The AI Governance & Strategy Summit – New York

Daniela Combe is currently Vice President, Emerging Technology Advocacy for IBM.
In this role Daniela helps develop and advocate for IBM’s policy positions in emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing.

During her tenure at IBM, Daniela served in many roles through which she developed extensive knowledge of the business, technology, and the legal and regulatory environment, including most recently as IBM’s VP & Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property law.

Since 2014, Daniela has served as IBM’s representative on the Board of BSA, The Software Alliance, the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace. As a member of the Board, Daniela regularly speaks with Regulators about modernizing laws and policies that enable the growth of the industry, including Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, privacy and data transfer issues.

In 2022 Daniela joined the board of the Open Invention Network, which is a patent non-aggression community focused on supporting freedom of action in Linux and Linux-related systems and applications to enable higher levels of innovation.

Daniela is passionate about growing the capabilities and impact of the law department and in that regard serves as co-sponsor of the law department’s Education and Pro Bono initiatives and is a member of the department’s Executive Diversity Committee.

Daniela graduated with an AB in History from Dartmouth College and received her law degree from New York University School of Law.

Elaine is Bell Labs Solutions, Strategic Partnerships and Technology Leadership Office Lead Counsel at Nokia. She has decades of experience working with world class scientists, inventors, and leading intellectual property professionals across the ecosystem of technology law and policy

Matt co-leads the AI Group at ArentFox Schiff LLP. With a focus on technology transactions and a background inhouse at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he routinely assists clients navigating the adoption, development and deployment of new technologies, including AI applications and systems.

Daniel Ilan’s practice focuses on intellectual property, cybersecurity and privacy, as well as artificial intelligence. He has significant experience in representing leading technology companies and other multinational corporations and private equity firms in technology-related issues, including AI, arising in transactional contexts, particularly transactions involving licensing or acquisition of or investment in cutting-edge technologies. He also regularly advises companies on diverse AI, IP, privacy and cybersecurity issues, both for strategic planning and day-to-day compliance. Daniel is an industry thought leader and regularly writes and speaks about AI issues and the IP, privacy and data security implications of generative AI. He is a member of the Advisory Board of The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber-Law Program at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ellie Jurado-Nieves is Head of Strategic Public Policy & Assistant General Counsel, Government Affairs, at the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. She forecasts and develops proactive advocacy positions on emerging public policy trends that will shape the future of the life insurance industry at the state and federal level. She also advises executive management on legislative and regulatory matters and leads Guardian’s government affairs agenda in New York, Florida, and Wisconsin. Prior to joining Guardian, Ellie served as Chief of Staff to the President of MetLife International. In that capacity, she coordinated all global business activities, projects and functions on behalf of the President in Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

Ellie attained a B.A. in Communications from Fordham University and a J.D. from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at
Pace University. She received her MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business with specializations in Leadership and
Global Business.

Alex Moh is a seasoned legal professional with extensive experience in various roles within prominent law firms and government agencies. Currently serving as Senior Counsel at Rakuten International since 2019, Alex previously held positions as Counsel and Associate at Wilson Elser from 2016 to 2019 and at Mendes & Mount LLP from 2013 to 2016, respectively. Early in the career, Alex gained experience at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 2012 and 2011. Alex holds a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School (2010-2013) and a Bachelor of Science in Finance & Accounting from NYU Stern School of Business (2003-2007).

Ryan Logan is a special counsel in S&C’s General Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity Group and Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions Groups. His practice focuses on complex, cross-border data privacy and cyber breach matters, including compliance with state, federal and international privacy laws, regulations and requirements. These include the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Texas Data Privacy and Security Act and other state and local privacy laws, EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), New York Department of Financial Services’ Cybersecurity Regulation, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and CAN-SPAM. Ryan also advises clients on all facets of data breach preparedness, response and remediation, including regulatory investigations; and develops records management policies and retention schedules.

Ryan has represented clients in financial services, pharmaceutical manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, artificial intelligence, technology, automotive production, industrial services, energy, and consumer and retail. His deep knowledge of clients’ businesses and the evolving privacy landscape enables him to effectively guide clients through any privacy or cybersecurity issue. His experience includes advising on privacy and security issues in connection with mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; developing privacy policies and procedures; providing product and strategic counseling on privacy and data analytics; developing cross-border data transfer compliance strategies; negotiating data processing agreements; advising on employee privacy issues; and assisting clients with responding to regulatory investigations, potential litigation or monitoring programs.

Ryan is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Dania Nasser is the Senior Associate General Counsel at Canon Business Process Services. Prior to working in this role she was the Business Operations and Compliance Counsel at Ralph Lauren. Dania acquired her law degree from Yale University.

Rick Marinaccio, a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP, is a seasoned technology lawyer and firm innovator, focusing on the dynamic work of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and commercial contracts for a variety of transactions. He is co-leader of the firm’s Technology Industry Team, leader of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Team and chair of the firm’s Technology and Innovation Committee. Dedicated to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, Marinaccio earned a 2023 certificate from MIT Sloan + CSAIL Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Program and completed the Berkeley Law AI Institute Platform. He is considered a thought leader in AI, producing firm podcasts on the topic, writing articles in various business publications, and speaking at AI- and technology-centric conferences. Marinaccio has been named an Upstate New York Super Lawyers® Rising Star. He is also an adjunct professor teaching AI and the Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Sarah is the Head of Dorsey’s New York Trademark Group and the firm’s Creative Industries Industry Group. With over 20 years’ experience, she protects, enforces, and exploits intellectual property assets for clients across diverse sectors, including creative industries, tech, finance, and consumer products. Her expertise spans corporate and commercial agreements, brand registration (U.S. and international), licensing, dispute resolution (including TTAB proceedings), and cross-border transactions (U.S.-Canada). Sarah is a contributor to Dorsey’s award-winning IP blog, TheTMCA.com, and is admitted to practice in both New York and Ontario, Canada.

With close to two decades of experience as a prosecutor and leading regulator, including as Bureau Chief of the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet and Technology, Kathleen A. McGee is a highly accomplished attorney with a unique and valuable skill set. Kathleen regularly leverages her extensive experience in the public sector by representing clients before federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulators on issues ranging from criminal and civil investigations before the DOJ, SEC, FTC, and state attorneys general, to commercial disputes and advisory matters involving technology, data commodification, cybersecurity and privacy, consumer protection issues, Artificial Intelligence, and data governance. Clients benefit from both her sophisticated grasp of technology-related criminal matters and her on-the-ground experience as a lead prosecutor in both jury and bench trials.

Kathleen’s practice includes representing established global businesses, scale-ups, and startups (including fintechs, investment groups, and governments) in multiple sectors, including ad tech, financial services, insurance tech, biotech, IoT, and retail. Kathleen’s practice covers a wide array of technology, data, and intellectual property concerns, with a focus on emerging technologies, data services, and cybersecurity.

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Maharaj Mukherjee, a Master Inventor emeritus from IBM has a PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS from University at Stony Brook, and a B-Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. He has done his PhD work with Professor George Nagy who had worked with Professor Frank Rosenblatt (the Father of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network) for his own PhD thesis in 1950s in development of the first neural network model.

Maharaj has been working for the Bank of America in the Global Technology organization for past six and half years working in areas of natural and formal language translation, transliteration, transpilation and Digital Twins related to edge computing, metaverse, and Internet of Things.

Before joining the Bank of America, he had worked for IBM Research for twenty years. He has also been the chair of IBM’s Internet of Things Invention Development Team. He was a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology. Before that he served as a faculty at the Electrical and Electronics Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

He has also spent a year at the Max Plank Institute of Informatics at Saarbrucken, Germany as a Humboldt fellow.

His main areas of interest include Deep Learning and Cognitive Analytics as applied to Internet of Things, Geometric Algorithms and its applications within the fields of big data and Analytics, Block Chain and Open Ledger and its application on IOT, Smarter Planet and Internet of Everything, CAD/CAM/CAE, and Electronic Design Automation.

Maharaj Mukherjee now holds 209 US granted patents and is now recognized as one of the most prolific inventors of the world. He has been the top inventor of the Bank of America for the past two consecutive years and one of the top three inventors of the Bank of America in 2020. He is a Master Inventor Emeritus at IBM which he became after being selected as a Master Inventor three times consecutively at IBM.  He is also inducted at IBM’s Inventor Wall of Fame at the IBM East Fishkill site in New York. He holds 150 US patents and as well as 100 patents in other countries including, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China, Korea, Japan, and Brazil. One of his patents on Predictive Traffic Modeling has been chosen by IBM as one of the best twenty patents from past twenty years. Maharaj has also received the valuable patent award – that is awarded to top 1% patents in IBM every year– five times. Maharaj has mentored several new inventors who had filed patents and patent applications. Two of Maharaj’s mentees have become Master Inventors, themselves, in 2017.  Maharaj has given several invited presentations including the Keynote presentation at the Computational Intelligence and Networking (CINE-2015) Conference in January 2015 and Center-force IP Conferences.

Maharaj currently serves in the Awards Committee of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ). He is the only voting member from USA and one of the six voting members worldwide. Hs is also in the IEEE USA Awards committee. . He also serves as the Professional Activities Chair of IEEE Region 1. He previously served as the Central Area Chair for IEEE region 1, chair of the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section, PACE chair for the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section and the Secretary for the IEEE Kharagpur Section.

Dan Kagan advises digital health, telehealth, life sciences, and healthcare technology clients on healthcare regulatory compliance and health privacy and security issues, including regulatory considerations regarding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning within healthcare and life sciences companies.
He has particular experience representing healthcare providers, life sciences companies and digital health businesses, counseling them on a wide range of regulatory, compliance, risk management, transactional, and reimbursement issues. Among these issues are Stark and anti-kickback analyses, structuring scalable telehealth offerings directly to consumers and with third-party payors, corporate practice of medicine and fee splitting compliance, contracting, coding and billing guidance, including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement questions and audits, compliance with state-law laboratory billing, and physician advertising questions.
Additionally, Dan regularly assists clients on compliance with HIPAA and other laws that govern the collection, use, and disclosure of medical and health information, including laws that govern the de-identification of such information, the use of health information in artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the use of online tracking technologies, and special protections for mental health, substance abuse, and genetic information.

Doug DePeppe is a Special Counsel in the Firm’s Denver office with a national practice in data rights, data protection, sports data and licensing, and cybersecurity law. He is a member of the Firm’s Privacy & Data Security, Sports Industry, and Artificial Intelligence Practice Groups.

A retired Army Judge Advocate and national security attorney, Mr. DePeppe’s military cyberlaw career began with his Army-funded Master of Laws (LLM) degree from The George Washington University Law School with a cyberlaw focus, followed by his leading the Army JAG Corps’ development of a cybersecurity law practice. He next helped develop cybersecurity law capabilities in the cybersecurity divisions at Homeland Security, including serving as the legal advisor to US-CERT. Mr. DePeppe’s cybersecurity awards and accomplishments include:

• White House 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review, Lawyers Working Group (2009)
• Inducted into the Information Sharing Hall of Fame, ISAO Standards Organization (2018)
• Adjunct Professor and curriculum development, University of Maryland Global Campus Masters Program in Cybersecurity (2010-2020)
• Chair, Cybersecurity Working Group, Regional Consortium Coordinating Council (RC3), DHS-affiliated Coordinating Council (2013-2020)
• Working Group Chair, Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO) Standards Organization (2015-2018)
• Co-Inventor, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP RIGHTS, US 20240152645 (patent-pending, published 2024)

In his cybersecurity law practice, Mr. DePeppe assists clients in data breach investigations, orchestrating the incident response and crisis management as a Breach Coach. Mr. DePeppe has assisted clients with cyberattack response services for twenty years. He is well known and respected in the field, has presented at major conferences on nearly every continent across the globe, and has published in Forbes, trade journals, and other online magazines.

Mr. DePeppe also assists clients with data privacy prevention and compliance. Leveraging his interdisciplinary knowledge and cybersecurity resource network, he helps clients with risk assessments, leadership and boardroom training and mentoring, third-party contract and supply-chain risk review, cyber due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and other cyber risk advisory and services.

With his background in data rights, Mr. DePeppe also advises clients concerning name-image-likeness (NIL) protection and licensing. Universities, collectives, athletes, sports entities and associations, and sports agents have growing needs to protect NIL monetization efforts from infringing misappropriations.

While a Judge Advocate, Mr. DePeppe was a trial attorney in courts-martial for five years and became a certified capital case defense counsel. This criminal law experience aids his client advice concerning cybercrime. Additionally, Mr. DePeppe has used his litigation experience in the representation of sport sector mediations and arbitrations. In particular, he has successfully represented several soccer clubs and athletes in administrative disputes arising from the Ted Stephens Amateur Sports Act and SafeSport.

A life-long soccer player and enthusiast, Coach DePeppe also enjoys helping youth players pursue their dreams as a youth soccer coach.

Harry Halikias, author of “Digital Shakedown: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Combating Ransomware,” has over 15 years of dedicated IT, security, and privacy service. He is an experienced business leader known for developing and implementing robust cybersecurity and privacy strategies. His expertise is underpinned by a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity and industry-leading certifications, including CISSP and CIPP/US, complemented by a continuous learning journey through professional development and industry engagement. A deep-seated commitment to privacy as a fundamental right is at the core of Harry’s professional ethos. This conviction drives Harry to create security programs that protect and add substantial value to organizations.

Mark Jaffe is Rivian’s Chief Ethics, Compliance and Privacy Officer. He leads the Rivian ethics, compliance and privacy program which includes ethical culture, compliance oversight, privacy, and investigations. He leads a team of 16 people which includes privacy professionals, lawyers, compliance professionals, and investigators responsible for developing and implementing Rivian’s ethics, compliance and privacy programs and to investigate allegations of employee wrongdoing. Mark and his team work on issues related to privacy, information governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics.
Prior to joining Rivian, Mark was Senior Vice President for Privacy at Teleperformance, a global business process outsourcer with over 400,000 employees operating in over 80 countries. At Teleperformance, he was responsible for a team of privacy professionals building and scaling a global privacy program. While at Teleperformance, Mark spent almost two years in Singapore managing privacy issues in the Asia Pacific region. During his time at Teleperformance, he also managed privacy issues in the Americas and Europe, Middle East, and Africa and was asked to begin creating a compliance program prior to leaving the company in late 2020. Prior to joining Teleperformance, Mark spent 17 years at AT&T in global privacy roles as well as global compliance and ethics roles.
He is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics related to ethics, compliance and privacy. Mark earned his B.A., cum laude, from Duke University and his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University.

Kevin Fumai is an Assistant General Counsel at Oracle, where he serves as the global lead for cloud engineering and consulting and as a member of the AI Working Group.  He sits on the boards of non-profits like the IAPP, and is an executive editor for the forthcoming textbook for the AI Governance Professional certification.

Robert Hinckley is Managing Shareholder of Buchalter’s Denver office and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Group. Mr. Hinckley practices in both Colorado and California and is also a member of the Los Angeles and Orange County offices. A former prosecutor, Mr. Hinckley is an aggressive and effective trial lawyer, with first-chair experience in more than forty jury trials and more than twenty bench trials and arbitration hearings. Mr. Hinckley has litigated and tried cases in Colorado, California, Florida, Texas, Delaware and elsewhere for a diverse group of business clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized privately held companies.

Mr. Hinckley is a trusted adviser who applies practical solutions to the complex business challenges facing his clients on a daily basis. Mr. Hinckley specializes in commercial and corporate litigation, which includes prosecuting and defending all manner of contractual disputes, including partnership/LLC disputes, stockholder actions and business separations. Mr. Hinckley also commonly litigates real estate disputes, civil fraud, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference and other business-centered torts. Mr. Hinckley likewise has a significant employment practice on behalf of employers, to include risk management and litigation counseling as well as serving as litigation counsel in the areas of trade secrets, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, wrongful discharge, harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Mr. Hinckley also frequently litigates complex product contamination matters on a national and international basis on behalf of specialty insurance carriers through subrogation, related to large losses in North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

Mr. Hinckley currently serves as Vice President of the Executive Committee for the Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, the preeminent legal organization in Colorado dedicated to the defense of civil actions and the promotion of fairness and integrity in the civil justice system.

Michael is a patent attorney with an engineering background, specializing in intellectual property (IP) counseling and global patent portfolio management. He has successfully secured over 1,500 US patents and hundreds internationally across diverse technological fields, such as computer systems, software applications, microelectronics, telecommunications, cybersecurity, cloud computing, financial technologies (such as blockchain and cryptocurrency), and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In addition to patent prosecution, Michael represents clients in patent trials and post-grant proceedings, provides expert patent opinions, and offers strategic counsel in IP transactions.

Michael leads a team of patent attorneys and agents who have successfully secured over 200 US patents for AI/ML-related technologies, with hundreds more applications pending. He regularly speaks and publishes on patenting AI and software technologies in the US.

Moya Novella is Global Privacy and AI Policy Counsel at IBM, where she advises on the organization’s policy and advocacy strategy for emerging global privacy and artificial intelligence legislations and regulations. She also leads cross-functional efforts for keeping apprised of, analyzing, and preparing commentary on globally proposed privacy and AI policies. Moya serves as Adjunct Professor of Privacy Law at Albany Law School in New York where develops and instructs courses in data privacy law and emerging AI issues. Moya also speaks internationally at industry and law conferences on the topics of privacy and AI regulatory policies. She holds CIPP/E and CIPP/US privacy certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

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Rick Marinaccio, a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP, is a seasoned technology lawyer and firm innovator, focusing on the dynamic work of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and commercial contracts for a variety of transactions. He is co-leader of the firm’s Technology Industry Team, leader of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Team and chair of the firm’s Technology and Innovation Committee. Dedicated to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, Marinaccio earned a 2023 certificate from MIT Sloan + CSAIL Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Program and completed the Berkeley Law AI Institute Platform. He is considered a thought leader in AI, producing firm podcasts on the topic, writing articles in various business publications, and speaking at AI- and technology-centric conferences. Marinaccio has been named an Upstate New York Super Lawyers® Rising Star. He is also an adjunct professor teaching AI and the Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law.