Legal's Role in Navigating AI Adoption - Showcasing Your Value in a Rapidly Advancing Landscape

Mishi Choudhary is a technology lawyer and online civil liberties activist working in the United States and India. She is the senior vice president and general counsel of Virtru, a role she started in 2022. Prior to that role, Mishi was the Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center as well as the Founder of SFLC.in. SFLC.in. brings together lawyers, policy analysts and technologists to fight for digital rights, produces reports, and studies on the state of the Indian internet, also has a productive legal arm. Under her leadership, SFLC.in has conducted landmark litigation cases, petitioned the government of India on freedom of expression and internet issues, and campaigned for WhatsApp and Facebook to fix a feature of their platform that has been used to harass women in India.

Ms. Cohen serves as Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer of ING Americas. Her responsibilities include managing the legal function, providing leadership, guidance and support to ING globally in major strategic initiatives, corporate governance, regulatory affairs, transactional matters and acquisitions as well as serving as a member of the Americas Management Team, Risk and Compliance Committees, and ING’s Global Legal Management Team. Ms. Cohen is a founding member of the ING NY Lioness Group whose mission is fostering diversity and inclusion and responsible for career development initiatives. Before joining ING in 2005, Ms. Cohen held similar senior positions at the U.S. operations of other major global financial institutions, including BNP Paribas, Westdeutsche Landesbank, Republic New York Corporation and the National Bank of Greece. Board Service: Ms. Cohen served on the Board of Keb Hana Bank US from 2017-2020 and was Chair of the Nominating and Governance and Compliance Committees and a member of the Audit, Asset/Liability and Oversight Committees. She currently is on the Board of Directors of the Museum of American Finance serving on the strategic planning committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cue Arts Foundation.

William A. Tanenbaum is the Chair of the AI & Data Law Practice, and an intellectual property, technology, cybersecurity, outsourcing ,and healthcare technology partner at Moses & Singer LLP. He is a Past President of the International Technology Law Association. US News & World Report has ranked Bill as the “Lawyer of the Year” in IT in New York, and he is named as one of the “Top 10 Pioneering Tech Lawyers Shaping New York’s Legal Landscape” (Business Insider). Legal ranking publications report that clients say: “If I had to refer work, William Tanenbaum is one of the first lawyers I would think of,” “has an impressive data practice,” and “is one of the best IP lawyers I have worked with.”

Bill is ranked each year in the top tiers at the Global, National and New York levels by Chambers Best Lawyers (since 2003, in five technology and outsourcing categories), Who’s Who Legal (since its inaugural edition in AI, data, privacy, and IT), Best Lawyers (since 2001 in IT), and is also named each year as an "IP Star" (Managing IP) and a "Life Sciences Star" (LMG Life Sciences). In IP, Bill draws on his skills as a former partner at leading international intellectual property firm. In AI & Data, his practice includes a focus on the business of data. Bill is recognized by clients and peers for devising creative solutions to business problems created by new technologies and IP challenges. He assists overseas law firms and their clients when companies enter the U.S. market or do business with U.S. entities.

Brian Leung is the general counsel at Vox Media, where he leads Vox Media’s Legal & Business Affairs team, overseeing all legal functions across a broad range of practice areas, including intellectual property and the adoption of generative AI as well as mergers and acquisitions, privacy, first amendment issues, advertising and commercial contracts, and more. Mr. Leung provides legal and strategic guidance across the company’s lines of business, reshaping Vox Media's legal strategy amidst a changing landscape. Mr. Leung manages a team of in-house experts and people management and talent development are both cornerstones of his leadership. He is the founder of DCGC, a network of senior-level in-house attorneys in the Washington, DC metro area.

Inna Barmash serves as the General Counsel & Chief of Staff at Amplify, a K-12 education technology and publishing company based in New York. As the General Counsel, she oversees legal and compliance matters for the organization, including corporate governance, ethics, intellectual property, privacy and security, and employment matters. Inna also leads the development and support of the company's data privacy and security policies and has played an active role in shaping industry self-regulatory efforts in the area of student data privacy. Prior to joining Amplify, Inna was a corporate and intellectual property associate at Ropes & Gray, representing clients in technology-driven commercial deals, licensing, patent prosecution and M&A transactions.

Inna holds a cum laude degree in Computer Science from Princeton University and worked as a technology consultant prior to law school. As a student at Cardozo School of Law, Inna was involved in media policy and development work as the Deputy Director of the school’s Squadron Program in Media Law, Society & Technology and served as an editor on the Cardozo Law Review. She also holds an MBA degree from the Quantic School of Business and Technology (f/k/a Smartly), the pioneering global mobile-first higher education platform.