In today's technical and global environment, the legal landscape must be understood and carefully examined in order to protect processes and IP and assure maximum ability to monetize investments and contractual agreements.
Increasing regulation and oversight create myriad land mines, and care must be taken at every step, from development of products, to enhancements to trade secret and IP protection, and effective and legal marketing in cross border environments.
Companies confront these opportunities and challenges on a daily basis.
Legal minds from across jurisdictions will be presenting and discussing how best to achieve these goals of protection and marketing with real examples for attendees. The latest legal developments and trends will be discussed in a setting that will allow for meaningful interaction.
'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.' - Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Biometric Data litigation and facial recognition software, used in the pursuit of criminals and to regulate sporting events (the introduction of electronic of tech assisted referees).
Biometric Data as unique identifiers on the human body that allow for identification such as finger prints, DNA, facial features in conjunction with facial recognition software. The improper use/storage and related numerous problems.
GDPR age where the storage and use of personal data are fiercely scrutinised: Controversies that test the boundaries of the regulations to be protected from impropriety.
Face recognition issues: In April 2018, an Illinois federal judge certified a class in their claim against a famous Internet company, alleging that its photo-scanning technology used to 'tag' people in posts, was in fact gathering and storing biometric data without consent. Under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act 2008, the company could be fined between $1000 - $5000 each time a person's image is used without consent. Experts say that the stored images are more valuable and more susceptible to hacking by identity thieves than names, credit card numbers and addresses. Whilst those details can be changed - biometric data is unique and immutable, which propels the concept of 'identity theft' into a whole new era of meaning.
Cryptocurrency: Economic Tonic or Rat Poison Squared?
The technology behind and the pitfalls of insufficient regulation.
Trade secrets
Consequences of lost passwords and loss of access keys to crypto accounts containing millions of irrecoverable funds. Do the accounts need to be hacked to retrieve the funds?
Cryptocurrency technology and the environmental/sustainability global impact. Cryptocurrency uses as much CO2 in a year as 1 million transatlantic flights. If blockchain and crypto are the future is it really sustainable?
Reputational management
Managing both bad and fake news
Business Risk and Corporate Reputational Management
Turning Bad News into Manageable Information (Somebody Call the Spin Doctor!)
How corporations can deal with the aftermath of bad publicity when things go wrong either with technologies or products?
Saying Sorry, a new corporate culture. Recent examples of admitting liability.
What can publicly listed corporations say in public? Communication restrictions and the potential damage to reputation and stock prices when you say the wrong thing.
The link to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Marvels in Science: Limitations in reality?
Funding and capital raisings for technology advances and new ideas (cannabis science, crypto, etc).
Managing expectations of what technology or new products can promise, versus the reality.
How inflated expectations and promises, can lead to legal ramifications.
Market place and market manipulation
Links to sustainability
Other notable Subjects
Monetizing and protecting technologies (Intellectual Properties, contracts, confidentiality, Patents, Copyrights and litigation)
White collar crime / Business Risk and Corruption
Dispute resolution from an international perspective
Cyber security
Taxation
The international possibilities of cannabis science
Privacy in a GDPR age
Sustainability
Medical devices & Bio-Science Developments
International bribery and corruption impacting cross-border flow
International legal considerations affecting cross-border transactions
Technology transfer legal and management issues
Labor Law in mining, mineral and metals processing industries
Yoshihisa Hayakawa serves as a professor of law at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. He also teaches and researches in a number of foreign universities including Columbia University, Cornell University, QM College of University of London and Australian National University. He also serves as a partner at Uryu & Itoga, Tokyo. He serves as a counsel in many cases of transnational litigation and international commercial arbitration as well as serving as an arbitrator in many arbitration cases. He also serves as a representative from Japan for a number of inter-governmental organizations including UNCITRAL, APEC and Hague Conference on PIL. And he serves as President of Japan National Committee of UIA, Japanese Member for Commission on Arbitration and ADR of ICC and Japanese Member of Users Council of SIAC.
Keith Oliver, Head of International Commercial Litigation/Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery Keith specialises in commercial, regulatory and trust litigation. A renowned litigator and excellent practitioner, Keith is recognised as one of the world’s best investigative lawyers and leads the firm’s international strategy at Peters & Peters. He has spent his career specialising in international disputes and the location, freezing and recovery of misappropriated assets involving emergency relief procedures and the management of legal teams from many jurisdictions. His work often involves multi-jurisdictional actions in the USA, continental Europe and worldwide. He is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading lawyers in civil fraud with a reputation for addressing and resolving the most intractable of disputes and crises faced by individuals and companies. Keith’s international expertise was identified in The International Who’s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers: ‘Keith Oliver receives international praise for his expertise in the field and is widely considered the ‘dean of the bar’.’ Oliver is relied on for his ‘sound and practical advice’ and is a ‘high-profile figure’ in the sector’. He is consistently ranked as a ‘leading lawyer’ in both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners legal directories in the Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud and Fraud categories. He is a founding member of The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators. He lectures and has delivered papers on asset freezing, financial regulation, insider trading, money laundering, whistleblowing, international asset tracing, abuse of process, jurisdictional issues and media coverage of high-profile trials and is the joint chair of the annual C5 Asset Tracing Conference held in London, Geneva and Miami.
