Agenda

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

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. Following the meeting, we encourage you to join as an ITechLaw member to stay connected with these individuals throughout the year.

Speakers:

Silvia van Schaik, bureau Brandeis, Netherlands

Silvia van Schaik is a senior associate at bureau Brandeis, a boutique law firm in Amsterdam. Prior to joining bureau Brandeis she worked at international law firms CMS and BakerMcKenzie. Silvia litigates and advises about e-commerce, copyright, privacy, IT, media law and fundamental rights. Many of her clients are active in the digital economy. She acts for and against big tech platforms such as Facebook, Google and eBay. Her daily work includes many topics that are governed by the DSA.

Anke Strijbos, Brinkhof, Netherlands

Anke is a partner at Brinkhof and specialising in media, copyright and information law, with a particular focus on audiovisual rights and platform regulation. As a specialist in media law, Anke represents clients such as broadcasting companies, audiovisual media services and video platform services. Her advisory services encompass media regulation, copyrights and combating piracy. She also engages in negotiation and, where necessary, litigates in connection with compensation for collective and individual copyrights. For instance between collective management organisations and media and technology companies. Anke also provides global media and technology companies with advice regarding the regulation of digital services in Europe and the Netherlands, including on the Digital Services Act (DSA), the AI Act and the EU Copyright Directive (EUCD or DSM Directive). This also extends to assisting clients in connection with compliance and investigations by supervisory authorities, and to conducting civil and administrative proceedings.

Philipp Koehler, Taylor Wessing PartG mbB, Germany

Philipp is a German bar-certified specialist lawyer for copyright/media law and for IT law. He advises national/international technology and media companies on legal issues and questions relating to copyright, e-commerce, IT and data protection law. A focus of his expertise is on platform regulation, the drafting/negotiation of complex IP/IT agreements and advise on business models under aspects of e-commerce, data protection and distance selling law. In this context, he also represents his clients in respective disputes before the courts. Further, Philipp is a lecturer for IP/IT law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Speakers:

DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo is Faculty in Law & Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business. She researches legal and policy issues concerning privacy, cybersecurity, and technology. Kennedy-Mayo is also a Senior Fellow at the Cross-Border Data Forum. Kennedy-Mayo is the co-author of the 2018 edition, 2020 edition, and upcoming 2023 edition of the IAPP book entitled “U.S. Private-Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals.” Kennedy-Mayo is also the co-author of several recent articles focused on the risks to cybersecurity from data localization. Kennedy-Mayo has been a licensed attorney in the U.S. for 20 years.

Annarita Nicoletto, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Annarita is the in-house legal counsel of the Blue Brain Project (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/EPFL), the Swiss brain initiative for building the world’s first biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mouse brain.  With over 15 years of international in-house and private practice experience, originally focused on commercial law and IP, she advises on data science, big data, and AI. Helping entrepreneurs, and companies to create and run their data-based businesses is what drives her commitment. Qualified lawyer, she holds a LL.M. in IP Law (University of Edinburgh), and a LL.M. in International Business Law (University of Zurich).

Arved Waltemathe, Waltemathe Anwaltskanzlei, Germany

Arved Waltemathe is a German attorney-at-law, who started his career with Lovells more than 20 years ago and founded his own law firm in 2006. The intersection of software law, copyright law, data law, trade secret law and competition law form the core of his practice. Above all, he advises on agreements and dispute resolution re. IT projects and technology transfers. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science of the University of Goettingen and a Master of Laws of the London School of Economics (both degrees in EU law). Since more than 15 years he is bar-certified specialist for intellectual property law.

In conjunction with the AI Act, the Commission has advanced separate proposals to deal with liability originating from the use of AI. One of these proposals is an amendment to the Product Liability Directive, which creates a strict liability for producers of AI systems, covering damages to persons and goods. The other proposal deals with tort, and covers the broader scope of liability claims caused by the output of liability systems. This presentation will describe the newly suggested liability regime.

Speakers:

Kevin Rihtar, Karanovic & Partners, Slovenia

Kevin Rihtar is an attorney and the head of commercial department at Ketler & Partners, a member of Karanovic in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He regularly advises clients in relation to commercial law, artificial intelligence, healthcare, intellectual property law, data privacy, electronic communications and product liability. Kevin has broad experience with advising on regulatory and compliance issues, outlining strategies in relation to compliant conduct of business and dispute resolution. In addition to his practical involvement in law, Kevin is author of numerous publications in the area of international sale of goods, corporate law, product liability and intellectual property. In the areas he covers, he has extensive comparative overview in relation to EU regulation.

Jacopo Liguori, Withersworldwide, Italy

Jacopo has over twenty years of experience in the field of information technology, privacy and data protection. He assists companies in setting up GDPR compliance programs, gap analysis and remediation plans, analysis of data flows, draft of records of processing, risk assessment, data governance and management.  Jacopo holds a research doctorate in intellectual property, is a speaker at numerous conferences and seminars and his articles are published in various legal and sector journals and work of legal doctrine. Jacopo leads the Italian intellectual property, technology & privacy team in Withers Italy.

Speakers:

Sari Depreeuw, Crowell & Moring, Belgium

With in-depth knowledge of European and Belgian copyright, software, and data law, companies trust Sari Depreeuw with the drafting of forward-looking and complex contracts, strategic advice, and litigation. Clients in the tech, media, and entertainment sectors rely on Sari to protect their intellectual property and other immaterial assets. Sari is an active member of the Belgian copyright community. She has conducted studies for the European Commission and the Belgian government on the subject of copyright. She is also president of the Belgian Copyright Association and a member of the editorial board of Computerrecht, a peer-reviewed, Dutch-Belgian IT journal. Sari is a part-time professor at the UCLouvain/Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, where she teaches IP and media law.

David Bomhard, Aitava Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Germany

David Bomhard is a physicist and lawyer. He specialises in all legal topics related to artificial intelligence and data economy, in addition to traditional IT law. He has extensive expertise in AI and cloud projects as well as IT outsourcing in regulated environments (including the financial sector, digital health, critical infrastructure). Furthermore, he is a lecturer for IT and data law at the University of Passau. Legal 500 Germany lists David as a "Rising Star" in the category Information Technology And Digitalisation.

In conjunction with the AI Act, the Commission has advanced separate proposals to deal with liability originating from the use of AI. One of these proposals is an amendment to the Product Liability Directive, which creates a strict liability for producers of AI systems, covering damages to persons and goods. The other proposal deals with tort, and covers the broader scope of liability claims caused by the output of liability systems. This presentation will describe the newly suggested liability regime.

Speakers:

Kevin Rihtar, Karanovic & Partners, Slovenia

Kevin Rihtar is an attorney and the head of commercial department at Ketler & Partners, a member of Karanovic in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He regularly advises clients in relation to commercial law, artificial intelligence, healthcare, intellectual property law, data privacy, electronic communications and product liability. Kevin has broad experience with advising on regulatory and compliance issues, outlining strategies in relation to compliant conduct of business and dispute resolution. In addition to his practical involvement in law, Kevin is author of numerous publications in the area of international sale of goods, corporate law, product liability and intellectual property. In the areas he covers, he has extensive comparative overview in relation to EU regulation.

Jacopo Liguori, Withersworldwide, Italy

Jacopo has over twenty years of experience in the field of information technology, privacy and data protection. He assists companies in setting up GDPR compliance programs, gap analysis and remediation plans, analysis of data flows, draft of records of processing, risk assessment, data governance and management.  Jacopo holds a research doctorate in intellectual property, is a speaker at numerous conferences and seminars and his articles are published in various legal and sector journals and work of legal doctrine. Jacopo leads the Italian intellectual property, technology & privacy team in Withers Italy.

Speakers:

Sari Depreeuw, Crowell & Moring, Belgium

With in-depth knowledge of European and Belgian copyright, software, and data law, companies trust Sari Depreeuw with the drafting of forward-looking and complex contracts, strategic advice, and litigation. Clients in the tech, media, and entertainment sectors rely on Sari to protect their intellectual property and other immaterial assets. Sari is an active member of the Belgian copyright community. She has conducted studies for the European Commission and the Belgian government on the subject of copyright. She is also president of the Belgian Copyright Association and a member of the editorial board of Computerrecht, a peer-reviewed, Dutch-Belgian IT journal. Sari is a part-time professor at the UCLouvain/Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, where she teaches IP and media law.

David Bomhard, Aitava Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Germany

David Bomhard is a physicist and lawyer. He specialises in all legal topics related to artificial intelligence and data economy, in addition to traditional IT law. He has extensive expertise in AI and cloud projects as well as IT outsourcing in regulated environments (including the financial sector, digital health, critical infrastructure). Furthermore, he is a lecturer for IT and data law at the University of Passau. Legal 500 Germany lists David as a "Rising Star" in the category Information Technology And Digitalisation.

Speakers: 

Bart van Reeken, Van Doorne N.V., Netherlands

Bart negotiates in a way which contributes to the success of relationships. He allocates much of his time to large IT and business process outsourcings which often stretch over multiple countries and jurisdictions. His work covers a broad spectrum, ranging from negotiating and drafting outsourcing agreements, software development agreements, software licences, implementation and SaaS agreements, to handling software license and compliance issues and IT-related disputes. He also has experience in setting up joint development, mutually integrated production, and joint marketing arrangements.Bart’s primary focus is structuring effective business relations. He likes taking a holistic view and forging an inspiring cooperation in diverse teams, leading to creative approaches and solutions. Bart has worked for more than half of the larger Netherlands based multinationals, including most of the larger Netherlands based banks and insurance companies. By teaching post-academic courses for young lawyers and performing occasional work for fintech companies and other start-ups, Bart likes to keep connected with trends and innovations that can benefit his larger clients.

Speakers: 

Sheena Jacob, CMS, Singapore - Moderator

Sheena Jacob is a Partner and Head of TMC Asia at CMS.  She is a leading Asian regional technology lawyer with a strong cybersecurity, media, privacy and fintech practice. Holding double international privacy certifications from the IAPP, Sheena has been active in technology in Asia for more than 25 years.  She also represents a significant number of technology players in various sectors including energy, infrastructure, hospitality and life sciences. She has strong experience with cybersecurity and data localization issues across Asia. Sheena works closely with a team of technology lawyers and advises on regulatory issues in the media, telecoms and fintech sectors in Asia including on issues relating to the use of AI and the consequences that follow. Sheena is ranked as a Top 50 TMT lawyer in Asia and is known for her sound, commercial advice. She was named Singapore Private Practitioner of the Year 2023 by Asian Legal Business. She is one of only a few women lawyers active in the NFT space in Asia and has advised clients on the creation and mining of NFTs and their regulation across the various countries in Asia. She advises companies on their digital assets including gaming tokens, NFTs as well as payment platforms and digital payment tokens or cryptocurrencies.  Sheena was a member of the Global Board of iTechlaw and is the Vice Chair of the Asian Conference Organizing Committee. She has written numerous articles on privacy, cybersecurity and the regulation of fintech and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Charles Morgan, McCarthy Tétrault, Canada

Charles is the national co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Cyber/Data Group and former leader of our Technology Law group. He is the former President of the International Technology Lawyers Association (iTechLaw). Charles’ practice takes a 360-degree approach to data, helping clients extract the tremendous value inherent in data, while at the same time managing the associated risks. He is a recognized thought-leader on the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence. Charles regularly serves as "breach coach" for our clients in matters of enterprise-wide risk, including on three of the largest cyber incidents in Canadian history. Charles’ practice is focused on advising many of our firm’s largest clients on their most complex commercial transactions involving IT outsourcing, systems integration, cloud, financial technologies, data security, artificial intelligence, privacy, licensing, e-commerce and telecommunications. As former President of ITechLaw, Charles developed a worldwide network of trusted correspondent counsel that allow him to provide seamless client service around the globe, alerting clients to new developments and helping them to manage risks worldwide. He was named Montréal’s Technology “Lawyer of the Year” in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada and is ranked a “Global Elite Thought Leader” regarding Data Privacy and Protection, Data Security and Information Technology in WWL Thought Leaders Global Elite 2022.

This workshop explores the legal challenges arising from the complex interconnectedness of technology, which can disproportionately affect marginalized groups. Participants will gain insights into issues like data protection, discrimination, accessibility, intellectual property, and liability and learn practical strategies to proactively address these challenges, ultimately contributing to a more inclusive and safe digital ecosystem.

Speakers:

Nana Nwachukwu, Tostan International, Senegal

Nana is an accomplished lawyer and policy consultant with over a decade of expertise, applying her skills to policy matters in numerous sectors across several countries. Throughout her career, she has built robust relationships with various global civil society stakeholders, academics, and government figures. Her portfolio includes designing knowledge management systems and taxonomy frameworks for various donors and organizations, such as the UN, OCP, GIZ, and DFID (now FCDO). Nana has a deep passion for fortifying learning communities, focusing particularly on enhancing civic spaces. She's fascinated by the potential of technology in delivering humanitarian responses and the unique challenges it presents in facilitating change. Her current research agenda involves the intersections of emerging technologies, ethical considerations, and user experience. Nana co-coordinates the AI and Agency in the Global South working group at BKCHarvard.

xeenarh Mohammed, Africa Digital Defenders Partnership, Austria

xeenarh Mohammed is a lawyer, author, community mobiliser and digital security expert. xeenarh has been working with feminist and LGBTQI+ groups  around Africa to chart long term strategy, and build digital, and holistic security plans and policies. xeenarh is the co-author of She Called Me Woman, Nameless, and a host of other handbooks, manuals and research papers on digital security, roadmaps to the liberation of queer folks, and feminist organising.

Chioma Agwuegbo, TechHerNG, Nigeria

Chioma Agwuegbo is the Executive Director of TechHerNG and a Development Communication researcher who believes in using technology and digital tools to advance women and girls. TechHerNG operates KURAM, a platform that records and responds to incidents of online gender-based violence. TechHer's work also includes a digital security self-assessment tool, online safety manuals for parents and children, and an online violation recognition toolkit for young women. Chioma serves on the boards of PLAN International Nigeria and OXFAM International and as a co-chair of the Participation and Accountability Working Group for the Natural Language Processing - Community of Practice.

Speakers:

Nicole Fortunato, Morais Leitão, Portugal

Nicole Fortunato joined the firm in 2021. She is a member of the corporate and M&A team and of the TMT team. She works essentially with companies and transactions driven to new and emerging technologies (blockchain, smart contracts, AI - Artificial Intelligence, IoT - Internet of Things, RPA - Robotic Process Automation, edge computing, etc.). She is specialized in e-commerce, legal development of Apps, software contracting and legal development and digital marketing, having a vast experience in legal advice in this business area, including as in house lawyer for large companies in the sector. Nicole also provides advice on media and privacy matters when related to her practice areas.