September 24: Navigating Technology & AI Agreements: Trends, Issues, Guidance, and New Frontiers

Today, every organization uses technology as an integral part of its business. Transactional lawyers – both in-house and law firm counsel – are keen to keep abreast of trends and emerging issues in technology agreement drafting in order to adequately protect their clients’ intellectual property and their clients’ rights when procuring technology-related goods or services from third parties. New approaches are developing to address technology ownership, rights to technology developed during the course of a services engagement, and client concerns for guardrails on AI use, data security, and copyright protections.
The panelists for this 60-minute program will tackle current and emerging issues in drafting and reviewing technology and AI related agreements and developing market standards. We will cover contract drafting principles, privacy concerns and practical advice regarding the preparation and review of technology license, technical services, and AI agreements. Novel AI opportunities and sample agreement clause alternatives will be explored.
Learning Objectives include:

• Providing commercial counsel, particularly those in non-technical organizations or who represent non-technical business clients, with updated information on current practices and standards regarding technology-related documentation.
• Based on developments in the law of business associations, providing transactional lawyers with ideas for how artificial intelligence and other software technologies might enable new types of transactions.

  Who would benefit most from attending this program?

• In-house and law firm commercial counsel who create, supervise the creation of, or review technology licenses, technology service agreements, and AI contracts/provisions
• Commercial counsel who are interested in new frontiers of technology-enabled transactions.

Title:
Navigating Technology & AI Agreements: Trends, Issues, Guidance, and New Frontiers
Webinar Date/Time:
September 24, 2024
1:00 PM EDT •12:00 PM CDT •11:00 AM MDT •10:00 AM PDT
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Credit:
Bloomberg Industry Group is an approved provider of CLE credits in all states. Individual programs are pre-approved in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. All other requests for program approval are subject to state-specific approval. The approval process may take approximately four to six weeks in some states.
Speakers:

• Moderator: Denis Demblowski is a principal legal analyst with Bloomberg Industry Group, focusing on commercial transactions and corporate law. He practiced in-house for 32 years at a global manufacturing and industrial company in such areas as compliance, corporate, executive compensation, finance, corporate governance, general commercial, international, M&A, and securities.
• Beth Ebert is a dynamic transactional attorney with over two decades of expertise in technology transactions. Currently serving as Principal Corporate Counsel on the Customer Pursuits Team at Microsoft Corporation, Beth drives strategic and complex transactions that propel digital transformation and innovation. Beth focuses on high-value, complex cloud services transactions, data privacy matters and generative AI transactions. Beth's approach is shaped by her extensive experience across various disciplines. Her unique perspective, rooted in a diverse background in both business and legal fields, is evident in her multifaceted approach to tech transactions. Beth's passion for technology and its legal intersections has established her as a trusted advisor and a thought leader in the industry.
• Cassandra L. Gaedt-Sheckter is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Palo Alto office, where she co-chairs the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) practice, and is a key member of the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice, including as the leader of the firm’s State Privacy Law Task Force. With extensive experience advising companies on AI, data privacy, and cybersecurity issues, Cassandra focuses on strategic product counseling, regulatory compliance counseling, global program development, regulatory enforcement matters (including in connection with the California Attorney General’s Office, California Privacy Protection Agency, and Federal Trade Commission), and complex transactional representations (including assisting companies with targeted assessments in M&A, joint development, vendor and outsourcing agreements). Cassandra advises clients in various industries, including technology, retail, luxury fashion, gig economy, financial, energy / oil and gas, and transportation.
• Shawn Bayern is the Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor at the Florida State University College of Law. His teaching and research focus on common-law issues, primarily in contracts, torts, and organizational law. Professor Bayern has visited at Berkeley Law, Duke Law School, and the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He is the author, most recently, of A Research Agenda for Organizational Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024), The Analytical Failures of Law and Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Principles and Possibilities in Common Law (West Academic Publishing, 2023), and Autonomous Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Before his legal career, Bayern worked in computing research, served on groups responsible for developing programming languages, and wrote several books and articles about computer programming. He also created the Central Authentication Service (CAS), a framework for computer security that has been adopted by many universities and other organizations.

By:
Bloomberg Law.

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