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Crowell & Moring's Jennie VonCannon, Evan Wolff, and Michael Gruden, members of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity and Government Contracts Groups, will be speaking at the NCMA World Congress, taking place on July 23, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. They will lead a skill-based session, "Making CMMC 2.0 Requirements Work for Your Organization," at 10:30 AM PST.

Crowell & Moring Partner Jennie VonCannon, a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity and White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Groups, will be speaking at the ACC Foundation's 2024 Cybersecurity Summit, taking place in Los Angeles. Her panel, "GenAI & Cybersecurity-Integrating Cyber Risk into your AI Governance Strategy," will take place at 2:00 PM PST.

This session will include a dynamic panel that covers the importance of Generative AI (GenAI). The panelists will explain how to best leverage GenAI across your practice while mitigating the associated risks. They will provide practical tips for in-house counsel and other teams to improve efficiency and streamline operations through the use of technology. They will also share proven templates and other guidance for establishing effective AI policies.

Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture, and vulnerabilities present grave financial, legal, and reputational risks. Preventing, preparing for, and responding to data breaches in real time are chief concerns in today’s workforce. This conference programming will keep you apprised of the latest threats and innovations through educational sessions with leading subject matter experts. These learning opportunities will complement your broad understanding of cybersecurity strategies and principles, enabling you to become a more well-rounded, focused, and effective practitioner. This conference is geared towards law firms, corporations, and government officials.

Join other privacy and cybersecurity legal professionals in Los Angeles to learn and connect. This two-day conference sponsored by the California Lawyers Association Privacy Section is packed with privacy content with input directly from regulators and industry leaders.

The “Top Issues in Cybersecurity” panel will take place on February 9, 2024, at 11:45 a.m. Cybersecurity lawyers never sleep, especially these days. Security incidents continue to occur at a breakneck pace, and state and federal governments are responding with a tsunami of new cybersecurity regulations. Jennie VonCannon and fellow panelists from Motorola Solutions, eBay, and DreamHost will discuss the biggest issues in cybersecurity in the year ahead.

Join our Crowell & Moring partners for a webinar exploring AI liability, focusing on chatbots and generative AI, recent rulings on product liability in the digital realm, and new laws. This session will provide high-level legal strategies to manage risk and liability across AI applications, including white-label chatbots, virtual assistants, synthetic media, and employment tools.

Generative AI offers remarkable opportunities to supercharge the ways in which we work across the legal industry. However, its integration into legal practice also presents significant ethical and professional challenges. This course will delve into both the challenges and opportunities, including a discussion of the American Bar Association’s first formal opinion on generative AI, Formal Opinion 512, and other ways in which the landscape has evolved over the past year, to provide an overview of the ethical considerations and best practices for using generative and other forms of AI in legal and legal adjacent work.

Join Jennie VonCannon alongside fellow panelists Dipo Akin-Deko, Head of Legal at Bower Group Asia, Inc., and Koutayba Yamak, Partner at PwC, for an AI webinar hosted by Trace International as they share their insights into all things AI and data analytics.

Although data analytics and AI have been popular topics in recent years, interest in AI further surged following the release of ChatGPT in December 2022 and is revolutionizing the way that work gets done. Our panelists will discuss the risks and benefits of AI and data analytics, as well as providing practical guidance for how to justify the cost and value-adds to a company’s leadership, how to continually evolve with new changes, and how to analyze and use data. The panelists will also demonstrate how data analytics and AI can be used to identify and respond to corruption.