Part 1: Introduction
1. The World is Watching: Perception, Opacity, and the More-than-Human in Surveillance Societies, James Bridle (Artist, Greece), Thierry Vandenbussche and Birte Vingerhoets (Privacy Salon, Belgium)
2. Geopolitics, AI and DP, Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Part 2: Academic Insights
3. Navigating Disruption: The Case of the European AI Act, Anna-Julia Saiger (Institute for Media and Information Law, University of Freiburg, Germany)
4. Embedding Proportionality in the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment, Oreste Pollicino and Federica Paolucci (Bocconi University, Italy), Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica Global School of Law, Portugal), Andrea Cosentini, Andrea Ermellino, Dario Fontanella, Nicole Inverardi, Ilaria Penco, Daniele Regoli and Silvia Tessaro Trapani (Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy)
5. Navigating Transparency Obligations for Companion Chatbots under the European Union AI Act: Evaluation and Policy Directions, Rachael Olaitan Aborishade (Nigerian Bar Association, Nigeria)
6. Watching the Watchers: Health Data, Artificial Intelligence, and the Trans-Atlantic Rebalancing of Privacy Power, Gary Hsuanyu Liu (Washington University School of Law, USA)
7. EU–US AI Divergences and the Effect on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework: Call for a Brussels/Sacramento Effect, Anže Erbežnik (European Faculty of Law, Slovenia), David E. Harris (University of California, USA) and Owen Doyle (Harris Research Group, USA)
8. Technical Standards: Co-Regulatory Pathways for Digital Policymaking, Emma Semaan (University of Oxford, UK)
9. Transitioning from Portability in the GDPR to Access in the Data Act: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Data Access by Design, Emanuela Podda (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Nicola Leschke (University of Salzburg, Austria), Pierangela Samarati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) and Frank Pallas (University of Salzburg, Austria)

Part 3: Practitioners’ Corner
10. Unlocking DPO Happiness: Strategies for C-Level Executives and DPOs, Jolien Ghyselinck (National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology, Belgium) and Peter Berghmans (Data Protection Institute, Belgium)
11. Empirical Methods for Supervising Algorithmic Profiling Systems, Jurriaan Parie and Ylja Remmits (NGO Algorithm Audit, Netherlands), Brinn Hekkelman and Mark Kattenberg (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Netherlands)
12. Quo Vadis GDPR? Ex Orco Usque ad Coelum: A Call to Fundamentally Reshape GDPR Enforcement Mechanics, Charles Helleputte (King & Spalding, Belgium)

Part 4: EDPS Closing Remarks
13. The World Is Watching – CPDP Conferences – Closing Remarks, Wojciech Wiewiórowski (European Data Protection Supervisor, European Union)

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