International Headwinds, New Technology and Social Justice

Our expert panellists, including Raymond Sun, Miah Hammond-Errey, Sophie Farthing and Louise Buckingham, will consider this issue and discuss how recent international policy upheaval could shape Australian responses to regulation of new technologies, including artificial intelligence. With a renewed focus by the Australian government on the way regulation of technology impacts productivity, a key unresolved question is how these national and international developments will impact social justice and human-centered regulation of technology. Critical concerns include rights to privacy, cybersecurity and the growing digital divide for vulnerable populations.

Panellists

Raymond Sun is a senior associate (technology) at HSF Kramer, specialising in emerging technologies. Outside of HSF, Ray is a full stack developer, having built and launched various software products, including a website that tracks AI regulatory developments around the world (Global AI Regulation Tracker), an AI-enabled dance analyser app (SyncTrainer), platform for creating interactive map trackers (Note2Map) and a tech news curation platform. Raymond is also recognised as a 'Top Voice' on Linkedin, and won Australia's Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Technology Lawyer of the Year Award (2023).

Dr. Miah Hammond-Errey is the founding CEO of Strat Futures Pty Limited and host of the Technology & Security podcast. She guides organisations and advises leaders on emerging technologies, intelligence, data, national security, cybersecurity and leadership. Her book is called Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence: National Security Disrupted. 

Dr Hammond-Errey spent eighteen years leading federal government analysis and communications activities in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She was awarded an Operations Medal for intelligence leadership. She is member of Australian Institute of Company Directors and teaches postgraduate cyber security at the University of Sydney. She is an adjunct associate professor at Deakin University.

She previously established the Emerging Technology Program at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and ran the information operations team at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Sophie Farthing is the Responsible Technology Program Lead at UTS’s Human Technology Institute. She is a public policy expert with extensive experience in the not-for-profit, campaigning and government sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. A human rights lawyer, her areas of interest and expertise include the accountable and responsible use of new and emerging technologies. In her previous role as the Senior Policy Adviser to the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Sophie led the Human Rights and Technology Project at the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2017 to 2021. 

Louise Buckingham is the CEO of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. She is a lawyer and academic who has specialised in intellectual property and human rights and worked in commercial and in-house roles across the corporate and not-for-profit sectors in Sydney, London and California (beginning at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Sydney, and most recently in the award-winning Tech + IP and Innovation teams at Gilbert + Tobin with several years as the Senior Lawyer at the Australian Copyright Council and an editor of the Copyright Reporter along the way). She is committed to the arts and creators’ rights, and lectures in NSW IP and cultural heritage and ‘art law’ in law, arts and science faculties.

Program

5.30pm: Registrations open, networking & refreshments
6.00pm: Event commences 
7.00pm: Networking and refreshments
8.00pm: Event concludes