CANCELLATION POLICY
Pre-registration deadline is Friday, September 20. After Friday, September 20, the registration fee increases by $25. Cancellations must be received by the pre-registration deadline of Friday, September 20.

PARKING
Parking is available in the building parking lot at a maximum cost of $20. Parking is not included in the event pricing.

SCHEDULE 

8:30 AM- 9:30 AM: Registration/Continental Breakfast 
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Opening Remarks – Dean Peggy Rajski
9:40 AM – 10:40 AM: Electronics Overload
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM: Networking Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: What’s Next: Predicting How Technology Will Impact Entertainment
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM eSports: The Evolution from Game Consoles to Cereal Boxes, Coliseums & World Championships 
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Lunch with Keynote by Gary Schuster, a highly prolific inventor, attorney, and entrepreneur:  Augmented Reality: The Singularity is Now
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM: Rebooting the Studio 
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Networking Break 
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Dealing with the Faux 
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Reception/Appetizers & Drinks 

Electronics Overload

Together technology and content providers have redefined “entertainment” to create platforms that have become completely integrated IRL (“In Real Life”) and more addictive than ever. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the average American adult currently spends eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen, and the average American child (8-18) over seven hours a day. This panel of experts will explore growing trends by technology and entertainment companies to balance competing interests of consumers and shareholders, including looking at the available tools. Featuring educator  Jason  Ablin,  Ablin  Education,  Joseph Hellige, Professor of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, Mikki Kressbach, Loyola Marymount University, School of Film and Television, Claudine Sokol, Vice President, Media Commercial Advertiser/Agency Services at Nielsen. Moderated by  Mark Treitel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. 

What’s Next: Predicting How Technology Will Impact Entertainment 

Technology and business models are constantly evolving in the entertainment industry. How astute are you in analyzing the next technology driven trends? We will analyze previous TechTainment™ predictions and new ones based on where we think the future will lead. Presented by Dan Stone, partner at Greenberg Glusker and Fabio De Sa Cesnik of Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas. 

eSports: The Evolution from Game Consoles to Cereal Boxes, Coliseums & World Championships 

Since their inception, video games have captivated and entertained users, and the notion of competitive gaming closely followed.  The first large scale video game competition, The Space Invaders Championship, was held by Atari in 1980 and attracted more than 10,000 participants across the U.S.  Now, in recent years, eSports have gone through tremendous growth, both in terms of viewership and prize money.  In 2019 alone, there has been almost $120 M awarded in nearly 3,000 tournaments.  The top 100 players have all earned more than $100,000 and the top 10 over $1,000,000.  Worldwide viewership of eSports has topped 300 million and is expected to grow to over 600 million by 2023, opening the door for a range of high-profile corporate sponsors.  With double digit growth expected for the foreseeable future, this panel of experts will explore the opportunities and hurdles the eSports industry is likely to face over the next several years.   

Featuring  Erika Georgiou, Associate General Counsel at  FaZe Clan,  Chris Shim, Chief Executive Officer at AZYT Global Talent, Mary Tuck, Vice President, Legal at Activision Blizzard,  Jason Woo,  General Manager and Chief Strategy Officer at Next Generation Esports (NGE) and moderated by  Dave Randall,  shareholder at  Brooks Kushman. 

Augmented Reality: The Singularity is Now 

As user interfaces become more natural and artificial intelligence more useful, traditional barriers to shared experiences will disappear.  A hybrid reality will bridge language and cultural barriers, allowing languages, voices, lip movement, and even appearance to be altered in real time.  In a future where you can’t tell whether an actor is a computer construct or a real person, where you can’t tell what language your colleague is speaking, and where reality is largely in the eye of the beholder, there is no reason for entertainment markets to be fragmented by location or language. Are your clients ready for a world where content producers can freely compete across distances, languages, and cultures?    This keynote address will feature Gary Schuster, a highly prolific inventor, attorney, entrepreneur and speaker.     

Rebooting the Studio 

Technology has always been at the forefront of entertainment, from how it is created, to how it is distributed, consumed, and marketed. Our panel of studio experts will explore the technologies that are most likely to disrupt the studio entertainment business next, and the opportunities and challenges those technologies may present. The panel features: Jonathan Anschell, Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at CBS Corporation, Clint Baisden, Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, Brat Inc., Eva Feder, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at Lionsgate, and moderated by Tracey Freed, Freed Law, P.C., former Assistant General Counsel, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

Dealing with the Faux 

In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon that became an abiding meme of the digital, networked environment:  on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Today separating truth from fiction, real from unreal, has become a major concern for internet platforms, news organizations, the entertainment industry, and policymakers. What can be done about ‘fake news’ – and how can recognized news sources prevent their brands from being coopted by it? How can we sensibly fight “deep fake” pornography in which celebrities (almost always women) are made to appear in online sex scenes? In a future in which actors – both living and dead – can be digitally inserted in audiovisual works, what’s the right balance between protecting performers and safeguarding free expression? Are disclaimers enough for a lot of the “faux” enough? In a world in which any of us can be the target of an online “digital replica,” what is to be done?     

Featuring Ben Sheffner, Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Copyright & Legal Affairs, Motion Picture Association of America, Professor Eugene Volokh, at UCLA School of Law, Danielle Van Lier, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Contracts at SAG-AFTRA, and moderated by Loyola Law School’s Professor Justin Hughes.  

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Jason Ablin
Director at Ablin Educational Services

With close to 30 years in education and educational leadership, Jason Ablin has served as a teacher, principal and head of school. He holds national certification in leadership coaching and mentoring from the National Association of School Principals and has been supporting and mentoring new leaders throughout the country for over 15 years. Ablin has also developed curriculum and strategic planning to train young and upcoming leaders at all levels of primary and secondary schools in order to ensure excellence in schools and to rethink the development of leadership 

He has integrated one-to-one technology innovation programs in 4 different schools, three high schools and one K-8 program most recently at Hillel Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles which became an Apple Distinguished School in 2016. As a lecturer at American Jewish University’s programs for teacher training and advanced master’s degrees in education and in school-based teacher workshops, he trains teachers on creating gender aware classrooms and has also taught year-long courses to teams of educators in schools as well as graduate level seminars regarding the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and education. He is currently the director of the Certification in Mentor teacher and Leadership program also at the AJU. 

Jonathan Anschell
CBS Corporation   

Jonathan H. Anschell serves as Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary for CBS Corporation. Mr. Anschell oversees the Company’s securities, corporate governance, executive compensation, ERISA and real estate matters, and assists the Chief Legal Officer with respect to Board of Directors matters. Mr. Anschell also supervises the CBS Law Department’s intellectual property and labor and employment practice groups. 

In addition to his corporate role, Mr. Anschell serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of CBS Broadcasting Inc. In that capacity, Mr. Anschell oversees the legal affairs and standards and practices functions for the Company’s televised entertainment and news operations. 

Clint Baisden
Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, Brat Inc. 

Clint Baisden leads Business & Legal Affairs at Brat Inc., a digital entertainment company that produces programmatic content for a highly engaged Gen-Z audience. Since its inception in 2017, Brat’s 95+ hours of programming have garnered over 850 million collective views, attracting brand and content partners looking to reach a historically difficult to reach demographic. Prior to Brat, Clint held business and legal affairs positions at TBWA\Media Arts Lab, STX Films, and Miramax, all in furtherance of a deeper understanding of the crossover between traditional entertainment, technology, and digital media. Clint earned his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law. 

Fábio de Sa Cesnik  
Cesnik Quintino & Salnias 

Fábio Cesnik holds a BA in Law and Legal Sciences from the São Paulo University (USP). Specialist in culture, media and entertainment, he is ranked in Chambers and Partners, Legal500 and Who’s Who Legal. Chairman of IASP’s Media and Entertainment and member of OAB-SP Rights to the Arts Commission. Vice President of Institutional Relations at Brazil California Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Executive Committee of ELIPS (Entertainment Law, Intellectual Propriety Section) of Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). He is the author of the books “Globalização da Cultura” and “Guia do Incentivo à Cultura” (in its third printing), published by Editora Manole. He is co-author “Projetos Culturais: Elaboração, Administração, Aspectos Legais e Busca de Patrocínio,” now on its fourth edition, published by Editora Escrituras. 

Rebecca A. Delfino 
Clinical Professor of Law, Loyola Law School 

Professor Rebecca Delfino’s is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School where her research and scholarship focuses on appellate law, civil and criminal procedure, the judicial branch, access to justice, and the media.  She teaches courses in appellate advocacy, negotiation, legal ethics, civil procedure, political science, and judicial process. Professor Delfino also serves as the faculty advisor Loyola’s nationally recognized and award-winning moot court program. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Delfino served as Lead Senior Appellate Attorney at the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven for 17 years. During her tenure there, she researched and prepared more than 600 bench memoranda and draft legal opinions in numerous areas of law from felony criminal cases, to complex civil litigation, to family law and probate, to juvenile dependency and delinquency matters.   

Her most recent legal scholarship focuses on the law’s response to new developments at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet, and in particular a new phenomenon called—“Deep fakes”– doctored images and videos depicting famous figures, mostly women, whose faces have been believably mapped onto the bodies of others, engaged in pornographic and sexual acts.  Her article on the topic, Pornographic Deepfakes—Revenge Porn’s Next Tragic Act—The Case for Federal Criminalization will be published in the Fordham Law Review, Volume 88, in December 2019.  (A draft of the article is available at:  Rebecca Delfino Author Page SSRN) 

Eva Feder 
Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, Lionsgate 

Eva Feder is Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs at Lionsgate and a member of the State Bar of California. A graduate of Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Eva began her career in the entertainment industry at Summit Entertainment as a legal intern, later becoming in-house legal counsel, and eventually moving to Lionsgate following its acquisition of Summit Entertainment in 2012, where she was promoted to her current position. While Eva works on a variety of legal matters and agreements, she specializes in legal marketing, licensing, and merchandising for film and television properties, namely for global live and location-based entertainment (e.g., theme parks, live stage, touring exhibitions), video games, virtual reality, consumer products, and ancillary rights acquisitions. Eva also oversees in-house Lionsgate’s intellectual property portfolio working with outside counsel.  Her work has involved many of Lionsgate’s and Summit’s most successful franchises, including The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games, Mad Men, and Orange is the New Black. 

Tracey Freed
Freed Law P.C. 

Tracey Freed is Founder of Freed Law, P.C., a boutique law firm specializing in digital media, entertainment and technology transactions based in Venice Beach. Freed has been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Cyber/Artificial Intelligence Lawyers out of 20 practicing in California in 2018, and a Rising Star in Los Angeles magazine for the past 4 years. Freed advises emerging companies, Hollywood studios, and Fortune 100 companies at the intersection of media, technology, advertising and innovation, including structuring and negotiating commercial transactions related to content distribution and monetization, technology commercialization, branded content & influencer marketing, AR/VR & social gaming, artificial intelligence, big data and ad tech. Freed is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and has been quoted and interviewed by various news outlets and industry podcasts.  Freed is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School where she teaches “Digital Media and the Law” a class she designed and originated over 9 years ago, and newly designed class, “Artificial Intelligence and the Law.”  Prior to founding Freed Law, P.C., Freed was Assistant General Counsel, Digital Networks at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. where she was the head lawyer for Crackle, one of few streaming video platforms in existence at such time, brokering “first of kind” and deal precedent setting transactions in the OTT/mobile video streaming industry.  Freed began her career as a corporate and intellectual property associate at Irell & Manella LLP.  Freed was an inaugural member of the TechTainment planning team, and is an alumnus of Loyola Law School.

Erika Georgiou
Associate General Counsel at FaZe Clan

Erika Georgiou is Associate General Counsel at FaZe Clan, one of the largest esports organizations in the world.  FaZe Clan currently has six separate esports franchises and reaches over 220 million viewers on social media. Erika advises Faze Clan on all aspects of its business, including athlete agreements, streaming and social media content, league and franchise agreements, brand partnerships, and IP protection and monetization. 

Professor Joseph Hellige 
Professor of Psychology, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University

Joseph Hellige is Professor of Psychology at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he joined the psychology department faculty of the University of Southern California (USC), where he remained until 2007.  While at USC, Dr. Hellige also served as psychology department chair from 1992 – 1997 and served as Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of the USC Graduate School from 1997 – 2005. He moved to LMU in 2007 to become Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Psychology and subsequently served as LMU’s Executive Vice President and Provost from 2010 to 2017.  

Dr. Hellige’s primary research interests include human cognition and information processing; processing differences between the human brain hemispheres; individual differences in cognitive processing and functional cerebral organization; interaction of the two hemispheres in the normal brain; mechanisms of attention; age-related changes in cognitive processing; handedness; and hemispheric asymmetry in clinical populations, including Alzheimer’s patients and schizophrenics. He has served as Action Editor for the journal Brain and Cognition and on the editorial boards of several other professional journals.  Current interests also include changes in the way people view experts and expertise, educating people to be more sophisticated consumers of research, the role of technology in shaping human behavior and the future of humanity, as well as a spectrum of topics in higher education.   

Professor Justin Hughes 
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School

Justin Hughes is the Hon. William Matthew Byrne Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where he teaches international trade and intellectual property courses.  He previously taught at Cardozo Law School in New York.  From 2009 until 2013, Professor Hughes also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property.  In that capacity, he was the US chief negotiator for two multilateral treaties, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (2012) and the Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind (2013).  He has also taught at UCLA and DePaul University. 

Educated at Oberlin and Harvard, Professor Hughes practiced international arbitration in Paris, was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and, as a Henry Luce Scholar, clerked for the Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia.   From 2006-2009, he was Chairman of the Technicolor/Thomson Foundation for Film and Television Heritage. Professor Hughes has also done volunteer democracy development work in Albania, Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, and Mali. 

More information can be found at www.justinhughes.net. 

Mikki Kressbach  
Loyola Marymount University, School of Film and Television 

Mikki Kressbach is an Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She received her BA from the University of Washington and PhD from the University of Chicago. From 2018-2019, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Film Studies at Michigan State University. 

Her research interests include new media, film theory, Science and Technology Studies, and the horror genre. She has taught courses on topics ranging from new media, to gender and sexuality in cinema, and television history. Her current research explores the impact of emerging popular digital health technologies (wearable fitness trackers and mobile health apps) on our understanding of health. Her published work can be found in The New Review of Film and Television Studies, The Cine-Files, and the forthcoming edited collection, [REC] Terror: Essays on Found Footage Horror Films (ed. Jackson Cooper, McFarland Press). 

David Randall
Brooks Kushman

David is a shareholder with Brooks Kushman. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, he routinely represents clients in complex IP litigation matters before federal courts throughout the United States, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. David also frequently assists clients with the development and management of worldwide patent and trademark portfolios, as well as issues concerning product design.  David’s experience covers a broad range of technologies, including software and video game technologies. David has been consistently recognized by Best Lawyers in America as one of the top intellectual property litigators in America. He is also active in the IP community; he is presently on the Secretary of the LAIPLA, he co-chaired the 2014 and 2018 LAIPLA Spring Seminar Planning Committees and the 2018 and 2019 TechTainment™ Planning Committees, and he has been an active member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice Committee since 2013.

Dean Peggy Rajski
Dean of the LMU School of Film and Television 

Peggy Rajski brings the knowledge and leadership skills she gained as an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, activist, and academic to her role as dean of LMU’s School of Film and Television. She launched her career during the independent film movement in the 1980s. Her many credits include three of writer/director John Sayles’s early films: The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and Eight Men Out; Stephen Frears’s film-noir classic The Grifters, and Jodie Foster’s directorial debut Little Man Tate and her second film Home for the Holidays.  

Rajski won an Academy Award in 1995 for Best Live Action Short for her directorial debut Trevor, a comedy about a young teen whose world is turned upside down when word spreads at school that he might be gay. Based on strong public response to the film, she founded The Trevor Project, America’s first 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention non-profit dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth. More than twenty years after its founding, The Trevor Project is the world’s largest such organization.   

More recently, Rajski spent eight years at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program as head of studies for producing. She’s a longstanding member of the Directors Guild of America, Film Independent, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which has named her a Live Action Icon. 

Ben Sheffner
Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Copyright & Legal Affairs, at the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. 

Ben Sheffner is Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Copyright & Legal Affairs, at the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., where he specializes in copyright and other intellectual property policy. Ben previously held in-house legal positions at NBCUniversal and Twentieth Century Fox, and worked as an associate in the Century City office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he litigated copyright and other cases for major movie studios, television networks, and record labels. In 2008, Ben served as Special Counsel on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, where, among other responsibilities, he handled the campaign’s copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property issues. Ben served as a law clerk for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2000-2001. Ben received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1993 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2000. 

Chris Shim
AZYT Global Talent, Chief Executive Officer 

Chris Shim is the CEO of AZYT Management, an eSports agency that represents the most skilled professional players. Mr. Shim’s passion for the industry is fervent- as prior to AZYT, he owned an eSports team and organized various tournaments. During Mr. Shim’s previous work experiences, he was responsible for managing players as well as seeking partnerships with influential figures and sponsors.  

Throughout his career within the industry, Mr. Shim has developed productive connections with other people who share his passion for eSports. Whether it be players, streamers, or sponsors, Mr. Shim reliably outsources for AZYT, making his experience more valuable than any particular skill. Within the fast-paced industry, Mr. Shim is able to lead the company to the best direction possible by using his career history to guide him.

Gary Shuster 
Coleman & Horowitt, LLP 

Gary Shuster is a highly prolific independent inventor, receiving well over 200 issued United States patents since 2004.  Gary is also an attorney, entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and IP consultant.  Gary’s patents cover a wide range of technologies, including such diverse areas as facial recognition, vaporization, virtual reality, augmented reality, medical devices, photography, batteries, smart phones, geolocation, search engine technology and bandwidth management.  Gary graduated Summa Cum Laude from U.C.L.A. and Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.  After practicing law for a decade, representing Fortune 50 companies and internet start-ups, he transitioned an increasing amount of his time to innovation and invention.  Gary continues to provide legal representation to select clients, with a particular focus on start-ups, technology, internet, and general litigation.  Gary’s most recent ventures include a revolutionary helium-based vaporizer, software that defeats facial recognition technology, and a program that helps teens learn to invent.  

Claudine Sokol
Vice President, Media Commercial Advertiser/Agency Services, Nielsen

Claudine Sokol is a 23 year veteran of the Nielsen Company, America’s leading media measurement, and analytics company. Claudine spent the majority of her career in Local Media, launching electronic measurement in the SouthWest and helping to launch the several English and Spanish broadcast networks. Additionally, Claudine has worked with talent agencies, major CPG and Automotive advertisers across the country. 

Most recently Claudine has been working on educating and updating the major Advertising Agencies across the country in both National and Local media. Expanding into Audio, Addressable and Digital platforms. She is often called upon to explain the changing media landscape and how US households continue to change the consumption of media and the growth in devices. 

Over the years, Claudine has served as a mentor to new client service reps and values working with others across all media verticals.  

Claudine, who is a Los Angeles Native, still lives in Los Angeles with her four children. 

Daniel G. Stone

Partner, Greenberg Glusker 

Dan is a Partner in the Litigation and Entertainment and Media groups of Greenberg Glusker.  He helps plaintiffs and defendants successfully navigate their disputes at all stages of litigation and dispute resolution, including at trial and on appeal.  Dan’s clients include artists, influencers, founders, and Fortune 100 companies.  He regularly handles disputes involving copyright, trademark, trade secrets, breach of contract, rights of publicity and privacy, labor law, ERISA, and California’s Talent Agencies Act.  Formerly Assistant General Counsel at the Directors Guild of America, Dan represents and advises multi-national corporations, production companies, rights-holders, and artists in connection with entertainment industry collective bargaining agreements and pension and health plans. 

Mark Treitel 
Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP

Mark is passionate about technology and the intersection of entertainment. He is an intellectual property attorney in the Los Angeles offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP since 2005. Mark has broad based Corporate and Patent, Trade Secret, Copyright, Trademark, IP Litigation and Discovery experience representing clients including Qualcomm, Samsung, Nokia, Pfizer, IBM, DirecTV, Teledyne Technologies and Multimedia Patent Trust among others. 

Mark was President of LAIPLA (2017-2018) and served as an Officer and on the Board of Directors. He instituted many of great programs for LAIPLA. Mark is most proud of founding TechTainment, with Loyola Law School, and co-chairing the conference for the past five years. He has previously moderated panels and was recognized as an IP Hero in 2014.

Mary Tuck
Vice President, Legal at Activision Blizzard

Mary Tuck is Vice President, Legal at Activision Blizzard. She has been with the company for 13 years and has been working on its esports initiatives for the last 3, including on the core team responsible for designing the structure for the Overwatch League and now the Call of Duty League. Mary also manages legal for the company’s other emerging businesses, consumer products and film and television. Prior to working on esports, Mary managed the company’s litigation and intellectual property. 

Danielle S. Van Lier 
Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Contracts at SAG-AFTRA 

Danielle Van Lier is assistant general counsel, intellectual property and contracts at SAG-AFTRA where she is responsible for managing SAG-AFTRA’s third-party contracts and intellectual property, as well as other efforts aimed at protecting the rights of SAG-AFTRA and its members. Van Lier has written several amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court on issues including rights of publicity, copyright, and other issues impacting the entertainment industry. She is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School where she has taught courses on the Entertainment Guilds and Trademark Law and she previously taught Sports Law and Entertainment Law at Western State College of Law.  

Van Lier earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She has a B.A. in Japanese Language, Literature and Cultural Studies from UC Santa Barbara and just finished a postgraduate degree in Innovation, Technology and the Law through University of Edinburgh. 

Professor Eugene Volokh

Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, tort law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (5th ed. 2013), The Religion Clauses and Related Statutes (2005), and Academic Legal Writing (4th ed. 2010), as well as over 75 law review articles and over 80 op-eds, listed below. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a Weblog that gets about 35-40,000 pageviews per weekday. He is among the five most cited then-under-45 faculty members listed in the Top 25 Law Faculties in Scholarly Impact, 2005-2009 study, and among the forty most cited faculty members on that list without regard to age.  

Jason Woo
General Manager and Chief Strategy Officer at Next Generation Esports (NGE) 

 Jason Woo is the Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager for NGE (Next Generation Esports), an esports publisher that works directly with video game intellectual property holders to produce premier esports content worldwide (in 2018 NGE produced over 4 billion consumed minutes of competitive esports entertainment). Jason currently leads strategic planning, partnership relationships and day-to-day operations for NGE and its many video game partners, including Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, Psyonix, Supercell, 2K, Tencent Games and many others. 

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The Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization and the only Brazilian business association in Los Angeles. The Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce (BCCC) is your connection to influential people, innovative programs, valuable resources and important information about doing business in Brazil and with the Brazilian business community in Los Angeles.

For nearly 15 years, the BCCC has fostered business relations and commercial trade between Brazilian entities and California through our programs and advocacy initiatives. We provide our members with an exciting forum for promoting cultural exchanges and social interaction between Brazil and California, in cooperation with the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles.

The Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Section focuses on a wide variety of entertainment and intellectual property law issues including copyright, patent, trademark, new media, licensing, unfair competition, libel, privacy, and right of publicity issues. The section consists of and welcomes all types of intellectual property and entertainment lawyers in these and other fields, including transactional and litigation lawyers, in-house counsel, and lawyers in private practice.

The Orange County Intellectual Property Law Association (OCIPLA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1983. OCIPLA’s diverse membership includes local, non-local and out-of-state intellectual property law practitioners. The OCIPLA is open to all persons having an interest in intellectual property law including attorneys, patent agents, inventors, investors, legal assistants, paralegals, educators, students and other persons.

The San Diego County Bar Association, founded in 1899, is the hub of San Diego’s diverse legal community.  Our membership includes new and veteran attorneys practicing in various areas of law throughout the county and other legal professionals that support the profession and practice. With more than 50 unique Sections, Committees and divisions, a state-of-the-art full-service member lounge and shared workspace, various community service projects, informal and association-wide networking events, along with more than 300 hours of quality continuing legal education (CLE) and supplemental education programs each year, the SDCBA is the place where San Diego’s legal professionals connect and convene for the betterment of their individual practices and the profession. 

Questions? Contact the LAIPLA office at office@laipla.net or call 323-285-1654.

Sponsorship? See LAIPLA Sponsorship Opportunities 2019-2020 for this event and others.