Transcription of THE FUTURE OF MiamiTech
1 University of Miami Law Review SymposiumFRIDAY SATURDAYF ebruary 4 5, 2022 Via ZoomTHE FUTURE OFBEYOND THE VALLEY:#MiamiTechSCHEDULE OF EVENTSFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 20221:30 2:30 PMOpening Keynote Address 2:40 4:10 PMPanel I: Crypto, Blockchain, and the FUTURE of the Regulatory Landscape4:20 5:50 PMPanel II: Big Tech and Antitrust6:00 7:30 PMPanel III: Tech and Venture Capital Investment SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 20229:30 10:30 AMClosing Keynote Address 10:45 11:45 AMFireside Chat: The Pros and Cons of the technology Sector on Local Communities 12:00 1:30 PMPanel IV: Role of Criminal Punishment in Tech Regulation FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1:30 2:30 PM LEIGH-ANN BUCHANAN is a writer, strategist, and sought-after advisor on REDI (racial equity, diversity and inclusion) strategies for tech and innovation ecosystems and organizational culture.
2 NY Times, Inc. Magazine, NPR, NBC, South Florida Times, Miami Herald, Al Jezeera, American Psychological Association, and the ABA Law Journal have featured her thoughts and contributions. She focuses her energy on projects that bridge systemic access and opportunity gaps, with a concentration on tech, entrepreneurship and high impact leaders. As an advisor, she has supported innovation and technology leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Google, Facebook, Delta, P&G Ventures, AirBnB, HSBC and UBS. As a founder, she has launched ventures from concept to scale, raising over $ million in equity free capital to scale numerous has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Black Business Leaders in South Florida, a McClatchy Florida Influencer, one of Miami s 50 Most Powerful and Influential Black Business Leaders, a Black Enterprise Magazine Tech Trailblazer and the American Bar Association Top 40 Young is the Founder of Nyah Project and currently serves as the President of the venture studio, a re ventures.
3 She co-hosts the Innovation City podcast and produces storytelling I: CRYPTO, BLOCKCHAIN, AND THE FUTURE OF THE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE 2:40 4:10 PMThis panel will analyze the current regulation of crypto and blockchain technologies and discuss whether they are adequate in their present state or require adjustment. Panelists will discuss what role both lawyers and the tech industry will play in shaping this new landscape. The panel will bring together a prominent SEC commissioner, an attorney and author of Digital Assets and Blockchain technology : US Law and Regulation a first of its kind text book for law and graduate students, the CEO of Luminous Group a blockchain technology , growth advisory, and risk management solutions company, and a University of Arkansas School of Law professor who has published three scholarly articles on cryptocurrency regulation and acted as faculty advisory for the Arkansas Law Review Symposium on BRADLEY, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs at the University of Miami School of LawPANELISTSDANIEL STABILE, Partner at Shutts & Bowen LLP; Vice Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Cryptocurrency Task Force.
4 Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami School of LawCAROL VAN CLEEF, Chair of the Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP s Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice; CEO of the Luminous GroupCAROL GOFORTH, University Professor and the Clayton N. Little Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of LawHESTER PEIRCE, Securities and Exchange Commission CommissionerPANEL II: BIG TECH AND ANTITRUST 4:20 5:50 PMThis panel will focus on the ongoing confrontation between big tech companies and antitrust regulators and what relationship they should have going forward as big tech companies move into smaller tech hubs such as Miami. The panel will feature individuals situated on both sides of the discussion, those who favor increased regulation as well as those who support a free-market approach.
5 Panelists will include the vice-president of the American Antitrust Institute as well as a professor of economics at the University of Utah, an empirical labor economist by training, and his research investigates the existence and implications of employer power in labor markets, with applications to TRAVIS, Professor at the Florida International University School of LawPANELISTSMARSHALL STEINBAUM, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah; Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family InstituteLAURA ALEXANDER, Vice President of Policy at the American Antitrust InstituteSANJUKTA PAUL, Assistant Professor of Law, Romano Stancroff Research Scholar at Wayne State University Law SchoolPANEL III: TECH AND VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT 6:00 7:30 PMThis panel will look at the relationship between tech start-ups and VC investors, as well as the role lawyers play in supporting and shaping this industry.
6 Panelists will discuss the role lawyers play currently and what they can do in the FUTURE to build a better environment not only for the incoming tech companies but for the new communities these companies are built in. Panelists will include a Greenberg Traurig co-managing partner who led the Miami office to become a leader in representing angel investors and technology companies, a partner at Morris Nichols focusing on corporate law and VC and guest lecturer on the topics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law on venture capital, as well as Duke Law s director of law and entrepreneurship who has advised tech companies and other start-ups over the last thirteen BRATTON, de la Cruz/Mentschikoff Chair in Law and Economics and Senior Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Law.
7 Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolPANELISTSJARET DAVIS, Co-Managing Shareholder of the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, and member of the firm s global Executive CommitteeERIC S. KLINGER-WILENSKY, Partner with Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP; Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolERIKA BUELL, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law & Entrepreneurship at Duke University School of LawSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 9:30 10:30 AMFELICE GORORDO is CEO of eMerge Americas, LLC, a venture-backed platform focused on transforming Miami into the tech hub of the Americas and organizing the largest tech event connecting the Americas held annually at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
8 In 2019, eMerge s sixth annual conference attracted more than 16,000 attendees and 3,900 unique companies from over 40 countries. Felice is also a venture partner at the private equity fund I Squared Capital, and advisor at REEF is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. Most recently, he was President & CEO of Clearpath, Inc., (acquired by L1 BRE, LLC), a venture-backed tech company focused on revolutionizing the confusing, costly and paper-based immigration filing process just as TurboTax transformed tax filing. Following the acquisition of Clearpath, Felice served as CEO of L1 BRE, a venture-backed mobility tech company with operations in the and Mexico, and Global Director of StartUp Health, a digital health venture fund and accelerator investing in health moonshots.
9 Prior to that, Felice was appointed by President Barack Obama as one of fifteen 2011-2012 White House Fellows and served in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs working on Latino, immigration and business outreach. In this capacity, he organized the first-ever White House Conference on Connecting the Americas, which included the participation of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, several cabinet secretaries and high -level business and government leaders from throughout the Americas in lead up to the 2012 Summit of the also co-founded and leads Roots of Hope, Inc., a non-profit focused on youth empowerment in Cuba through technology and entrepreneurship.
10 Felice worked on the re-establishment of diplomatic ties, and served as an advisor to Grammy-winner Juanes to help organize the historic Peace without Borders concert in Cuba, which resulted in million in attendance in the Administration of President George W. Bush, Felice served in various positions at the Departments of Commerce, State, and Homeland Security, including as trade specialist managing a cross-sector portfolio valued at $ billion in export , Felice served as senior fellow at the Georgetown University Beeck Center on Social Impact and Innovation, chair-level Member of the Finance Committee for the 59th Presidential Inaugural Committee, and advisor to President Joe Biden s Cancer Magazine has named Felice one of the 100 Poderosos Most Influential Hispanics in the and he has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, CNN en Espa ol, BBC, NPR, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Univision, and Telemundo.