How Could Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Be A Bad Idea? A Discussion
Webinar - Italy, States of Alderney

We do not yet know exactly to what extent vaccination prevents virus transmission, how long its protection from severe or critical covid-19 disease will last, and how effective current vaccines are against known variants. Nevertheless we anticipate the time when answers emerge for the unknowns. Post covid-19 recovery is unlikely to take place unless societies transition from blunt quarantine tools to a more nuanced reliance on identifying settings-specific transmission risk, transmission hotspots and vulnerable populations. Intensive, individual-level contact tracing strategies, while appropriate to the early stages in an outbreak, are unlikely to be effective as standalone post-pandemic recovery strategy. What is the right legal and operational infrastructure to lift restrictions on movement in proportion to decreasing risks? Are vaccination passports the appropriate tool?

Speakers:

Chiara Rustici is a cross-border GDPR and EU data regulation analyst. As an independent academic researcher, she is affiliated with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni (DIET), the telecommunication engineering department of "La Sapienza" University of Rome. As a professional director, she lead business units for Euromoney Financial training, Metal Bulletin, Steel Business Briefing and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
On a volunteer basis, she is immediate past Chair of the BCS Law Specialists Group, sits on the BCS Programme, Practice and Policy Committee and is part of the BCS working party on data flows.
Formerly an International Law tutor for the University of Edinburgh, research fellow with Italy's CNR, teaching fellow in Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa, and Philosophy of Law research scholar at the university of Milan, she has published extensively on Common Law, the role of judicial precedent and case-based legal reasoning.

Chiara Rustici's views are her own, do not represent BCS and should not be seen to endorse any digital ID product. She has no financial association with Catenae Innovation.

Robert McDowall spent his career in banking and finance in the City of London, working for a number of institutions including Merrill Lynch, Pru-Bache and Singer and Friedlander, and retains a number of consultancies and directorships in the finance and technology sectors.
Robert is a former President of the Folklore Society, an Academic Charity. He has delivered a number of papers, lectures and blogs on many facets of folklore from literature and food and drink to finance, money, urban myths and legends. He currently serves on the Finance Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and chairs its fund raising committee.
He lives in the Channel Islands. He is a former member of the States of Alderney (2013-2016) where he chaired the Policy and Finance Committee and the Finance sub-committee. He currently chairs Conservatives Abroad in the Channel Islands and sits on the Board of Conservatives Abroad.

Guy Meyer is currently the CEO of Catenae Innovation plc, a Media Technology company, listed on AIM in London. He was the Founder & CEO of an award-winning cross-platform agency, Firebelly, that provided marketing services for clients - Disney, Harper Collins and Universal Pictures, amongst others. He sold Firebelly in 2012 and consulted businesses across diverse sectors before joining Catenae in 2017 to help restructure the company and turn it around. Guy is a strong advocate for the value that good governance and compliance deliver for shareholders.

He also is a senior tutor on the National Film and Television School’s 'Creative Business for Entrepreneurs and Executives' MA degree course that covers all the creative industries from Theatre and Publishing to Film and Digital.

Guy's COV-ID can be found here. COV-ID is a simple, universal solution to the challenges that Covid-19 presents to businesses and service providers, powered by blockchain technology. A mobile app contains a securely encrypted digital wallet that provides demonstrable proof of an individual’s Covid-19 status.

Date
Wednesday, 07 April 2021

Time
15:00 - 15:45 BST

Cost
Free

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Speaker(s):
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    Chiara Rustici
    Independent Data Regulation Analyst
  • Bob McDowall
    Robert McDowall
    Business Adviser
    Z/Yen Group
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    Guy Meyer
    CEO
    Catenae Innovation
Chairman:
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    Professor Michael Mainelli
    Executive Chairman
    Z/Yen Group