GDPR – An opportunity for change

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to strengthen our clients’ rights to how information about them is used and potentially, allow them to opt-out of our communications altogether, however, a measured approach to GDPR is to see it as an opportunity rather than a threat and that consent rates will in fact grow.

We’re here to make sure that you have a common sense view and can make effective decisions before GDPR enforcement begins on 25^th May. For example, big brands are enabling clients to select the parts of their business that they will willingly share their data with and opt-out of sharing it with the parts they aren’t.

Richard Evans, Partner and Head of Risk and Assurance at hosts Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP will offer perspectives from a range of organisations addressing the GDPR requirements, supported by Serena Tierney of Veale Wasbrough Vizards, who’ll update her popular MBC presentation ’15 things you need to do to prepare for GDPR.’

8 – 9.30 am

Image by Matthew Henry

About our host:
Crowe Clark Whitehill offers audit, tax and advisory services. In recent years the firm has picked up a number of awards including Pension Age Pensions Accountancy Firm of the Year 2014 and FDs' Excellence Award being named the Auditor of the Year Large Firms 2013. In 2014, Crowe Clark Whitehill won the award for ‘Best Tax Investigations Team’ at the LexisNexis Taxation Awards. Also being named in the list Top 25 Accountancy Firm 2014 and eprivateclient's 25 Most Admired Companies. The firm has two offices in London, as well as offices in Cheltenham, Kent, Manchester, Midlands and Thames Valley and is part of Crowe Horwath International, a Swiss Verein, the eighth-largest association of professional services firms in the world, a network with more than 150 independent accounting and advisory firms in over 100 countries.