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Designing your AI Solution Ethically
October 4 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
As more technology startups and social entrepreneur founders use GenAI to create impactful solutions, given the rising appreciation of the externalities and new regulations globally, it has become increasingly important for AI ethics and governance be an integral part of the design process. This 1 ½ hour workshop introduces Hack4SDG participants to salient AI ethical design considerations when creating and implementing their SDG solutions to address our aging population, sustainable food and waste systems and inclusive cities for this hackathon, and beyond.
Date: October 4, 2024 (Fri)
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: Room 319, 322 & 323, 3/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Main Campus, HKU; Online (Zoom)
Registration: https://forms.gle/W9xApUrRiXB2opBV8
For attending in person at HKU Centennial Campus:
Speaker: Brian W Tang, Executive director of Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lab
Biography:
BRIAN W TANG is founding executive director of Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lab, the award-winning interdisciplinary and experiential programme at University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law (LITE Lab@HKU). Brian’s LITE Lab and its students have won international accolades such as 2023 Edtech Heroes Award for Stakeholder Engagement (Adult Education), Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Legal Innovation in Operations Award 2022 and Georgetown Law’s Iron Tech Lawyer Invitational. His current wide-ranging research areas cover AI governance, emerging capital markets for tokenized securities and carbon markets, sustainable financing and the role and impact of technology on the future delivery of legal services and education.
Brian is a member of the Microsoft-SMU Asian Dialogue on AI Governance and was a member of the IEEE Standards Association’s Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee. Brian has authored or co-authored chapters in Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Edward Elgar, 2023), The AI Book (Wiley, 2020), The Regtech Book (Wiley, 2017), The Fintech Book (Wiley, 2016) and Reconceptualizing Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Brian is part of the small vanguard of educators incorporating generative AI into his teaching and has applied his pedagogy to upskilling in-house lawyers, and also leads a climate contracting initiative involving leading law firms and legal departments in collaboration with The Chancery Lane Project.
Brian previously spent nearly 20 years at global investment bank Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, and at law firms Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and California and Mallesons in Perth, Australia.
Brian is co-chair of the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA), APAC Regional board member of Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), and board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong.