LAIC Program
The schedule below is from our summer program. The winter session will follow a similar format with many of the same speakers. We will update the winter program soon.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will take place in the main LexLab space (198 McAllister, Room 240)
Monday, July 21
Welcome & Orientation
198 McAllister Street
Noon - 2:00pm
Arrival
Dorm/Hotel check in
Program registration desk
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Welcome!
Introductions & Perspectives
- Morris Ratner, Provost and Academic Dean at UC Law SF
- Tal Niv, Director of Applied Innovation at UC Law SF
- Drew Amerson, Director of LexLab at UC Law SF
- Cornelia Kutterer, Professor, UC Law SF, Managing Director at Considerati
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Keynote
- Robin Feldman, Director of the AI Law & Innovation Institute at UC Law SF
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Eureka Moments, Bad Behavior: Where is AI going?
- Nathan Labenz, Founder and former CEO of Waymark
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Free time & settling in
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Group dinner
Reception on UC Law SF's Skydeck (333 Golden Gate Ave.)
Catered by Lers Ros Thai
Tuesday, July 22
Technology
9:30am - 12:00pm
Technical Tutorials A + B (90 minutes Technology in the Practice of Law MCLE)
- Ryan Tsang, Founder, Recona
- Kevin Xu, GitHub Principal Engineer, Policy team
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch Talk: Legal Ethics & AI - You're the Lawyer, not the AI (1 hour ethics MCLE)
- Catherine R Gellis, Attorney & Writer, Techdirt
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Technical Tutorial C
- Anthony Bourached, Prof. of Computer Science & AI, University College of London
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Technical Tutorial D
- AJ Shankar, Founder, Everlaw
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm
AI In-House Counsel Panel
(hosted in the Deb Colloquium Room - 333 Golden Gate AVe.)
- Ashley Pantuliano, Deputy GC, OpenAI
- Ernest Hammond, AI Attorney, Meta
- Alex Feerst, Chief Legal Officer, Science
- Luis Vila, VP Legal, Sonar
- Kate Aishton, Founder, Aishton Law, PC
- Moderator: Shashi Deb, UC Law SF
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Social hour
(hosted on the Skydeck - 333 Golden Gate Ave.)
Wednesday, July 23
AI Governance
10:00am - 11:30am
US Federal, California & Other States
- David Evan Harris, Chancellor's Public Scholar, UC Berkeley
- John Pavolotsky, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP
11:30am - 11:45am
Coffee Break
11:45am - 1:30pm
Europe
- Isabel Hahn, AI Office, European Commission
- Laura Caroli, Senior Fellow, Wadhwani AI Center within the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Cornelia Kutterer, Adjunct Professor, UC Law SF
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Lunch Talk - Ethics: AI & the Stoics
- Paul Belonick, Professor of Practice and Director, Startup Legal Garage, UC Law SF
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Coffee Break
2:45pm - 4:15pm
China & Trade Controls
- Emmie Hine, AI Governance & Policy Researcher, Yale
- Karla Haynes, VP & Deputy GC, Global Trade Compliance, Cisco Systems, Inc.
4:15pm - 4:30pm
Afternoon Break
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Global AI Governance
- Eddan Katz, AI Policy Manager, Meta
- Iain Cunningham, VP and Deputy General Counsel, Nvidia
6:00pm - 6:15pm
Evening Break
6:15pm - 7:15pm
Panel: The Right Way to Govern AI
- Isabel Hahn, AI Office, European Commission
- John Pavolotsky, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP
- Emmie Hine, AI Governance & Policy Researcher, Yale
- Eddan Katz, AI Policy Manager, Meta
- Moderator: Pablo Chavez, Founder & Principal, Tech Policy Solutions LLC
Thursday, July 24
Intellectual Property & Privacy
9:00am - 10:30am
Copyright comes to a head with AI
- Fred von Lohman, Consultant, OpenAI
10:30am - 10:45am
Morning Break
10:45am - 11:45am
AI & Artists
- Umair Kazi, Director of Policy & Advocacy, The Authors Guild
11:45am - 12:30pm
Licensing
- Kate Downing, Principal, Law Offices of Kate Downing
- Amir Ghavi, AI, Tech Transactions & IP Partner, Paul Hastings
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Open Models
- Pamela Chestek, Principal of Chestek Legal, Member of the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative
- Kate Downing, Principal, Law Offices of Kate Downing
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Privacy comes to a head with AI
- Mark Pike, Associate General Counsel, Anthropic
- Shannon Yavorsky, Global Chair of Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Group, and Co-Head of AI Practice Group, Orrick
- Iain Cunningham, VP and Deputy General Counsel, Nvidia
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Afternoon Break
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Fireside Chat
- Shelley McKinley, Chief Legal Officer, GitHub
- Moderator: Drew Amerson, Director of LexLab, UC Law SF
7:00pm
Group dinner
Bar Brucato - 275 S Van Ness Ave.
Sponsored by Shashi Deb, UC Law SF
Friday, July 25
Risk, Trust & Safety
9:30am - 11:00am
Security
- Yonatan Zunger, Deputy CISO & CVP, AI Safety & Security, Microsoft
11:00am - 11:30am
Morning Break
11:30am - 12:30pm
The Many Ways to Think about AI Safety
- Evan Frondorf, Partnerships, Safeguards, Anthropic
- Chris Painter, Head of Policy, METR
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Mapping of AI Tools to Legal Domains
- Harry Borovick, General Counsel, Luminance
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Where is the Profession Heading?
- Todd Smithline, CEO, Bonterms, Lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Olga Mack, CEO, TermScout
- Amir Ghavi, AI, Tech Transactions & IP Partner, Paul Hastings
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Closing social hour
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