Episode 23: Burning Data Man - CPDP Day 2

🚨 NEW EPISODE DROP: Burning Data Man 🚨And data darling… CPDP officially entered its after-dark festival era✨🎪There I was, balancing a pistachio croissant, a homemade iced tea, and a rapidly declining phone battery while sprinting between panels like I was chasing overlapping headline acts at Europe’s most intellectually glamorous music festival.Everywhere I looked: fabulous festival fits, tote bags multiplying at dangerous speed, AI debates before noon, and policy people discussing digital sovereignty with the same emotional intensity normally reserved for backstage festival gossip. And I couldn’t help but wonder… when did privacy conferences stop feeling like conferences and start feeling like full-blown cultural events? In this episode of Data & The City, we head back into the CPDP festival grounds for Day Two — where AI regulation, emotional algorithms, academic burnout, digital rights, and policy drama all collided beneath the Brussels festival lights.This episode’s chapters:🎓 Backstage Passes and Burnout CrashesPia Groenewolt joins us to unpack academia, precarity, institutional pressure, and what healthier academic spaces could actually look like behind the polished conference panels and intellectual glamour.🎨 The AI-Situationship Stage: Interview with Joel Baumann, Laura Därr, Lea-Maraike Sambale & Leonie Witka, from emotional AI to digital intimacy and algorithmic relationships, this panel explores the blurry, beautiful, slightly unsettling space where humans and machines start emotionally connecting.🎪 Burning Data Man: CPDP Day 2From generative AI in education and cybersecurity to digital sovereignty, online manipulation, emotional chatbots, and the legendary CPDP afterparty — we recap the policy-palooza chaos, festival energy, and digital drama shaping Day Two✨Whether you’re a privacy enthusiast, policymaker, artist, academic, or simply trying to survive the algorithmic age with your humanity and tote bag collection intact… this episode is for you.🧩 And if you’re surviving CPDP on sparkling water, adrenaline, and approximately twelve overlapping thoughts about AI governance — don’t forget to grab your copy of Puzzling Privacy 3: the ultimate conference companion for solving puzzles while pretending you’re definitely processing panel notes and not just avoiding LinkedIn notifications. Global: https://lnkd.in/eDdSafzNUK: https://lnkd.in/en2ssvZmDE: https://lnkd.in/eMNxnsqYFR: https://lnkd.in/egyCFYFhES: https://lnkd.in/eJw78e_PIT: https://lnkd.in/eB8nySNgNL: https://lnkd.in/eWxDeKBMPL: https://lnkd.in/eUghwZERSE: https://lnkd.in/eKpN8R8wBE: https://lnkd.in/eS4X-cnkIE: https://lnkd.in/et5VZ_myJP: https://lnkd.in/e9qF2B27CA: https://lnkd.in/e5QQAyPgAU: https://lnkd.in/eZv4QjtAIf you are interested in the art from the artists featured in this episode:Joel Baumann: https://www.joelbaumann.com/Laura Därr: http://lauradaerr.com/vita/Lea-Maraike Sambale: https://leamaraikesambale.com/Leonie Witka: https://www.instagram.com/herr_lorni/  Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/abbynoise/hope License code: PYC7X9XAKNV2AGHL Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/tonebox/dimensional License code: ZFRGQFDPB66GNNUC