Bird & Bird's TechLaw Day 2024
Speakers
This year, we are hosting our 18th annual TechLaw Day event at the iconic St Pancras Renaissance Hotel on 10 December from 9:00 – 17:00 GMT. It promises to be a day filled with updates, insights, and conversations about significant technology trends and their interplay with legal developments.
As technology-driven change continues to reshape our world at ever-increasing speed, we’ll be looking at how innovation and adoption of technology are being met with increasingly substantial - and varying - regulatory responses. We’ll be looking at a number of case studies and lean on the experience of complex organisations to explore how we might prepare for and respond to both the technology and regulatory elements of this cycle.
Although some future-gazing is a must at the Bird & Bird TechLaw Day, this year we will be looking in particular at how our muscle memory, developed through decades of technology and regulatory (r)evolution, can help us in 2025, as major pieces of regulation are implemented, and innovation continues apace. In the face of what can sometimes feel like an avalanche, it’s worth remembering that this is not our first rodeo!
Programme
An outline of the programme can be seen below.
Formal sessions will end at 17:00, and we hope that you will be able to stay to join us for drinks and networking.
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 0900 - 0915 | Introduction and overview | Richard McMorris, Furat Ashraf |
| 0915 - 0925 | Quantum computing and encryption | Juliana Kliesch |
| 0925 - 0945 | Blockchain: Irresistible force, immovable object | Tristan Sherliker, Christina Fleming, Raoul Grifoni Waterman and Saj Khoshroo (Algorand) |
| 0945 - 1000 | New tech in public tenders | Thomas Thorup Larsen and Andrew Dean |
| 1000 - 1030 | Regulatory response to tech driven change | Anthony Rosen, Saskia King and Jonny Bunt (BT) |
| 1030 - 1100 | Coffee break & networking | |
| 1100 - 1130 | Regulation in practice/case study – Spotlight on the OSA in discussion with Ofcom | Emma Drake, Heather Catchpole and Amy Jordan (Ofcom) |
| 1130 - 1200 | Risk, reward and regulation: The new era of tech investment | Adam Meisels, Saskia King and James Spencer (Crane Venture Partners) |
| 1200 - 1230 | New Technology, old disputes | Jonathan Speed, Jeremy Sharman, Rachel Glass, Matthew Lavy KC (4 Pump Court) |
| 1230 - 1245 | Wrap up | Richard McMorris, Furat Ashraf |
| 1245 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1410 | And after the hype, the work begins | Ronald Hendrikx, Toby Bond |
| 1410 - 1500 | Breakout - Navigating AI Governance | Toby Bond, Emma Draker, Janine McKelvey (BT), Roy Horgan (Qlik) and Marco Iannone (Allwyn) |
| 1410 - 1500 | Breakout – New rules on data access, coming to a contract near you. Soon. | Tobias Bräutigam and Ronald Hendrikx |
| 1500 - 1530 | Coffee break & networking | |
| 1530 - 1615 | Negotiating the threat landscape – an interactive cyber experience | Ted Cowell (S-RM) and Jamie Smith (S-RM) |
| 1615 - 1700 | Adopting a change mindset at scale – how organisations navigate change | Ronald Hendrikx, Mike Woodfine (DXC), Rod Kirwan (Meta), Emily Campbell- Ratcliffe (DSIT) |
| 1700 - 1705 | Close | Richard McMorris, Furat Ashraf |
| 1705 - 2000 | Networking & drinks |
A networking drinks reception will take place at 17:00 - 20:00 GMT.
Register below to express your interest in attending our TechLaw day.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Watch our video, highlighting last year’s event here
This event is now at capacity and we are unable to accept any registrations, we're sorry for any inconvenience.
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St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel LondonEuston Rd.
London
NW1 2AR