Dazza Greenwood,  Founder and Head, CIVICS.com and law.MIT.edu: CIVICS.com, a boutique provider of professional consultancy services for legal technologies, automated transactions, privacy and data management, and technology strategy. Dazza is also a researcher at MIT Media Lab and Lecturer at MIT Connection Science where he is advancing the field of computational law and generative AI for law as Executive Director of law.MIT.edu Dazza Greenwood serves as lead on the Data Rights Protocol initiative through Consumer Reports Digital Lab. This protocol provides a common open specification for enabling consumers and companies to process the exercise of individual data rights as a consumer-connected digital service. Dazza consults to fortune 100 companies, architecting and building integrated business, legal, and technology cross-boundary networks at industry scale. As an attorney, Dazza served as both in-house and special counsel for technology law, representing corporations and governments. Dazza has testified before the US House, US Senate, and other legislatures on generative AI for law, electronic transactions law, digital identity and he consults extensively to the public sector, including to NASA, GSA, DHS, the UK Cabinet Office, and many other public and private sector organizations.

Irene Liu is an Executive in Residence at UC Berkeley, School of Law and the founder and CEO of Hypergrowth GC, an advisory that empowers GCs and executives for hypergrowth. She is also a regular speaker on topics ranging from government engagement strategies to M&A, privacy, and AI. She is a frequent writer and contributor to the Thomson Reuters Institute and hosts the “Hypergrowth GC” video series on Luminate+and “Coffee Break with Irene” on Berkeley Boost. Before going in-house, Irene worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Consumer Protection. She gained extensive international policy, privacy, and compliance experience while overseeing BlackBerry’s global law enforcement compliance team and at Lookout, an enterprise mobile security company. Irene was the Chief Financial and Legal Officer of Hopin, a leading community engagement platform, where she managed legal, finance, policy, and trust & safety teams. She was also the General Counsel of Checkr, a provider of modern background checks. At Checkr, she managed legal, compliance, policy, finance, and customer education teams. Irene has received recognition as General Counsel of the Year by Corporate Counsel, Top 50 Women Lawyer at the National Diversity and Leadership Conference, and In-house Leader by L.A. Times. She has spoken at academic institutions, government hearings, and leading industry conferences, including Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Conference, the Federal Reserve, and a Federal Trade Commission public hearing. Irene received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.

Zachary St. Martin is the Head of the US Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal team for ByteDance, supporting TikTok and other ByteDance products and services, such as Pico, CapCut, and Lemon8. He manages a team of business and legal affairs counsel who handle ByteDance’s legal commercial activity with US and global scope in content, distribution, product partnerships, marketing, corporate and functional services; and subject matter function in intellectual property managing ByteDance’s copyright, trademark, anti-counterfeiting, brand management, and identity legal functions. He is a member of the ByteDance Americas legal leadership team. Practicing law for 22 years, Zach has extensive in house legal experience in media and content, intellectual property, product counseling, and privacy and has advised large, medium and startup stage tech, media and ad tech companies. In addition to ByteDance, Zach has worked for MySpace (social networking); Sony Pictures (global media networks & global content distribution); Fox Interactive Media (digital services); 8i (AR & VR production and tech startup where he was general counsel); and Viant Technology (Ad Tech/DSP/DMP). Zach spent the first five years of his career in Latham & Watkins’ Los Angeles office as an associate in the firm’s corporate department. Zach is a native of Houma, Louisiana from the Cajun coast of the Gulf of Mexico, who returns often for visits to New Orleans, where he earned a BSE in biomedical engineering from Tulane’s School of Science & Engineering and a JD (Summa Cum Laude & Order of the Coif) from Tulane Law School. Zach’s non legal interests include photography, travel with his wife, hiking and bike riding, live music, and playing with his Brussels Griffon, Boudreaux.

Ian Ballon is an intellectual property and internet litigator who is the Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. He represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet- and mobile-related disputes and in the defense of data privacy, cybersecurity breach, adtech and behavioral advertising, TCPA and other Internet-related class action suits. Please click here to view a list of some of his recent cases. Mr. Ballon, who splits his time between the firm's Silicon Valley, L.A., and D.C. offices, is the author of the five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (West 2008 & 2022 Cum. Supp., www.ianballon.net) and the earlier first edition, which has been cited in state and federal court opinions. In addition, he serves as the Executive Director of Stanford University Law School’s Center for the Digital Economy. He also chairs PLI's annual Advanced Defending Data Privacy, Cybersecurity Breach and TCPA Class Action Litigation conference. Mr. Ballon previously served as an advisor to ALI’s Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transactional Disputes (ALI Principles of the Law 2007) and was a member of the consultative group for the Data Privacy Principles of Law project (ALI Principles of the Law Data Privacy, 2020). Mr. Ballon was named the Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in the 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America and was recognized as the 2012 New Media Lawyer of the Year by the Century City Bar Association. In 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 he was recognized as one of the Top 1,000 trademark attorneys in the world for his litigation practice by World Trademark Review. In addition, in 2019 he was named one of the top 20 Cybersecurity lawyers in California and in 2018 one of the Top Cybersecurity/Artificial Intelligence lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. He received the “Trailblazer” Award, Intellectual Property, 2017 from The National Law Journal and he has been recognized as a “Groundbreaker” in The Recorder’s 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year Awards for winning a series of TCPA cases. In addition, he was the recipient of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law section's Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law. He is listed in Legal 500 U.S., The Best Lawyers in America (in the areas of information technology and intellectual property) and Chambers and Partners USA Guide in the areas of privacy and data security and information technology. He has been recognized as one of the Top 75 intellectual property litigators in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal in every year that the list has been published (2009 through 2022). He was also listed in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report: 50 Game-Changing Attorneys” (2012), was recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal L.A., as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal and has appeared on both the Northern California and Southern California Super Lawyers lists.