Speak at the 2025 European Conference

• Proposals that emphasize practical applications/sector specific/client impact
• Regulation/legislative proposals
  • Eg UK’s New Data Protection Bill and post Brexit regulatory divergence
  • Discussion on new or impending EU legislation (eg DMA (Digital Markets Act), Data Act, Data Governance Act, ePrivacy Regulation)
• AI
  • Agentic AI
  • Legal developments in Biometrics
  • Practical application of AI Laws/Regulations to organisations
  • AI Ethics, governance and Human Rights
  • AI Regulation (such as UK AI Safety Bill, AI Liability Directive, EU AI Act: AI Office guidance (GPAI etc.)
• Modern Contracting
  • Contracting for AI
  • Cloud computing/SaaS/Managed Services Contracts- What’s new?
  • Evolving market practice
• Dispute Resolution
  • Developments in AI litigation
  • Mass claims
  • Disinformation in disputes/Mass dissemination via AI
• Liability/product liability
  • EU PLD (Product Liability Directive)
• Social Media regulation
  • Australia: Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024
  • Jurisdictional challenges in global social media governance
  • Legal frameworks for content moderation
• Open Data
• Crypto/DeFi (Decentralised Finance)/Digital Currencies/Digital Euro
• Health Tech/Lifesciences
  • Biotech and bioinformatics
  • Genetic technologies
• Esport/Gaming
• Cyber
  • Update on global cybersecurity legislation and frameworks
  • Ransomware
  • Dealing with cyber-risks in technology contracts
  • Privacy and computer crime
  • Cyber insurance
  • Legal challenges in data breaches and cybersecurity
• Challenges facing tech startups
  • Practical considerations for a Seed or Series A round
  • Winning and managing investor communities
  • Private equity vs. Venture capital
• Being a technology lawyer:
  • Law Tech and challenges facing law firms
  • The day-to-day business of a tech lawyer
  • Ethics for lawyers/duty of candor
• Space and Satellites – regulating Tech and IP in space
• Ad Tech/Retail Tech
  • AdTech ecosystem – compliance challenges/ developments
• Cleantech and climate change
  • Legal frameworks for Greentech and sustainable innovation
  • eWaste
  • Legal issues in carbon capture and energy efficiency
• Export controls and sanctions – how do they impact contracts and technology providers?
• Electric Vehicles/Autonomous Vehicles and Regulation
• Intellectual Property
  • The Unified Patent Court – Developments and Updates
  • Digital Piracy
  • 3D Printing and Copyright
  • Intellectual Property and Training AI
  • Trademarks in a Virtual World

• Anti-trust/anti-competition in Technology
• Data Privacy and Protection
  • Cross border data compliance challenges
  • Emerging trends in encryption and anonymization technologies
  • Private sector- changing and new legislation/Recent Developments
  • Healthcare – changing and new legislation/recent developments
• Tech Deals/M&A – Latest Developments
• FinTech
• Other hot topics in Technology Law
  • Quantum computing
  • IoT (internet of things)/Edge Computing

Proposals that will have a higher chance of acceptance should be interesting, surprising or perhaps entail disruptive take home messages! Consider including the following in your proposal:

• Sessions that require interaction with and/or input from the audience;
• Deep-dive sessions;
• Showcases on technological developments (show how it works in practice instead of merely talking about it);
• Case studies on how to deal with new developments (IT, legal or both) in daily practice (in-house lawyers’ best practices);
• Any innovative or creative format you believe would work at an ITechLaw conference.

To maximize the overall number of views expressed during the conference, the Planning Committee will continue the practice to limit presenters to one per firm for the duration of the conference.

This proposal submission is intended for individual paper submissions; however, if you propose a panel you may still be considered depending upon the space available in our programming. Panel submissions with multiple presenters must not have duplicate representation from firms – see above, only one speaker per firm will be selected for the entirety of the conference.

More than 75 proposals are regularly received for consideration for each conference, so please understand that selecting panels is a difficult and highly selective process. Preference in selection will be given to proposals that are made by ITechLaw members and focus on advanced knowledge of a topic.

All proposals must be submitted by Friday, 28 February 2025  at 11:59 pm PT for consideration.

The Conference Chairs and Planning Committee will review all submissions and notify each presenter of the status by the end of March 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact us at conferences@itechlaw.org 

ITechLaw enforces the following speaker policy when considering the proposal submissions.

Speaker Policy

A speaker may not speak at two conferences in a row in a particular geographic region. (e.g, no speaking at two European Conferences in a row). Exceptions to this rule may be allowed.

Planning Committee members may not act as speakers or moderators. Speakers from their firm are permissible.

Only one representative per firm is allowed to speak at the conference.

ITechLaw does not pay speaking fees to any speakers. Exceptions may apply.

Speakers receive a discounted rate to the member registration rate to attend the full conference. An exception is made for in-house counsels, academic faculty, and government officials who may attend complimentary.

Please note that not all proposals will be accepted. Decisions on all proposals will be made by the end of March 2025.

Please only submit a proposal if you are available to attend the conference, be sure to save the dates, 29-31 October 2025.

When considering a proposal and curating panels, ITechLaw is conscious of diversifying the panels to represent a global perspective, inclusivity of genders, and limiting one speaker per firm/organization. This should be considered when submitting your proposal.

Sessions are typically between 60 minutes in length with up to 3 concurrent sessions.