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Compliance as a Growth Strategy: What Every Scaling Business Gets Wrong

About this event

Most growing businesses treat compliance the same way: Something that has to get done before someone complains. A cookie banner goes up because GDPR says so. A privacy policy gets copied from a template. And the rest — ISO 27001, SOC 2, information security policies — gets pushed to "later" until a prospect asks for it and suddenly it's urgent.

But compliance touches every stage of business growth. Your website is your first customer-facing compliance surface. Your data handling practices determine whether enterprise buyers trust you enough to sign. Your certifications decide whether you can enter regulated supply chains or close public-sector deals. Companies that build compliance intentionally close bigger deals and waste less time scrambling when the ask finally comes.

In this webinar, experts from Usercentrics and Kertos walk through the compliance requirements for SMBs and scaling businesses, and how to turn compliance into your secret competitive advantage. What to prioritize, what to automate, and where most companies lose time doing it wrong. 

In this 45-minute webinar, you will learn:

  • Where compliance starts for every digital business, and what "good enough" actually looks like at the website level
  • How certifications like ISO 27001 and SOC 2 shift from nice-to-have to deal-closing requirements as you scale
  • A practical framework for sequencing compliance milestones alongside business growth from two companies that help businesses get this right every day
  • How compliance can actually become your biggest competitive differentiator

Register today to secure your seat for free, and bring your questions to this live webinar!

Hosted by

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    Tilman Harmeling Strategy & Market Intelligence @ Usercentrics

    Since the early days of GDPR, Tilman has tracked how privacy markets, regulations, and technologies evolve. At Usercentrics he built the Market Intelligence function from scratch - covering competitive intelligence, market sizing, analyst relations, and AI product strategy. Tilman is involved in publicly funded academic projects studying consent behaviour and UX, grounding his industry perspective in empirical evidence rather than opinion alone. He holds analyst relationships with Gartner and Forrester, and contributes actively to IAB, BVDW, and Bitkom working groups. His current focus is agentic privacy infrastructure and the strategic risks of AI-generated compliance tooling.

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    Kilian Schmidt Co-founder & CEO @ Kertos GmbH

    With over a decade of legal and compliance expertise, Dr. Kilian Schmidt leads KERTOS as Co-Founder and CEO, building automated solutions for frameworks like GDPR, AI Act, NIS2, ISO 27001 and SOC 2. His mission: simplifying compliance for organizations navigating the digital age — fostering trust, security, and scalability. Passionate about innovation, he empowers businesses with tools that turn regulatory complexity into competitive advantage.

Usercentrics

Usercentrics is a leading Consent Management Platform (CMP) that empowers companies to obtain, manage, and document user consent for full privacy compliance and trust-building.