Danielle Van Lier is the former senior assistant general counsel, contracts and compliance at SAG-AFTRA where she is responsible for managing SAG-AFTRA’s third-party contracts and intellectual property, as well as other efforts aimed at protecting the rights of SAG-AFTRA and its members. Van Lier has written several amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court rights of publicity, copyright, and other issues impacting the entertainment industry. She is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School where she has taught courses on the Entertainment Guilds and Trademark Law and she previously taught Sports Law and Entertainment Law at Western State College of Law. She is a sought-after speaker and has spoken to global audiences on topics such as deepfakes, rights of publicity, copyright, and the entertainment guilds. Van Lier earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She has a B.A. in Japanese Language, Literature and Cultural Studies from UC Santa Barbara. In 2019, she earned an LL.M with merit in innovation, technology and the law through University of Edinburgh. She is currently pursuing an MBA through Oxford Brookes University.

Ghen Laraya Long is an experienced international technology and entertainment attorney. She specializes in transactional contracts for the creation, production and distribution of all forms of content over traditional and emerging media platforms. Long has a roster of technotainment clients ranging from producers, directors, writers, actors, musicians, athletes and influencers and from large multimedia companies to small startups for whom she provides business and legal advice, in-house counsel and production attorney services. Prior to recent stints with Disney and Red Bull Media, Long was VP Business and Legal Affairs for Mandalay Digital Group Inc. and its subsidiary Digital Turbine Inc., AGCounsel and Director of Mobile for CBS Corporation, International Corporate Counsel for Amp’d Mobile and Business and Legal Affairs Counsel for Tokyopop! Inc and Yahoo! Inc. Long is currently a board member of Fil-Am Arts, has served on the board of Women in Film and Echo Training and is a co-founder of Greenlight Women. Long is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves on its AI Task Force. She is qualified to practice law in California and Ontario, Canada and is a polyglot

Steven Masur, Partner, Raines Feldman Littrell LLP: Steven Masur has over 25 years of experience advising emerging and established businesses on new opportunities and business challenges. He focuses his practice on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, emerging businesses and strategic guidance. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia. He is passionate about helping new businesses plan a path to success, and helping older businesses bridge the gap to new markets. Steve brings a unique mix of legal, business, and strategic experience to bear on client matters. He has counseled enterprise level clients including Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. He has also helped emerging businesses in a wide variety of sectors, and is especially knowledgeable in media, entertainment, advertising, consumer products, food and technology, including mobile, games, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware. Steve has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers. He serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards and industry associations, and lectures and writes about major issues in venture capital, emerging businesses, entertainment law, technology and corporate strategy.

Jonathan Askin is a professor at Brooklyn Law School. He is the Founder of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship, and the Brooklyn Justice Lab. Jonathan was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and at the MIT Media Lab, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of London, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School. Jonathan chaired the Internet Governance Working Group for the Obama ’08 Campaign and served on the Biden ’20 Campaign Technology Committee. Jonathan graduated with honors from both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School and has advised and represented thousands of innovative, boot-strapped startups and entrepreneurs.

Robert Kang is an adjunct professor, focusing on national security and technology risk management. He also serves as a corporate trainer and technology, security, and AI consultant. Prior to entering academia, Professor Kang held in-house leadership roles at two major companies: as Director and Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity at Meta Platforms, and as Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity & National Security at the Southern California Edison Company. Starting in 2009, he became one of the first attorneys in the United States to create an enterprise-wide in-house cyber legal risk management practice. His work product continues to protect US national security. Professor Kang has authored numerous articles on cybersecurity and technology risk management; his scholarship includes providing practical guidance for in-house counsel to scale up, mature, and operate their organizations’ technology and security GRC (Governance, Risk Management & Compliance) programs. Organizations ranging from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), regularly ask Professor Kang to speak on  security and AI-related matters. Professor Kang is a former intellectual property litigator who successfully litigated the first US-based lawsuit launched by a South Korean media company to protect its US-based IP rights. He has authored articles on the subject and continues to train legal and business professionals on protecting their intellectual property rights.