A Balanced Approach to Digital Regulation in Ireland

In this hybrid event, an expert panel will discuss how Ireland can achieve a balance in digital regulation in order to promote digital innovation and technological progress while ensuring a secure digital ecosystem that protects the rights of users. The panel will assess how cooperation between regulators across different economic and social sectors can establish a cohesive and robust regulatory regime. The panel will particularly assess how regulators should approach emerging technologies to enable early adoption while maintaining regulatory protections. Ireland’s central role in the global digital landscape will also be explored, including both the benefits and responsibilities that this role presents.

This hybrid event will take place at the IIEA, 8 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, with both an in-person and online audience.

The panel for this hybrid event includes:

Keynote speaker: Anthony Whelan, Digital Policy Adviser to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director General of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)

Una Fitzpatrick, Director of Technology Ireland

Garrett Blaney, Commissioner at the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg)

Cian O' Brien, Deputy Commissioner of the Data Protection Commission

Please note the slightly longer than usual duration of this event.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Economic Regulators Network (ERN), a cross-sectoral group of economic regulators in Ireland. The ERN is composed of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), Central Bank of Ireland, National Transport Authority (NTA), Commission for Aviation Regulation, and Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg).