Speak at the 2025 World Technology Law Conference

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Update on regulations in the US/North America, Europe, and Asia
  • Deepfakes – the legal and business risks of deploying such technologies.
  • Drafting and negotiating AI Agreements
  • AI and the Public Sector
  • Robotics – legal issues
• Anti-trust/anti-competition in Technology
• Cleantech and climate change
• Cybersecurity
  • Update on global cybersecurity legislation and frameworks
  • Ransomware
  • Dealing with cyber-risks in technology contracts
  • Privacy and computer crime
• Data Protection – Private sector- changing and new legislation/Recent Developments
• Data Protection – Healthcare – changing and new legislation/recent developments
• Cloud computing/Managed Services Contracts- What’s new?
• Export controls and sanctions – how do they impact contracts?
• Open source software
• Electric Vehicles/Autonomous Vehicles and Regulation
• Gaming
• Lifesciences/Healthtech
• IP in the Digital World
• The Unified Patent Court – Developments and Updates
• Tech Deals/M&A – Latest Developments
• Tech Startups
• Technology and Financial Services
• ESG & Technology
• Other hot topics in Technology Law

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), and
• 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 Monday, 30 September 2024 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 December 2024.

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 December 2024. Please only submit a proposal if you are available to attend the conference. Please save the dates, 14-16 May 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.