“Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy” Seminar
26 April 2017 (Wednesday)

Speakers

	Mr Stephen Wong joined the Attorney General’s Chambers of the Hong Kong Government as a Crown Counsel in 1986. In 1991, he was seconded to the UN Human Rights Committee based in Geneva. In 1992, he became the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. From 1996 to 2014, Mr Wong assumed the offices of Deputy Solicitor-General and Secretary of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission, responsible for human rights, cross-boundary legal affairs, Basic Law, law reform and legal policies. His fields of expertise also include commercial law, arbitration law, intellectual property and criminal law. Mr Wong is also active in the community work, having been appointed as an adjunct professor of the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong; advocacy examiner of the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong; and a director of the China Law Society. Mr Wong graduated from the University of Hong Kong, also holding an LLM from the London School of Economics. He also pursed management courses at Harvard and Wharton, USA. Mr Wong was appointed as the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data of Hong Kong in August 2015, before which he had been in private practice as a barrister-at-law, specialising in public law.
	Dr Winnie Tang JP is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. She is one of the locally-bred IT entrepreneurs of Hong Kong. In the 1990s, Dr Tang founded Esri China (Hong Kong) Limited to develop and promote Geographic Information System (GIS) software and solutions. Over the years, she has been actively advocating the use of technology and sharing her views regarding the ICT industry, eHealth, environmental conservation, entrepreneurship and smart city concepts through her services in government and non-government organizations in Hong Kong.
	Ms Ksenia Duxfield-Karyakina is a Regional Public Policy Manager based out of Hong Kong. Covering Asia-Pacific, she mainly focuses on innovations policy and AI, content, copyright and cultural impact programmes in the region. She oversees YouTube public policy and Google Cultural Institute projects in APAC. Ksenia has been with Google since 2011, previously working for the Russian Public Policy team in Moscow. Before Google, her experience includes leading Public Affairs at an OECD organization tackling financial crime, and working as a PR manager in the international VTB Banking Group, and Russia’s national railway company. She holds a PhD in new media economics and enjoys reading old fashioned paper books and hiking in her spare time.
	Dr Chow began his academic career in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Hong Kong upon completion of his doctoral degree in the United States. In the recent years, Dr Chow's research interests have migrated to digital forensics and computer security, and is the leader of the Computer Forensics Research Group (CFRG). Dr Chow was the chief designer of the bilingual computer forensic tool Digital Evidence Search Kit (DESK). Starting from 2005, Dr Chow has been working on the Internet piracy monitoring system Lineament I, and Internet auction site monitoring system Lineament II. Both Lineament I and Lineament II were adopted by HKSAR Customs and Excise Department in 2007 and 2011 respectively. Two of his research team’s papers got the best paper awards in one of the reputable digital forensics research conference in USA in years 2008 and 2011. One of his team’s research papers “The Rules of Time on NTFS File System” had been submitted to Courts of Hong Kong several times as a supporting document for the expert reports.
	Professor John Bacon-Shone has taught at The University of Hong Kong for more than 35 years and has been Director of the Social Sciences Research Centre since 1990. He is an applied statistician and was the Dean of Social Sciences from 1990-1996 and is currently Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange). From 1998-2001 he was seconded to the Central Policy Unit, the HKSARG internal think tank, where he worked on a range of policy issues including population, gambling, environment, public opinion and technology. From 1990 to 2006, he was a member and then chairman of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission Sub-committee on Privacy that recommended the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Ordinance. From 2009 onwards, he has chaired the Human Research Ethics Committee and has been Associate Director of the Knowledge Exchange Office at the University of Hong Kong, where he has been responsible for developing and implementing the university strategy for knowledge exchange in non-tech disciplines. His research interests including statistical computing, survey methodology, compositional data, biostatistics, gambling, data archiving, privacy, sociolinguistics and policy research and he was responsible for introducing Computer-Aided Telephone Interviewing to Hong Kong.
	From 2011 to 2013, Mr Toshiki YANO served as the legal manager for a U.S. based apparel industry. From 2009 - 2011, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Economic Affairs Bureau, and engaged in the trade negotiations related to intellectual property enforcement issues. Prior to this, he served as a law practitioner and a litigator based in Tokyo for more than 10 years. He received his LL.M. in Trade Regulation from the New York University School of Law. He is a member of Tokyo Bar Association and New York State Bar Association.
	Ms Waltraut Ritter is founder of Knowledge Dialogues, specializing in research and advisory services relating to information and knowledge society. She works on innovation at the intersection between universities, government and business, such as public sector information policy and data governance. She is visiting faculty in the international Ph.D. programme in knowledge and innovation management at the Bangkok University, as well as guest lecturer in the M.Sc. in Innovation Management Programme at the Singapore Management University. She holds an MA in Information Science and Sociology from the Free University of Berlin and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She is a member of the International Council on Knowledge Management (ICKM), and the Association of Information Science and Technology (Asis&T), and has served on the Digital Strategy Advisory Committee (DSAC21) of the HKSAR from 2010-2017. She is also a founding member of Opendata Hong Kong.