What are the real-world applications that industry players are using PET for? What are the practical issues? Hear snap insights from IMDA’s PET Sandbox and the adopters’ perspective in this special segment put together by IMDA. This segment will feature key industry players sharing their use cases in the retail, finance and advertising domain, followed by a special panel together with IMDA, as they dive into the unique and common challenges they face.

• Hear IMDA share what they have learnt in the year since they’ve launched their PET Sandbox and what’s next for this regulatory sandbox.

• How can PETs solve the challenges of sharing financial crime insights to disrupt criminal network activity while addressing tipping-off concerns?  Derek will talk about the potential of using PETs for trans-boundary intelligence sharing.

• Can PET help companies personalise services for consumers while protecting user privacy? Hear Dr Li Ang share their application of PET in the retail domain.

• As the digital advertising industry moves into a cookie-less future, browser vendors and ad-tech companies are trying to work together through web standards bodies to develop new, PET-based solutions to attribution measurement that do not entail tracking. Meta and Mozilla have co-proposed a new API called "Interoperable Private Attribution" or IPA. Ben Savage will present on the learnings from their test pilot of IPA through the IMDA PET Sandbox, including the regulatory clarifications on the interplay between such privacy-preserving APIs and consent.

PET partnerships have the potential to facilitate the sharing and utilization of data while ensuring privacy is maintained. Various PET providers will elaborate on the significance of their offerings to organizations and industries in accomplishing what was previously deemed unattainable. Evaluate the benefits of PETs for protecting your personal data and privacy now and in the future and weigh them against the costs and efforts required to implement them before making a decision.

What are possible use cases for:

• FHE/MPC
• Differential Privacy
• Confidential Computing
• Federated Learning/Synthetic Data
• Zero Knowledge Proof

PETs are already being used in highly sensitive areas such as fraud investigation and rare disease medical research but their possible application can be envisaged in various other fields.

This session will bring together regulators, industry adopters and PET providers to determine sector-specific use cases through matchmaking and discussion.

- Healthcare
o State of affairs, Status and Challenges
o Implications & Opportunities
o Potential solutions & Value

• Asad Preuss-Dodhy, Data Privacy Technologies and Solutions Lead, Roche Diagnostics GmbHDay

- Financial Institutions
o Challenges & Reality
o Implications & Opportunities
o Potential solutions & Enterprise Value

- Government & Regulatory
o Statistics drivers
o Policies

• Lawrence Wee, Deputy Director, Ministry of Health Singapore

When deploying highly impactful large AI models, such as generative models, in organizations, a critical success factor is the quality of training datasets. The availability of, or access to, domain-specific data to train specialized models is hampered by data privacy and security concerns and accompanying regulations.

Techniques like federated learning, deployed in concert with encryption technologies, are already enabling models to be trained from differing data sources without revealing data points or exposing data to risk. This session will discuss what privacy issues exist for generative AI, and how PETs can enable the conditions that fully unleash the true potential of AI in enterprises. For the first time, data scientists who want to train models with industry- or company-specific data, will be able to share data with customers, peers, and even competitors – the next step for generative AI is data partnerships.

Collaborating and exchanging data can optimize productivity and reveal unexplored prospects. However, information is often isolated and siloed with limited access to protect it from compromise and to comply with differing regulatory requirements. Experts will share how they have increased both internal and external data collaboration, the lessons they’ve learned, and the partnership opportunities being enabled by PETs.

A gathering of leading industry IP, HR, General Counsel and Private Practice will run through internal jurisdictional scenarios to give practical insights into how to protect trade secrets across international jurisdictions.

Scenarios include:

• The interplay between the jurisdictional challenge in trade secrets. Examine legal risks associated with onboarding/offboarding employees
• Due diligence requirement for vendors and employees
• Co-workers sharing sensitive information? Internal procedures?
• What is your first reaction if you found out trade secret has been leaked.

Internationally renowned defence counsel provides practical insights into trade secret IP issues when facing threats of litigation. Focusing on successful strategy and avoiding costly litigation costs.

• The role of defence counsel in trade secret litigation
• Legal framework surrounding trade secret litigation
• Strategies that a defence counsel can use to protect trade secrets, such as conducting thorough investigations and developing strong legal arguments
• The types of damages that may be awarded in trade secret litigation and how to minimize their impact

The two biggest questions you need to ask yourself concerning prosecution are how does a trade secret case start? And what are the practical aspects of the law that need to be considered? In the following session, explore discussions into the consideration of practical aspects of the current European and US Legal Framework for trade secrets.

• Established cost-efficient strategy for pursuing trade secret litigation: Local vs International Court
• Understand when motions for dismissal can occur?
• Determine grounds for preliminary injunction relief
• Depositions requirements
• When does criminal prosecution start in trial?
• Analyse requirements for ex-parte discovery & ex-parte evidence
• How to conduct the right form of due diligence and risk mitigation before ending in litigation
• Determine investigation potential for DOJ involvement and extension of crossborder
enforcement
• Examine the pros/cons of out of court settlement