Talks, Presentations & Organized Events

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Organizer + Moderator of Panel (virtual and in-person) with Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer and others from CIA presented at Richmond Law re: risks and legal issues with Agency’s use of AI in organization (March 2022)

• The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Lead Speaker, IEEE Presentation on AI Law & Policy issues to OSTP Leadership (Dec. 2021)

• University of Michigan: Guest Lecturer, Online Speech, Cyberlaw, and Risk (April 2021)

• Baltimore Catholic Business Network: Key Speaker: Cyber Realties for Businesses (March 2021)

• South Carolina Bar Association: Annual Meeting, Speaker: Cyberlaw Issues for Attorneys in Federal and State Practice (Jan. 2021)

• Penn State Institute for Computational & Data Sciences (ICDS) 2020 Symposium, The Data Deluge: Opportunities and Challenges, Panel Organizer + Moderator, Social Engineering with Data: Disinformation & Destabilization of Geo-Political Order Livestream + recorded (Oct. 2020)

• Seattle University School of Law: 3rd Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference, Speaker: The Tech at Play in Today’s Data Collection, and Case Study: Contact Tracing to BLM Monitoring: Health Data & Geo Data as a Surveillance Tool. (Virtual, Aug. 2020)

• Wolters Kluwer’s 2020 Leading Edge Faculty Conference, Presentation: Contact Tracing to BLM Monitoring: Teaching Law & Protecting Vulnerable Groups. (Virtual, July 2020)

• 2020 Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference, Commenter/Reviewer of working paper, Ubiquitous Wiretaps and the Legal Implications of Passive Listening, by Lindsey Barrett and Ilaria Liccardi. (Virtual, June 4-5, 2020)

• Hacking the U.S. Election: How Can We Make U.S. Elections More Secure, Lead Organizer, Speaker, and Moderator of C-SPAN Televised Symposium sponsored by Penn State Dickinson Law, ICDS, Center for Democracy & Technology, and Brennan Center for Justice, held in the U.S. Capitol Building. Flash Talk: Securing Elections and Combating Social Engineering. (Washington, D.C., Feb. 2020)

• Cato Institute 2019 Surveillance Conference, Speaker, televised by C-SPAN, Privacy and security risks from satellite, smart device, and IoT information nexus. (D.C., Dec. 2019)

• Penn State Dickinson Law’s Responding to Atrocity Crimes Symposium (2019), The American Experience Panel, discussing how data can be used to identify, prevent, and prove atrocities. (Oct. 2019)

• Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference 2019, Presented working paper on Satellites and Smart Devices with coauthor (Berkeley, May 2019)

• Penn State Center for Security Research and Education Symposium, Security and the Autonomous Future, Panel Moderator, Autonomous Systems and Domestic Security (State College, April 2019)

• ICDS 2019 Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Science and Society, Moderator, Law and Policy in AI Research, Use, and Application. (State College, April 2019)

• Penn State Law Review’s 2019 Symposium, The Big Data Revolution and Its Impact on the Law. Speaker: Satellite & Smart Devices: Privacy and National Security Challenges. Keynote: ABA Opinion 483: Lawyers’ Obligations After an Electronic Data Breach. (March 2019)

• Annual Joint Hack Response Simulation, Developer of Penn State’s annual, competitive, large-scale hack simulation of breach of health, PII, and national security data. Interdisciplinary teams vie for most technologically and legally appropriate response to hack. (2018; 2019)

• Monash University (Australia) Symposium: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Panel: Legal and Ethical Implications of Data and AI; Flash Talk: AI – Legal and Regulatory Challenges. (Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2019)

• CUA Law Symposium, panel, Future of Data Regulation (D.C., Jan. 2019)

• Electronic Evidence and Social Media: The Cyberlaw Every Judge Needs to Know. Presented in-depth judicial education course to over 150 PA trial and appellate judges pro bono at request of Pennsylvania’s Administrative Office of Courts. (Philadelphia, Nov. 2018)

• ICDS Seminar, Use of Human Health Data in Research, using human health data and business and data compliance issues. (State College, Oct. 2018)

• KPMG, Panel Moderator, Cybersecurity and Law for Businesses. (Philadelphia, Sept. 2018)

• Office of General Counsel (OGC) for CIA: At request OGC, presented to attorneys in the CIA-OGC about cyberlaw, emerging technologies, and imperative for interdisciplinary education in cyber, tech, law, and policy. (Langley, VA, Aug. 2018)

• Wolters Kluwer Leading Edge Faculty Conference (invitation-only conference), Presentation – Why Cyberlaw and Technology Should Be Taught to Every Law Student. (Chicago, July 2017)

• Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), annually invited commenter on working papers at the largest annual gathering of privacy law scholars and industry. (June 2009-June 2020)

• Penn State University, Presenter, Data: Risks, Responsibilities, and Rights (Feb. 2017)