Renato Opice Blum

Career

Renato Opice Blum is an attorney and economist, currently the chairman of Opice Blum e Bruno Advogados.

Considered a pioneer in his field, Renato has won awards and is being recommended for his practice in Technology and Digital Law by the most prestigious legal guides, including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, Leaders League, Who's Who Legal, WWL Thought Leaders, Best Lawyers, Análise Advocacia, and others.

Career highlights:

- Judge at Inclusive Innovation Challenge at MIT;

- Arbitrator of the Mediation and Arbitration Chamber of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP);

- Arbitrator of the Chamber of Arbitration of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná (FIEP);

- Director at International Technology Law Association;

- Regent patron of the Digital Law and Data Protection LLM program of the Brazilian School of Law;

- Coordinator and professor of the Digital Law in Business: Strategies and Applications course at Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP);

Coordinator and professor of “Direito 4.0” course at FAAP;

- Coordinator and professor of Data Protection and Digital Law programs at Research and Education Institute;

- Coordinator of the MBA in Digital Law at Sao Paulo Law School (EPD);

- Coordinator of the MBA in Digital Legal 360°: Data Protection, Management, and Innovation at Legal Concept Academy (LCA);

- Professor of the extension course on Digital Law of Escola Paulista da Magistratura (EPM);

- Professor at Universidade de São Paulo (USP/PECE);

- Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie;

Frequently invited speaker of programs and conferences such as:

- International and European Data Protection Day (EUROFORUM);

- LegalTech;

- Technology Policy Institute, Council of Europe;

- American Bar Association (ABA);

- International Technology Law Association (ITECHLAW);

- High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA);

- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP);

- Georgetown Law CLE;

- International Law Association (ILA);

- Inter-American Bar Association (IBA);

- Unitize.

Professional Memberships

- President of the Data Protection Brazilian Association;

- Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's Privacy, E-Commerce and Data Security committee of the American Bar Association (ABA);

- Vice-Chair of the South American Associates Commission of the International Technology Law Association;

- Vice-President of Law and Innovation Special Commission at the Sao Paulo Bar Association;

- Invited Member of Octopus Cybercrime Community (Council of Europe);

- Member of the Policy and Scientific Committee at the European Privacy Association-Think Tank;

- Member of EuroPrivacy Board of Senior Experts in Data Protection;

- Member of Startups Committee of FECOMERCIO SP;

- Member of the Brazilian Bar Association – Section São Paulo (OAB/SP);

- Member of ABA – Business Law Section.

Publications

Author and coordinator of several books such as:

- Data Protection - Challenges and Solutions in Compliance with the Law (2020);

- Data Protection Officer - Theory and Practice According to LGPD and GDPR (2020);

- among other relevant books and papers.

Education