Kevin Werbach Author & Editor

Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the legal, business, and public policy aspects of the network age. He is a professor of Legal Studies at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he currently leads the Reg@Tech roundtable and the Wharton Cryptogovernance Workshop, and he is the author of The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust (MIT Press, 2018). He co-led the review of the Federal Communications Commission for the Obama Administration's Presidential Transition Team and served as an expert adviser on broadband issues to the FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. For nine years he organized Supernova, a leading executive technology conference. Werbach was previously the editor of "Release 1.0: Esther Dyson's Monthly Report," and served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the FCC in the Clinton administration, where he helped develop the U.S. government's Internet and e-commerce policies. Follow him on Twitter at @kwerb. Dan Hunter is an international expert in internet and intellectual property law, in artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law, and in legaltech and legal innovation. He serves as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and was previously the Founding Dean of Swinburne Law School. He holds a PhD from Cambridge on the nature of legal reasoning, as well as computer science and law degrees from Monash University, and a Master of Laws by research from the University of Melbourne. He has taught at law schools in Australia, England and the United States. Professor Hunter regularly publishes on artificial intelligence, legal technology, and the theory of intellectual property. His most recent books have been A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Cambridge) and The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Intellectual Property (OUP, 2012). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and a chief investigator in the $71M ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. He also founded the Future Law Podcast (http://thefuturelawpodcast.com), which talks about how law is changing during this time of massive disruption.