LAIC Program

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)

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)

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