events

  • Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

    Blue Parlour, East Duke Building 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    Julie E. Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms, and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions. In this talk, she will discuss her latest book […]

  • Ethical Tech: Moral Imperative to Actionable Steps

    Blue Parlour, East Duke Building 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    Katherine Zhou (T’17) a product designer at IBM and creator of the “Design Ethically” project, will share lessons learned from piloting her ethical design methodology with artificial intelligence teams at IBM.  She will also discuss what scaling the tech ethics movement means for individual employees, companies and/or startups, as well as the entire industry. Lunch […]

  • Ethics on the Inside: Anticipating Challenges for Emerging Tech Industries

    Blue Parlour, East Duke Building 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    Christopher Daniels (E'98, B'05) started his career in investment banking with Lehman Brothers, then joined Applied Semantics which sold to Google in 2003. He was at Microsoft for 5 years where he held various roles as General Manager of Bing Mobile Product Management, Director of Online Strategy and Director of Business Development. Chris joined Facebook […]

  • Tech Talk: Laura Berger, Director of Privacy for the Americas at LinkedIn

    Blue Parlour, East Duke Building 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    Laura D. Berger is Head of Privacy for the Americas at LinkedIn. She is a 23-year veteran of the Federal Trade Commission, where she enforced federal laws to protect consumers’ privacy. Her law enforcement work included cases alleging privacy and data security violations by leading technology companies, retailers, and other consumer-facing entities. Laura played a […]

  • “Tech Ethics/Corporate Ethics” Dinner Roundtable Conversation

    The Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke, Room 101 1364 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

    The digital economy is increasingly introducing technologically-derived threats to security: threats to data privacy and information security; hacking and data breaches; cyberattacks; and new forms of cyberwarfare and information warfare, such as disinformation campaigns by domestic and foreign entities. Some experts have called for greater oversight of tech companies, and more robust general data privacy […]

  • *Cancelled* Fireside Chat with David Hardoon

    Rubenstein Library Room 249

    *Event Cancelled* A rescheduled date/time is not set at present.   Special Advisor to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics for a conversation with David Hardoon, in which he will be discussing the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in financial institutions.  Mr. Hardoon is a leader […]