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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. 

Decarbonizing the transport system has become an increasingly pressing issue. Electric mobility can play a key role in such a process. But not only does electric mobility mean introducing electric vehicles on the market, but also, and especially, implementing efficient and accessible recharging facilities, within private properties and in public areas, capable of efficiently powering such means of transport. E-mobility further requires enhanced efficiency of the battery technology as well as of the electrical grid.  A new business model is spreading its wings in the mobility field moving from vehicle “as a property” towards/ vehicle “as a service”, to be tailored to the customer’s specific needs, based on the typical sharing economy principles. The impact on societal standards, skill-based education and job markets needs to be mitigated, as well. Panelists will share their e-mobility projects from different perspectives and discuss about the related opportunities and the open issues.

• Moderator: Jasvin Bhasin, iic group GmbH
• Barbara Sartori, CBA Studio Legale E Tributario
• Labros Bisalas, Systems Sunlight S.A.
• Lorenzo Sessa, Iren S.p.A.
• Alessandro Tommasi, LimeBike

Curated by Barbara Sartori, CBA Studio Legale E Tributario. 

The introduction of the PSD2 in Europe has paved the way for Open Banking, which amongst other things will allow non-bank payment service providers (TPP) to develop payment services infrastructure and to provide competitive service delivery models.  The payment service landscape is about to change significantly! Data access and use issues, security protocols and competition law issues are but some of the key areas for legal advisers. And this is in the context of a number of international initiatives which need to be linked with PSD2. This session explains what Open Banking is all about, the key legal issues and will include a demonstration of some products that are being implemented.

• Moderator: Phil Catania, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
• Chris Hill, Kemp Little LLP
• Matteo Concas 
• Charles Kerrigan, CMS
• Enzo Marasà, Portolano Cavallo

All In-House Counsel conference delegates are invited to attend this lunch. Please indicate your RSVP on your conference registration. If you are a speaker or did not see this option when you registered, please email memberservices@itechlaw.organd we will add it to your registration.

Included buffet lunch for all attendees.

  Sponsored by R&P Legal​

Committee meetings are open to all. 

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:15 - 14:55 and the second round from 15:00 - 15:40.

Although the GDPR is supposed to harmonize the level and regimes of data protection across the EU, flexibility clauses leave room for EU member states to introduce local provisions. For non-EU jurisdictions, the GDPR may apply directly, however local laws are not adapted to the GDPR which causes many headaches. This workshop takes a closer look at these issues and attempt to show ways forward. Data protection experts from EU and non-EU jurisdictions will share their experiences and approaches to find appropriate solutions.

• Roland Mathys, Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd
• Philip Kempermann, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:15 - 14:55 and the second round from 15:00 - 15:40.

The workshop deals with cutting-edge topics in the area of IT dispute resolution, such as the right to be forgotten, the US Cloud Act, ADR strategies, data protection litigation in the light of GDPR and many more. The format is interactive: Participants from the audience are invited to give flash talks on these topics, which are then be challenged by the moderators or other workshop attendees. Join us in the challenge!

• Thomas Thalhofer, Noerr LLP
• Eduarda Chacon Rosas, Barroso Fontelles Barcellos Mendonça Advogados

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:15 - 14:55 and the second round from 15:00 - 15:40.

• Christophe Marclay, Ernst & Young AG

Curated by Jürg Schneider, Walder Wyss Ltd.

Decentralisation, transparency, and authenticity of data flows offered by blockchain technology enable new ways of doing business and are significantly impacting society. Real estate registers, which in some countries are not always up-to-date or accurate, are set to reach a never-before-seen level of reliability; peer-to-peer deals in the energy sector should also lead to greater efficiencies and, ultimately, carbon emission reduction; and other industries are expected to significantly benefit from blockchain technologies. The availability of new payment methods is expected to accelerate efficiencies. However, on distributed personal data visibility (potentially even without maximum retention periods), information exchanges between competitors, financial trustworthiness, and distributed liability pose new legal issues that need to be addressed.

• Moderator: Sandra Mori, Coca-Cola
• The legal aspects of blockchain – new and different opportunities, Alesch Staehelin, IBM
• The Blockchain Technology for the Energy Sector, Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Palermo University
• Block Chain in Land Record, Nikhil Narendran, Trilegal

Curated by Tommaso Faelli, Bonelli Erede

When technologies meet health: where do we stand and for what future?

This session examinea risks, challenges, approach, and lessons learned on the journey to connected care, starting from the practical aspects of the use of technologies in the health sector (for better or worse?), by focusing on the vulnerability of medical devices and on the resort to blockchain, to feedbacks on data privacy issues. Finally, this session enlarges the debate and challenges the intrusion of technologies in the most sensible field of our personal data in a discussion on the need of implementing innovative human rights.

• Moderator: Peter McLaughlin, Burns & Levinson
• Tony Fielding, Gowling
• Marcello Ienca, ETH Zurich Switzerland
• Sharda Balaji, NovoJuris Legal

Curated by Claire Bernier, ADSTO

Your client has just filed a $100 million lawsuit against a vendor for breach of contract in a project to implement business software SAP. Another client IT service provider has been named as a defendant in a 200 million pounds lawsuit alleging willful and reckless breach of contract in connection with a failed ERP implementation. How did this happen?  How can you advise the clients?  And what key lessons learned can you distill from these lawsuits to help your other clients avoid these expensive, and very public, lawsuits? This session reviews these two real-life lawsuits above, regarding two actual failed ERP implementations, by having 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 a memorable and thought-provoking session.

• John Beardwood, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Eugene Weitz

Over the last few years, we have seen Biometric Data being increasingly regarded as the ultimate means of identification both on their own and when embedded in other technologies, such as blockchain. This panel discusses the data protection implications of the use of Biometric Data, and the legal and technical measures required to ensure that need for identification and the rights and liberties of data subjects are appropriately balanced. The speakers also discuss the more controversial applications of Biometric Data, as they have emerged lately, and the specific challenges that their use might pose in certain sensitive industries such as health services, aviation, and human resources management.

• Moderator: Andràs Gurovits, Niederer Kraft Frey Ltd
• The Limits of Privacy: Creation of the World's Largest Bio-metric Database, Vaneesha Jain, Saikrishna & Associates
• GDPR Enforcement Actions in Practice: What, Who, and How Much, and How Does this Compare to Enforcement Before GDPR?, Jeremy Morton, Harbottle & Lewis
• Innovation or ePrivacy, You Can't Have It All, Can You?, Stephan Koloßa, Ruhr University Bochum

Curated by Massimo Donna, Paradigma. 

Committee meetings are open to all. 

Included buffet lunch for all attendees.

  Sponsored by R&P Legal​

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:00 - 14:45 and the second round from 14:45 - 15:25.

Investors come in all shapes and sizes: from the friends and family providing the first exploratory capital, to the angel taking a long shot in an early seed round, up through the various tiers of venture capital and strategic industry investors.  Founders are recognized for the sweat equity and intellectual capital they invest, while early employees invest their opportunity cost, often working more for less, in exchange for a share in the company’s later success.

Legal counsel, on the other hand, are most commonly relegated to the list of service providers; a necessary cost that’s all too often overlooked and undervalued. But the best startup counsel invests time and effort beyond the billable hour into advising and supporting founder groups through their early stages.

• Michael Reid, McMillan LLP

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:00 - 14:45 and the second round from 14:45 - 15:25.

Traditional industries used to develop much slower than the technology start-ups of this day, typically establishing themselves first locally and the starting their expansion from neighboring countries. Now many startups go global from the start – immediately wanting to attract customers from any region – but with a limited legal budget.

The legal advisor is asked to establish the minimum level of legal safeguards to enable the pursuit of world dominance. Although there is plenty of material to copy from, the devil may well be in the detail, depending on the product or service and the business model -  whether the customers are individual consumers or companies and what is the distribution channel. And each jurisdiction may have its own specialties that only a local counsel may be aware of. 

• Juha Taipale, Eversheds Attorneys Ltd

Each workshop will be conducted twice with a 5 minute break in-between for delegates to move to a different room for the second time slot. The first workshop runs from 14:00 - 14:45 and the second round from 14:45 - 15:25.

• Peter Bräutigam, Noerr LLP