Adrian Perry's practice focuses on matters involving emerging and innovative uses of technology, intellectual property, and data. Adrian is a recognized practitioner in the sports, music and entertainment industries, ranked by Chambers and Partners in the Technology - New York category, and selected by Law360 as a Rising Star in Sports and Betting, by Billboard as a Top Music Lawyer, by The Hollywood Reporter as a NY Power Lawyer, and by Variety in its Dealmakers Impact Report and Legal Impact Report.

Aneesh Chopra is the President of CareJourney, an open data service that helps providers, payers and pharma market leaders make smarter decisions in the move to value. He co-founded its parent company, Hunch Analytics, a “hatchery” incubating ideas that improve the productivity of health and education markets; served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer (’09-’12) and the fourth Virginia Secretary of Technology (’06-’09). His public service focused on better public/private collaboration as described in his 2014 book, "Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government.” In 2017, he joined the Board of the Health Care Cost Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit organization focused on complete, accurate, unbiased health care utilization and cost information. In 2015, he served as the inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; in 2011, Modern Healthcare named him to its list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare; and in 2008, Government Technology magazine named him in as one of its top 25 "Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers.” He earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 1997 and his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.

Bruce de'Medici focuses his practice on commercial restructuring, either through the judicial system or transactional means. He also represents institutional lenders in asset enforcement and recovery, and in defense of actions filed for the avoidance and recovery of transfers and other claims. He brings over thirty years of experience and seasoned business acumen to bear on achieving the goals of his clients and has a proven record of success.

Camila is a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, based in Denver, and she assists clients with data protection compliance, cyber risk preparedness, information governance, and big data/analytics. Camila works with various legal and regulatory frameworks for privacy, information security, and AI regulation, both in the U.S. and internationally. She has been designated a Privacy Law Specialist (PLS) and Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals and holds certifications in European and U.S. privacy law (CIPP/E, U.S.) and privacy program management (CIPM).

Cynthia Cwik has extensive experience resolving issues at the intersection of law, science, technology, and business. She has served for twenty years as a partner at two global law firms, Jones Day and Latham & Watkins, where she represented Fortune 500 corporations in high-stakes, high-profile matters involving complex science and technology issues. She also has served as a Fellow with Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute Program, where she focused on cutting-edge technology, including its economic, legal and societal impact, and corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and global perspectives for business entities. She has had leadership roles in professional organizations, including serving as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law, and President of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association. She has extensive experience writing and lecturing on technology issues, and she is the co-editor of the book "The Internet of Things: Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies" (2019). She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

Darrell G. Mottley practices in the Washington D.C. office of the Banner Witcoff, Ltd. law firm. Mr. Mottley is noted as a strategic advisor and counselor who analyzes global intellectual property issues from legal and business perspectives. Mr. Mottley has worked extensively with starts-ups, privately and publicly held companies as virtual in-house counsel and as lead counsel on a wide array of intellectual property issues. Mr. Mottley advises on disruptive innovation and high-technology intellectual property matters in a wide variety of fields, such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, internet-related technology, medical devices, and electro-mechanical technologies. Mr. Mottley is an Adjunct Faculty member of The George Washington University Law School and Howard University School of Law. Mr. Mottley has been rated a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters in 2020-2022. Mr. Mottley has been named an IP Star in the United States and in the District of Columbia by Managing Intellectual Property in 2013-2022

Eric Y. Drogin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Diplomate and former President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Dr. Drogin currently holds faculty appointments with Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Harvard Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is the Affiliated Lead of Psycholegal Studies for the Psychiatry, Law, and Society Program (at BWH), and participates in the Forensic Psychiatry Service (at BIDMC) and the Program in Psychiatry and the Law (at Massachusetts Mental Health Center). Additional positions have included Chair of the APA’s Committee on Professional Practice and Standards, Chair of the APA’s Committee on Legal Issues, Chair of the APA’s Joint Task Force with the American Bar Association (ABA), and President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association. Dr. Drogin received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University.

I received my M.Sc. in Bioengineering from the Engineering University of Genoa, Italy. My primary focus is the translation of novel technologies and new breakthroughs made in physical sciences and engineering to pressing biological questions and clinical challenges. I carried out my doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Giovanni De Micheli - the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Here, my research focused on the design, micro-fabrication and testing of bio-interfaces featuring highly innovative nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires. I joined UCSD, first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a Project Scientist, to explore the highly fascinating field of neuroscience and stem cell. Currently in the Muotri Lab, I am using unconventional electrophysiology techniques, including high-density multi-electrode arrays (HDMEAs), as well as electrical and optogenetic stimulation, to study network and microcircuit development in brain organoids and identify critical functional deficits in autism.

As a data scientist at H2O.ai and Common Sense Analytics, LLC, Niki Athanasiadou MRes, PhD works closely with companies in the healthcare industry helping organizations of all sizes expand their capabilities using AI. She earned her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology by the University of Edinburgh (UK) and has since worked on personalized medicine solutions and hospital systems applications at the National Institutes of Health and New York University (School of Medicine, Currant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology). Dr Athanasiadou’s work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has won several awards.

Dredeir (Dre) oversees all legal aspects of our workplace and projects, including working with clients on fair agreements. She currently serves as a Business Law Fellow with the American Bar Association and enjoys speaking on panels and writing for industry publications. Dre has served as an active member of the legal community for over 7 years and has had an interest in law as far back as she can remember. It was a middle school field trip to the Virginia House of Delegates that really sealed the deal. Dre is passionate about leveraging her abilities to make a positive impact on the business community and society.

Ellie Lasater-Guttmann, of Eliot House, was a joint concentrator in Philosophy and Mathematics with Studio Art as a secondary field. A native of Virginia, at Harvard she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa’s Junior Twenty Four and is PBK Marshall for Harvard’s 2018 class. Her senior thesis won the Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the Natural Sciences. She is a professional archeological illustrator, and was active in the Radcliffe Choral Society and as Vice President of the Harvard Outing Club. She spent one summer at the Carnegie Mellon Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology and she spent last summer in Cambridge, England after having been awarded the Thouron Prize to conduct research, undertake coursework and participate in presentations as a fellow in the Pembroke/King’s Program. She is the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus, pursuing an MPhil in Philosophy.

Eric Hibbard is Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO for Security & Privacy where he leads the Hitachi product-oriented security strategy activities with an emphasis on data and storage security. He is a senior security professional with expertise in information assurance, privacy, storage, cloud computing, eDiscovery, and enterprise ICT. He leverages this expertise and extensive experience in the public and private sectors in leadership roles within the ABA, CSA, INCITS, IEEE, and SNIA. Hibbard currently serves as the ISO editor of ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security), ISO/IEC 27050 (eDiscovery) and ISO/IEC 17788 (Cloud computing). He speaks internationally and is published. Mr. Hibbard holds a BSCS along with the CISSP-ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP, and CISA certifications.

Heather Deixler counsels public and private companies operating in the healthcare industry on transactional and regulatory matters. Ms. Deixler focuses on the intersection of healthcare, life sciences, and technology. She advises a wide range of public and private companies, including healthcare providers and healthcare systems, digital health, e-commerce, medical device, therapeutics, genetics, and bioscience companies on cutting-edge matters and initiatives.

Hogene Choi works with clients at the forefront of the life sciences, healthcare, and technology industries on a range of intellectual property matters, focusing on patent prosecution, transactions, and counseling. Hogene develops and manages global patent portfolios for clients ranging from startups to large public companies. She works closely with her clients to understand their business objectives and develop strategies to protect and defend their intellectual property throughout the product life cycle. Her patent prosecution and transaction experience covers technologies related to machine learning and artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, blockchain, computer vision, cloud infrastructure and services, internet applications and server-side architecture, desktop applications and operating systems, graphics and audio/video, as well as semiconductors, medical devices, electronics, nanotechnology, and the mechanical arts. She also has extensive due diligence experience and regularly advises clients on patent procurement transactions, licensing, and acquisitions. She provides counsel on patentability and freedom-to-operate issues as well as patent portfolio evaluations for business transactions. In addition to strategic patent counsel, Hogene has patent litigation experience in pre-trial investigation, discovery management, pleadings, motion practice, claim construction, invalidity analysis and settlement negotiations for cases filed in both U.S. district courts and at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Hogene is currently treasurer of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2020–2021) and a member of the Council of Korean Americans. She is also a current board member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley (2014–2021), and was president of the association from 2016–2017. Hogene was named one of the 2018 Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal and is a “Leading Lawyer” for Patent Prosecution in The Legal 500 U.S. 2021. She was also recognized as a “Next Generation Lawyer” by The Legal 500 U.S. (2017–2020). Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, she was a partner at a leading global law firm, where she served as co-chair of the patent counseling & strategic portfolio development practice group. Hogene also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Charles R. Breyer in the Northern District of California. She received her B.A. in computer science from University of California, Berkeley.

Jamie Baker is a tenured professor in the College of Law with a courtesy appointment in the Maxwell School. Also serving as director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law, Judge Baker teaches classes on national security law, emerging technologies and national security, ethics, leadership, intelligence and the laws of war. Judge Baker is one of the most highly regarded national security lawyers and policy advisors in the nation. Starting his career as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Judge Baker subsequently joined the staff of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan before serving the U.S. Department of State, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and National Security Council. Mostly notably, he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces for 15 years—the last four as chief judge—before stepping down in 2015. The Court hears appeals arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and its decisions are subject to review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Baker authored more than 250 opinions for the Court, addressing criminal law and procedure; rules of evidence; jurisdiction; and the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution.

Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of The Chertoff Group. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chertoff served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. In 2018, he was named the chairman of the Board of Trustees for Freedom House. He currently serves on the board of directors of Noblis and Edgewood Networks. In the last five years, Mr. Chertoff co-chaired the Global Commission in Stability of Cyberspace and also co-chairs the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity. Chertoff is magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Representative Ro Khanna is a leading progressive voice in the House working to democratize the digital economy, bring advanced manufacturing jobs to factory towns, and advance U.S. leadership on climate, human rights, and diplomacy around the world. Khanna proudly represents California’s 17th Congressional District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and is serving in his third term. He sits on the House Agriculture, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform committees, where he chairs the Environmental Subcommittee. Khanna is also the Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; serves as an Assistant Whip for the Democratic Caucus and is the Democratic Vice Chair of the House Caucus on India and Indian Americans.

Ian Ballon is an intellectual property and internet litigator who is the Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. He represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet- and mobile-related disputes and in the defense of data privacy, cybersecurity breach, adtech and behavioral advertising, TCPA and other Internet-related class action suits. Please click here to view a list of some of his recent cases.

John Frank Weaver is a director with McLane Middleton whose practice focuses on AI and autonomous technology. He is the author of Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws, a contributing writer at Slate focusing on legal issues implicated by AI and autonomous devices, and a columnist for and member of the board of editors of The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law. His current project at The Journal is an examination of the essential principles of Constitutional rights and how they apply to AI under the Constitution.

A former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former director of PwC's cyber forensics group, Kim delivers top of the line cyber risk management and information security counsel to her clients. As co-leader of our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team and National Security & Digital Crimes Team, Kim is recognized by select publications and is frequently quoted by the media. Kim Peretti is co-leader of the Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team and National Security & Digital Crimes Team. Kim is the former director of PwC's cyber forensic services group and, as a former senior litigator for the DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, led benchmark cybercrime cases, including the prosecution of TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez. Kim's background as an information-security professional enhances her practice in managing technical cyber investigations, assisting clients with data-security-related regulatory inquiries, and advising boards and senior executives in cybersecurity and risk matters. She services clients in matters of privacy, national security process and requests, and payment systems compliance and risk mitigation. Kim is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Kim serves on the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Investigative Board. Kim was included on Washingtonian's Top Lawyers lists for cybersecurity, and annually named a top data breach attorney in Cybersecurity Docket's "Incident Response 40" since 2016. Kim is recognized as an information security "industry pioneer" by SC Magazine and by BTI Consulting Group as a "Client Service All-Star". She is ranked in Privacy & Data Security by Chambers USA and Chambers Global. Kim was presented a Burton Award for Legal Achievement for "Cybersecurity: What Directors Need to Know in an Era of Increased Scrutiny" and featured on CNN Declassified for the benchmark prosecution of the global carding organization Shadowcrew.

Ms. Petruzzi graduated from The George Washington University Law School in May 2022 and is currently pursuing a computer science degree to become a patent attorney through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. While in law school, she interned for Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, as well as at Copyright Alliance. Prior to starting law school, Ms. Petruzzi worked as Litigation Project Support at Analysis Group, an international economic consulting firm. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, yoga, and photography.

Lisa is a partner of the firm in Torkin Manes’ Business Law Group, specializing in the areas of information technology and business law and is the leader of the firm’s Technology, Privacy & Data Management Group. Lisa has particular expertise in preparing and negotiating technology agreements, including Internet-related, m-commerce and e-commerce agreements, cloud computing agreements (SaaS, PaaS, IasS), cloud retail agreements, cloud storage agreements, app development agreements, hosting agreements, mobile payment agreements, reseller, distribution, outsourcing, system acquisition, maintenance and support agreements, master services agreements and consulting and services agreements. She provides technology-related advice on financings and acquisitions, including export control on cross-border deals. She also provides guidance on IoT, AI/smart contracts, blockchain and open source legal matters. Lisa has considerable experience helping non-Canadian companies, especially American entities, create appropriate legal agreements for their entry into the Canadian marketplace.

Lothar Determann has been helping companies in Silicon Valley and around the world take products, business models, intellectual property and contracts global at Baker McKenzie for more than 20 years. He advises on data privacy law compliance, cybersecurity, information technology commercialization, interactive entertainment, media, copyrights, open source licensing, electronic commerce, technology transactions, sourcing and international distribution at Baker McKenzie in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He is a member of the Firm's International/Commercial Practice Group and the TMT and Healthcare Industry Groups.

Lucian Pera’s practice focuses on legal ethics work, media law, and commercial litigation. Lucian is one of the nation’s leading legal ethics practitioners. For more than 30 years, Lucian has represented lawyers, law firms, clients, and those who do business with lawyers and law firms, on the widest possible array of issues relating to legal ethics and the regulation of lawyers. His practice is national in scope. The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility recently bestowed on him the prestigious Michael Franck Award, their highest award for work in the field of ethics and professional responsibility over his career. For twenty years, in addition to his work as a practicing ethics lawyer, he has been a leader at the highest levels of the ABA on revisions to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and other important lawyer conduct issues. Lucian was the youngest member of the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission that rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He recently served three years as chair of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. He speaks and writes extensively on the ethical and regulatory aspects of the rapidly-changing legal services market. He is founding chair of the Practising Law Institute’s annual full-day program, “The Ethics of NewLaw.” Known for his command of legal ethics issues, Lucian represents clients in matters ranging from lawyer discipline defense to lawyer malpractice defense to expert witness work. He also represents and advises clients — including lawyers and their firms and other businesses — on a wide range of potential business ventures, especially ventures and business models new to the legal services market. He advises on the ethical and lawful use of innovative marketing techniques, as well as lawyer and law firm relationships with vendors of all kinds, from marketers, to outsourcing vendors, to litigation funders. He has helped lawyers and law firms establish and maintain compliance while providing non-legal ancillary services to clients and others. Since the earliest days of his practice, Lucian has also represented media outlets in matters ranging from claims for defamation or invasion of privacy to access to courtrooms, public records, and meetings of government bodies. Lucian’s wide-ranging civil litigation practice includes a variety of commercial, personal injury, and intellectual property litigation, as well as numerous state and federal appeals. PRESENTATIONS Lucian also writes and speaks frequently, both nationally and in Tennessee, on legal ethics and professional responsibility and media law. In addition, he routinely conducts presentations and seminars for national audiences.

Lucy Thomson is the founding principal of Livingston PLLC in Washington, D.C. She focuses her practice on legal and technology issues related to cybersecurity, global data privacy, compliance and risk management. Appointed Consumer Privacy Ombudsman in 30 major federal bankruptcy cases, she has overseen the disposition of more than 300 million electronic consumer records. A career white collar crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Ms. Thomson managed and conducted complex litigation in the Criminal and Civil Rights Divisions. She subsequently worked as a senior engineer at CSC, a global technology company. Active in the ABA, she served as chair of the Science & Technology Law Section and is a member of the House of Delegates and the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. She is co-editor of the ABA book Internet of Things (IoT): Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies, editor of the Data Breach and Encryption Handbook, and author of book chapters on complex problems arising from new technologies – mobile devices, social media, convergence of cyber/physical systems, IoT, social engineering fraud, outsourcing to third party vendors, supply chain risk, “big data” analytics/AI and cloud computing, bioinformatics, and election system vulnerabilities. For more than a decade she has also worked on election initiatives during key U.S. elections, including addressing security problems with voting equipment. Ms. Thomson received a Master’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2001, earned the CISSP and CIPP/US certifications, and holds a J.D. degree from Georgetown. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute (ALI).

Maneesha Mithal is a privacy and cybersecurity partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and data security, having led the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Division of Privacy and Identity Protection prior to joining the firm. In this capacity, Maneesha oversaw a team of 40 lawyers responsible for the enforcement of privacy and security laws. Maneesha also worked with congressional staff on federal privacy legislation, with state attorney general offices on joint investigations, and with other federal and international agencies on a variety of initiatives. Maneesha previously served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel in the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP), where she reviewed advertising cases and financial consumer protection matters, and held various positions in BCP’s International Division, including as Acting Associate Director. She began her legal career as a litigator at Covington & Burling.

Michael Zyda is the Founding Director of USC's Computer Science Games Program, and a Professor of Engineering Practice in the USC Department of Computer Science. At USC, he founded the Computer Science Games Program and the year-long advanced game projects course that forms the core of USC Games and took that program from no program to the #1 Games program in the world. That program has been rated #1 by the Princeton Review for ten of the last eleven years. His alums have shipped games played by over 5 billion players, about $250B in revenue and $2.5B in payroll to those alums. Zyda is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, an IEEE Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award winner, a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors and a National Associate of the National Academies.

Miriam Vogel is the President and CEO of EqualAI, a non-profit created to reduce unconscious bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and promote responsible AI governance. Miriam cohosts a podcast, In AI we Trust, with the World Economic Forum and also serves as Chair to the recently launched National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), mandated by Congress to advise the President and White House on AI policy. Miriam teaches Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she serves as chair of the alumni board, and serves on the board of the Responsible AI Institute (RAII). Miriam also serves a senior advisor to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Previously, Miriam served in U.S. government leadership, including positions in the three branches of federal government. Most recently, she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General, where she advised the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) on a broad range of legal, policy and operational issues. Under the direction of DAG Sally Yates, Miriam led the creation and development of the Implicit Bias Training for Federal Law Enforcement. Miriam also spearheaded the Department’s Intellectual Property (IP) efforts to identify and dismantle IP theft domestically and internationally and worked with the DAG to manage Department divisions’ multibillion-dollar budgets, resolve high-level challenges, and represent the Department in briefings for White House, congressional and GAO staff on policy initiatives and oversight matters. Miriam served in the White House in two Administrations, most recently as the Acting Director of Justice and Regulatory Affairs. She led the President's Equal Pay Task Force to promote equality in the workplace. She also advised White House leadership on initiatives ranging from women, LGBT, economic, regulatory and food safety policy to criminal justice matters. Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Miriam was Associate General Counsel at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and practiced entertainment/corporate transactional law at Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles. Miriam began her legal career as a federal clerk in Denver, Colorado after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center and is a third generation alumna from the University of Michigan.

Technology, intellectual property and data are amongst the most valuable and strategic assets for a business. Clients turn to Nigel Howard to help them execute on their most innovative and complex transactions involving technology, intellectual property and data. He is a "tremendous attorney" singled out for his detail-oriented approach, according to clients interviewed by Chambers and Partners. Peer commentators note his admirable commercial awareness, which achieves business-focused results, often in the most challenging of circumstances. For over 25 years he has specialized in complex commercial transactions such as strategic alliances, licensing, distribution agreements and outsourcing. Clients range from start-ups and emerging companies to international corporations. He has led negotiations of billion dollar service agreements that were critical to his client, and successfully handled the intellectual property and data issues on over 250 venture capital and M&A transactions. He serves as one of the leaders of Covington’s multidisciplinary Digital Health Initiative, which brings together the firm’s considerable resources across the broad array of legal, regulatory, commercial, and policy issues relating to the development and marketing of digital health products and services. Nigel has been at the forefront of initiatives to protect data assets for his clients, helping them achieve a competitive advantage or fend off a competitive threat. He advises clients on their proprietary rights to data and global strategies for protecting these assets. He has represented companies in transactions covering the full spectrum of data related activities, including data capture and storage, business and operational intelligence, analytics and visualization, personalized merchandizing, and the related cloud computing services. Nigel has been ranked by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and Who’s Who in American Law. He is frequent speaker on data, distribution, and technology legal issues, and regularly contributes to Covington’s blogs. He has experience in the digital health, food, fintech, and travel and hospitality industries. His past and current clients include American Airlines, the American Bankers Association, American Express, AstraZeneca, British Airways, Brown Brothers Harriman, Cathay Pacific, Cisco, CoBank, DoubleClick, Etihad, Farelogix, Iberia, Mars, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, NCR, the NFL, Novartis, P&G, Philippine Airlines, Promontory Financial, Singapore Airlines, Teva, TouchTunes, UBS, and Wyeth.

Gary Marchant, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P., is Regents’ Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU). Professor Marchant’s research interests include the governance of emerging technologies such as genomics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and blockchain. Prior to joining ASU in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis. He has authored more than 200 articles, books and book chapters on various issues relating to emerging technologies. He has served on six National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) consensus committees, is a lifetime member of the American Law Institute and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also chairs the IEEE Working Group (P2863) to create a governance standard for entities that develop or use artificial intelligence.

Chris Gerdes is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS). His laboratory studies how cars move, how humans drive cars and how to design future cars that work cooperatively with the driver or drive themselves. When not teaching on campus, he can often be found at the racetrack with students, trying out their latest prototypes for the future. Vehicles in the lab include X1, an entirely student-built test vehicle; Niki, a Volkswagen GTI capable of turning a competitive lap time around the track without a human driver; and Marty, our electrified, automated, drifting DeLorean. Chris' interests in vehicle safety extend to ethics and government policy, having helped to develop the US Federal Automated Vehicle Policy while serving as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the US Department of Transportation.

Rafael “Rafa” Baca, https://adelanteiplaw.com/ , is a practicing U.S. patent attorney, a data senior privacy attorney, and software developer with a master’s degree in computer & data science and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. Rafa is a Chair of the American Bar Association’s Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and Big Data Committees, and is a national thought leader & speaker, an active Silicon Valley entrepreneur, TV host, angel investor, Texas wildcatter, photographer, avid scuba diver, and aspiring chef. Rafa’s unique personal experience gained while practicing within and navigating among the legal, software, data, and engineering professional environments in Silicon Valley, California over the years lead to a personal project the Digital Deputy Act. The Digital Deputy Act seeks to foster comprehensive moral, ethical, and legally responsible use of software and data for industry professionals. https://digitaldeputyact.org/ and is currently being presented as legislation by the California Legislature.

Reva Schwartz is a research scientist in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she serves as Principal Investigator on Bias in Artificial Intelligence for NIST’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI program. Her research focuses on the role of context and the nature of subject matter expertise and expert judgment in socio-technical systems. She has advised federal agencies about how experts interact with automation to make sense of information in high-stakes settings. Reva received her MA from the University of Florida in acoustics and socio-phonetics, and her BA in political science from Kent State University. Her background includes a forensic science posting for almost 15 years at the United States Secret Service, advising forensic science practice at NIST, a temporary duty assignment at the National Security Agency, and adjunct researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.

 

Ruth Hill Bro (Chicago) has focused her legal career on advising businesses on privacy and information management strategy, cybersecurity, global compliance, the electronic workplace, and e-business. She has been featured as a speaker over 170 times and has over 90 published works on these issues. These works include the first (2013) and second (2018) editions of The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Resource for Attorneys, Law Firms, and Business Professionals, which won the 2018 ACLEA Best Publication Award (contributing author, ABA; ambar.org/cybersecurity); The Internet of Things (IoT): Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies (one chapter, 2019, ABA); Data Breach and Encryption Handbook (two chapters, 2011, ABA); The E-Business Legal Arsenal: Practitioner Agreements and Checklists (Editor, 2004, ABA); Internet in the Workplace: Managing Organizational Access (designed and taught one-day course throughout the U.S. and co-authored book, 1997, Software Publishers Association); Online Law (five chapters, 1996, Addison-Wesley); and her column CPO Corner: Interviews with Leading Chief Privacy Officers (since 2005, published in The SciTech Lawyer magazine). Ruth is a longstanding leader in the American Bar Association (ABA), where she is a senior advisor and immediate past co-chair for the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force (ambar.org/cyber), for which she also serves as a liaison to the ABA’s new Practice Forward initiative (designed to help move legal practice and the profession forward during COVID-19 and beyond). A leader in the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law (SciTech), she is a Senior Advisor for the Privacy, Security, and Emerging Technology Division, a member of the Planning Committee for six Internet of Things (IoT) National Institutes (since 2015) and three Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institutes (since 2019), and the Section’s Liaison to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (since 2018). She also served as SciTech’s 2008-2009 Section Chair, Membership and Diversity Committee Chair (2009-2016), and E-Privacy Law Committee Founder and Chair (2000-2005). Ruth likewise served two three-year terms (2009-2015) on the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems (the second term as Chair), the ABA Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education (as a liaison, 2012-2015), the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services (2014-2016) (a two-year presidential commission to improve access to, and delivery of, legal services in the U.S.), the ABA E-Mail Stakeholder Committee (2017-2018), the ABA Standing Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness (2016-2017), and the ABA Board of Governors Communications Task Force (2017). Ruth has served on many of the top advisory/editorial boards in the privacy, data security, and technology field (including The SciTech Lawyer, DataGuidance (U.S. Panel of Experts), Internet Law & Strategy, The Privacy & Data Protection Legal Reporter (Executive Editor/Chairman of the Board of Editors), and BNA’s Privacy & Security Law Report) and on the boards of two arts organizations (visual arts, music) and the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. She has been recognized as a leader by numerous organizations, including for four consecutive years in Ethisphere Institute’s annual list of Attorneys Who Matter (data privacy/security). Her views have been noted by the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Economist Intelligence Unit, ABA Journal, National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel, BNA Privacy & Security Law Report, CyberInsecurity News, FCW/Federal Computer Week, Legaltech News, Bloomberg Radio, and CNBC. Ruth started her legal career at McBride Baker & Coles (now Holland & Knight) and then spent nearly a decade at Baker & McKenzie, where she was a partner in the Chicago office and founding North American member of the firm’s Global Privacy Steering Committee. Before getting her J.D. from the University of Chicago, Ruth had a successful career in major gifts fundraising at Northwestern University (B.A. in English, Political Science). She won 1st place in NY Law Journal’s fiction contest (short story, Privilege) and 2nd place in Chicago Lawyer’s contest (short story, Her Father’s Daughter).

Stephen Wu is a shareholder with Silicon Valley Law Group in San Jose, California. Steve advises clients on privacy, security, transactions, compliance, liability, and governance of information technologies including artificial intelligence, autonomous and connected vehicles, robotics, Big Data, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing. He negotiates technology agreements, guides clients through mergers and acquisitions, and defends clients in technology litigation. An author of seven data security legal books and numerous other publications on AI and data protection topics, Steve is the current Chair of the American Bar Association Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institute. Also, Steve served as the 2010-11 Chair of the American Bar Association Science & Technology Law Section. He had previously served as Co-Chair of the Section’s Information Security Committee. In the 1990s, Steve worked at two international law firms and later became the second in-house lawyer at data security vendor VeriSign, Inc.

Ted Claypoole leads Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP’s IP Transactions and inTech Teams. Clients call on Ted to help manage, protect and profit from information, and his practice spans all sectors of the information economy. He helps companies design data analytics strategies and comply with relevant laws and contracts. Privacy and cybersecurity are the starting points for client advice on data collected through transactions, online interactions and the Internet of Things, with an emphasis on payments and financial activity.