Conference on IT Law
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The Ukrainian Bar Association together with the International Bar Association have the pleasure of announcing the Conference on IT Law, taking place in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 12 April 2019 (Hilton Kyiv Hotel, 30 Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd.)
PROGRAM
08:30-09:00 |
Registration. Welcome Coffee |
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09:00-09:20 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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09:20-09:50 |
Keynote speech |
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Ronnie Apteker, advisor at Thinkst Applied Research (South Africa) |
Entrepreneurs invest in people |
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09:50-11:20 |
SESSION 1. Legal Challenges of New Technologies |
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Moderator: |
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Ronnie Apteker, advisor at Thinkst Applied Research (South Africa) |
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09:50-10:10 |
Anurag Bana, Senior Legal Advisor with the IBA's Legal Policy & Research Unit (UK) |
Legal issues and challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) |
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10:10-10:30 |
Daria Brashkina, Legal Lead for CIS regions at Microsoft (Germany) |
Ethics in AI |
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10:30-10:50 |
Begum Kayum, Partner at Kayum & Demir Attorney Partnership (Turkey) |
Right to be forgotten: comparison of application in EU, USA and Turkey |
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10:50-11:20 |
Q&A session |
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11:20-12:00 |
Coffee break |
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SECTION 2.1. Cybersecurity |
12:00-13:30 |
SECTION 2.2.Privacy vs. Business |
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Moderator: TBD |
Moderator: TBD |
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Speaker TBD |
Topic TBA |
12:00-12:20 |
Georg Mikhael Bauer, Intellectual Property Manager at NXP Semiconductors (Austria) |
Mobile Payment App (WeChat) and its compliance with GDPR: Success or failure? |
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Wojciech Dziomdziora, Counsel, at DZP law firm (Poland) |
How to prepare the company for cybersecurity threats - legal and compliance challenges |
12:20-12:40 |
Martin Schirmbacher, Partner at HÄRTING Law firm (Germany) |
11 Months of GDPR-compliance in Germany – funny and not |
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Sascha Pres, Counsel at SKW Schwarz (Germany) |
Trade secrets and IT security – A snapshot from the EU |
12:40-13:00 |
Ceylin Beyli, Founder & Managing Lawyer at CBL Law Office (Turkey) |
Turkish approach to data protection and its challenges for foreign companies |
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Q&A session |
13:00-13:30 |
Q&A session |
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13:30-14:30 Lunch |
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SECTION 3.1. Digital Single Market: online business |
14:30-16:00 |
SECTION 3.2. FinTech |
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Moderator: Victoria Polyakova, Managing Partner at GBP Partners (Ukraine) |
Moderator: TBD |
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JP McCarthy, Online content editor at Taxamo (Ireland) |
EU VAT on e-services, MOSS and what to expect in this field |
14:30-14:50 |
Thomas Ruhm, Partner at SCWP Schindhelm (Austria) |
EU Legal Framework for FinTechs |
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Cagri Cetinkaya, Partner at Çetinkaya & Pehlivan (Turkey) |
Data Localisation rules vs. global online companies |
14:50-15:10 |
Erdost Pehlivan, Partner at Çetinkaya & Pehlivan (Turkey) |
AML and KYC challenges payment system companies are facing for cross border transaction and limitation of data localization |
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Leonhard Reis, Attorney, Austrian IT-law Symposium (Austria) |
New EU e-commerce rules (aimed to stop unjustified geoblocking) |
15:10-15:30 |
Anthony Provasoli, Partner, FinTech Team Leader at Hassans International Law Firm (Gibraltar) |
Legal and regulatory position relating to blockchain businesses in Gibraltar (the only DLT-license jurisdiction) |
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Q&A session |
15:30-16:00 |
Q&A session |
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16:00-16:30 Coffee break |
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SECTION 4.1. IP in the Digital Age |
16:30-18:00 |
SECTION 4.2. How to deal with tech, majors and people |
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Moderator: Kateryna Oliinyk, Partner at Arzinger (Ukraine) |
Moderator: TBD |
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Eleonora Rosati, IP Counsel at Bird&Bird (Italy/UK) |
Intermediary liability and responsibilization under EU IP law |
16:30-16:50 |
Dmitriy Levchenko, Senior Digital Attorney at Kyivstar JSC of the VEON Group (Ukraine) |
GooglePlay requirements towards privacy of mobile applications |
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Anastasiya Chuvaeva, IP Legal Counsel at Wargaming |
Publicity rights in the digital era |
16:50-17:10 |
Nadezhda Hadanovich, Counsel, Head of IP/IT at Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners (Belarus) |
A psycho client or how IT companies can handle problem clients |
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Michał Sawicki, IT Asset Management Architect at Atos Polska S.A. (Poland) |
Software asset management - everything that needs to happen before software compliance report |
17:10-17:30 |
Toomas Seppel, Attorney-at-Law at Hedman Partners (Estonia) |
How legal tech is changing the work of the lawyer |
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Q&A session |
17:30-18:00 |
Q&A session |
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18:00-19:30 Networking reception |
The program is being updated.
The working language of the conference is English, however we will be providing simultaneous translation (English/Ukrainian).
The registration is now open. Your participation will be confirmed upon the registration fee payment.
For additional information on the event and partnership opportunities, please contact the UBA Secretariat at tel.: +380 (44) 492-88-48, e-mail: forum@uba.ua. Contact person - Victoriia Dotsenko.
We would like to bring to your attention short video from last year's conference: