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Pekka Ala-Pietilä

Huhtamäki Oyj, Finland

Rosa Ballardini

University of Lapland, Finland

Rosa Maria Ballardini (LL.M, PhD, title of Docent) is a professor of intellectual property law and vice dean (research) at the University of Lapland/Faculty of Law. Since 2005 she has researched and taught in the field of intellectual property (IP) law at various universities. Rosa’s research interests focus on the interface between law, technology and sustainability as well as ethics and empathy. She has led several inter-disciplinary research projects and written extensively on this intersection, especially in relation to patent and copyright law, open innovation and open source, as well as IP strategies and IP management in various technological contexts (e.g. software, 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence, industrial internet and digital cultural heritage). Her research approach is multidisciplinary, combining law, technology, business and policy via using different types of methodologies (e.g. traditional legal research methods, empirical methods and design thinking in legal studies). Rosa is also active in society, holding positions trust in several organizations related to intellectual property (e.g. Member of the Finnish Copyright Council, Chair of the Board of the IPR University Center).

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Rob van den Hoven van Genderen

University of Lapland, Finland

Emeritus professor Dr. Robert van den Hoven van Genderen presently is since 2019 still working for the University of Lapland together with Prof. Dr. Ballardini and others in the research team for the project on emotional AI (HIPE). Until 2022 he was director of the Institute for Internet Law of the Law Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working on privacy, AI and Robotlaw. He has worked on several international projects on privacy and technology and was visiting professor at the Imperial Kyushu University in Japan, Taiwan University and Peking University. He published articles and books on AI technology , privacy and the Law. Before his academic career he was director of Regulatory affairs for British Telecoms and other telecoms industry as well as interest organizations in this area.

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Erich Schweighofer

University of Vienna, Austria

Erich Schweighofer (Ph.D in law, Ph.D in informatics, University Docent) is a professor of legal informatics, international law and European law at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (presently on leave, working for the European Commission). Since 1986, he has researched and taught in the field of international economic law, State aid law, EU law, legal documentation, legal information retrieval, (semi-)automatic legal text analysis, document summarisation, legal ontogies, robotics and artificial intelligence, data governance and privacy, internet governace, surveillance, civil protection, cybersecurity e-persons etc. He has lead/participated in many inter-disciplinary research projects since 1991 (text analysis and summarisation, remote teaching, robotics, surveillance technologies, data protection, civil protection, cyber security, visual analysis etc.). He is the main organiser and trustee of the most important legal inforamtics conference in Central Europe, the International Legal Informatics Symposium (iris-conferences.eu), already in its 27th year. Erich is a strong supporter of conference networks and is a regular organiser, programme member and paricipant of such events (IRIS, ICAIL, JURIX, Cyberspace, BILETA, DGIR, ÖVRT, ÖEuRT etc.) He has also extensive practical exerience in administration (Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Federal Chancellery, European Commission, universities etc.). His pro-bono work focusses engagement in societes on the interchange between law and ICT (GI, OCG, ACM, IAAIL, JURIX), internet governance (ICANN, EURALO, DGIR), free legal information (FALM, co-founder of the LII-Austria) etc. His publications comprise about 10 books, more than 30 proceeding volumes and more than 200 papers. At present, he is working on a hand book on legal informatics.

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Tobias Mahler

Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Norway

Tobias Mahler is deputy director of the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. His current research focuses on regulating robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as on risk-based approaches in law, including in the context of digital identity. He has advised the EU Commission in its preparation for the Digital Services Act and participates in the development of standards for artificial intelligence. Mahler is acting deputy director of CELL, where he supervises the Legal Innovation Lab Oslo (LILO). He has been guest researcher at Stanford Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law i Freiburg, Germany.

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Mona Naomi Lintvedt

Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Norway

Naomi Lintvedt is a doctoral research fellow at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), University of Oslo. Her PhD project investigates various perspectives of privacy in human-robot interaction. The research is carried out under the aegis of the research project ‘Vulnerability in the Robot Society’ (VIROS), funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Naomi holds a law degree from the University of Oslo and has extensive experience with issues in the intersection between technology and law. She has been a visiting researcher at Keio University, Japan, and is a fellow of The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff).

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Sari Järvinen

VTT, Finland

Sari Järvinen, M.Sc. (Mathematics and Information Processing Science), is working at VTT since 1999, currently as a Senior Scientist and Project Manager (IPMA-C) in Human-centric AI team. Her expertise includes service and information system development, communication technologies and information management. In her current position, she is responsible of planning and leading multimodal data analytics projects for specific customer needs in various application domains. Her main research interest is in usage of real-time people behaviour information for creation of novel applications and interaction solutions. Recently, she is focusing on acquisition and utilization of human behaviour data to enable creation of new types of smart spaces with dynamic services capable of reacting to human behaviour and needs in real-time. The captured data can be used to measure e.g. the performance of a retail space, utilization rate of a shared office space or passenger experience in public transport. She has participated to several EU and EUREKA/ITEA framework projects including e.g. FP5-MTM, ITEA-CANDELA, ITEA2-ExpeShare, FP7-D-SenS, H2020-Starlight, ITEA3-InnoSale, HEU-tExtended, and to several national and commercial research projects. She is actively following and contributing to the academic research with a special interest in taking the research results to actual usage in the industry.

Béatrice Schütte

University of Helsinki and University of Lapland, Finland

Béatrice Schütte is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, Legal Tech Lab and University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. At the University of Helsinki, she is also a member of the Intertran Research Group for Sustainable Law and Business and of HELSUS, the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. In addition, she is a member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). Béatrice Schütte holds a doctoral degree from Aarhus University in Denmark. Currently, her main research focus is on the regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence and liability, automated decision-making in the public sector as well as on emotional AI and its legal implications. Her research background is in private law, comparative law and EU law. She is also interested in maritime law, environmental law and sustainability. Béatrice Schütte has worked both in academia and the private sector in several European countries.

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Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg

Stockholm University, Sweden

I am a Professor and Subject Director of Law and Information Technology at Stockholm University. In 1992 I was awarded a LL.D. degree, with a doctoral thesis addressing legal automation with special focus on digitalisation in public administration. Legal implications of e-government remains as one of my major fields of interest. In addition to substantive components of IT law, e.g. privacy protection, I have had many years of experience of legal system design and management, giving rise to legal issues concerning the need for cyber security etc. My affiliation at the Faculty is the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute (IRI).

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Tanel Kerikmäe

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Tanel Kerikmäe is a professor of European Legal Policy and Law & Tech at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), and he has a worldwide experience from different universities in teaching and research. Tanel has been invited visiting professor in Europe ad Asia. He is honorary professor at HCMC University of Law and holds a title of doctor honoris causa at National University of Law in Kharkiv, acting also as a foreign member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Tanel is also foreign member of the Centre of Robotics, AI and Law at National University Singapore. Tanel is founder and head of TalTech law school and is known as a designer of new type of legal education that is international and interdisciplinary. Most of his research activities are related to law & technology issues. Tanel is a member of excellent academic network in the field and has been a PI for solid amount of research and capacity building projects with top experts over the world.

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Anja Møller Pedersen

University of Copenhagen & Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark

Anja Møller Pedersen is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). Anja holds a PhD degree from University of Copenhagen (co-funded with DIHR) based on her thesis ‘The fundamental rights to privacy and data protection in the EU legal order – reconciling rights and rationales’. During her PhD, Anja was a visiting researcher at The Information Law Institute at NYU and the Institute for Information Law (IvIR) at University of Amsterdam. In her thesis, Anja extracts from privacy theory three underlying rationales for privacy (an individual, social and democratic rationale), constituting a normative framework for exploring the scope and meaning of the concerned fundamental rights, including their intersections, in accordance with case law from the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights. In her postdoc, likewise co-funded with DIHR, Anja continues her research in the intersection between fundamental rights, constitutional law and privacy/data protection, focusing on law enforcement and intelligence services with respect to the use of new surveillance/intelligence technologies, such as e.g., facial recognition and predictive policing. Anja has a background as an attorney and human rights lawyer and she has been teaching at the faculty since 2012 within fundamental rights, constitutional law and data protection.

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Jouko Nuottila

University of Lapland, Finland 

Jouko Nuottila (D.Sc. (Tech.), M.Sc. (Econ.), M.Soc.Sc.) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. His professional background is in the technology industry. He has held various positions at Nokia Corporation, working in technology development (2000-2002), product management (2003-2008) and technology marketing (2009-2012). After leaving the industry, he obtained a D.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Oulu. His doctoral research focused on forms of flexibility in project contracting, with a special interest in agile project management. He has continued this line of research in Law & Management, most recently focusing on contracting for innovation projects and industrial collaborative contracts, contributing to the development of the Proactive Contract Theory. Since 2018, he has dedicated his time to projects related to sustainable transitions. He has worked on development projects investigating how digital systems and AI can facilitate sustainable transitions, as well as contributing to related topics in the private sector. Most recently, his postdoctoral work has focused on intellectual property rights, IP management and sustainability.

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Juha Vesala

University of Lapland, Finland

Reijo Aarnio

Sitra, Finland

Mr. Reijo Aarnio (born 1955) graduated from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law in 1981. He then worked at several expert and managerial tasks in the private sector and aided the committee drafting the Personal Data Act in an expert capacity. In 1997 Reijo Aarnio became Data Protection Ombudsman. He retired in October 2020. The Data Protection Ombudsman is appointed for a term of five years or less at a time. Since November 2020 has been working as a Senior Advisor of The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra focusing on matters of democracy, health data and fair data economy. Mr. Aarnio has lectured in the Universities of Helsinki, Lapland and Georgetown. He has been an adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

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Peter Wahlgren

Stockholm University, Sweden

Peter Wahlgren is the current chairman and director of the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI). He was awarded the degree LL.D. in 1992, Automation of Legal Reasoning: A Study on Artificial Intelligence and Law (Kluwer). Docent in Jurisprudence (Allmän rättslära), Docent in Law and IT (Rättsinformatik), both in 1994. Appointed professor in Law and IT in 2001. Between 1999-2020 chief editor of Scandinavian Studies in Law and during the period 2019-2023 holding the position Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Legal Science. Research interests cover legal methods, proactive law, legal risk analysis and legislative techniques. Publication list covers more than 200 titles.

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Tuomas Pöysti

Chancellor of Justice, Finland

Tuomas Pöysti has served as the Chancellor of Justice, the Supreme Guardian of the Law in Finland, since 2018. Dr. Pöysti holds a title of Doctor of Law (1 999) and Doctor of Philosophy h.c. (2019) from the University of Lapland. Pöysti also holds the title of Docent in Administrative Law from the University of Helsinki (2001). Tuomas Pöysti’s honours include the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland awarded by the President of the Republic (2020). Before his appointment as the Chancellor of Justice, Pöysti worked as Under-Secretary of State for Governance Policy and Digitalization for the Ministry of Finance (2017), and prior to that as Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (2015–2017). In the period 2007–2015, Pöysti served in the position of the President of the Supreme Audit Institution. Before, Pöysti has served as the Government Controller General, served in various public posts involving drafting and development of legislation in the Ministry of Finance, and as a researcher at the Universities of Helsinki and Lapland. Pöysti has held several chairmanships and memberships in different institutions. Among such positions, Pöysti served as the chair and member of the Supervisory Committee of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) at the European Commission (2013–2016). Pöysti has an active portfolio of research in the field of administrative law, digitalization of justice and legal informatics covering issues such as cyber and information security, automatic decision-making and AI, digital administration and digital service ecosystems, data protection, design of human - machine interaction and the general principles of information law.

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Beata Mäihäniemi

University of Helsinki, Finland

Beata Mäihäniemi researches digital platforms from competition law and data governance perspective. She is also interested in behavioural economics and automated decision-making. Beata has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on these issues as well as a monograph ’Competition Law and Big Data: Imposing Access to Information in Digital Markets’ (Edward Elgar 2020).

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Maksymilian Kuzmicz

Stockholm University, Sweden

Maksymilian obtained a BA in Law and Philosophy (summa cum laude) from the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the KU Lublin. During both his BA and MA, he spent a total of three semesters at KU Leuven as an exchange student. He completed his education with an MA in Law from KU Lublin (summa cum laude). Since September 2020 Maksymilian has been working as a member of the RESHUFFLE project at the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven, a position supported by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council). In May 2021 he joined the visuAAL Innovative Training Network as a PhD student at Stockholm University. Maksymilian is working on the project “Video-based AAL technologies and balancing of interests”. The aim of this project is to present a set of possible methods to balance conflicts of interest in the context of video-based Active and Assisted Living technologies, and to evaluate them from the perspective of ethics and principles of law, especially fundamental rights.

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Emmanuel Salami

University of Lapland, Finland

Hilja Autto

University of Lapland, Finland

Autto Hilja , LL.M., is a doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law and a project researcher at the University of Vaasa, School of Accounting and Finance, Business Law. Autto's research interests include proactive contracting, contract design, information design, visualization, legal tech and AI, robotics, and sustainable development. She is part of the Law, Technology and Design Thinking research group at the University of Lapland, and works as a researcher in three projects. In HILMARI - Carbon sinks and climate benefits with controlled risks: Policy measures for forests and wood products - Autto explores the potential of proactive legal thinking and contract design to establish a carbon compensation scheme. In TOIVO - Smooth and sustainable RDI with actionable contracts - Autto participates in the creation of an RDI contract toolkit and a comprehensive guide for contract drafters. In BOOST - Biodiversity offsetting as an operational tool for a just sustainability transition towards no net loss of ecosystems and biodiversity - Autto is the lead contract designer, developing offset contract templates specifically tailored for use in offset markets. In addition to research, Autto teaches proactive contracting and contract design and supervises bachelor's theses in environmental law at the University of Lapland.

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