As we enter a new and busy ELAI membership year we would like to invite you to our first event: "GDPR - the HR Angle" to be hosted at the offices of KPMG, 1 Stokes Place, Dublin 2 from 6pm - 8 pm next Tuesday, 27 June.

A panel of experts will discuss how employers, human resources practitioners, employment law practitioners and legal representatives can prepare employers for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018.

The panel, chaired by Linda Hynes, Head of the Employment Law & Data Protection team at Leman Solicitors, are all experts in the area of data protection and will provide wide-ranging and insightful perspectives on how GDPR will affect employers. They are: 

Kate Colleary 

Principal of Colleary & Co Solicitors and  founder and director of Frontier Privacy Ltd, a specialist company providing data protection advice and solutions

Linda NiChualladh

Counsel for An Post: Communications Regulation, Data Protection, EU and Competition

Ronan Davy

Assistant General Counsel & Director at Etsy

Nichola Harkin

Employment Law Solicitor, Ibec

The event will be of interest to employment law practitioners, in-house counsel, human resources practitioners and employers preparing businesses for this landmark development in data protection law.

Wine and canapés will be served after the panel discussion.

To attend please reserve a place by emailing Danielle at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and please ensure that your membership is renewed for the upcoming membership year through to Spring 2018. Thank you to those who have already done so.