Annual Global Conference 2024

Jonathan S. Marashlian is the Managing Partner of Marashlian & Donahue, PLLC, The CommLaw Group, where he has earned a reputation as a leading expert in telecommunications and technology law, particularly in the realms of information technology, enhanced services, and digital transformation. With over 25 years of experience, Jonathan has guided numerous companies through the complexities of compliance and regulatory challenges, focusing on emerging technologies such as VoIP, SaaS, IoT, and now, AI. His work encompasses strategic legal counsel, policy advocacy, and navigating the evolving landscape of digital services, ensuring clients remain at the forefront of innovation while maintaining legal and regulatory compliance. Jonathan and his firm counsel clients based on a philosophy of practical pragmatism, with “risk management” and cost-effectiveness being central parts of every conversation.

Stephanie is a strategic advisor and veteran litigator with more than 25 years of experience in-house at leading media companies. She regularly handles sensitive claims, complex litigation, and regulatory and compliance issues in a wide range of matters, including intellectual property, First Amendment (libel and privacy), technology, antitrust, and commercial disputes.

Sylvia specialises in media law, defamation and managing reputational risk. Sylvia has extensive experience advising major national television broadcasters, radio broadcasters, online news publishers, social media platforms and global technology companies. She advises across all aspects of media law including defamation, pre-publication advice, contempt of court, suppression orders and anti-discrimination/racial vilification matters.

Muzzamel Mazidee is the General Manager of UIB and has over ten years of experience building and improving companies' profitability in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He is based in Singapore and sits on the Board of Directors of UIB's wholly-owned subsidiary, Kuala Lumpur-based UIB Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Muzzamel co-founded the automotive community NGO TGTR Automotive Association, where he served as the Head of Operations for five years. There, he built successful partnerships with Lexus, Volvo, and others. He was also deeply involved in Malaysia's startup ecosystem, including the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (myNEF), ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards (RBSA), and Global Startup Awards.

Muzzamel earned his Bachelor of Mass Communications from Taylor's University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the West of England.

Xavier is a seasoned lawyer in Internet matters, having dedicated his entire professional career to technology law and to helping technology companies create, develop and implement their products and features within safe margins of the law. He designed extensive multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary strategic defenses to protect the companies' business model, reinforcing the social benefits of technologies involved while mitigating any unintended negative externalities.

Prior to joining Galicia, Xavier oversaw a broad spectrum of Meta's legal defense for 35 Latin American countries, including litigation and regulatory, IP, privacy, competition, e-commerce, consumer protection, product regulatory compliance, content self-regulation, free speech, legislative and international treaty negotiations, among others.

Ricardo Altamirano is a prominent figure in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Automation as Co-Founder of KlayBot, a leading global platform in the agile creation of high-quality chatbots and conversational solutions for enterprises and governments.

With a deep specialization in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP), he has led innovative projects across various business sectors, optimizing processes and enhancing user experience.

Ricardo has over a decade of experience consulting on developing, implementing, and maintaining chatbots to improve business processes and customer engagement, including talent acquisition, HR automation, school admissions, hospital appointment scheduling, patient care, patient monitoring, and financial services applications.

Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyer, Law Firm Gorodissky & Partners. To view the brief information about Mr. Ilya Goryachev published on the webpage of our firm please click to the following link: Ilya Goryachev(https://www.gorodissky.com/team/goryachev-ilya-sergeevich/).

Topic title of his speech is the following: Key trends in Russian advertising legal system

Topic description: The presentation will focus both important updates in advertising regulations in Russia as well most important issues in advertising for non-Russian companies, accompanied both local specifics and interesting recent advertising law cases New requirement for on-line advertising; Comparative advertising and how to support it; Language requirements in advertising; Local issues of ethical requirements in advertising; Use of trademarks and other IP in advertising.

Joe Gravante

CEO and Co-Founder of Union Studio

joe@union.studio

Karyn Harty is Global Co-Chair of Disputes at Dentons and heads the litigation practice group at Dentons Ireland. She has specialised in media defence for more than 25 years, representing a range of broadcasters, publishers and digital media platforms. A regular contributor to the Media Law Resource Centre, Karyn is often called upon to provide urgent pre-publication advice to international news organisations. Her team handles a broad range of media related work, usually cross border in nature and she is a specialist in handling civil jury trials. In 2022 she was named EMEA Media & Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Women in Business Law Awards.

Lesley Caplin is Of Counsel in Dentons’ Dublin office. She is a member of the Litigation practice group. Lesley is a highly experienced commercial litigator and media specialist. Her practice primarily focuses on media defense for a wide range of clients, including broadcasters, digital platforms, newspapers and publishers. Lesley is an experienced civil jury practitioner and has been involved in many of the seminal defamation actions in Ireland in recent years including O’Brien v. Mirror Group Newspapers, Leech v. Independent Newspapers, Ryanair v. Channel 4 and Robbins v. BuzzFeed Inc.

Jessica Ní Mhainín is head of policy and campaigns at the freedom of expression organisation, Index on Censorship. Since 2019, she has led Index's work on strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), supporting those affected and pushing for anti-SLAPP legislation to be enacted in the UK and EU. She has convened anti-SLAPP coalitions in the UK and in Ireland and is a member of the Coalition against SLAPPs in Europe. She has experience in international human rights advocacy through her work at Front Line Defenders and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Neil Brady is a journalist and academic researcher. He previously worked as Digital Policy Analyst with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). Prior to this, he worked for The Guardian and social media agency Storyful. He holds an MA in Political Science from University College Dublin and an MBS in Management & Organisation from the Smurfit Business School.

Diane Perlman (She/Her) is a fractional CMO and marketing consultant, currently running her own virtual agency, Branding Matters. She is an established marketing leader with a unique blend of big brand experience at Microsoft, as well as agency-side, startup and scaleup experience -- both B2B and B2C. Diane has spent her career in tech, telco and adtech, and most recently served as CMO at Unruly and then at Blis, helping the company establish its brand, grow it's marketing team and scale to a Private Equity investment. She is also an active diversity inclusion ally and champion and a #IAmRemarkable facilitator.

Kinga Incze

Founder of

MediaSpace & Whitereport

Derek Huoth is General Counsel and Secretary at Tastemade, a modern media brand that creates award-winning video content and original programming in Food, Home, and Travel primarily for millennial and GenZ audiences. In addition to legal and business affairs, Derek is involved in people operations, corporate development, and international matters at Tastemade. He’s also an active participant in the company’s mentorship program, which he helped design. Prior to Tastemade, Derek was at the law firm of Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley, where he advised start-ups of all sizes and served on the firm’s hiring committee. He started his legal career at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and chairing the Asian Associates Network. Derek received his law degree at the University of Pennsylvania and attended college in his hometown of Seattle at the University of Washington.

Emma Hunt is a leading commercial litigator and heads up the Media Law team at Mills Selig, an independent, innovative and progressive corporate and commercial law firm based in Belfast with a renowned Media Law practice.

Emma has significant expertise and experience in the field of defamation and media law and advises all the firm’s media clients. This involves the most high-profile cases for global technology/social media companies, broadcasters, publishers, and newspapers - regularly providing advice on pre and post publication, defamation, harassment, malicious falsehood, privacy, copyright, contempt, reporting restrictions and data protection breaches.

The practice is ranked ‘Tier 1’ by Media Law International and describes Emma Hunt as “a well-known commercial litigator highlighted for her considerable expertise advising on a range of complex defamation and privacy disputes. Her client base includes traditional as well as digital media companies”.

Ken Herron is the Chief Marketing Officer of Strolid Inc. He is a technology-fueled marketing alchemist with over 30 years of proven leadership, unleashing people’s creativity to achieve successful business transformation and growth. Ken increases companies’ revenue and market share by using new technologies to develop stronger emotional connections between companies and their stakeholders — at scale. Global sales services and technology company Strolid unlocks the value of customer conversations to increase sales, enabling businesses and governments to listen to conversations at scale and manage the data for AI. Strolid boasts one of the most innovative engineering departments in the industry, creating, patenting, and making open source, the global industry standard for storing conversations – virtualized conversational containers (vCons).

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Xavier Careaga is an Internet-born attorney. His J.D. is in Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico City, with a thesis named "Coexistence and Conflict of Fundamental Rights on Communication and Information Technologies". He also counts with an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, focused on Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law. In the past, he has worked at UNAM Institute for Legal Research focusing on fundamental rights; worked later several years at Baker & McKenzie in the TMT sector; and at the Mexican Ombudsman Office for Human Rights. For the last 5 years, Xavier has been in charge of several areas on the Spanish-LATAM region for Meta, including litigation, regulatory, electoral, content integrity and product advisory.

Maria Gabriela is an International Advisor at White & Case LLP. She advises multinational technology and social media companies in litigation and regulatory investigations in Brazil concerning content regulation, platform liability, defamation and privacy issues. She holds an LL.M in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford Law School and an LL.B from Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.

Yasmin Coffey is the Chief Legal Officer and General Manager of Distribution at TuneIn, the world’s leading live streaming audio service, and oversees both the Legal and Business Development departments of the company. For more than a decade, Yasmin has led deal negotiations, litigation activities and contract oversight for leading media and Fortune 100 companies, minimizing corporate risk while ensuring compliance with critical regulatory standards. Prior to TuneIn, Yasmin was a Legal and Business Affairs attorney at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, where she managed domestic and international licensing and distribution deals. Yasmin started her legal career as a litigator in New York and circled the coasts before settling in her hometown of San Francisco in 2018.

Piotr Pacewicz is a Doctor of Psychology (Warsaw University). He began working in the field of social and historical psychology, publishing a book Abelard's two personalities. In 1983 he published a book about social revolutions. After the Martial Law was imposed in Poland, he became an editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze, the most important newspaper of the underground Solidarność (1981- 1989).

Piotr was also involved in The Round Table Talks in 1989 as a secretary of Bronisław Geremek’s Solidarity political group. In May 198,9 he co-founded Gazeta Wyborcza, the most important quality Polish daily. He has been a political commentator and opinion writer and, since 1995, a deputy editor-in-chief.

A prolific writer, he has published thousands of commentaries, interviews, and analysis. Piotr has created and co-created nationwide social campaigns Giving birth in a human way, Media without women, School with class or Poland is running, changing social consciousness and reality in Poland. A staunch advocate for human rights, he has been fighting with discrimination of women, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

In 2010, Piotr published a book of interviews for Gazeta Wyborcza named Pociąg osobowy. In 2011, he published a book Forbidden love. Sexuality and other taboos (together with Marta Konarzewska). Piotr was awarded the Grand Press Award for The Best Interview (2014) and the Special Prize Dariusz Fikus Reward (2016) for his civic journalism. In 201,6 he founded OKO.press a non-profit, investigative journalism and factchecking project created to preserve freedom of speech and secure availability of information in Poland. Launched on 15 June 2016, OKO.press became a widely recognized, widely cited medium supported by unique community of its readers and won prestigious Polish journalism awards (including the Grand Press Reward for 2016). Pacewicz lives in Warsaw with his wife Alicja and two sons. His third son is assistant professor at Brown University

Piotr Pacewicz is a Doctor of Psychology (Warsaw University). He began working in the field of social and historical psychology, publishing a book Abelard's two personalities. In 1983 he published a book about social revolutions. After the Martial Law was imposed in Poland, he became an editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze, the most important newspaper of the underground Solidarność (1981- 1989).
Piotr was also involved in The Round Table Talks in 1989 as a secretary of Bronisław Geremek’s Solidarity political group. In May 198,9 he co-founded Gazeta Wyborcza, the most important quality Polish daily. He has been a political commentator and opinion writer and, since 1995, a deputy editor-in-chief.
A prolific writer, he has published thousands of commentaries, interviews, and analysis. Piotr has created and co-created nationwide social campaigns Giving birth in a human way, Media without women, School with class or Poland is running, changing social consciousness and reality in Poland. A staunch advocate for human rights, he has been fighting with discrimination of women, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
In 2010, Piotr published a book of interviews for Gazeta Wyborcza named Pociąg osobowy. In 2011, he published a book Forbidden love. Sexuality and other taboos (together with Marta Konarzewska). Piotr was awarded the Grand Press Award for The Best Interview (2014) and the Special Prize Dariusz Fikus Reward (2016) for his civic journalism. In 201,6 he founded OKO.press a non-profit, investigative journalism and factchecking project created to preserve freedom of speech and secure availability of information in Poland. Launched on 15 June 2016, OKO.press became a widely recognized, widely cited medium supported by unique community of its readers and won prestigious Polish journalism awards (including the Grand Press Reward for 2016). Pacewicz lives in Warsaw with his wife Alicja and two sons. His third son is assistant professor at Brown University

Gillian Phillips is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and theguardian.com). She qualified as a solicitor in 1984, joined the BBC as an in-house lawyer in 1987, later working for News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers, where she advised on pre- and post-publication legal issues, including around defamation, open justice, contempt of court, privacy and national security. She moved to Guardian News & Media in May 2009 and has advised on phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden, the HSBC files and more recently the Panama and Paradise Papers. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the College of Law Employment Law handbook. She is a non-resident fellow of the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University School of Public Policy and holds an honorary law doctorate from London South Bank University.

David Attfield is a respected media law specialist with over 20 years of experience gained at the BBC in London and at leading law firms. Since 2014, David has headed the BBC’s Programme Legal Advice Department which gives pre-publication advice across the BBC’s output including for programmes such as Panorama.

Prior to his current role, David worked in the BBC’s Litigation Department, defending the corporation in substantial libel claims and acting in leading cases concerning open justice and the independence of journalists. David’s private practice experience was gained at Hogan Lovells and Olswang where he acted for national newspapers and corporations on media matters. David is a committee member of the Media Lawyers Association.

Adam Cannon is Director of Legal for The Sun, the UK’s most popular newspaper. He is a former Editorial Legal Director at the Telegraph Media Group and Group Legal advisor at Associated Newspapers, the Daily Mail group. He was called to the bar in 1997.

He has unparalleled expertise and experience in all issues of reputation management and a far-reaching network throughout the newspaper, broadcasting and online worlds, as well as a profound understanding of the key issues within the media and in particular the issues surrounding free speech. Adam has been involved in many of the key media legal decisions of the past few years as well as some of the most controversial and high profile stories. His most high profile case this year was the successful defence of Johnny Depp v the Sun.

During his 19 years working for the three largest newspaper groups, he has gained substantial experience in high-level and high-stakes crisis management.

Adam is a director of the London Press Club, is on the Board of Directors of the Media Law Resource Center, is a Director of the Jewish News newspaper group, a Governor of the Jewish Free School and sits on the executive of the Conservative Friends of Israel. He is a former President of the Cambridge Union.

Before moving to London to work at Channel 4’s award winning Legal and Compliance Department in 2006, Dominic Harrison was a partner in the top rated litigation department in Scotland.

Dominic has advised on a varied range of programmes and films across all genres including many Dispatches and Unreported Worlds, 24 Hours in Police Custody, the Sri Lanka Killing Fields series, Leaving Neverland, Escape from Isis, The BAFTA winning documentaries The Murder Trial and The Paedophile Hunter, BAFTA nominated Surviving Covid, and dramas including Brexit : The Uncivil War.

The role played by and the expertise of lawyers in the Legal and Compliance Department is crucial to assisting Channel 4 in producing innovative, challenging and yet defensible programmes. They are brought in to advise creatively at the early stages of projects across every department and genre and have evolved a way of working with editors and programme makers designed to push the boundaries, achieve the Channel’s creative imperatives and not leave the Corporation vulnerable to successful regulatory or legal challenge. The department’s reputation as enablers means they are trusted by programme makers, editors and across the industry.

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Bilge Derinbay is a partner in our firm where she provides dispute resolution and transactional consultancy to local and international clients in Commercial and Corporate Law, Life Sciences Law, Copyright, Advertising, Media and Entertainment Law and Personal Data Protection Law.

Derinbay has over 20 years of experience assisting local and multinational companies operating in the sports marketing, information technologies, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices sectors, helping develop commercial strategies, operating multinational investment and compliance projects, and representing them before administrative and legal bodies. She is frequently consulted for her copyright, media, and advertising law expertise and regularly publishes in numerous international journals.

Steven Markovitz has over 25 years' experience in producing and distributing feature films and documentaries. He has worked with over 150 directors from more than 30 African countries on films that have screened at festivals globally including Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto and Venice. His films have sold to platforms and broadcasters including Amazon, Netflix, Channel 4, BBC, Arte, Vice, Showtime, Canal+, PBS, MNET, SABC, Al Jazeera, Criterion Collection and have been theatrically released in numerous territories including USA, UK, Japan, Brazil, France and Germany. Since 2018, Steven has been a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he was knighted by the government of Burkina Faso for his contribution to African Cinema. Steven co-founded the production company Big World Cinema in 1994, the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival in 1999, XR non-profit Electric South in 2017 and Doc-A, the Pan-African documentary funder in 2019. He is a founding executive committee member of the Independent Producers’ Organisation of South Africa.

Samanta is an associate in the Los Angeles office of White & Case and a member of the Firm's global Technology Industry group. Her practice focuses on advising multinational corporations in high-stake international litigations and regulatory investigations, with a particular focus on technology, social media, music streaming, online messaging, and telecommunication services.

She serves as a core member of a team that manages international civil litigation and regulatory investigations for Facebook and other tech companies on a global basis, including on cutting-edge matters implicating privacy and data protection, consumer protection, cybersecurity, intermediary liability, content regulation, and unfair competition. In particular, Samanta manages and strategizes complex civil and regulatory matters across EMEA and LATAM and has worked on cases before some of the highest courts in those regions. She also has substantial experience drafting terms of service and use, policies, and other disclosures, as well as providing legal advice to clients relating to product development.

Prior to joining White & Case, Samanta worked as an associate in a leading Argentine law firm where she specialized in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Regulatory Law, and as counsel in a multinational financial services company.

Cristina Brandao is a senior international advisor in the Los Angeles office of White & Case. She received her law degree from the Pontific Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. After graduation, she completed her Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.) at Stanford Law School with Honor’s grade in Latin American Law.

Her practice includes cases involving international litigation, consumer law actions, consumer class actions, privacy and defamation laws, and regulatory compliance.

• Member of Meta’s international litigation team.
• Manages a team of twenty international advisors and four paralegals.
• Developed/ implemented streamlined litigation processes as needed by client. Specifically, assisted on designing and implementing a strategic procedure for dealing with thousands of matters filed in Latin America each year.
• Works directly with Latin American local counsels to develop an appellate legal strategy on both global and a case-by-case basis. Assist with review of appellate briefs and motions filed in Latin American courts.
• Preparation of memos and reports describing the current status of Latin American litigation.
• Provided regulatory advice to various clients and big techs, including Uber, Microsoft, TicketFly and Uber.

Guillermo Cervio is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Buenos Aires office. With more than 25 years of experience, he is recognized as a foremost practitioner in his field. He founded the IT/C team in Argentina and was the coordinator of the LatAm IT/C team from 2008 to 2017. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of Baker McKenzie LatAm’s IPTC team.

Guillermo has authored books and articles on legal matters. He has won awards for his book “Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones” (National Academy of Law - Mención de honor, 1998 and Austral University - premio tesina,1997) as well as for the paper he filed in the IX National Congress on Corporate Law (Tucumán, 2004). He has been a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Austral University, Palermo University, Catholic University and CEMA. In 2003, he was awarded the Folsom fellowship grant by the Center for American and International Law in Dallas.

Guillermo advises clients on corporate, contractual, and information technology and communications (IT/C) matters, as well as regulated areas of law. He has participated in the development of creative solutions from the legal point of view to the challenges that arise in the day to day of technology companies, including how to regulate issues that arise in cyberspace. He has also actively participated in advising telecommunications companies. Over the years, he has also focused on areas of law that include internet, privacy and personal data matters.

Mine Aksoy is one of the founders and managing partner of the leading music publishing company in Turkey, with more than 25 years of experience and awareness. All Stars Music continues to grow and develop every day under the leadership of Aksoy.

After graduating from Izmir American College and ODTU Department of International Relations/Political Science, Mine Aksoy started her career at Universal – Raks Music. After establishing Turkey's first publishing/copyright department, she was one of the founding members and the first general secretary of MSG Musical Work Owners Group Society which was formed as an alternative collecting society with the major publishers and the top 53 Turkish composers and authors – she continued this role between 1997 and 2002.

Mine Aksoy founded Taxim Edition with Mustafa Oğuz and Michael Lang in March 2002. In December 2002, Taxim Edition signed a sub-publishing contract with BMG Music Publishing. In 2006, Taxim Edition with BMG became a JV company in which BMG bought 50% of Taxim edition, changing the name to BMG Taxim Edition. In the same year, BMG Taxim Edition, also signed a sub-publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing for Turkey. The company became Universal Music Taxim Edition (UMTE) with Universal Music Publishing Group's acquisition of BMG Music Publishing globally, becoming the only publishing company still half-local, to represent 3 of the 5 largest catalogs in the world. In 2013, Universal bought 100% of UMTE. Mine Aksoy stayed as the board member and CEO of the company until August 2015. In November 2015, she started All Stars Music with Yasemen Yazıcıoğlu Korukçu who is the Senior Advisor for the Investment Office of Turkey, VP of Spanish-Turkish Chamber of Commerce. All Stars Music sub-publishes SONY Music Publishing, Sesac, KPM, and Ghostwriter. With a leading Turkish local catalogue, All Stars Music represents top names from Greece and the Middle East.

All Stars Music’s sister companies EMGE, based in Istanbul, and DMPG, based in London, specialize in digital distribution for local artists and young upcoming musicians in Turkey and Greece with their partner George Stampolis from Greece.

With a boutique production studio, All Stars Music focuses on three-sixty projects where music is being packaged with brands and the diversified method of marketing and sales of music is executed. The whole packaging of music in which all the rights are included is a strategy for All Stars Music that is leading to the proper establishment and tranformation of digital life in the local market according to international standards with an added value of this regions musical sound. Besides audio-streaming and Youtube content projects, NFT is the next step at the current moment.

Mark Thompson is a Senior Associate at Mills Selig and works within the Litigation team.

Mark specialises in media, defamation, privacy and intellectual property in addition to his commercial litigation work.

Mark provides regular advice to the firm’s international and local media and social media clients in the defence of libel and privacy claims as well as providing advice to corporate entities and high-profile individuals in reputation management. Mark also has wide experience in taking and defending claims in respect of copyright and other intellectual property.

Outside defamation and privacy, Mark has a wide commercial litigation practice acting for a variety of clients, including a major public utility company.

Landmarks

• acted as part of the team in defending a complex case involving allegations of software IP infringement
• lead advisor for a large regional utility company in recovery of their volume and disputed commercial debts
• part of the team advising a partner in a regional professional services organisation in dissolution proceedings arising out of a partnership dispute