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EVENT: GDPR - IS YOUR BUSINESS COVERED? GDPR - Is Your Business Covered? On June 7th, 2018, SACC-Philadelphia and NACC-Philadelphia hosted this year’s first event in the series on Business Technology seminars, titled: GDPR - Is Your Business Covered? at Hero Digital The event consisted of a panel discussion on the European Union’s new regulation on how companies use and store personal data information, titled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This law went into effect at the end of May and affects companies that have customers or employees located within the European Union. The panel of experts in law, blockchain and cyber risk discussed some of the GDPR challenges that American businesses may encounter and how to overcome them in the best way possible. Maria Johansson, project manager at HERO Digital and SACC-Philadelphia’s Secretary, was the moderator for the evening. It was a lively and interesting seminar, followed by further discussions and networking after the panel had finished. The panelists were: Jordan Fischer, Cofounder of XPAN Law Group Shiraz Saeed, National Practice Leader at Cyber Risk at STARR Companies Jennifer Lendler, President of Alea Advisors A special thank you to HERO Digital who hosted this event, and a big thank you to our panelists and NACC. More pictures on sacc-philadelphia.org and our facebook page Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce- Philadelphia page 20