SQL Privacy Summit

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The SQL Privacy Summit, Redgate’s new event for data professionals, to improve skills and knowledge on compliant database DevOps, was held on Friday May 18th, 2018.

All data professionals hold responsibility for ensuring that their business meets data privacy and protection obligations, and this Summit focussed on how to ensure your data is compliant and secure.

Attendees had the opportunity to hear from leading experts on how to implement new techniques for ensuring the protection of personal information in your databases, while minimising the impact on business as usual.

The Summit agenda included keynotes, sessions, panel discussions, and workshops designed to help you ensure your business has data privacy and protection under control.

  • Learn how to implement ‘Privacy by Design’ as part of your DevOps processes
  • Discuss operational roadmaps for evolving your SQL Server development under the GDPR
  • Share concerns about the key changes of regulation and how it affects personal data in your SQL Server estate
  • Discover how others plan on implementing Redgate's tools to enable compliant database DevOps processes

Key takeaways

  • Learn how to implement reliable and repeatable processes for ensuring the protection of sensitive information across your SQL Server estate
  • Learn how to create a living data catalogue of your SQL Estate and use it to inform GDPR compliant processes across your environments
  • Discover how to ensure your team has access to reliable data for development and testing without risking exposure of sensitive information
  • Understand the business benefits of adopting compliance as part of your database DevOps approach

Session schedule

Time (BST)Session
8:15AM - 9:00AMRegistration and networking Tea, coffee, and pastries
9:00AM - 9:15AMOpening keynote – Is the GDPR a bitter pill, or an opportunity for remedy?
Simon Galbraith, CEO, Redgate Software

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9:15AM - 9:55AM"Show me, don't just tell me!" Data mapping for a new era of oversight
Richard Macaskill, Product Manager, Redgate

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9:55AM - 10:35AMMinimizing the impact of data breaches in dev and test databases
Steve Jones, Data Platform MVP and Editor at SQLServerCentral.com

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10:35AM - 10:50AMMorning break
Networking & delicious bites
10:50AM - 11:30AMThe new rules of SQL Server monitoring
William Durkin, Data Platform MVP and Eelco Drost, Co-founder at Data Masterminds
11:30AM - 12:10PMPanel discussion: Putting the GDPR into practice

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12:10PM - 1:10PMSeated two-course buffet lunch in the Tower Grill restaurant
1:10PM - 2:10PMHow collaboration and DevOps can make you a responsible data controller
Simon Sabin, Director Engineering at Sabin.io Consultancy

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2:10PM - 2:30PMAfternoon break
Networking & delicious bites
2:30PM - 4:00PMWorkshop 1: Business benefits of implementing a data privacy and protection policy - Richard Macaskill, Product Manager, Redgate
Workshop 2: Technical approach to implementation - Tom Austin, Head of Pre-Sales Engineering, Redgate
4:00PM - 4:30PMClosing keynote: Everything we do is fuelled by data and information
Caroline Carruthers, Group Director of Data Management, Lowell Group
4:30PM - 5:30PMNetworking and drinks reception
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