Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Integrating law and policy compliance into the development process
• Privacy or data protection impact assessments in the engineering context
• Privacy engineering and data-driven software development
• Privacy engineering in machine learning and AI
• Privacy engineering and data subject access rights and data portability
• Privacy risk management models
• Technical standards, heuristics and best practices for privacy engineering
• User privacy and data protection requirements
• Management of privacy requirements with other system requirements
• Privacy-preserving architectures for databases, networks, and the cloud
• Privacy engineering in the context of interaction design and usability
• Validation and verification of privacy properties and requirements
• Engineering Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Integration of PETs into systems or the development ecosystem
• Tools and formal languages supporting privacy engineering
• Teaching and training privacy engineering
• Pilots and real-world applications
• Evaluation of privacy engineering methods, technologies and tools
• Organizational, legal, political and economic aspects of privacy engineering

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive as IWPE is interested in all aspects of privacy engineering.