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Session 5: Banking, Capital Markets, And The Crypto Revolution - A Look Back And Projection Of The Future Of Fintech, Joseph R. Cutler, Lawrence Kaplan, Youssef Sneifer, Jill Williamson Jun 2023

Session 5: Banking, Capital Markets, And The Crypto Revolution - A Look Back And Projection Of The Future Of Fintech, Joseph R. Cutler, Lawrence Kaplan, Youssef Sneifer, Jill Williamson

SITIE Symposiums

In Session Five of the SITIE 2023 Symposium: Enabling Innovation in Law and Society, Joseph M. Vincent moderated as the four panelists, Joseph R. Cutler, Lawrence Kaplan, Youssef Sneifer, and Jill Williamson, discussed banking, capital markets, and the crypto revolution by looking back and projecting the future of the financial technology (FinTech) industry. The discussion commenced with a conversation on banking deposits, then moved into a discussion on cryptocurrency companies and the challenges they have faced in recent years in the banking industry. The panelists further discussed artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s impact on FinTech, open banking, and challenges facing cryptocurrency …


Session 4: Fireside Virtual Chat With Bruce Jackson, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft, Bruce Jackson Jun 2023

Session 4: Fireside Virtual Chat With Bruce Jackson, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft, Bruce Jackson

SITIE Symposiums

Rhymes all have in common? Besides musical talent, they have all been represented by Bruce Jackson, one of the founding partners of the entertainment law firm, Jackson, Brown, Powell, and St. George. Jackson, a Brooklynite and longtime Microsoft attorney, is a force in the legal industry. Jackson started at Microsoft in the year 2000 as Corporate Counsel for the digital media division. Jackson now serves as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director for Strategic Partnerships out of the Office of the President for Microsoft. Jackson recently published his first book, Never Far From Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip …


Session 3: Diversity Enhancing Intellectual Property, Jordi Goodman, Nina Srejovic Jun 2023

Session 3: Diversity Enhancing Intellectual Property, Jordi Goodman, Nina Srejovic

SITIE Symposiums

The field of intellectual property suffers from a lack of diversity. Women are underrepresented as credited inventors in the United States. Additionally, multi-gender inventor groups are underrepresented compared to all-male and, sometimes, even all-female groups. This representation has changed over time, with changes not always reflecting an increase in female representation. This is particularly true when studying gender-disparity as it exists in the field of computer programming and software patents. While women were well represented in computer programming at field’s inception, this changed after World War II because men lobbied to push women out of the field. Women have since …


Session 2: Diversity As Key To Innovation - Stem Education, Richard Tapia Jun 2023

Session 2: Diversity As Key To Innovation - Stem Education, Richard Tapia

SITIE Symposiums

Richard A. Tapia is a professor at Rice University, where he has taught since 1970. Tapi specializes in optimization theory and numerical analysis. It has been his lifelong work to help underrepresented minorities achieve academic success and success in life.

In this talk, Tapia emphasizes the importance of diversity in STEM fields and highlights the failures of the education system in supporting underrepresented minorities. Tapia opines that more efforts need to be made to bring domestic underrepresented minorities into STEM positions and to recognize the value they bring. Tapia believes that, to address the lack of minority representation in STEM …


Session 1b: Innovation In Legal Contracts And Deals - How Lexion Is Incorporating Ai Into Document Revision, Lexion Jun 2023

Session 1b: Innovation In Legal Contracts And Deals - How Lexion Is Incorporating Ai Into Document Revision, Lexion

SITIE Symposiums

Here, Gaurav Oberoi (CEO and Founder, Lexion) & Jessica Nguyen (Chief Legal Officer, Lexion) discuss Lexion and how it will change the legal industry. Lexion seeks to revolutionize how companies manage the contracts that they use. It has begun to corner a particular market in the rapidly growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), helping in-house attorneys to improve their workflow by automatically analyzing documents. By using AI, the program can successfully remove what the CEO of Lexion refers to as “low value” work. This allows overworked in-house attorneys to not only do more work in a faster time frame, but …


Session 1a: Innovation In The Delivery Of Legal Services And Access To Justice, Vikktoria Jun 2023

Session 1a: Innovation In The Delivery Of Legal Services And Access To Justice, Vikktoria

SITIE Symposiums

In session one, Walid Romaya and Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founders of Vikktoria, discuss their company and its contributions to improving access to justice. With a dual focus on achieving a broader access to justice and in providing matchmaking services for legal professionals looking for a larger client base, Vikktoria aims to disrupt the legal services industry through its mobile app. Based in California, Vikktoria has begun to expand to various metro areas around the country and hopes to provide broader access to justice by giving those with little to no legal knowledge an easy way to find a local attorney, book …


Introduction, Steven Bender Jun 2023

Introduction, Steven Bender

SITIE Symposiums

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Session 4: Plunging Into Deep Water: An Immersion In Fintech, Defi (Decentralized Finance), & Web3, Joseph M. Vincent Jun 2022

Session 4: Plunging Into Deep Water: An Immersion In Fintech, Defi (Decentralized Finance), & Web3, Joseph M. Vincent

SITIE Symposiums

This panel featured entrepreneurs providing their expert insight into the background, workings, and expected developments of the FinTech industry. Moderated by Adjunct Professor of Law Joseph M. Vincent, the panel features Ron Oliveira, Kory Hoang, and Jonathan Blanco.

The panelists provided insight on topics regarding: (1) the fundamental changes in financial services since the advent of FinTech; (2) background on the Stablecoin industry including a background of what Stablecoin is, and why it has been under recent scrutiny; and (3) the NFT market and the direction the NFT space is heading. In a Q&A session, the panelists also offered their …


Session 3: Deep Innovation Dive In Health Equity: Truveta (“Saving Lives With Data”), Steve Tapia, Dave Heiner Jun 2022

Session 3: Deep Innovation Dive In Health Equity: Truveta (“Saving Lives With Data”), Steve Tapia, Dave Heiner

SITIE Symposiums

This session is a “deep dive” into health equity and research via a moderated discussion with Truveta, a new data partnership company poised for research breakthroughs in the healthcare sector. In it, Dave Heiner, General Counsel and Chief Policy Officer for Truveta, discusses the company’s healthcare-centered mission and the key role that data plays in the healthcare field.


Session 2: Diversity Perspectives: In-House Counsel, Debbie Akhbari Jun 2022

Session 2: Diversity Perspectives: In-House Counsel, Debbie Akhbari

SITIE Symposiums

This expert panel addressed diversity perspectives in the legal field. Moderated by Debbie Akhbari, six panelists shared their stories. The panelists were Leticia Hernández, Bernadette Lopez, Elida Moran, Catherine Romero, Rachel Seals, and Katina Thornock. Each panelist's stories have been broken into its own section in the summary of proceedings.

Many diverse candidates have incorrect assumptions made about them, resulting in doors being closed by those in positions of power. This panel shared their personal stories and encouraged students and newer attorneys to keep “knocking on those doors” and for those in positions of power to open those doors. Through …


Session 1: Innovation In Legal Services, Steven W. Bender, Michael Cherry, Matthew Spencer Jun 2022

Session 1: Innovation In Legal Services, Steven W. Bender, Michael Cherry, Matthew Spencer

SITIE Symposiums

This panel featured two “disrupters” who detailed their experiences innovating in the legal services space. The first panelist spoke about data-driven regulatory reform and the other spoke as an entrepreneur whose product introduces artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal recruiting process. Two additional panelists provided commentary regarding the second panelist’s presentation.

The panel provided insight on the topics of: (1) the legal regulatory process at large; (2) how a data-driven and feedback-oriented sandbox provides an alternative regulatory process; (3) the legal hiring and recruiting process and (4) how AI allows law firms to consider alternative hiring metrics when assessing candidates …


Introduction To The 5th Annual Innovation And Technology Law Conference, Annette Clark Jun 2022

Introduction To The 5th Annual Innovation And Technology Law Conference, Annette Clark

SITIE Symposiums

Seattle University School of Law’s then dean, now Dean Emerita, Annette Clark, opens the 5th annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference, co-sponsored by the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, and Innovation Law (SJTEIL) at Seattle University School of Law. Annette Clark has been involved with the planning and organization of the Innovation and Technology Law Conference since the conference’s inception. The theme of the 5th annual 2022 conference is “deep innovation dives.”

Annette Clark explains that “This conference is part of our continuing efforts at Seattle [University] Law to expand educational opportunities for our students and community in …


5th Annual Innovation And Technology Law Conference: Deep Innovation Dives, Steven W. Bender Jun 2022

5th Annual Innovation And Technology Law Conference: Deep Innovation Dives, Steven W. Bender

SITIE Symposiums

Steven W. Bender, Seattle University School of Law Professor and organizer of the SITIE Symposium series, details the history of the SITIE symposiums and the 2022 proceedings. He discusses how this year's symposium builds on themes and issues raised in previous symposiums and looks ahead to the 2023 SITIE symposium.


Challenges & Pragmatic Solutions For The Design And Construction Of A 300-Acre Ccr Landfill Located In The Southwestern Us - A Case Study, Andy Lucas, Jason Pokorny May 2022

Challenges & Pragmatic Solutions For The Design And Construction Of A 300-Acre Ccr Landfill Located In The Southwestern Us - A Case Study, Andy Lucas, Jason Pokorny

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Geochemical Explanations For Strong Natural Attenuation Of Molybdenum, Selenium, And Lithium In A Groundwater Plume, Jacob Chu, J. P. Brandenburg May 2022

Geochemical Explanations For Strong Natural Attenuation Of Molybdenum, Selenium, And Lithium In A Groundwater Plume, Jacob Chu, J. P. Brandenburg

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Ccr Beneficial Use Data Capture And Reporting, Joe Ploetz, Kevin Foody May 2022

Ccr Beneficial Use Data Capture And Reporting, Joe Ploetz, Kevin Foody

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


The Intersection Of The Ccr Rule, Superfund, And Irrigation On The Great Plains, Shane D. Mcdonald, Jillian Troyer, Robert Kleinmann, Marty Stange May 2022

The Intersection Of The Ccr Rule, Superfund, And Irrigation On The Great Plains, Shane D. Mcdonald, Jillian Troyer, Robert Kleinmann, Marty Stange

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Attenuation And Source Zone Depletion Of Boron From Coal Combustion Residuals In Groundwater, J.P. Brandenburg, Dave Hagen May 2022

Attenuation And Source Zone Depletion Of Boron From Coal Combustion Residuals In Groundwater, J.P. Brandenburg, Dave Hagen

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Whole Effluent Toxicity (Wet) Assessments And Experimental Considerations For Evaluating Coagulation Agents And Polymers For Wastewater Treatment Of Coal Combustion Products, Konrad J. Kulacki, William L. Goodfellow Jr., Margaret L. Fleming, Alexandra N. Steele May 2022

Whole Effluent Toxicity (Wet) Assessments And Experimental Considerations For Evaluating Coagulation Agents And Polymers For Wastewater Treatment Of Coal Combustion Products, Konrad J. Kulacki, William L. Goodfellow Jr., Margaret L. Fleming, Alexandra N. Steele

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Geostructural Construction In Ash: An Update On The Largest Geostructural Work To Date, Anthony Sak, Ryan T. Smith May 2022

Geostructural Construction In Ash: An Update On The Largest Geostructural Work To Date, Anthony Sak, Ryan T. Smith

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Benefits Of Numerical Flow And Transport Modeling Applied To Ccr Site Characterization, Remedial Design, And Closure, Johnathan F. Ebenhack, Eric M. Hicks May 2022

Benefits Of Numerical Flow And Transport Modeling Applied To Ccr Site Characterization, Remedial Design, And Closure, Johnathan F. Ebenhack, Eric M. Hicks

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Monitoring Of Construction Over Soft Ccr Deposits, Pedro J. Amaya, Michelle Perez-Canals, Mary Nodine, Will G. Lukas May 2022

Monitoring Of Construction Over Soft Ccr Deposits, Pedro J. Amaya, Michelle Perez-Canals, Mary Nodine, Will G. Lukas

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Monitoring Plan Considerations For Assessment And Corrective Action Sites, Sherren Clark, Nicole Kron, Tom Karwoski, Bernd Rehm May 2022

Groundwater Monitoring Plan Considerations For Assessment And Corrective Action Sites, Sherren Clark, Nicole Kron, Tom Karwoski, Bernd Rehm

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Remedial Actions At Coal Combustion Residuals (Ccr) Sites Through Coupled Hydrogeological-Geochemical Reactive Transport Modeling, Pj Nolan, William Deutsch, Greg Lehn, Rens Verburg May 2022

Evaluation Of Remedial Actions At Coal Combustion Residuals (Ccr) Sites Through Coupled Hydrogeological-Geochemical Reactive Transport Modeling, Pj Nolan, William Deutsch, Greg Lehn, Rens Verburg

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Methods To Differentiate Ccr From Native Soil Or Fill With Similar Visual/Physical Characteristics To Successfully Facilitate Ccr Removal, Trenton M. Godwin, Stephen K. Wilson, Kevin M. Stephenson May 2022

Evaluation Of Methods To Differentiate Ccr From Native Soil Or Fill With Similar Visual/Physical Characteristics To Successfully Facilitate Ccr Removal, Trenton M. Godwin, Stephen K. Wilson, Kevin M. Stephenson

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Smart Technology To Identify Leaks And Enhance Pipeline Safety, Cory Solyom May 2022

Smart Technology To Identify Leaks And Enhance Pipeline Safety, Cory Solyom

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Reducing The Cost Of Wastewater Treatment From Coal Ash Basin Closure Projects Using Closed Loop Zero Valent Iron Treatment Methods, Madan Tandukar, Alex Korff, Andrew Vincent, Chris Hardin May 2022

Reducing The Cost Of Wastewater Treatment From Coal Ash Basin Closure Projects Using Closed Loop Zero Valent Iron Treatment Methods, Madan Tandukar, Alex Korff, Andrew Vincent, Chris Hardin

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Selen-Ix™ Applied To Coal Ash Pond Clean-Up, Brent Baker, Veneil Sundar, Alex Soto May 2022

Selen-Ix™ Applied To Coal Ash Pond Clean-Up, Brent Baker, Veneil Sundar, Alex Soto

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Sono-Processing Of Coal For Removal Of Ash And Other Impurities, Ramamurthy Nagarajan May 2022

Sono-Processing Of Coal For Removal Of Ash And Other Impurities, Ramamurthy Nagarajan

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Ibutton Thermocon: Economically Measure Mortar Temperature Generation To Estimate Time Of Set, Carl Howard May 2022

Ibutton Thermocon: Economically Measure Mortar Temperature Generation To Estimate Time Of Set, Carl Howard

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.