Date & time
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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New Technologies Impact on Cybersecurity and AI
Explore the intersection of emerging technologies, democratic governance and cybersecurity in the age of AI.
Join Concordia Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes University of Ottawa Law Professor Karen Eltis, one of Canada’s leading experts in the impact of new technologies on democratic governance, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Students in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, lawyers, and the general public are invited to attend.
The event will be hosted on Zoom, and the link will be shared with participants on the day of the event.
To Participating Lawyers
Since Concordia University is an organization distinct from the Bar of Quebec, you must declare your hours of training in your personal file. A certificate of attendance representing 1.5 hours of continuing education will be issued to those lawyers who attend this conference.
Law Meets Engineering Lecture Series
Concordia Jurist-in-Residence Morton Minc is hosting a series of law-related lectures given by prominent speakers geared to all Gina Cody School students. These lectures will tackle topics that will be very useful in their professional lives.
Guest speaker
Prof. Karen Eltis is Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and a Full Professor of Law within the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
A past director of the uOttawa Human Rights Centre, Professor Karen Eltis specializes in artificial intelligence/ innovation law and policy and cybersecurity from a comparative perspective. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial Institute and has taught at Columbia Law School. She is a past Affiliate with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (2016-2018).
Fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Romanian and proficient in German and Italian, Professor Eltis holds law degrees from McGill University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, Professor Eltis was a litigation associate in New York City. Her research on privacy was cited three times by the Supreme Court of Canada, in A.B. v. Bragg (2012), Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec inc. (2020), and Sherman Estate v. Donovan (2021) as well as by other Canadian and foreign courts. Professor Eltis’ latest book, titled Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age: Second Edition (Irwin Law, 2016), was supported by a CIRA grant. Her research on artificial intelligence and expression is supported by the Foundation for Legal Research.