Since 2022, its reputation for thought leadership and meaningful connections in the field of digital rights continues to grow. Past editions have drawn more than 900 participants, including 150 speakers and more than 50 sponsors. As a global stage, DPGC has featured prominent international speakers and institutional partners, including names such as Ana Brian (UN Privacy Rapporteur), Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London), Sandeep Vaheesan (Open Market Institute), Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna (Future of Privacy Forum), Isabelle Vereecken (EDPB), Miriam Wimmer (Brazilian National Data Protection Authority – ANPD), Hossein Nowbar (Microsoft), Anita Gurumurthy (IT For Change), Diego Canabarro (Meta), Prof. Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania), Jan Philipp Albrecht (Boll Foundation), Vinay Narayan (Aapti Institute), and Gbenga Sesan (Paradigm Initiative). In 2025, the conference brings a new format, with thematic workshops, extended opportunities for interaction, and an environment for high-quality networking. 

Also, since its first edition, the DPGC has served as a meeting point for Global South activists, including providing financial support to bring members of the Global South Alliance (GSA) to the event in São Paulo. It was in 2022, during the Conference, that the Alliance was born, bringing together representatives from 13 Global South civil organizations. Several of them are constantly part of DPGC panels and debates, enriching the discussions and fostering South-South cooperation. In 2023, the GSA announced its Digital Library and the Datafication and Democracy Fund.

In this year’s edition, the program features an open workshop on digital sovereignty and geopolitics, analyzing specific cases from different regions around the world. The session will be facilitated by Global South Alliance members from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bolivia, Brazil, The Gambia, and Uganda, who, together with the audience, will address cases from these regions according to parameters such as data, digital infrastructure, governance, and independence. 

The goal of the workshop organized by the Global South Alliance is to present diverse realities alongside a critical perspective on how potential technological solutions are being implemented in the Global South and the main challenges they face within a complex geopolitical landscape. The Global South Alliance expanded to 26 organizations in 2025, and the DPGC is an opportunity for a first engagement with some of these new members.

The workshop “Geopolitics and Technological Sovereignty” will take place on Monday, December 8th 2025, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm at Room number 2 of ESPM. The workshop will be conducted by Jaqueline Pigatto (Data Privacy Brasil), Gbenga Sésan (Paradigm Initiative) and Vinay Narayan (Aapti Institute).

The fourth edition of DPGC will happen in São Paulo, on December 8th and 9th, at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM. More information can be found at the official website.

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As a conference focusing on the Global South, we had the participation of professionals from India, Colombia, Nigeria, Bolivia and Iran. This allowed for a fruitful dialogue with professionals from the Global North, such as professor Anita Allen, who gave a talk on privacy and civil rights, and Gregory Smolynec, Deputy Privacy Commissioner of Canada, who addressed strategies for applying personal data protection standards. It is precisely the exchange between local and global, and between North and South, that makes the Data Privacy Global Conference a unique event on the international agenda of events in personal data protection.It is important to highlight the centrality of diversity in DPGC 2023. 

All panels had at least one person considered a minority (a black, brown or indigenous person). We did not have any panel with only male speakers. We seek gender diversity on all panels. This is part of an ethical commitment to diversity in all events we hold at Data Privacy Brasil.We also carried out an inclusion work, distributing scholarships to professionals who came from the five regions of Brazil. 

Thanks to the sponsorship of our partners, we were able to provide flights and hotels for a group of young people who will return to their regions with knowledge, new ideas and energy to lead their own projects.Three elements are characteristic of the 2023 edition of the Data Privacy Global Conference.The first is that this is not just a personal data protection conference. We debated topics such as AI governance, public data infrastructure, access rights and transparency in environmental regulation, for example. Despite the name “data privacy”, the conference addresses broader issues of digital rights and democracy.

The second characteristic is that diversity makes up the richness of the discussions. The best panels are those that can bring together diverse voices, allowing a dialogue between a peripheral reality and a central reality, for example. We believe that diversity is crucial for democratic analyses, with voices that are capable of analyzing the same problem from asymmetric and distinct realities.The third characteristic is that the DPGC has highlighted the emergence of a Global South agenda, which has been strongly manifested in the G20, especially in the transition between India and Brazil. The combination of social justice with inclusive digital transformation programs is a common element in countries like India and Brazil. In countries with colossal equity and inequality challenges, the task of building national strategies focused on the digitalization of public services, national data infrastructures and incentives for national economies to develop, generating decent jobs, becomes central.

All of this with an orientation focused on fundamental rights. We hope that, in 2024, Brazil will continue to be a stage for important democratic discussions. DPGC 2024 will take place in November 2024, close to the G20 Summit, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro. We are sure that 2024 will be a decisive year for the regulation of artificial intelligence, for articulating views from the Global South on inclusive digital transformation and for democracies that put digital technologies at the service of people and their rights.

Data Privacy Brasil team in the second edition of DPGC. Image: Júlia Sipereck

Bruno Bioni, Mariana Rielli & Rafael Zanatta
Directors of Data Privacy Brasil

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The 2023 edition of Data Privacy Global Conference (DPGC) will take place on November 27th and 28th in São Paulo – Brazil. The international conference aims to discuss the main topics around data protection and technology regulation from the perspective of the Global South, providing a meeting between professionals from different backgrounds in a specialized forum.

Our event is for all people who would like to make international connections in the field and delve into topics like data protection, artificial intelligence, data justice, public policy and more. So we invite people from all over the world, not just Brazil – all panels will offer simultaneous translation between Portuguese and English.

Some of the 2022 edition speakers were:

• ANA BRIAN NOUGRÈRE

UN Privacy Rapporteur

• TEKI AKUETTEH

Founder & Executive Director at the Africa Digital Rights’ Hub

• TOMMASO VALLETTI

Professor of Economics at Imperial College

• VICTOR FERNANDES

Advisor to the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)

• MIRIAM WIMMER

Professor at the Brazilian Institute of Teaching, Development and Research

• CECÍLIA OLIVEIRA

Founder of Fogo Cruzado and The Intercept

• BRUNO GENCARELLI

Deputy Director of Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law and Head of the International Data Flows

If you are from another country and would like to register for our event or learn more about it, contact us by email: atendimento@dataprivacy.com.br. We are available to answer any questions or queries on the subject.

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