General Session Opening Panel

Careers in Law & Technology

Moderator:
Laurie Robinson Haden, Founder & CEO, Corporate Counsel Women of Color

Panelists:
Kareem Howell, Associate General Counsel, Thomson Reuters
Alysia Dagadu, Associate General Counsel, Reality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc. 
Veronica Gromada, Partner, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
Maryam Casbarro, Counsel, Delivery, Uber

Concurrent Panel Sessions

Demystifying NFTs (Non-fungible tokens): What attorneys need to know

Moderator:
Diane Littlejohn, Attorney and Executive Director of NCCU Technology Law and Policy Center

Panelists:
JiNan Glasgow George, IP Attorney & founder Neo IP, co-founder Patent Forecast
Steven Schwarcz, Duke University School of Law, Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business
Peter Singh, Attorney, Fourscore Business Law

Law & Technology: Hot Topics

Moderator:
April Dawson, Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law, NCCU Law

Panelists:
Evangelina Almirantearena, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Antitrust and Commercial Litigation, Intel Corporation
Katia Gondarenko, Attorney, Intel Corporation
Roderick Brown, Director and Senior Counsel

Concurrent Panel Sessions

Trademarks in the Emerging Technology Space

Moderator:
Annette Kabia, Attorney, Kabia Law LLC

Panelists:
Vedia Jones-Richardson, Partner, Olive & Olive
Zaneta Robinson, Associate Clinical Professor & Director of Intellectual Property Law Clinic, Wake Forest School of Law

Technology Solutions to the Access to Justice Crisis

Moderator:
Ashley Campbell, CEO, Legal Aid of North Carolina

Panelists:
Sonja Ebron, Co-founder & CEO, Courtroom5
Jeff Kelly, Senior Associate, Nelson Mullen
Daniel Yi, Senior Counsel for Innovation, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Perspectives on Tech Law and Policy

Moderator:
Leslie J. Keyes, Attorney, National Security Agency

Panelists:
Lauren M. Cherry, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Benjamin Kastan, Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity, National Security Agency
John Cummings, Attorney, Office of the National Cyber Director

Concurrent Panel Sessions

The Patent Practitioner Panel – Challenges and Solutions in Current Practice

Moderator:
Mimi Afshar, Director of IP Clinic & Supervising Patent and Trademark Attorney, NCCU School of Law

Panelists:
Leon Cain, Associate General Counsel, IP & Development, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions
Tristan Fuierer, Attorney, Casimir Jones, S.C.
Aisha Hasan, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jeff Tidwell, Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Cybersecurity Law & Liability

Moderator:
Alyssa Pearce, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Panelists:
Michael Menapace, Partner, Wiggin and Dana
Randolph Scott, Assistant Vice President, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Robert A. Stines, Partner, Freeborn & Peters LLP

Technology Policy: Opportunities and Challenges

Moderator:
Lara Marion, Senior Manager, Amazon Public Policy

Panelists:
John Hardin, Director of Technology Policy for the NC Commerce Dept.
Chris Lewis, President & CEO, Public Knowledge
Matt Perault, the Director of the UNC Tech Policy Center
Lee Teidrich, Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethical Technology, Duke Science & Society

Concurrent Panel Sessions

Non-traditional Legal Careers in Data Privacy

Moderator:
Cedric Pickett, Attorney & Tech Law Fellow, NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center

Panelists:
Rachel Cash, CEO and Founder at ELROI
Matt Meinel, Data Protection & Privacy Managing Consultant (JD, CIPP-US/E), Berkeley Research Group LLC
Dennis Barnes, Managing Director, Dovetail Consulting Group, LLC

Considerations When Using Social Media in Your Day-to-Day Practice

Moderator:
Nichelle “Nikki” Perry, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law, NCCU School of Law

Panelists:
Kimberly Y. Bennett, Managing Attorney & Founder, K Bennett Law LLC
Nichole McLaughlin, Assistant Ethics Counsel and Judicial District Bar Liaison, North Carolina State Bar
Angelica McDonald, Managing Attorney, McDonald Law, PLLC

AI Ethics and Policy

Moderator:
Kevin Lee, Intel Social Justice and Racial Equity Professor of Law, NCCU School of Law

Panelists:
Luciana Pasisi, Professor of Literature, Duke University
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Associate Professor & Chair of the Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

Concurrent Panel Sessions

Technology That Tracks from Ring and Fitbit to GPS and Typing Keystrokes: Knowing the Legal Ramifications of Such Usage

Moderator:
Nichelle “Nikki” Perry, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law, NCCU School of Law

Panelists:
W. Keith Robinson, Professor of Law & Faculty Director for Intellectual Property, Technology, Business, and Innovation, Wake Forest University School of Law
Stacey Rowland, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Assistant Director for Collection & Technology Services

Tax Technology

Moderator:
De’Erricka Green, Attorney

Panelists:
Jasmine Glaspie, Manager, Indirect Tax Controversy and Policy, Walmart
Victoria Pugh, SALT Technology Manager, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP

HealthTech

Moderator:
Dana Jones, Professor, NCCU School of Law

Panelists:
Cherell Harris, Attorney, Smith Anderson
Steven Cava, Vice President Corporate Compliance / General Counsel, PharmaComplete Consulting Services
Sara Haddad, Quality Assurance Supervisor at Colmmune, Inc.

Saturday, October 15

NCCU Law School (CLE Day)

Concurrent Sessions

Best Practice for Safeguarding Client Data

Presenter:
Josh Rowland, Director of Risk, Fidelity Investments

Digital Transformation and Cloud Negotiations

Presenter:
Casiya Thaniel, Privacy Trust Communications Director

Open Source Licensing and Year in Review

Presenter:
Jeffrey Kaufman, Senior Technology and Open Source Counsel, Red Hat, Inc.

Concurrent Sessions

Leveraging Technology in Your Law Practice

Presenter:
Mark Atkinson, Executive Director, Incubator for Legal Practice and Innovation (ILPI)

Confidentiality in the Age of Remote Hybrid Work

Presenter:
Pageen Turner, Legal Technology Consultant, Legal Cloud Technology

Lunch Panel

Emerging Jobs in Legal Technology

Moderator:
Sakeinah Perry, Security and Privacy Coordinator, Assent, Inc.

Panelists:
Kim Stahl, Senior IT Policy Lead, UNC Chapel Hill
Shaquan Johnson, Lead Counsel, Meta
Sheila Spence, Corporate Counsel, NantHealth, Inc.