssentials certification and how these can support improved governance and accountability within organisations and potential benefits and challenges of implementation. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions about these standards and also discuss how these might work in their own organisation and share their experiences of implementing these or other standards in the past.
If you would like to attend this event for data protection and IT Security professionals in the North of England and Scotland, which will be held at 2pm on the 29th October and are not already a member of NIGF, then please get in touch via contact@nigf.org.uk.
Online Event: Understanding Data, Information and Records
Thursday the 12th November 2020
NIGF is pleased to welcome Tim Callister, Information Governance Lead at Iron Mountain to talk about how data, information and records are classified and how the application of data classifications can support the appropriate managment of the information your organisation holds. If you would like to attend this free event, which will be held on Thursday 12th November at 2pm, but are not yet a member of NIGF please get in touch via contact@nigf.org.uk.
Online Event: Preparing for Brexit
Thursday the 26th November 2020
NIGF is pleased to welcome David Stone, Managing Director of Kaleidoscope Data Privacy Consultants, an organisation that specialises in supporting data protection and data sharing practices internationally, to explore the topical issue of Brexit and the potential impact on your organisations data protection practices.
The webinar will focus on the impact of the Schrems II decision on Brexit and what this means moving forward for data importers and data exporters from the UK. It will cover how controllers and processors will need to modify their risk assessments, legal bases for processing and privacy notices, as well as how the legal gateways for inbound and outbound flows from EEA and UK might be used in the future and will be helpful for any organisation who may be storing or sharing data within Europe and more widely. If you would like to attend this event, which will be held on Thursday 26th November at 2pm, but are not yet a member of NIGF please get in touch via contact@nigf.org.uk.
