Digital Rights, Markets and Innovation (Turku)

Conference

Ajankohta

1.12.2016 09.30 – 2.12.2016 07.00

Paikka

Auditorium at the Faculty of Law, Lemminkäisenkatu 14–18 A, 2nd floor

Conference  – 1 December 2016

9.30–17 o’ clock

 

Biomedical Innovation, Digitalization and Future Medicine

Aurora Plomer (Professor, University of Bristol): Bringing Innovative Technologies to the Market: the European Union’s Policy on Intellectual Property & Funding of Biomedical Research

 

Panelists (in addition to the keynote presenter)

Anne Kovalainen (Professor, University of Turku)

Heli Salminen-Mankonen (Director, Auria Biobank)

Tom Southerington (Director, Legal & IPR, Auria Biobank)

 

Autonomous Robots and Algorithmic Decision-Making

Katja de Vries: (Centre for Law, Science, Technology, and Society LSTS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium): Discrimination and Differentiation in Machine Learning

 

Panelists (in addition to the keynote presenter)

Juha Lavapuro (Professor, University of Turku)

Tuomas Mylly (Professor, University of Turku)

Mika Viljanen (Professor, University of Turku)

 

Big Data and Platform Society

Bilyana Petkova (Research Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University): Reining in the Big Promise of Big Data: Transparency, Inequality, and New Regulatory Frontiers

 

Panelists (in addition to the keynote presenter)

Tobias Bräutigam (Bird&Bird)

Risto Kalliola (Professor, University of Turku)

Tuomas Ojanen (Professor, University of Helsinki)

Pekka Räsänen (Professor, University of Turku)

 

2 December 2016

Workshop with Doctoral Students

Call for papers (11 November 2016)

9.30–17 o’ clock,

Auditorium and Lecture hall, Faculty of Law

In the workshop, doctoral students will present their papers related to the themes of the conference. Papers to be presented will be chosen on the basis of their thematic connection to the conference and stage of research. Send your max one page abstract to Ms. Gail Maunula gail.l.maunula(at)utu.fi by 11 November 2016 at the latest. Acceptance letters will be sent on a rolling basis to accepted presenters. The selected doctoral students are expected to send a working paper of max 5000 words to Gail Maunula by 21 November 2016 at the latest.

Järjestävä organisaatio

The Conference forms part of University of Turku's cross-disciplinary profiling and strategic research area Digital Futures. It is funded by the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku, Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland -funded research project Digital Disruption of Industry and Academy of Finland -funded research projects Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property and Laws of Surveillance and Security

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