They are the first to know of any new security incident, equipment loss, new recruitment, unplanned software procurement or M&A.
Your company’s DPO is the person you have to consult when you have to handle a data deletion request from an end-user, want to pitch or make a testing run of your own devised method of processing data for the benefit of the company or arranged data exchange with a business partner.
Come meet them and ask what they do (and don’t forget to read the privacy handbook your company supplies newcomers with: many policies there are either written or approved by the DPO).
If your organisation did not designate one, don’t you worry: we host this DPO event just for you (and other DPO-interested people around here, to keep you company).