Past Events
Below we have listed events we previously hosted as well as the resources that accompanied those events.
- Friday, January 21 @10:00AM: In this latest installment of the AI Governance Series, this upcoming panel will focus on China’s role in the world of AI, both in software development and a manufacturing hub for chips in the global supply chain. We hope you will be able to join us on this panel to lend your expertise to this discussion. The structure of the panel will be a one hour conversation moderated by Georgetown’s own Anupam Chander. View Registration details for the AI Governance Series: The Geopolitics of Chinese AI event here.
- Tuesday, January 18, 2021 @11:00AM: On the tenth anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today.Join Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Wikimedia Foundation for this event. The panel will consist of a conversation with thought leaders on global internet regulation focused on understanding the current state of internet freedom and articulating possible paths towards internet freedom. View registration details for the “Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout” Event here.
- Friday, November 12 @3:30PM: Digital information is powerful: the information created, shared, and preserved by archives, libraries, and scholars provides everybody with greater access to knowledge. And no organization does digital information quite like the Internet Archive. To celebrate the Internet Archive’s 25 birthday, we’ll be welcoming its founder, Brewster Kahle, alongside panelists from DC’s premiere cultural institutions, to reflect on the past, present, and future of digital information.
- Friday and Saturday, November 5 & 6 @ 8:00AM: Join this cohosted event organized by the Tech Institute’s very own Professor Madhavi Sunder on Intellectual Property and COVID-19. View information about the “Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures” event here.
- Wednesday, November 3 @ 11:30AM: The Biden-Harris Administration presents an opportunity to reset our country’s approach to global digital policy and renew our commitment to global engagement and development. The Georgetown Global TechNet Working Group and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy (Tech Institute) and Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA) are joining together to convene policymakers, industry leaders, and scholars to discuss key issues in digital trade. The discussion will center on inclusive digital trade to promote development and Transatlantic data flows, and explore the implications of emerging regulatory approaches to data and innovative technologies for trade and trade policy. The event is enabled by the generous support of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). View the recording of the “Towards Inclusive Digital Trade: Data, Development & Trust” Event here.
- Friday, October 29 @ 11:00AM: Join us in our continuation of the AI Governance Series with our new installment: AI’s Role in Addressing and Exacerbating Climate Change. In this discussion, moderated by Jackie Snow, we will be discussing the different roles AI have in combatting the global climate crisis. View more information about both the event and AI Governance Series here.
- Friday, September 24 @ 11:00AM: Join Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy along with the Yale Information Society Project for the first fall entry in the AI Governance Virtual Symposium Series: AI Classification Frameworks and AI Accidents! Catherine Aiken and Helen Toner from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology will be discussing how to classify Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the new OECD framework, and the risks that can arise when accidents happen with these different kinds of AI. View the past registration details for the AI Classification Frameworks and AI Accidents event
- Friday June 18 @ 11:00AM: Continuation of AI Governance Series hosted by Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal. Join the discussion on “Watching Algorithms: The Role of Civil Society” with: Julia Angwin, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, The Markup; Iverna McGowan, Europe Director, Center for Democracy & Technology; and David Ronbinson, Visiting Scientist in the AI Policy and Practice Initiative, Cornell College of Computing and Information Science. View the past registration details for the AI Governance Series hosted by Byron Tau
- Wednesday June 2 @ 7:00PM: Join us for a virtual book talk between Professor Julie Cohen and Dr. Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI. Read about the virtual book talk
- Friday May 28 @ 10:00AM: The “AI Governance Virtual Symposium Series” continues with a discussion of “AI Governance: How Do We Regulate AI? Comparative Perspectives” Panelists includes Chinmayi Arun, Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, Jessica Rich, Distinguished Fellow of the Georgetown Tech Institute and Former Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, Lucilla Sioli, Director Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, European Commission. The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Anupam Chander of Georgetown University Law School. Watch How Do We Regulate AI? A Comparative Perspective
- Friday May 7 @ 10:00AM: Join the discussion on “AI Governance Virtual Symposium: AI Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility” with Yoko Arisaka, General Manager, Legal Section, Legal Department, Sony Group Corporation, Erika Brown Lee, SVP, Assistant General Counsel, Global Privacy & Cyber Advocacy, Privacy & Data Protection, Mastercard, and Jutta Williams, Staff Product Manager ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability (META), Twitter. Watch the AI Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility event video
- April 29-30: The Institute will be hosting the global invitational Iron Tech Lawyers competition, an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that brings law and technology together through student-created apps that increase access to justice around the world. Read information about the Iron Tech Lawyers event
- Friday April 2 @ 10:00AM: Launch of AI and Governance Series co-hosted by Georgetown Global Technet and Yale ISP. Join the discussion on AI and Municipalities. Watch the AI and Municipalities discussion event video
- Wednesday March 24 @ 12:00PM: Online Information Epidemic: Policy and Research Gaps, Tech Institute & CDT host policy experts, researchers, and civil society advocates for a discussion of the impact of online disinformation and distrust of democratic institutions, particularly as it relates to the use of misogynistic and racist narratives.
- Wednesday March 10: Join AI conversation with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Roger McNamee & more as part of the launch event of Equal AI Livestream podcast “In AI We Trust?”
- Wednesday March 10: Prof. Julie Cohen hosts a Conversation with Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist. Schneier is the author of 14 books, including the New York Times best-seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World & click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World.
- Friday March 5: GULC Profs. Madhavi Sunder & Matthew Kavanaugh join others in Revisiting the Access to the Medicine Debate in the Covid-19 Era. View the past registration details for the Revisiting the Access to the Medicine Debate in the Covid-19 event
- Monday February 2: GULC will be accepting applications from incoming “1Ls for the Tech Law Scholars Program”. If you would like to learn more about the Program, join Jennifer Sturiale, Academic Program Director, for an info session at 1:00 p.m.
- Friday January 29: Technology & Democracy after the Great Deplatforming. Join Georgetown Law’s Profs. Anupam Chander, Erin Carroll, David Vladek & Tech Institute Interim ED Hillary Brill in a discussion on speech and regulation of platforms. View the past registration details for the Technology & Democracy after the Great Deplatforming event
- Wednesday & Thursday January 6 & 7: Tech Institute & HKU hosts Data Sovereignty on the Digital Silk Road. Join GULC Profs. Chander, Sunder, Cohen & international academics and experts discussing issues of IP, artificial intelligence, trust & safety, digital trade, and more in the context of international governance. View the past registration details for the Data Sovereignty on the Digital Silk Road event
- Thursday December 17, 2020: Join a discussion of Internet access and broadband inequities with a livestream of Tech on the Rocks: Broadband For America Now hosted by Institute Distinguished Fellow Gigi Sohn and featuring former FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and former FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet. View the past registration details for the Tech on the Rocks: Broadband For America Now event
- Thursday December 3, 2020: Join Interim Executive Director Hillary Brill at PrivSec Global 2020 on December 3 at 2 p.m. EST for a panel discussion on “Technological Development and the Impact on Children’s Data Privacy.” Ms. Brill will moderate a conversation with international privacy and security experts on the impact of technological advancements in education, social media, and other fields on children’s privacy. View the past registration details for the PrivSec Global 2020 event
- Wednesday December 2, 2020: Join Senator Warner, GULC Dean Treanor, Bruce Reed (former Chief of Staff VP Biden), April Delaney and Professor Julie Cohen discussing social media accountability and platform governance as part of book launch with Jim Styer, CEO and founder of Common Sense and author of Which Side of History?: How Technology is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives. View the past registration details for the presentation on social media accountability.
- Thursday November 12 & Friday November 19, 2020**FOR STUDENTS**: The Institute will be hosting two career events in the coming weeks focused on public-interest and private-sector careers in technology law and policy. The events will feature recent grads and others in the tech-policy field. The public-interest event will be Thursday, November 12 at 1pm & the private sector event will be November 19 at 1pm. View the past registration details for the career interest event.
- Monday November 19, 2020: ” Advancing Inclusion in Copyright and Register Barbara Ringer’s Legacy ,” at 10:00 AM EST. Join a discussion of inclusion in Copyright and a celebration of the legacy of Barbara Ringer the first female US Register of Copyrights hosted by the Copyright Office, IPIP, and the Institute. View the past registration details for the Copyright event.
- Friday November 13, 2020: How can we include the next generation of computer scientists, information architects, engineers, data scientists, and designers in policy making and public service? Join Prof. Ohm and Non-Resident Fellow Travis Moore discuss this and more at the 2020 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) convening.’
- Monday November 2, 2020: ” Social Media and Elections Elsewhere: Myanmar, Facebook, and the Future of Democracy ,” at 10:00 AM EST. Join the launch of the Georgetown Law’s Global TechNet Working Group (Global TechNet) with its inaugural event. Prof. Anupam Chander will moderate a conversation with Jenny Domino, Chinmayi Arun, and Erika George about how social media and global election integrity can impact civil liberties worldwide. RSVP View the past registration details for the “Social Media and Elections Elsewhere” event.
- Wednesday October 21, 2020: ” Tech Speaker Series: Liberty Bell – A Conversation with Nancy Baker Cahill ,” at 5:30 PM. Register for this discussion with artist Nancy Baker Cahill about Liberty Bell, an animated augmented reality (AR) installation, moderted by Georgetown Law Professor Amanda Levendowski. Nancy Baker Cahill is an artist working at the intersection of fine art, new media, and activism.
- Wednesday October 14, 2020: ” Contact Tracing: Operational Or Aspirational? ,” at 11:00 AM. Join this live recording of the ” Tech on the Rocks ” podcast with host, Institute Distinguished Fellow, and public advocate Gigi Sohn. This episode features interviews with Georgetown Law Professor Laura Moy and Jeff Stover, Executive Advisor to the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health.
- Friday October 9, 2020: ” The Saga of TikTok and WeChat ,” at 10 AM. This webinar will examine the saga of TikTok and WeChat in the United States, focusing in particular on the implications for America’s leadership of the open Internet and digital rights.