As Managing Director, Europe, Roccia leads the IAPP’s growing Brussels office and engages with senior industry leaders, policymakers, regulators and civil society, keeping IAPP members informed and apprised of local developments across privacy, artificial intelligence and digital responsibility. She serves as the public voice for the IAPP across Europe and provides strategic guidance on European engagement and market expansion.
Prior to joining the IAPP, Roccia served as Director of Policy, EMEA of BSA | The Software Alliance in Brussels, Belgium. In this role, she developed and advanced policy positions on a range of key issues to the global software industry, with a focus on data privacy, international data flows, cybersecurity, digital trade and digital transformation. She is a recognized contributor to policymaking on these issues on national, European and multilateral levels. Prior to that, Roccia was the Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels.
Roundtable Room 3, Ground Floor
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From autonomous agents to the management of LLM and other generative AI technologies, artificial intelligence disrupts conventional understandings of data governance, particularly within financial services. This disruption is engendering new trade-offs that policymakers, regulators, and financial institutions have to grapple with, including:
As AI agents become increasingly empowered to execute transactions on behalf of individuals and businesses, and institutions become increasingly reliant on models developed by a concentrated pool of Big Tech players, how can governments, financial infrastructure operators, and financial institutions balance competing objectives? This session aims to develop a set of principles for governing the use of AI and data within financial services, capturing insights from across the ecosystem.