The APDCAT, in collaboration with the CTTI, is organizing the conference 'Care robotics: how to innovate without renouncing privacy'

The Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT), in collaboration with the Telecommunications and Information Technology Center (CTTI), is organizing for next Thursday, October 20, at 9.00 a.m., the conference 'Care robotics: how to innovate without renouncing privacy'. The event will have the participation of experts from the business world, the university, research and the Administration.

The session will serve to learn about experiences that are being carried out in this field and to influence the way in which the design of the technology must integrate the guarantee of the right to the protection of personal data, as a mechanism for the protection of this right and the other rights that may be affected by the processing of personal data. Also, so that all agents involved in the design, development and use of technology that interacts with people become aware of their responsibilities towards data protection by design and by default.

Xavier Milà, managing director of the CTTI, and Meritxell Borràs, director of the APDCAT, will be in charge of welcoming the event, which will be held in the CTTI auditorium (Carrer Salvador Espriu, 45-51, Polígon Pedrosa . Hospitalet de Llobregat). Afterwards, Carme Torras, researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics of the Superior Council of Scientific Research and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, will talk about how technology shapes people.

After the coffee break, at 11.00 a.m. a round table will take place to learn about experiences in data protection by design, with the participation of Francesco Ferro, CEO at PAL Robotics; Lluís Anaya, director of Digital Innovation at the CTTI, and Núria Vallès, researcher at the IDEAI-UPC Research Center of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Finally, Lorenzo Cotino, professor of constitutional law at the University of Valencia and coordinator of Regulation and Rights at OdiseIA, will focus on analyzing the impacts of robotics assistance on people's rights and freedoms.