Data Ethics

Katherine O'Keefe holds a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature. After several years tutoring and lecturing at two of Ireland's top universities, she became a leading privacy professional expert with Castlebridge where she worked extensively with public and private sector organisations in Ireland and elsewhere. Katherine has developed and provided training and hands-on advisory support in Data Protection, lecturing internationally in Data Protection and Data Ethics, and providing independent ethical oversight for data research projects. She currently works with Ireland's national water utility, Uisce Éireann, and is on the teaching faculty of the Law Society of Ireland's Diploma Centre. Katherine has designed and developed an international professional accreditation scheme for Information Management for which she was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award in 2017, and she was a contributing editor to the DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge 2nd edition. She was a member of the Scottish Government's National Expert Group on Digital Ethics between 2019-2022, is a contributor to Information Ethics Research at the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin and served on the steering committee for the ADAPT Centre's ELITE-S fellowship at Dublin City University. In 2019 she was recognized as one of the DPO 200 by the Data Protection World Forum for significant contributions to the privacy and security sectors.

Daragh O Brien is the founder and managing director of Castlebridge, a leading data strategy consultancy based in Ireland. He has worked for almost three decades on the business side of data, helping change how people in organisations think about data. He has advised and worked with organisations as diverse as small local charities, Government Departments, EU Institutions, and the United Nations. He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy. He lectures in Data Protection and Data Governance in the Sutherland School of Law in University College Dublin. He is also a Syllabus Consultant and lecturer on Data Protection and Data Governance in the Law Society of Ireland's Diploma Centre and has delivered guest lectures on Data Ethics in the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Maynooth University, and Dublin City University. Daragh O Brien is also a founding member of the Strategic Advisory Board to the School of Business in Maynooth University and a member of the Leaders' Data Organisation (www.dataleaders.org), a collaborative think-tank of data management consultants. He is an active research contributor to the Innovation Value Institute (www.ivi.ie) at Maynooth University and the Adapt Centre (www.adaptcentre.ie) in Trinity College Dublin. He has previously served on the board of several data management professional bodies, and he is a featured columnist on www.TDAN.com. In 2022 he was honoured by the IVI in Maynooth University for his 25 years of contributions to data governance, data quality, data protection, and data ethics.