Data and Geopolitics
VIEW EVENT DETAILSWhat clashing data regimes around the world mean for innovation and the global economy
On Thursday, March 5, join Asia Society Northern California in a panel discussion on how data governance – the rules for who can access data and how it is used – is shaping up to be a new frontier of geopolitical rivalry. Our updated panel lineup includes Shuman Ghosemajumder from F5 Networks, Graham Webster from Stanford University and Ziyang Fan from World Economic Forum in a discussion moderated by Heather Evans, Director of Frontier Technology Research at Asia Society Northern California.
Governments across the world are clashing when it comes to managing the vast amount of data generated by the digital economy. Are we moving toward a world of competing data spheres of influence? What will be the implications of clashing data regimes for prosperity and security?
Agenda
5:30 p.m. Registration & Networking
6:00 p.m. Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
7:00 p.m. Program Concludes
Online ticket sales will end at noon on Thursday, March 5.
SPEAKER BIOS
Shuman Ghosemajumder is the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence for F5 Networks. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Shape Security from 2012-2020 until it was acquired by F5 Networks for $1B. He previously led global product management for click fraud at Google, protecting their $23 billion annual revenue pay-per-click AdWords business. He joined Google in 2003 as one of the early product managers for AdSense, helped grow that business to $2 billion in annual revenue, and helped launch Gmail. In 2009, he co-founded TeachAIDS, a nonprofit edtech startup spun out of Stanford. Prior to Google, he worked at McKinsey & Co. and IBM. He earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario (President's Scholar) and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Graham Webster is Editor in Chief of the Stanford–New America DigiChina Project at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and a China digital economy fellow at New America. Based at Stanford, he leads an inter-organization network of specialists to produce analysis and translation on China’s digital policy developments. He researches, publishes, and speaks to diverse audiences on the intersection of U.S.–China relations and advanced technology.
From 2012 to 2017, Graham worked for Yale Law School as a senior fellow and lecturer responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track 2 dialogues between the United States and China, co-teaching seminars on contemporary China and Chinese law and policy, leading programming on cyberspace in U.S.–China relations, and writing extensively on the South China Sea and the law of the sea. While with Yale, he was a Yale affiliated fellow with the Yale Information Society Project, a visiting scholar at China Foreign Affairs University, and a Transatlantic Digital Debates fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute and New America.
Ziyang Fan is the Head of Digital Trade at World Economic Forum LLC. He is an attorney and policy-maker with over a decade of experience from both the public and private sectors, with a focus in the Asia Pacific region. Ziyang is an expert in digital trade, e-commerce, cross-border data flows, sharing economy, and TradeTech. His former positions include Senior Legal Counsel, Airbnb; Assistant General Counsel, US Trade and Development Agency; and Corporate Associate, law firm of Shearman & Sterling. He currently runs the Digital Trade programme at the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. Ziyang received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and his Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He speaks fluent Chinese.
Heather Evans (Moderator) is the Director of Frontier Technology Research at Asia Society Northern California. She recently studied, as a Schwarzman Scholar, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Her master’s research at Tsinghua focused on evolving data governance policies. Heather has worked as an entrepreneur and civil servant. She served as the first Artificial Intelligence Senior Advisor to the Provincial Government of Ontario, helping to establish the Vector Institute of Deep Learning. She also started two businesses, in the spaces of Natural Language Processing and 3D Printing. Heather has collaborated with the National Academies of Science, the Royal Society and continues to mentor young entrepreneurs and policymakers.
Event Details
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