LAIC Program
The next LAIC program will be held March 8-10, 2027. The schedule will be finalized in January 2027. For reference, here is the final schedule from the July 2026 LAIC program. The next LAIC program will follow a similar format.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will take place in the main LexLab space (198 McAllister, Room 240)
Monday, July 27
Welcome & Orientation
198 McAllister Street
8:30am - 9:00am
Arrival & Registration (lobby of 198 McAllister)
9:00am - 9:10am
Welcome!
Introductions & Perspectives
- Tal Niv, Director of Applied Innovation at UC Law SF
- Drew Amerson, Director of LexLab at UC Law SF
- Cornelia Kutterer, Adj. Professor at UC Law SF, and CLO & Co-Founder at Scrydon
9:10am - 10:10am
Technical Tutorial - Demo
- Kevin Xu, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
10:10am - 10:20am
Coffee Break
10:20am - 12:20pm
Technical Tutorial: Foundations of AI & LLMs
- Kevin Xu, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
- Ryan Tsang, Co-founder at Harmonize Health
12:20pm - 1:15pm
Catered lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Legal Ethics & AI - You're the Lawyer, not the AI (1 hour of Legal Ethics MCLE)
- Catherine R Gellis, Attorney, Writer at Techdirt
2:15pm - 3:15pm
AI & Competition Law
- Steve Reeder, Global Head of Competition at TikTok
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm
International AI Governance
- Katharina Koerner, Senior Principal Consultant - AI Governance at Trace3
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Panel: A Day in the Life of AI In-house Counsel
- Ernest Hammond, Associate GC of AI Product at Meta
- Alex Feerst, Chief Legal Officer at Science
- Svetlana Matt, Director, Public Policy at Dish Network
- Luis Villa, Vice President, Legal: Product & Policy at Sonar
- Kristin Sverchek, Director & Advisor, Former President & General Counsel at Lyft
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Welcome Reception (Skydeck, 333 Golden Gate Avenue)
Tuesday, July 28
AI Safety, Governance & Compliance
9:00am - 10:30am
How is AI Deployed Safely?
- Yonatan Zunger, Deputy CISO & CVP, AI Safety & Security at Microsoft
10:30am - 10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am – 11:30am
AI Safety: Risk Modeling & Standard Setting
- James Gaely, Standardization Lead at SaferAI
11:30am – 12:15pm
Risky Agents Without Intentions
- Eddan Katz, Co-Founder at TechnoEthos & LexLab Research Fellow
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Lunch Talk: The Unauthorized Practice of AI (1 hour of Legal Ethics MCLE)- Drew Amerson, Director of LexLab at UC Law SF
1:15pm - 2:15pm
European Law & the EU AI Act
- Cornelia Kutterer, Adj. Professor at UC Law SF, and CLO & Co-Founder at Scrydon
2:15pm - 3:15pm
US AI Policy & In-House Governance
- John Pavolotsky, Partner at Stoel Rives
- Iain Cunnigham, VP & Deputy GC at Nvidia
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm
The AI Trade Landscape & Compliance
- Karla Haynes, VP & Deputy GC for Global Trade Compliance at Cisco
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Privacy Law & AI
- Keith Enright, Chief Strategy Officer at Harvey
5:30pm - 6:30pm
How is AI Shaping the Future of the Legal Profession?
- Keith Enright, Chief Strategy Officer at Harvey
- Léo Murgel, VP Product Partnerships & Community Engagement at Ironclad
6:30pm
Group dinner (Piccino Presidio - 1 Letterman Drive, Building D, San Francisco)
Wednesday, July 29
Intellectual Property & AI in Practice
9:00am - 10:30am
AI & Copyright
- Mark Gray, Copyright Policy Counsel at OpenAI
10:30am - 10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am - 11:45am
AI & Contracts
- Kate Downing, Principal, Law Offices of Kate Downing
- Paul Sieminski, Chief Legal Officer at Liquid AI
11:45am - 12:45pm
AI Tort Law & Product Liability
- Anat Lior, Professor at Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Robert Friedman, Partner, King & Spalding
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch Talk - AI Lessons from the Music Industry
- Britt Lovejoy, Partner at Latham & Watkins
1:45pm - 2:45pm
AI in the Courts
- Robert Friedman, Partner, King & Spalding
2:45pm - 3:45pm
AI & e-Discovery
- Kassi Burns, Counsel at King & Spalding
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm
How are Lawyers Using AI?
- Luis Villa, VP Legal: Product & Policy at Sonar
5:00-6:00pm
Certificate Presntation & Closing Social Hour
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