The DPO track 🛡️ · for practitioners · 8 x 45 min
For DA, DE, DS, and AI practitioners - the full body of knowledge to run as a Data Protection Officer, hands-on, session by session.
Data governance and the DPO
What governance actually is, the DAMA wheel, and why Singapore law makes the DPO role mandatory for every organisation.
⚖️ Session 2 · building upThe law you enforce
The 11 PDPA obligations and the DNC registers, mirrored against GDPR's 7 principles, 6 lawful bases, and 8 rights.
🗺️ Session 3 · building upKnow your data
Build the Record of Processing, classify by sensitivity, and stand up the catalog, glossary, and lineage that give a DPO sight.
📣 Session 4 · getting realConsent, purpose & marketing (DNC)
Fix consent and purpose, and run the DNC register check before a marketing blast to eight million consumers.
🛡️ Session 5 · getting realProtection & breach response
Reasonable security arrangements, then a full breach tabletop against the PDPC clock: assess, notify, remediate.
♻️ Session 6 · getting realData lifecycle
Accuracy, retention and disposal, cross-border transfer safeguards, and answering access, correction, and rights requests.
🏗️ Session 7 · advancedThe operating model + maturity
Policies, decision rights, owners, stewards, and a council - then score the whole program on a maturity model.
🎓 Session 8 · advancedCapstone: stand up the program
Run a DPIA on the AI copilot, prove accountability, and assemble everything into a first-90-days plan and board report.
The executive track 👔 · for C-level, boards & curious leaders · 4 x 30-45 min
No tech required. The working ideas in plain language - what data governance costs to ignore, the rules in one page, the questions that expose your real risk, and the investment case. Also a friendly on-ramp for LinkedIn readers.
Why governance is a board issue
The fine that can reach 10% of turnover, the officer the law says you must appoint, and the thirty-second governance test.
📜 Exec session 2The rules in plain English
The PDPA's 11 promises on one page, the do-not-call rule that fines companies weekly, and GDPR in five minutes.
🎯 Exec session 3Five questions to ask your data team
The interrogation kit: five questions, what a pass sounds like, what a shrug means, and how to score the answers.
🚀 Exec session 4Governance as advantage
Safe AI bets, shorter sales cycles, usable data - the offense case, what funding it looks like, and the board memo.
Choose your path 🗺️
Practitioners start at Session 1; executives start at Exec session 1. The full journey makes a DPO; the fast-tracks fit a specific gap.
The knowledge map 🧠
The DPO track at a glance - hover a session to spotlight its concepts, click any node to jump in.