Past Speakers

• Congresswoman Katherine Clark (co-sponsored event with the Women’s Law Association)
   

• Robert Hacker (VP of Business and Legal Affairs for FOX Sports)
   

• Tiffany Tronko (VP and Assistant General Counsel at Pfizer in charge of the firm’s Trademark Group; brought in by Dale Cendali)
   

• Pam Samuelson (UC Berkeley)
   

• Auren Hoffman (CEO of LiveRamp)
   

• Parker Higgins (Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
   

• Luke Dembosky (Deputy Assistant Attorney General)
   

• Joseph Loy (Partner in NY Office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP); Martin Galese (General Counsel for Formlabs, Inc)
   

• Brad Smith (Microsoft GC and Executive VP of Legal and Corporate Affairs)
   

• Liz Asai & Elliot Swart (Founders of 3Derm Sytems)
   

• John Carlin (Assistant Attorney General for National Security)
   

• Dr. Pushpa Kumar Lakshmanan (Faculty Associate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School)
   

• Gabriel Meister (HLS '98; Partner in the Technology Transactions Group (TTG) in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP)
   

• William Fisher (WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law Harvard Law School; Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society); Pedro Paranaguá (Senior Legal Advisor for the Brazilian federal government on Intellectual Property)
   

• Alex Ewing (Wolf Greenfield patent lawyer; Harvard College '03; HLS '06); Michelle Nyei (Wolf Greenfield patent lawyer; MIT '04,'10,'13; HLS '07)
   

• Sarah Reed (General Counsel of Charles River); Bridgette Hylton (Founder of ShopHouseRag.com); Patricia Paul (Managing Director at a legal search consulting firm)
   

• Ben Wizner (Director of the ACLU's Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology; Edward Snowden's Legal Advisor)
   

• Andrew Bridges & Ken Myers (Attorneys at Fenwick & West LLP)
   

• Judge Lucy Koh (United States District Court, Northern District of California)
   

• Susan Crawford (John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School; Professor at Cardozo Law School; contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired)
   

• Mark Wu (Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
   

• Michael Fertik (Founder of Reputation.com); Christopher Bavitz (Cyberlaw Clinic Managing Director)
   

• Bryant Walker Smith (Asistant Professor at Stanford School of Law; Fellow at Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law Schooll and Fellow at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS))
   

• John Williams (Partner in Boston Office of The Bridgespan Group; Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab)
   

• Steve Charkoudian, Bob Crawford, & Achal Oza (Attorneys at Goodwin Procter)
   

• Cindy Cohr (EFF Legal Director)
   

• Chase Madar (Author of "The Passion of Bradley Manning"); Yochai Benkley (Professor at HLS; witness for the defense in the Manning trial)
   

• Neil Flanzraich (Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab)
   

• Matt Kleiman (Professor of Law at BU; Chair of the Space Law Committee of the ABA Section on Science and Technology Law)
   

• J.H. Snider (President of iSolon.org)
   

• Heidi Keefe (Partner at Cooley)
   

• Andrew Briges (Partner at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley)
   

• Raj De (General Counsel for the National Security Agency)
   

• Dr. Arthur Cosby (William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University; Director of Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center)
   

• Molly Sauter (Berkman Center fellow and a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT)
   

• William F. Lee (Partner in WilmerHale's Litigation and IP departments, The American Lawyer's "Mr. IP,")
   

• William F. Patry (Senior Copyright Counsel of Google, Inc.)
   

• James Bessen (Boston University School of Law Professor and Berkman Fellow); Julie Samuels(Electronic Frontier Foundation Staff Attorney)
   

• Hank Greely (Director of the Program in Neuroethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics)
   

• Christopher Soghoian (Principal Technologist & Senior Policy Analyst with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union)
   

• Matt Kleiman (Corporate Counsel at Draper Laboratories in Cambridge; Professor of Law at BU; Chair of the Space Law Committee of the ABA Section on Science and Technology Law)
   

• Paul Egerman (CEO of eScription, Member, Health IT Policy Committee), Donald Rucker (VP & Chief Medial Officer, Siemens Healthcare USA), Peter Szolovits (MIT), Micky Tripathi (President & CEO, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative), Peter van der Goes (Managing Director & Co-Head of Healthcare M&A, Goldman Sachs), Michael J. Kennedy (Partner, Shearman & Sterling) - Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Healthcare IT Industry
   

• Thomas Lehrman (Founder & CEO of Boliven) - The Business of Technology
   

• Prof. Charles Nesson - Online Poker and File-Sharing: Civil Liberties in Cyberspace
   

• Chris Riley, Policy Counsel, Free Press - Comcast, BitTorrent, and Network Neutrality
   

• Irell & Manella Event - Who Owns Reality? Many. None. - Featuring Morgan Chu, Elliot Brown, and Jane Shay Wald
   

• Jones Day ITC Patent Litigation Event
   

• Judge William Sessions (Former Director of the FBI)
   

• Dale Cendali (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers & Attorney for J.K. Rowling)
   

• Christian Hicks (Founder of Elysium Digital)
   

• John Simson (Executive Director, SoundExchange)
   

• Margaret Peterlin (Deputy Director of the US Patent & Trademark Office)
   

• David Hornik, August Capital: Venture Capital
   

• Debate: Do terminally ill patients have a due process right to experimental drugs? Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach
   

• Tarleton Gillespie: Copyright, DRM, & the Schools
   

• Judge Timothy Dyk, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
   

• Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith, “Innovation, Interoperability & Intellectual Property”
   

• Panel: Keeping Pace with Technological Change in the Healthcare Industry
   

• 1L Job Panel
   

• Ray Kurzweil: Early in the Twenty-First Century, Intelligence will Underlie Everything of Value
   

• Intellectual Property Law in China
   

• Revenge of the Female Nerds
   

• Regina Lynn: The Sexual Revolution 2.0: Technology, Your Sex Life, and The Law
   

• EFF v. RIAA: Grokster, INDUCE, and the Future of Innovation
   

• Mark Webbink, General Counsel, RedHat (web)
   

• Gavin Clarkson
   

• JOLT Spring Symposium: Evolving Media (web)
   

• Hiibel Moot Court (web)
   

• Darl McBride
   

• Eben Moglen (web)
   

• Howard J. Bashman (web)
   

• 2003 Law and Technology Career Panel
   

• Interweaving New Technologies, Society, and Law
  Professor Charles Nesson, Moderator
   

• Cloning and Bioethics Panel
   

• Intellectual Property Rights in China
  Professor Daniel Chow
   

• Paper Discussion: A Patent Policy for Global Diseases: U.S. and International Legal Issues
  Jean Lanjouw
   

• Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment
  Professor Yochai Benkler