Agenda

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome & Introductions

Plenary: Antitrust Best Practices in an Era of Increased Regulation and Litigation

• The five things every company should know about antitrust law in 2024
• Epic v. Apple and Google: Platform openness
• App store issues
• U.S. and E.U. trends

Break

Breakout Sessions (choose 1 of 3 to attend)

Track A: Generative AI: Ownership Rights in Data, Content & Information – and Fair or Permissible Uses for Training AI models

• Best practices for protecting and using data, content and information
• Input and output best practices
• Litigation roundup
• Copyright fair use 
• trade secrets and generative AI
• Rights of publicity and deep fakes – laws, best practices, and using technologies to unmask altered images
• Best practices for user indemnification
• Censored vs. uncensored, and safe vs unsafe AI models

Track B: Best Practices for Dealing with Emerging Markets Subject to Unclear Legal Regimes or Novel Business Models

• Evaluating when new markets or business strategies are legitimate or likely illegal 
• The responsibilities of in-house counsel
• Lessons from Binance 
• Corporate governance issues, including lessons from Chat GPT
• Lessons from X (formerly Twitter)
• Expanding businesses in countries with challenging legal systems

Track C: Consumer Health

• New state laws, including new private rights of action 
• How deal with comprehensive – national vs state specific laws
• Trends in BIPA and GIPA litigation and their impact on best practices
• Actionable recommendations 

Break

Breakout Sessions (choose 1 of 4 to attend)

Track A: US and International Regulation of AI

• US, EU and Japanese regulation
• Privacy and deep fakes under state and federal legislation
• Mitigating risk in dealing with business partners

Track B: Doing Business in China – Local Presence vs Offshore?

• Security issues
• Cross-shipped goods

Track C: European Digital Regulation and Compliance

• Best practices for dealing with overlapping EU regulatory enforcement regimes and what this new regime means in practice
• Platform regulation – Understanding which kind of companies need to do what  
• Practical best practices in the face of heavy regulation 
• Using the EU model to frame best practices in other parts of the world
• AI Act compliance

Track D: Software as a Product

• Product liability issues 
• Deriving best practices from suits brought against social media sites 
• Dark patterns under US and EU law 
• Age-appropriate design codes in the UK and California

Lunch Keynote

Breakout Sessions (choose 1 of 4 to attend)

Track A: Content Moderation

• Navigating new state laws and Supreme Court opinions
• Best practices for confronting hate speech and moderation 
• How nation states meddle with platforms 
• Confronting the Montana TikTok law
• Child safety
• Strategies for challenging US laws in court 
• European regulation
• Lessons from X and Truth Social

Track B: Navigating Geopolitical Uncertainty

• Best practices on when and how to respond to geopolitical uncertainty 

Track C: Fintech Developments and Consumer Protection

• CPB, FDIC and BNPL regulation 
• Consumer protection over bank and non-bank entities
• Using AI for credit scores
• EU and German views on automated decisions
• Social scoring

Track D: Gaming Best Practices

• Best practices for dealing with micro-transactions, overpaying, and loot boxes
• Antitrust conflicts over platform and app store controls
• Self-regulatory controls
• UK – self regulatory protection 11 points 
• Dances, tattoos and streamers

Break

Breakout Sessions (choose 1 of 4 to attend)

Track A: AI and Open Source

• IP and non-IP compliance issues
• Due diligence issues
• Untangling ownership issues
• Best practice for in-house counsel managing coders
• how change from open to closed open source 
• open core business models 

Track B: SEC Enforcement Trends and How to Deal with Them

• SEC enforcement trends
• Blockchain, currencies and tokens regulation
• Security governance: CISOs and General Counsel roles

Track C: Consumer Protection

• Best practices for dealing with noncompete agreements in light of California law and FTC scrutiny
• FTC regulations
• FTC privacy, security, and AI policy and enforcement  
• Health advertising
• State laws (including my health my data) 
• NTIA Children Safety 

Track D: CIPA and Wiretap Troll Litigation Including Mass Arbitration

• The expanding array of wiretap cases involving pixels and other AdTech cases
• Reevaluating arbitration provisions and Terms of Use revisions in light of mass arbitration
• Best practices for resolving or beating troll cases
• Opt-in vs opt-out remediation

Break

General Counsel Roundtable

Cocktail and Networking Reception