Conference programme

A dynamic session which will enable delegates to select from a menu of hot topics mainly relating to artificial intelligence (AI) from the perspective of the intellectual property, communication, technology, art, media and space sectors, and to participate in roundtable discussions.

Topical AI-related issues will be selected to stimulate a lively debate. Moderators on each table will introduce the table topic and the participants do the rest.

Topic one
Digital therapeutics – legal challenges and opportunities for tech companies and patients

Moderators
Jeffrey Costellia Nixon Peabody, Washington, DC; Vice Chair, IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee
Rebecca Dunn Gilbert + Tobin, Barangaroo, New South Wales
Elisa Stefanini Portolano Cavallo, Milan; Technology Law Committee Liaison Officer, IBA Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee

Topic two
Large language models (LLMS) and data protection

Moderators
Argyro Amidi FOURDOTINFINITY, Athens
Takashi Nakazaki Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Tokyo; Associations and Committees Liaison Officer, IBA Technology Law Committee
Matthias Orthwein SKW Schwarz , Munich

Topic three
AI-driven evidence collection and analysis in litigation: balancing accuracy, efficiency, and ethical concerns

Moderators
Raffaello Stefano De Marco Gianni Origoni, Milan
Statira Ranina ALMT Legal, Mumbai, Maharashtra; Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee
Erik Valgaeren Stibbe, Brussels

Topic four
Fault in our AI: pinning of liabilities and obligations

Moderators
Anna Beke-Martos Law Office of Dr Anna Beke-Martos, Budapest; Publications Officer, IBA Media Law Committee
Raphaël Dana Dana Associés, Paris; Vice Chair, IBA Fintech Subcommittee
Shweta Sahu Nishith Desai Associates, New Delhi, Delhi

Topic five
AI and the legal profession

Moderators
Lorenzo Battarino Trevisan & Cuonzo, Milan
Orit Gonen Gilat Bareket & Co Reinhold Cohn Group, Tel Aviv, Israel; Chair, Copyright and Entertainment Law Subcommittee
Janez Sekirnik OPAM Law, Ljubljana

Topic six
Impact of European AI regulation in financial sector

Moderators
Roland Mathys Schellenberg Wittmer, Zürich; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Technology Law Committee
Professor Attila Menyhard Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of Law, Budapest
Astrid Wagner Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg City; Vice Chair, IBA Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Subcommittee

Topic seven
AI corporate policies

Moderators
Yuval Horn Horn & Co, Tel Aviv; Member, IBA Technology Law Committee Advisory Board
Violetta Kunze Djingov Gouginski Kyutchukov & Velichkov, Sofia; Member, IBA Communications Law Committee Advisory Board
Cristina Mesa J&A Garrigues, Madrid

Topic eight
AI supply chains and digital sovereignty

Moderators
Mario Di Carlo Studio legale Ristuccia e Tufarelli, Rome
Professor Christopher Millard Queen Mary University of London, London
Daniel Lundqvist Advokatfirman Kahn Pedersen, Stockholm; Scholarship Officer, IBA Technology Law Committee

Topic nine
A tricky balance: what is the best solution to the issue of copyright content being used for the teaching of large language and other GenAI models?

Moderators
Antonio Bana Bana Avvocati Associati, Milan
Licia Garotti PedersoliGattai, Milan
Nick White Charles Russell Speechlys , London; Vice Chair, IBA Copyright and Entertainment Law Subcommittee

Topic ten
AI, best practices and self-regulation – the case of journalism and the news sector

Moderators
Albert Agustinoy Cuatrecasas, Barcelona; Vice Chair, IBA Technology Law Committee
Herman Croux MVVP, Brussels; Member, IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee Advisory Board
Paulina Silva Bitlaw, Santiago; Publications Officer, IBA Technology Law Committee

Topic eleven
What is the legal status of crypto art: moveable or copyright or unknown?

Moderators
Olivier de Baecque De Baecque Bellec, Paris; Co-Chair, IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee
Anne-Sophie Nardon Borghese Associes, Paris

Procuring, developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems requires focused contracts. Understanding the business opportunities as well as the legal risks associated with an AI system, including as they pertain to confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity and ethics, is key to implementing sound contractual relationships with suppliers, clients and business partners. In this session, in-house counsel and private practitioners will share their experience and give you pointers on how to tackle the challenge. Case studies, best practices, checklists and model clauses will fuel a pragmatic and interactive session that will help you in building the right sized contracts.

This session will delve into the creative industries that rely on the exploitation of the economic right of copyright, including, music, film, art and design. It will look at the challenges creators are facing with the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI), legal actions by guilds and associations, and the relevance to the recent actors’ strike. The panel of experts will also discuss the issues around the use of copyright protected works in datasets training AI and will examine fair or (un)fair use in respect of potential copyright infringement.

With the recent advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI), an increasing number of service providers, platforms and apps rely on AI as part of their working processes. However, just like humans, AI systems tend to be or become ‘biased’. This bias affects the media industry on many levels. Entertainment media giants such as Netflix use AI systems to enhance their efficiency but are now also experiencing the negative side-effects of AI bias. The power of media as the ‘Fourth Estate’ is well-known and this session, just a few days after the US presidential election, will examine how AI bias may affect election outcomes and the risks that AI bias may pose in the news media. In addition, the panel will examine what tech companies can do (and indeed do) to prevent and control bias when designing AI systems. Finally, the legal risks concerning AI bias specific to these industry practices will also be assessed, in light of the new AI legislation.

Power, cooling and connectivity requirements for AI result in significant bottlenecks emphasised by scarcity of microprocessors. The outcome is a new playing field for information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure.

With skyrocketing power and water consumption, current AI-powered data centres are putting huge pressure on grids and on civil infrastructure, with a direct impact on the way AI data centres are built. Resulting operating costs become deterrents for many players.

In this initial phase, small data centres have been favoured (from 1MWh to 4MWh). However, plans shared by Big Tech forecast gigawatt hour (GWh) or more data centres to be operated soon. This exponential growth in terms of capacity requirements results from computer power hungry large language model (LLM) training and fine tuning, but also from inference workloads, each category requesting different needs in terms of connectivity, latency and more generally service-level agreements (SLAs).

Impact on the value chain will be significant. All players will have to revisit their business model, in a race for capacity and efficiency, with a growing number of partnership pre-empting access to resources.

This session will consider:

• how are fake artworks made using artificial intelligence (AI) and how can they be identified; and
• what claim an artist has against third parties where the artists’ works is being used to train AI models and those models are then used to create art works.