Data Dynamics – Use Cases between Regulation and Value Creation
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Conference chair: Attorney Isabell Conrad, solicitor (OSE; CSW Rechtsanwälte, Munich)
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30 January 2026
Hybrid Event
(in cooperation with davit – ARGE IT im DAV)
Choose between participating online or on-site at
Haus der Bayerischen Wirtschaft, Max-Joseph-Straße 5, 80333 Munich
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To the registration form (German)
The program:
From 8:00 a.m. Registration, coffee and snacks
On site
From 8:20 a.m. Online registration
Online
8:30 a.m. Start of the event, welcome
Welcome: Stephan Peters (OSE; Deposix Software Escrow GmbH, Munich)
Greeting: Attorney Dr. Christiane Bierekoven (davit, Berlin, Dr. Ganteführer Marquardt, Düsseldorf)
8:35 a.m. Thematic introduction
Attorney Isabell Conrad (OSE; CSW Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB, Munich)
9:00 a.m. Keynote: Quantum technologies and the Quantum Act – regulation?
Prof. Dr. Tommaso Calarco (Institute for Quantum Control, Jülich Research Centre)
9:30 a.m. Topic block 1: Data, deals, getting started: cloud switching and antitrust law
Moderator: Attorney Dr. Michaela Westrup, LL.M (Chicago) (Reed Smith LLP, Munich)
Data about data – and its antitrust price, Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht, LL.M. (Yale) (University of Zurich)
Contract drafting for cloud switching – blueprints for practice, Prof. Dr. Boris P. Paal, M.Jur. (Oxford) (Technical University of Munich)
Easy migration: technologies and architecture patterns for cloud switching, Eckhard Eilers (Woodmark Consulting GmbH, Munich)
11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:20 a.m. Topic block 2: Escrow as the key to data and regulatory requirements
Moderator: Attorney Elke Bischof, solicitor (MAYBURG Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Munich)
Beyond the beaten track: Practical applications of Escrow, Stephan Peters (OSE; Deposix Software Escrow GmbH, Munich)
From source code protection to data management: Escrow reimagined, Leon Hauzer (OSE; Escrow Alliance BV, Haarlem)
Escrow unlocked: How seemingly impossible requirements from DORA and NIS2 become possible, Dr Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge) (Taylor Wessing PartG mbB, Berlin) (requested)
12:50 p.m. Joint lunch break, buffet
on-site participants
1:50 p.m. Summary of the morning session
Attorney Isabell Conrad (OSE; CSW Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB, Munich)
2:20 p.m. Topic block 3: AI and data protection – smart solutions
Moderator: Dr Christiane Bierekoven, solicitor (davit, Berlin; Dr Ganteführer Marquardt, Düsseldorf)
AI use case: transcription, Michael Will (Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Ansbach)
Data protection-compliant cloud use in the EU: Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Thomas Zerdick (Supervision and Enforcement Unit, European Data Protection Supervisor, Brussels)
AI and data protection: How to do it right, lawyer’s perspective: Dr Robert Selk, LL.M. (SSH Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Selk, Munich), provider’s perspective: Sebastian Dürdoth (Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Berlin)
4:10 p.m. Coffee break
4:30 p.m. Readjustment of AI compliance: concepts based on the guidelines of the European Commission
Attorney Dr. Antonia von Appen (Noerr PartG mbB, Munich)
5 p.m. Summary and panel discussion with all speakers
Moderator: Attorney Prof. Dr. Peter Bräutigam (Noerr LLP, München)
Approx. 6 p.m. Conclusion of the event with small delicacies à la finger food
For those attending in person
You can also download the program here as a PDF file (German).
If you are unable or do not wish to use the online form below (in German), the PDF containing the program also includes a registration form, which you can fill out, scan and send by email to sabrina.boehm(at)ose-international.org.
Please choose between on-site participation or online participation.
Costs
The participation fee for in-person and online participation is €395 including VAT.
Members of davit, DGRI or OSE pay €340 including VAT for in-person and online participation.
You will receive an invoice by email after successful registration.
Upon request, participants will also receive an electronic confirmation of continuing education for specialist lawyers in accordance with § 15 FAO (7h 50m) by email after the event.
As a registered participant, you will find the symposium documents in the secure download area during and after the event (the password will be sent to you or announced during the event):
Secure area: Download documents for the 21st OSE Symposium
The documents will be available to participants there during and for some time after the event.