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Date: Thursday 30 January 2025
Time: 13:00- 14:30 GMT
Join us as we delve into the implications of AI and what it means for regulators – with a focus on how it transforms both the way we work and how we regulate its use for the benefit of consumers and businesses. With an expert key-note speaker (to be confirmed).
Please note the meeting is open to IIC members only.
If you would like to register for the meeting, please email Emily at e.brooks@iicom.org
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Tuesday 10 – Thursday 12 September 2025
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Formerly a computer designer, Ashley has been a Data, AI and FinTech partner for over 25 years and has led teams at White & Case, Paul Hastings, Pillsbury Winthrop, McDermott Will & Emery and others. His clients have included global social media and technology platforms, telecommunications companies, professional services companies, card and payment networks as well as innovative startups often employing AI and machine learning. Ashley is a Ponemon Institute Fellow and the Chairman of the Data Protection Forum, the oldest data protection association in the UK. Having spent a lifetime in applying existing law to new technologies, Ashley is particularly worried that existing regulation will selectively stifle AI innovation in an unintended manner.
Lynn Robinson became Director General of the International Institute of Communications (IIC), in March 2020.
Lynn is an experienced senior director and trustee / non exec-director, having held key senior leadership positions in the technology, built environment, regulation, accreditation and dental industries. She has extensive experience of professional membership bodies working within the full spectrum including, Regulatory bodies, Industry associations and Chambers of Commerce. Lynn is a well-known and established ambassador in these areas having led on many strategic programmes to aid engagement, growth, retention, change management, stakeholder and political engagement.
An experienced Trustee / Non-Executive Director as Vice Chair at Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust, a unique heritage site in the heart of Bristol (UK), Lynn is also a Trustee / Non-Executive Director at The Bristol and Bath (UK), Parks Foundation.
Reflecting on becoming Director General at the IIC at the outbreak of a pandemic, Lynn said, ‘these last two years have been like no other we have known, with many challenges coming our way. In 2020 we successfully pivoted the organisation through a digital transformation programme to maintain a full schedule of events and by increasing the outputs delivered. Transforming the programme enabled us to continue to deliver the professional service and increase our engagement with IIC members and stakeholder community to remain connected to them through such a difficult time.
As we move through 2022, I am delighted to return to a combined in-person and online programme and to continue to evolve the IIC in to the next phase, with the vision and strategic focus to deliver our objectives and to build on our growth, engagement and retention’.
Nina Cummins is an EU antitrust and telecoms regulatory lawyer, with over 20 yrs’ multi-jurisdictional legal experience. She graduated from the University of Nottingham, England and Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) Germany, where she specialized in EU law. She has a Masters of Law degree in EU antitrust from RUB. She is admitted as a lawyer in England & Wales, Republic of Ireland, N. Ireland and Germany. She was a partner in international law firm Osborne Clarke, leading UK & EU telecoms regulatory issues. And also worked as senior legal and policy adviser at the Telecoms Regulatory Authority in Bahrain, dealing with complex strategic projects, legal separation of the incumbent fixed telecoms provider, as well as proposals to revise the prevailing communications sector regulatory framework.
Ms Cummins re-joined Facebook (now Meta) in Oct 2019 where she leads Meta’s Connectivity Policy in EMEA, covering a broad range of regulatory issues regarding OTT regulation and regulation of emerging technology, net neutrality rules,infrastructure and subsea cable projects, spectrum frameworks and accessibility.
Rory Graham has 30 years’ experience as a company and commercial solicitor in the technology and related sectors, with a strong emphasis on telecommunications. He has been a partner in a number of UK and global law firms, including Bird & Bird and Baker McKenzie, as well as setting up his own tech and corporate boutique law firm. His public sector experience includes the privatisation of the telecoms division of British Rail and acting for a bidder for the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) rolling stock provision and maintenance contract, as well as defence and health related outsourcing and procurement deals.
Mr Graham has worked on around £50bn worth of technology deals in the UK, US, Switzerland, South Africa, Algeria and on a multi-country basis, as well as supporting technology start-ups from creation to trade sale, including to IBM and other US corporates. His practical, problem-solving, approach to providing legal advice has led to him being described as a “nuts and bolts lawyer”, and he looks to bring the same commercial and pragmatic style to his role at the JCRA. He is delighted to be playing a part in making the JCRA a model of effective regulation, for the benefit of the people of Jersey, its businesses and those seeking to invest in the island’s economy.
Mr Graham studied law at Cambridge and trained in the City and Hong Kong. He is Honorary Solicitor to the annual Story of Christmas charity appeal and a trustee of the London Firebird Orchestra, which promotes the careers of recent graduates from the London Conservatoires.
llan Sherr is a competition lawyer at DLA Piper and executive director of Aiscension, which is DLA Piper’s award winning AI risk management service. Ilan has over 20 years’ experience advising clients in competition law, such as cartels, anti-competitive agreements, merger control and State aid as well as EU law, trade and free movement. He has published articles and chapters in leading texts on Competition law and State Aid for Butterworths and Oxford University Press.
For the last five years Ilan has also led the development of Aiscension. Aiscension is a neural-net AI, built to detect potential cartel and bribery behaviours and offer organisations additional compliance security. Ilan was listed in the Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2024 for his work in AI, and Aiscension has won numerous awards for using AI innovations in Law.
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