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Programme

Day 1: January 10, 2024 (Wednesday, 9:30am - 6pm)

Venue: Philip K.H. Wong Theatre, 2/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong

Welcome Remarks (9:30 - 9:45am)

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Max Shen

Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research),

The University of Hong Kong

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Ada Chung

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong

Keynote Speeches (9:45 - 10:50am)

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Beyond the Rights-Based Vision of Data Protection

Christopher S. Yoo

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

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Global AI Meets National Law: Lessons for AI from Privacy Law

Anupam Chander

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University

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Moderator

Haochen Sun

Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Panel 1: Addressing the Risks of AI from the Regulatory Perspective (11:15am - 1pm)

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Ada Chung

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong

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Jennifer M. Urban

Chair of the California Privacy Protection Agency Board

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Hisato Asada

Commissioner for International Cooperation of Personal Information Protection Commission, Japan

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Adeline Tung

Director of Policy & Technology of Personal Data Protection Commission, Singapore

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Steve Wood

Director and Founder of PrivacyX Consulting; Former Deputy Commissioner (Executive Director, Regulatory Strategy) of Information Commissioner’s Office, United Kingdom

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Moderator

Loke-Khoon Tan

Senior Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Panel 2 (2:30 - 4:05pm)

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Microsoft’s Perspectives on AI Governance

 

Winnie Yeung

Director of Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft (Greater China)

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AI and Gaming: Safeguarding the Best Interest of our Future Generations

 

Timothy Ma

Head of International Privacy, Tencent

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Meta's Approach to Building AI Responsibly

 

Raina Yeung

Director of Privacy and Data Policy, APAC, Meta

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AI Regulation in China: Security, Content and Ethical Perspectives

 

Samuel Yang

Partner, AnJie Broad Law Firm

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Contrasting Approaches to AI Regulation

 

Dominic Edmondson

Special Counsel, Baker McKenzie

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Moderator

Catherine Zheng

Partner, Deacons

Panel 3 (4:25 - 6pm)

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AI in Healthcare: Balancing Innovation and Risk

 

Adam Au

Fellow of Institute of Big Data Governance

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Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services: Opportunities and Challenges

 

Aaron Bleasdale

Managing Associate General Counsel, Head of Asia-Pacific Data Legal, HSBC

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Getting Started with a Futureproof AI Governance Program

 

Julia Mac

Senior Lead, Global Privacy, Asia-Pacific, Under Armour

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Practice and Reflections on Personal Information Protection in Generative AI

 

Yingjing Wu

Head of Privacy Protection, Technology Platform Business Group, Ant Group

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Cross-Border Data Flow and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

 

Dora Si

Partner, Deacons

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Moderator

Sunny Shen

Partner, AnJie Broad Law Firm

Day 2: January 11, 2024 (Thursday, 9:30am - 6pm)

Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong

Panel 4 (9:30 - 11am)

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Taking Scale Seriously in Privacy and Technology Law

 

Mark McKenna

Vice Dean of Faculty & Intellectual Life; Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

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Regulating Algorithms at Work: a Blueprint for Contesting Automated Decision-Making?

 

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Professor of Law & Associate Dean (Research), University of Oxford

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The Right to Know Social Media Algorithms

 

Haochen Sun

Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

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Humans Outside the Loop: the Importance of Regulating Human Decisions in AI

 

Charlotte Tschider

Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

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Moderator

Christopher S. Yoo

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 5 (11:30am - 1pm)

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Transnational AI

 

Chinmayi Arun

Research Scholar in Law & Executive Director, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

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Regulating Generative AI under Data Protection: European Experience with Search Engine Indexing and its Lessons  

 

David Erdos

Professor of Law, University of Cambridge

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AI, Data Protection and Finance

 

Douglas Arner

Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, University of Hong Kong

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Chilling Effects and AI's Legal Future

 

Jonathon Penney

Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; Faculty Associate, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

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Moderator

Madhavi Sunder

Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property, Georgetown University

Panel 6 (2:30 - 4pm)

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Regulating Algorithmic Harms

 

Sylvia Lu

Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

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Querying Generative Models for Personal Data

 

Michael Veale

Associate Professor, University College London

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Moderator

Anupam Chander

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University

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Scoring and Profiling: Beyond the SCHUFA's Decision

 

Anne Cheung

Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

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Privacy Policies and Shared Meaning Analysis

 

Xiaowei Yu

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong

Panel 7 (4:30 - 6pm)

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Data Interest Distribution and the Development of Artificial Intelligence

 

Weixing Shen

Professor of Law, Tsinghua University

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The Security-Productivity Paradox in China’s Public Data Regime  

 

Xin Dai

Associate Professor & Vice Dean, Peking University

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Personal Data Protection and the State of Emergency

 

Weiwei Shen

Associate Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law

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Moderator

Boris Babic

Associate Professor of Data Science and Philosophy, University of Hong Kong

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The Promise and Perils of Chinese AI Regulation

 

Angela Zhang

Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong

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We are in the progress of applying for the Hong Kong Law Society CPD points for each day of this event.

Admission is free of charge.  Please register for this event as soon as possible at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=91511.

For inquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.

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