Summary :
In guided interviews, experts debated the evolving role of public and private platforms in generative AI. Discussing the different requirements of public and private platforms when applying generative AI.
Speakers :
Mr. Bradford C. Brown - MITRE
Bradford C. Brown serves as Chief, Administrative Operations & Technology Futures at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia He has been a lawyer for more than 30 years and was the 2nd U.S. Chief Counsel for Technology under President George H.W. Bush. In that role he helped negotiate the U.S. & Canada Cooperative Science and Technology Agreement. He founded the National Center for Technology and Law and was Associate Dean at George Mason University’s School of Law. He was a member of the Administrative Conference of United States, Ad Hoc Committee that advised federal agencies on the use of the use of AI. With a team at MITRE, their paper on Supervised Methods for Explainable Legal Prediction won the Peter M Jackson Award from the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. An AI tool that he invented along with Karl Branting is patent pending and has been commercially licensed. He is a past board advisory board member of the Institute for Law and Technology and Information Week. He has authored or contributed to 55 published articles.
Mr. Mike Kujawski - CEPSM
Mike Kujawski has over 20 years of experience as a management consultant, trainer, and professional speaker for government, non-profit, and association clients in Canada and around the globe. His specialty areas include strategic marketing, social (behaviour change) marketing, strategic communications, social media strategy development, social network analysis, organizational branding, and strategic planning. He primarily works with public sector and non-profit organizations that are trying to achieve positive societal change. Mike is frequently asked to speak at major conferences and events covering various topics ranging from the latest disruptive digital trends and the evolution of digital culture to ethical social (behaviour change) marketing techniques and best practices. Mike's consulting and training work stretches across four continents and involves a variety of industries ranging from health and education to justice and the environment. He has recently worked on initiatives relating to vaccine hesitancy, fire safety, drug-impaired driving, electric vehicles, anti-racism, digital currency adoption, and the impact of artificial intelligence on society. Some of Mike's clients include the Bank of Canada, Elections Canada, the Yukon Government, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the Government of Kazakhstan and the Government of Sharjah, UAE. As a trainer, Mike has delivered public and in-house training workshops across Canada and internationally to thousands of public servants and non-profit workers. He has developed and instructed multiple university certificate courses, including the Professional Certificate in Public Sector Marketing Program (Carleton University), the Certificate in Digital and Social Media Strategy for Social Good (Carleton University), and the Social Media Engagement Certificate (Brandon University), all geared specifically at the public and non-profit sectors.
Mrs. Olga V. Mack - MIT Computational Law Report
Olga V. Mack is a pioneering leader in law, technology, and innovation. As a Fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, lecturer at Berkeley Law, and Generative AI Editor at law.MITComputational Law Report, she integrates disruptive technologies into the legal profession. She served as the CEO of Parley Pro (a.k.a., LexisNexis CounselLink CLM), a cutting-edge contract lifecycle platform that revolutionized digital negotiation, leading it to significant growth and its successful integration into LexisNexis.
Chair:
Prof. Nicolas Vermeys - Cyberjustice Laboratory, Université de Montréal
Nicolas Vermeys, LL. D. (Université de Montréal), LL. M. (Université de Montréal), CISSP, is the Director of the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), the Associate Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, and a Professor at the Université de Montréal’s Faculté de droit. He is also a visiting professor of law at both William & Mary (USA) and the University of Fortaleza (Brazil).
Mr. Vermeys is a member of the Quebec Bar, as well as a certified information system security professional (CISSP) as recognized by (ISC)2, and is the author of numerous publications relating to the impact of technology on the law, including Droit codifié et nouvelles technologies : le Code civil (Yvon Blais, 2015), and Responsabilité civile et sécurité informationnelle (Yvon Blais, 2010).
Mr. Vermeys’ research focuses on legal issues pertaining to artificial intelligence, information security, developments in the field of cyberjustice, and other questions relating to the impact of technological innovations on the law. He is often invited to speak on these topics by the media, and regularly lectures for judges, lawyers, professional orders, and government organizations, in Canada and abroad.