At the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) is organizing a celebratory conference on Friday 4 October 2019 at the law faculty of the KU Leuven.

During this conference keynote lectures will be alternated with various themed parallel sessions, introducing speakers that will focus on (1) Security, (2) Content moderation (IT & IP), (3) Artificial Intelligence & GDPR, (4) Agrifood, IP & Sustainable  Development Goals, (5) Data markets, (6) Smart cities and (7)  Health care innovation.

Keynote speakers who have confirmed their attendance:

• Prof. dr. Karen Yeung (Birmingham Law School): Regulation of technology, especially in the context of security
• Prof. dr. Reto Hilty (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) on IP, Markets for technology and competition 
• Prof. Luciano Floridi (Oxford Internet Institute) on Knowledge is design – About the logic of information

Stakeholders that will be represented in the panels: Belgian Competition Authority, Belgian Data Protection Authority, BEUC, Council of Europe, Declerq & Partners, DLA Piper, European Commission (DG CONNECT), European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), European Digital Rights (EDRi), Facebook, Ghent University, Google, imec, InterPol, Microsoft, Quinz advocaten, Sabam, Simont Braun, SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Tilburg University, Timelex, UCLouvain, University of Amsterdam, University of Namur, UZ Leuven, and Youtube.

More stakeholders to be announced soon. Register before 01/10/2019. Details about the registration and the draft agenda can be found at the Conference's website.