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Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Please note that all committee meetings are open to all attendees. If you are interested in one of these areas, please attend! Current committee leaders will set an agenda for the meeting and will sometimes feature a speaker. Each committee will meet for one hour, and following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year. 

Artificial Intelligence raises many issues both in respect of our own practice as lawyers and the impact on our clients’ business. Could smart contracts and machine learning vastly reduce our role? What industries will be most impacted by AI and when; should we regulate by industry or more generally? How do we ensure “ethics” are part of the decision making process? Can current intellectual property legislation deal with AI inventions or how can we protect a company’s IP? The European Commission is suspicious of AI; Are there dangers for consumers? Can access to big data be anti-competitive in certain circumstances?

• Richard Kemp, Kemp IT Law, United Kingdom, Moderator
• Sabine von Oelffen, Osborne Clarke, Germany
• Pierre Kirch, Paul Hastings LLP, France/Belgium 
• Peter Barry, Jaguar Land Rover, Ireland
• Matt Hervey, Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, United Kingdom

This session’s panelists will discuss key strategic and legal issues encountered in mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies and how these issues are perceived and addressed in diverse jurisdictions. Topics will include due diligence concerns, representation and warranty insurance, regulatory considerations, indemnification for intellectual property infringement, and transaction structure.  

• Rob Weiss, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, United States, Moderator
• Michelle Vigod, Goodmans LLP, Canada
• Alessandra Simons, Goodwin, United States
• Sven Greulich, Orrick, Germany
• Clara-Ann Gordon, Niederer Kraft Frey, Switzerland

eSport is gaming, computing, media, and sports events all at once. Fuelled by a wave of consoles and consumer spend, eSport is Fortnite, League of Legends and FIFA. For lawyers there are a multitude of issues: Is it a “sport”? What are the team/player dynamics and player welfare concerns? Where does technology law, IP, data, regulation, contract law, sponsorships and brand management fit in? Join leading global stakeholders comprising player representatives, teams, publishers and legal advisors in exploring the business and legal landscape of esports, discussing comparisons with traditional sports and reflecting on the future of the eSport global phenomenon.

• Trevor Keane, SportEgo, Ireland, Moderator
• Anna Baumann, Rogue, Germany
• Jonny Madill, Sheridans, London
• Simona Lavagnini, LGV Avvocati, Italy
• Andrew Cooke, Fnatic, United Kingdom
• Boğaç Erozan, Riot, Ireland

Many industries have gone through disruptive change. So is it time for the legal industry to go through it too, or is it already? Clients are increasingly looking to their legal advisors for greater cost management and transparency, efficiency in service delivery and proof of value. Is technology the solution to meeting those needs, and if it is, what challenges do law firms face in applying and adapting to the technology? In our panel discussion, we will hear the views and experience from the perspective of in-house legal counsel and operations, LegalTech providers and private practice lawyers.

• Diego Fernández, Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, Argentina Moderator
• Claire Fitzpatrick, ConsenSys, Ireland
• Alex Kelly, Brightflag, Ireland
• Mo Zain Ajaz, National Grid UK, United Kingdom
• Chris Lepp, Mercer, Ireland

Artificial Intelligence raises many issues both in respect of our own practice as lawyers and the impact on our clients’ business. Could smart contracts and machine learning vastly reduce our role? What industries will be most impacted by AI and when; should we regulate by industry or more generally? How do we ensure “ethics” are part of the decision making process? Can current intellectual property legislation deal with AI inventions or how can we protect a company’s IP? The European Commission is suspicious of AI; Are there dangers for consumers? Can access to big data be anti-competitive in certain circumstances?

• Richard Kemp, Kemp IT Law, United Kingdom, Moderator
• Sabine von Oelffen, Osborne Clarke, Germany
• Pierre Kirch, Paul Hastings LLP, France/Belgium 
• Peter Barry, Jaguar Land Rover, Ireland
• Matt Hervey, Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, United Kingdom

This session’s panelists will discuss key strategic and legal issues encountered in mergers and acquisitions involving technology companies and how these issues are perceived and addressed in diverse jurisdictions. Topics will include due diligence concerns, representation and warranty insurance, regulatory considerations, indemnification for intellectual property infringement, and transaction structure.

• Rob Weiss, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, United States, Moderator
• Michelle Vigod, Goodmans LLP, Canada
• Alessandra Simons, Goodwin, United States
• Sven Greulich, Orrick, Germany
• Clara-Ann Gordon, Niederer Kraft Frey, Switzerland

Cyber-attacks are unpredictable and hit businesses every day. Whilst the big ticket incidents generally make the headlines, almost all organisations will experience a cybersecurity incident at some point. As cyber threats constantly evolve, organisations must implement robust resilience measures, incident response plans and protocols for dealing with their aftermath, such as unauthorised disclosure of IP, trade secrets and personal data, customer contractual issues, media scrutiny, government investigations and litigation. Our panel of international lawyers and security experts will examine the increasing proliferation of cybersecurity incidents and their sophisticated nature, and enterprise-wide measures to manage these risks and the related regulatory burdens.

• Sharda Balaji, NovoJuris, India Moderator 
• Dan Hart, Seyfarth Shaw, United States
• Eoin Keary, Edgescan, Ireland
• Dave O'Reilly, FTR Solutions, Ireland
• Hélène Deschamps-Marquis, Deloitte, Canada

What do smart phones, tablets, GIFs, JPEGs and 5G all have in common – none of these would be as ubiquitous as they are without standard essential patents. The technology and patents underlying each of these has at some stage been subject to standard essential patent (SEP) licensing. Without a SEP structure we would all be fumbling about with multiple iterations of proprietary technology products all struggling to interoperate and communicate with each other. Simply put, the world of telecommunications would grind to a halt! SEPs and their licensing terms (known as FRAND – fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) are a big deal again thanks to some recent controversial UK High Court decisions (Unwired Planet v Huawei and Huawei v Conversant, now making their way to the Supreme Court) and the likelihood of SEPs and FRAND licences forming the standard structure for many applications of AI like autonomous vehicles. The ongoing saga of the Unwired Planet and Conversant cases gives rise to substantial debate from the perspective of jurisdiction, global licensing and settling FRAND terms including royalties. The cases also involve detailed discussions on the use/misuse of injunctions in the context of FRAND licensing and more broadly cases in this area deal with the cross over between technology, IP, competition and antitrust law. Many of the same issues occur in similar cases in the US such as FTC v Qualcomm.

• Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog, United States, Moderator
• Sophie Lawrance, Bristows LLP, United Kingdom
• Steve Andersen, International Center for Dispute Resolution, United States
• Arty Rajendra, Osborne Clarke, United Kingdom
• Ralph Nack, Noerr, Germany 

This panel session will discuss how international political developments (including Brexit) and increased regulatory intervention and powers are influencing corporate decision making in relation to data protection compliance. The wide ranging discussion is also expected to touch on the most current and topical issues in data protection including industry reaction/response to the first significant GDPR fines and enforcement trends.

• Melissa Maalouf, ZwillGen, United States, Moderator
• Idriss Kechida, Match Group, Ireland
• John Orta, Nextdoor, United States
• Eoin O'Dell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Philip Kempermann, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Germany

Business transformations are challenging, digital transformations are hard but digital transformations in healthcare are really hard.  All our clients wrestle with the issues around digital transformations and are themselves subjected to continuous pressure to “transform”.  This session will examine the issues by way of case studies on the radical transformations taking place in the Electronic Health industry.  The speakers all have hands-on practical experience of implementing change themselves or advising and assisting businesses with the transformation – what constitutes a successful transformation, how do you get the job done in a highly regulated environment, how do you bring the business with you?

• Phil Catania, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia, Moderator
• Philip Maurer, Google, United Kingdom
• Ashwini Mathor, Novartis, Ireland
• Dermot Byrne, Irish Medicines Verification Organisation, Ireland
• Silvia van Schaik, Bureau Brandeis, Netherlands

The story is eerily familiar. Customer engages service provider to implement an enterprise SAP solution across its various sites. The engagement is complex, multi-year and requires significant resources from both parties. Alas, the implementation is increasingly subject to delays and cost overruns. The relationship between the parties deteriorates. Customer refuses to accept and pay the provider invoices and ultimately terminates, and then sues the provider for more than $100 million. Provider counterclaims. Let the finger pointing begin! In a follow-up to the successful session in Milan CIS General Insurance v IBM UK: More Lessons learned from another Failed Agile Project, this session will review a second real-life lawsuit, in this case regarding a failed SAP implementation. How did this happen? How can you advise the clients? And what key lessons learned can you distill from this lawsuit to help your clients avoid these expensive, and very public, lawsuits? This session will have the two speakers alternate as counsel to plaintiff customer, and counsel to defendant vendor. Each speaker argues the actual facts of the lawsuit - from their perspective - with a view to identifying lessons learned in what is sure to be another memorable, practical and thought-provoking session.

• John Beardwood, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Canada
• Eugene Weitz, DXC Technology Managed Legal Solutions, United States

Anonymization and pseudonymization of data allows for, respectively, taking data out of the scope of GDPR or making them secure. During the workshop several anonymization and pseudonymization techniques will be presented and the participants will try to decide which of them is the most suitable in the context of GDPR. The discussion will also concern best practices for anonymization and pseudonimization of personal data. 

• Katarzyna Szczudlik, Wardynski & Partners, Poland

This workshop is the first in a series of sessions to be held by the Interactive Entertainment and Media Committee that address the liability issues faced by platform hosts and other online intermediaries and marketplaces. The multijurisdictional panel brought together for this workshop will feature participants from the United Kingdom, the European Union and North America, and the discussion will focus on recent developments in platform host liability relating to advertising, creative content, trademarks and other third party content.

• Jeremy Morton, Temple Bright, United Kingdom
• Axel Anderl, DORDA, Austria
• Charles Mudd, Mudd Law, United States

In May 2019, ITechLaw published Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework, which is an in-depth review of eight policy principles related to
ethical guideposts that encourage the responsible development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence. The policy framework has garnered
comments and questions and we are seeking discussion on the revised framework, to be available in May 2020 at the ITechLaw Denver conference.
This workshop will discuss the following issues over the course of the two timeslots:
• Open access principles for AI systems
• Data Sharing principles for AI systems
• Data Quality thresholds for training data sets
These issues chiefly sit across the Open Data and Fair Competition, Privacy, and Safety and Reliability principles (and their associated
chapters), with some reference also to Fairness and Non-Discrimination and AI and Intellectual Property.
To fully engage in the conversation, we suggest that you will have reviewed at least these key three principles. Please come prepared with
constructive comments, questions, and analysis to share. The book will be provided to all delegates attending the conference and the framework is
available in the book and online for free at www.itechlaw.org/ResponsibleAI.

• John Buyers, Osborne Clarke, United Kingdom
• Susan Barty, CMS London, United Kingdom

A carefully integrated dispute resolution strategy is a key factor in securing the value of technologies and associated IP rights.  To manage and resolve any conflicts efficiently, parties must be familiar with their dispute resolution options. This session – led by lawyers with extensive international tech and IP dispute resolution experience – will highlight the respective benefits, and flag other considerations, of mediation, arbitration, and litigation as means for resolving disputes in a time and cost-effective manner. The session will also cover the essentials, and the pitfalls, of dispute resolution contract clauses.

• Adam Rattray, WIPO
• Stuart Davey, Pinsent Masons, United Kingdom

Anonymization and pseudonymization of data allows for, respectively, taking data out of the scope of GDPR or making them secure. During the workshop several anonymization and pseudonymization techniques will be presented and the participants will try to decide which of them is the most suitable in the context of GDPR. The discussion will also concern best practices for anonymization and pseudonimization of personal data. 

• Katarzyna Szczudlik, Wardynski & Partners, Poland

This workshop is the first in a series of sessions to be held by the Interactive Entertainment and Media Committee that address the liability issues faced by platform hosts and other online intermediaries and marketplaces. The multijurisdictional panel brought together for this workshop will feature participants from the United Kingdom, the European Union and North America, and the discussion will focus on recent developments in platform host liability relating to advertising, creative content, trademarks and other third party content.

• Jeremy Morton, Temple Bright, United Kingdom
• Axel Anderl, DORDA, Austria
• Charles Mudd, Mudd Law, United States

In May 2019, ITechLaw published Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework, which is an in-depth review of eight policy principles related to
ethical guideposts that encourage the responsible development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence. The policy framework has garnered comments and questions and we are seeking discussion on the revised framework, to be available in May 2020 at the ITechLaw Denver conference.This workshop will discuss the following issues over the course of the two timeslots:
• Open access principles for AI systems
• Data Sharing principles for AI systems
• Data Quality thresholds for training data sets
These issues chiefly sit across the Open Data and Fair Competition, Privacy, and Safety and Reliability principles (and their associated
chapters), with some reference also to Fairness and Non-Discrimination and AI and Intellectual Property.
To fully engage in the conversation, we suggest that you will have reviewed at least these key three principles. Please come prepared with
constructive comments, questions, and analysis to share. The book will be provided to all delegates attending the conference and the framework is
available in the book and online for free at www.itechlaw.org/ResponsibleAI.

• John Buyers, Osborne Clarke, United Kingdom
• Susan Barty, CMS London, United Kingdom

A carefully integrated dispute resolution strategy is a key factor in securing the value of technologies and associated IP rights.  To manage and resolve any conflicts efficiently, parties must be familiar with their dispute resolution options. This session – led by lawyers with extensive international tech and IP dispute resolution experience – will highlight the respective benefits, and flag other considerations, of mediation, arbitration, and litigation as means for resolving disputes in a time and cost-effective manner. The session will also cover the essentials, and the pitfalls, of dispute resolution contract clauses.

• Adam Rattray, WIPO
• Stuart Davey, Pinsent Masons, United Kingdom