Events & publications: my external activities in Q1 2026

Restarting my overview of external activities with events and publications between January and March 2026. Despite our Christmas & annual holidays, it was a busy period between AI, data, digital sovereignty and better regulation.

Find below my January/February/March summary with links and more info about my external activities in the past twelve weeks. Trips brought me to Davos, Munich, Frankfurt, Kempten, Leuven, Paris, and Hamburg. In total, I did 26 events as speaker, recorded 8 podcasts / interviews, released 3 publications, and was quoted 4x by the press.

📖 2026/03/31: Interview on the AI Act Omnibus in the March edition of the Austrian 'AILEX - Fachzeitschrift für KI-Recht by MANZ'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH. Read it here. 

🎧 2026/03/27: Podcast on 'The EU Policy Machine is Broken. Brussels Lacks Courage!' for the AI & Data Democratization Podcast. Listen to it here.

🎤 2026/03/26: Virtual keynote on 'From AI Act to National Implementation - Where the AI Act needs Institutions' during the 'Warsaw AI Seminar on AI Governance and Regulatory Sandboxes' in Warsaw.

🎧 2026/03/25: Podcast on 'Folge 90: KI Omnibus Update März 2026 reloaded: Reallabore Spezial' for the 'DataAgenda Datenschutz Podcast' with Rolf Schwartmann. Listen to it here.

🎤 2026/03/25: Keynote during a web session on 'Das EU Digital Omnibus Package - Fokus KI (Teil II)' organised by Deutsche Börse. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/24: Keynote and Panelist on the AI & Data Omnibus at the 'Working Group on Data protection' organised by Bitkom in Hamburg. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/24: Virtual keynote on the AI & Data Omnibus at the 'Working Group on Data protection' and 'Working Group on AI' organised by BDI. More info here​.

🎤 2026/03/23: Panelist on 'EU Digital Regulations' during the conference on 'How can Europe simplify its digital rulebook without weakening it?' organised by HEC Paris and the Brussels Privacy Hub. More info here.

🎧 2026/03/20: Interview on 'Welche rechtlichen Leitplanken gelten - und wo Grauzonen bleiben?' during KPMG's Real Talk 'Digital sovereignty: Which dependencies you should accept – and which you should not'. Watch it here.

🎧 2026/03/19: Podcast on 'Folge 89: KI Omnibus Update März 2026' for the 'DataAgenda Datenschutz Podcast' with Rolf Schwartmann. Listen to it here.

🎤 2026/03/19: Keynote and Q&A during Munich IAPP KnowledgeNet Chapter on 'European Commission's Digital Omnibus Proposals and Their Chances of Becoming EU Law'. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/19: Keynote during the Techno-Democracy Coalition workshop in Leuven. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/18: Keynote on the AI Act Omnibus during the 20th FinTech Regulation Committee (FRC) meeting organised by ESBG. More info here.

🎧 2026/03/17: Podcast on 'Digital Sovereignty: Can Europe Take Back Control?' for the Tech podcast of Handelsblatt. Listen to it here.

🎤 2026/03/16: Keynote on 'Digital Policies from Brussels' during the COKIT-Lunch in Kempten. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/12: Keynote during the Roundtable on European Digital Sovereignty organised by SKAD in Frankfurt. More info here.

📖 2026/03/11: Quoted by Le Espanol on 'The EU reconfigures the AI Law by the fast track and arouses criticism about its processing'. Read it here.

📖 2026/03/11: Mentioned by Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier "Die Streitpunkte beim KI-Omnibus". Read it here.

📖 2026/03/09: Mentioned by Politico EU in their Morning Technology Newsletter on 'AI rule rollback races toward finish line'. Read it here.

🎤 2026/03/04: Kick-off statement during the CERRE's Regulatory Lab on 'A more coherent EU Digital Rulebook'.

🎤 2026/03/04: Keynote during the Roundtable on 'Competitiveness and Resilience in a Fragmented AI, Cloud, Data Landscape' during the '2026 IIF EUROPEAN SUMMIT' organised by Institute of International Finance. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/03: Video keynote during 'KI Briefing' in Stuttgart by GovTech Deutschland. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/02: Panelist on 'EU digital regulation: too much of a good thing?' during the CEPS Ideas Lab 2026. More info here.

🎤 2026/03/02: Keynote and Q&A on the AI Act Omnibus during Digital Europes, Bitkom, Numeum's AI Info Session.

🎤 2026/02/25: Panelist on 'Keynote Conversation: Digital Regulation and the European Way' during 'Digital Platforms Summit 2026' organised by CERRE. More info here.

📖 2026/02/24: Published 'Digital Resilience Tracker #2 and #3' on this website. Read it here.

🎤 2026/02/04: Keynote on the 'Digital Legislation Labyrinth' and Panelist on 'Digitaler Fitness Check - Wie schafft Europa endlich den digitalen Durchbruch?' organised by IHK Bayern and WKO. More info here.

🎧 2026/02/02: Podcast on 'Folge 84: Digital Omnibus Update Februar 2026' for the 'DataAgenda Datenschutz Podcast' with Rolf Schwartmann. Listen to it here.

🎤 2026/01/29: Panelist during American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) webinar on 'What is the state of AI governance?'. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/29: Panelist during Robotics & AI Law Society - RAILS webinar on the Digital Omnibus. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/28: Panelist during the 'SwissCore Research & Innovation Seminar' for a panel on 'Digital Stacks and Artificial Intelligence'. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/27: Panelist on 'A roadmap towards cross-regulatory cooperation at scale' during the Digital Clearinghouse 2.0 conference organised by the EDPS. More info here.

📖 2026/01/27: Mentioned by Politico EU in their Morning Technology Newsletter on 'The Grok probe, unpacked'. Read it here.

📖 2026/01/25: Published an article on "Der Digitale Omnibus der EU: Zwischen notwendiger Vereinfachung und blindem Aktionismus" in 'EuDIR – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Daten- und Informationsrecht' edition #1.2026. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/22: Participant at the TTT Fellows of Practice annual workshop and the New Year’s Reception at the TUM Think Tank. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/21: Panelist of the European Resilience Summit in Davos on 'Why Resilience Has Become a Board Topic and What Boards Must Actually Do'. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/21: Participant of an AI House roundtable in Davos on 'The Next Wave of AI Models: Small, Specialised and Sovereign' organised by Inception. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/20: Panelist at the unDavos summit in the 'REWIRE the Organization for AI' section for a panel on on 'The Architecture of Intelligence | Powering AI at Scale' in Davos. More info here.

🎤 2026/01/14: Keynote at the 'CEPS Task Force: Next steps for EU law and regulation for the digital world' on 'EU digital policies & Better Regulation". Read more about the format.