AI Tech & Policy Talks

The seventeenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Prof. Mira Burri, Professor of International Economic and Internet Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, and Dr. María Vásquez Callo-Müller, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Lucerne, on International IP in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Implications for Digital Trade Governance.

The presentation was followed by comments from :

Prof. Marketa Trimble, Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Co-Director of the IP Law Concentration, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

and

Anthony Taubman, former Director of the Intellectual Property Government Procurement & Competition Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO), current Director of International IP Pty Ltd.

The sixteenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by  Prof. Teresa Rodriguez De Las Heras Ballell, Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, on Automating decision-making in commercial transactions: A legal framework for Algorithmic Contracting.

The presentation is available: here 

The presentation was followed by comments from: Prof. Martin Ebers, President of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS) and Associate Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and Willem Wiggers, Founder of the contract automation and contract management software using AI, Weagree.

Their presentations are respectively available: here and here 

The fifteenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Claire Morel de Westgaver, Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, who gave a presentation on  The Use of AI in International Arbitration Proceedings – Will Transparency Make The Algorithm Fair?

The presentation was followed by comments from Benjamin Malek, Arbitrator at T.H.E. Chambers, Chair of the SVAMC AI Task Force, and Prof. Pietro Ortolani, Full Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

The fourteenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Dr. Alina Trapova, Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at University College London (UCL), who gave a presentation on Gaming & AI.

The presentation of Dr. Trapova can be found : here 

The presentation was commented by Stacey Chuvaieva, Entertainment Lawyer at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP and LL.M Harvard Law School (2022) and Philippe Sundfeld, Senior Manager, Legal – Data Protection Officer (DPO) at Wildlife Studios and alumnus of the UNIGE – WIPO Summer School on Intellectual Property (2014).

The thirteenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Prof. Sébastien Marcel, Professor at idiap, who gave a presentation on Spoofing and deepfakes in biometrics and the risk of identity theft.

The presentation of Prof. Marcel can be found : here

The presentation was commented by Prof. Sérgio Branco, co-founder and Director of the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) and Irmak Erdoğan, Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) of KU Leuven University

The twelfth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Prof. Thomas Margoni, Professor at KU Leuven, who gave a presentation on  Property right approaches in the regulation of AI in the European Union. 

The presentation of Prof. Margoni can be found : here

The presentation was commented by Ana Andrijevic, Ph.D. Candidate & Affiliate Researcher at the Digital Law Center, and Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno, Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Waseda

The eleventh presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talk featured a presentation by Prof. Lonneke van der Plas, Associate Professor at Idiap, who gave a presentation on computational creativity. More specifically, she presented some of her recent work on the generation of novel concepts. The PowerPoint presentation can be found here. 

More information about Idiap can be found here: https://www.idiap.ch/en 

The presentation was commented by Dr Andres Guadamuz, Reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex, and Ana Andrijevic, Ph.D Candidate & Research and teaching assistant at the Digital Law Center.

The tenth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Prof. Julien Cabay, Associate Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Associate Professor at Université de Liège (ULiège) and Affiliated researcher at the Digital Law Center, and Thomas Vandamme, Deep Learning Researcher at ULB, on the following topic : Assessing IP Similarities Through Technology : A Trademark Exploration of Challenges and Avenues. The PowerPoint presentation can be found here.

More information on their project at : https://www.ulb.be/fr/arc/arc-research-project-ipsam 

The presentation was commented by Prof. Stéphane Machand-Maillet, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, and Prof. Dev Gangjee, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford.

The ninth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Dr Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor of Law, VU Amsterdam & Faculty Affiliate, Stanford University, on the following topic : Augmenting competition law with AI: the case for computational antitrust.

The presentation was commented by Dr Catalina Goanta, Assistant Professor in Private Law, Maastricht University, and Dr Adrien Alberini, Lecturer, University of Geneva, Attorney at Law, Partner at sigma legal, Geneva and Affiliated researcher, Digital Law Center.

The eighth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Prof. Yaniv Benhamou, Professor of Law at University of Geneva and member of the board of directors of the digital law center, on the following topic : How to use copyleft licenses and collective governance of data through data trusts, in order to increase data flows.

The presentation was commented by :

• Prof. Bertrand Loison, Vice Director and Head of Data Science Competence Center, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO),  Professor of Information Systems at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland ;
• Prof. François Grey, Associate Professor at the Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI), University of Geneva and Geneva Tsinghua Initiative Director and ;
• Dr Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Associate Professor, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS.

The seventh presentaiton of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Prof. Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at University of Surrey, on the following topic : Protecting AI Output with Intellectual Property.

The sixth presentaiton of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Senior advisor of the Global Access in Action program at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor and a Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University-MERIT, on the following topic : Artificial Intelligence and Structural Inequality: The Problems of Foreseeable and Unforeseeable Bias.

The presentation was commented by Dr james Wahutu, Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University and Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Prof. Jean-Henry Morin, Associate Professor for Information Systems, University of Geneva.

The fifth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Dr Sivan Tamir, Policy Counsel & Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Tech Policy Institute, on the following topic : Implementing Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems in Social Welfare Services. The PowerPoint presentation is available here. 

The presentation was commented by Limor Shmerling Magazanik, Managing Director of the Israel Tech Policy Institute and Prof. Diego Kuonen, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva.

The fourth presentation of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Prof. Robin Geiss, Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow and upcoming Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), on the following topic : AI and the Digital Battlefield.

The presentation was commented by Prof. Marco Sassòli, Department of Public International Law and International Organization, University of Geneva and Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo, Computer Science Center, University of Geneva.

The first session of the AI Tech & Policy Talks featured a presentation by Ana Andrijevic, teaching assistant and doctoral student at the Digital Law Center, on the following topic : Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property: Challenges and Perspectives. The PowerPoint presentation is available here.

The presentation was commented by Prof. Slava Voloshynovskiy, Faculty of Science, Computer Science and Centre Universitaire Informatique (CUI), University of Geneva, and Dr. Maria Assunta Cappelli, Centre Universitaire Informatique (CUI), University of Geneva.