Invitation to 2025 Asia Privacy Bridge Forum (APB Forum)
The artificial intelligence transformation, together with the growing demand for explainable AI (XAI) across sectors, has made coordinated international approaches to AI governance imperative. This year’s APB Forum seeks to address this challenge by bringing together distinguished experts from across the globe.
The 14th Asia Privacy Bridge Forum, held in conjunction with Privacy Global Edge, convenes under the theme “Behind the Scences: Enhancing AI Data Governance and Digital Responsibility.” This theme highlights the need to establish governance mechanisms that ensure the development of artificial intelligence strengthens rather than undermines fundamental rights and empowers citizens.
APB Forum seeks to advance its mission of fostering international collaboration on AI governance and data privacy, having evolved over 10 years into a platform of exceptional breadth and influence. Since its founding, it has brought together participants from more than 19 countries and engaged in sustained dialogue with international organizations including the OECD and APEC. Its deliberations have drawn on the expertise of 15 national information protection authorities, major research institutes, leading NGOs, and global law firms such as Baker McKenzie. This endeavor has been further enriched by the active involvement of technology leaders including Meta, Microsoft, Google, eBay, NVIDIA, ASML, NAVER, Kakao, NEXON, and NCSOFT, together with senior and young scholars from more than 40 universities worldwide.
This year’s gathering extends the distinguished legacy accumulated over the years, welcoming delegates committed to advancing AI governance and data privacy across Asia. By convening regulators, policymakers, industry leaders, academics, and civil society, this forum provides a unique venue for collaboration at a moment when the governance of artificial intelligence requires both urgency and vision.
Your participation affirms a shared commitment to building a trustworthy and inclusive digital future. The insights exchanged here will not only illuminate present challenges but also help forge AI data governance and privacy practices that endure across borders and generations.
Beomsoo KIM
Executive Director, Barun ICT Research Center
Yonsei University
“Behind the Scenes: Enhancing AI Data Governance and Digital Responsibility”
This year, the 14th Asia Privacy Bridge Forum moves beyond the polished facade of artificial intelligence to uncover the critical realities operating “behind the scenes.” Our journey begins within the enterprise itself in Scene 1, exploring how to move Beyond Compliance to the Corporate Culture by embedding genuine Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) into the very fabric of an organization. This internal commitment to ethics, however, inevitably confronts a broader societal challenge, leading us directly to Scene 2: The Architect's Dilemma, where we will debate the urgent need to forge a new social contract for data. Solving this dilemma requires more than top-down rules; it demands empowering the individual, pushing us in Scene 3 to look Beyond Governance and harness the transformative power of MyData and user-centric frameworks. With individuals empowered as the foundation, we can then lift our gaze in Scene 4 to The Next Frontier, charting a course for Asia's Collaborative Data Future where trust enables shared prosperity. By connecting these four vital scenes, the APB Forum is dedicated to building a comprehensive roadmap for a future of responsible innovation and genuine digital trust.
Keynote Speeches
How AI Agents Could Reshape Digital Privacy
Jan Ondrus
Professor ESSEC Business School, Director of Digital Disruption Centre
AI Legal System and the Roles of CPOs and CISOs
Beomsoo Kim
Prof. Yonsei University, Executive Director, BarunICT Research Center
