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Disruptive Technology – aligning regulation and innovation (CIMR debates in Public Policy)

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Venue: Online

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Join the Centre for Innovation Management Research on Wednesday 22 February for our online lunchtime seminar: Disruptive Technology – aligning regulation and innovation. The online debate is part of the CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy series.

Panel:

  • Professor Dan Hyde, Partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys Law & Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London
  • Saverio Romeo, Associate Lecturer, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Discussant: Dr Olivia Hamlyn, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Nicola Searle, Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Abstract 

This CIMR workshop will focus on alignment of regulation with innovation activity and practice.  A basic problem is that technology and innovation often evolve at a faster pace than the law. Regulatory compliance in disruptive technologies is therefore complicated because of problems in aligning the project with regulation where there will likely be gaps and questions as to what laws/regulations apply. An entrepreneur will wish to ensure the venture is commercially viable but that is difficult to achieve unless and until its compliance can be assured. Nothing kills a business faster than non-compliance.

This is consequently a challenging environment for both the regulators and those seeking to capitalise on projects in disruptive technologies. It is made even more difficult by the fact that there are few specialist lawyers in this space.  This CIMR debate will be led by one of the few such specialist lawyers, Professor Dan Hyde (Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London and Cyber Business Coach for the University of Cambridge Judge Business School)

Biographies 

Professor Dan Hyde is a leading authority on tech and cyber regulation. He is the Cyber Business Coach at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, Entrepreneurship Coach-Mentor at Barclays Eagle Labs and partner at the international law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys. He assisted the UK Government with its review of cyber and data security legislation and is widely published; authorship includes the first and leading published books on cybersecurity law and practice and the international regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Dan advises banks, universities, entrepreneurs, SMEs, and large blue-chip companies. An entrepreneur in his own right he founded his own law firm and Iconiq NFT, a pioneering digital art venture . He sits on the Board of the Cyber Law Forum and is a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers Technology and Cyber Liabilities Sector Focus Group. Dan has a particular interest in disruptive tech entrepreneurship.

Saverio Romeo has more than 20 years career in emerging digital technologies and their impact on public and private organizations. He has done that as a technology consultant, as an innovation policy analyst, and covering advising roles for several start-ups. The core area of Saverio’s work is the convergence of emerging digital technologies such as the IoT, AI, immersive realities, and blockchain for digital transformation in public and private organizations.

Saverio has run projects with different organizations such as Xsure (blockchain and identity), STL Partners (eUICC, IoT ecosystem, smart city), Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance (convergence IoT-AR, 5G and AR), IntentHQ (IoT connectivity), WoW (wearable devices and enterprises), Technopolis Group (smart city, assisted living solutions), VAA (Industry 4.0), Club Demeter (5G in agriculture), IoT Analytics (IoT platforms, 5G, smart city, IoT security, blockchain and security) and IoTNow (LPWAN, 5G, IoT security). He has worked on smart city projects with cities such as Derry (Northern Ireland) and L’Aquila (Italy). Finally, he runs academic research (Industrial Internet, entrepreneurship in quantum technology) and deliver module for undergraduates and postgraduates’ students at Birkbeck on emerging digital technologies and digital transformation.

Dr Olivia Hamlyn is a lecturer at Birkbeck where she teaches and researches environmental law and law and technology. She has particular interests in risk regulation, transparency, public engagement with science and public participation in decision-making, as well as the role of imagination in shaping environmental law. Her current research concerns the relationship between innovation governance, responsible innovation and law and regulation. She has conducted research for the European Parliamentary Research Service and acted as a consultant for the Green Group in the European Parliament on matters relating to EU pesticides regulation. Prior to joining Birkbeck, she completed a training contract at Clifford Chance LLP, completed a PhD at UCL and was a lecturer at the University of Leicester.

Dr. Nicola Searle is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London. Nicola specialises in intellectual property (IP) policy and strategy, with a focus on the creative industries, business models and trade secrets. Dr. Searle is Chair of the UKRI Digital Security & Resilience Interim Advisory Board, a member of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) Research Experts Advisory Group and an Edison Fellow at George Mason University. She has run £800k of research funding as Principal Investigator, served on funding panels for over £80M of research grants, previously held a EPSRC Early-Career Fellowship and was Chair of the EPSRC Digital Economy Project Advisory Board. Dr. Searle is known for her research and engagement across the policy, practice and research realms. She has written two manuscripts for Oxford University Press on the economics of IP (2016) and artists and IP (2019). In 2022, she served as expert witness to the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Select Committee.

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