AI, Ethics & Cybersecurity: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About the Agentic AI Revolution

Neil Daswani | Firebolt Ventures

Dr. Neil Daswani is Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity Program, and is President of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm. He has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive management roles at QuantumScape, Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter/X, Dasient, Google, Stanford University, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). At Symantec, he was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Consumer Business Unit, and at LifeLock and QuantumScape he was the company-wide CISO.

Neil has served as an Executive-In-Residence at Trinity Ventures (funders of Auth0, New Relic, Aruba, Starbucks, and Bulletproof). He is an investor in and advisor to several cybersecurity startup companies and venture capital funds, including Benhamou Global Ventures, Firebolt, Gravity Ranch Ventures, Security Leadership Capital, and Swift VC. Neil is also co-author of Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone (Apress ISBN 978-1484266540) and Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know (Apress ISBN 978-1590597842).

Neil’s DNA is deeply rooted in security research and development, he has dozens of technical articles published in top academic and industry conferences (ACM, IEEE, USENIX, RSA, BlackHat, and OWASP), and he has been granted over a dozen US patents. He frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences and has been quoted by publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, and CSO Magazine.

He earned PhD and MS degrees in computer science at Stanford University, and he holds a BS in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.

Kimberly W. Klayman | Ballard Spahr LLP

Kimberly W. Klayman is the Practice Leader of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group. Kimberly has broad experience representing privately held emerging companies, as well as venture capital, private equity funds, family offices and corporate venture groups that invest in high growth companies.

She works with companies through the entire corporate life cycle, including pre-formation and general corporate counseling, venture capital financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Kimberly also counsels’ investors and platform companies in strategic acquisitions of high growth companies.

Professional Activities: Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Entrepreneurship Clinic and Master of Law Program. Recognition & Accomplishments: The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, (Philadelphia) 2023-2025 and The Legal Intelligencer, “Lawyers on the Fast Track,” 2023.

Gregory P. Szewcyk | Ballard Spahr LLP

Greg Szewczyk is a partner in Ballard Spahr’s Denver and Boulder offices and Practice Leader of the Privacy and Data Security Group. Greg leverages a career that includes both high-stakes transactions and litigation to help companies take a practical approach to assessing risk and complying with the ever-expanding patchwork of state, federal, and international privacy and data security statutes and regulations.

Greg helps companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500s to start ups, build and maintain their privacy and data security programs. He has advised hundreds of companies on various compliance issues—from the use of artificial intelligence to vendor management to routine data processing matters that arise in day-to-day business—relating to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), state financial privacy laws, the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (TCPA), and various other laws and regulations. Greg also advises clients in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships. In doing so, he helps his clients assess the potential risks involved and develop creative solutions to data issues.

I. Understanding agentic AI and its legal implications | 1:00pm – 1:30pm

II. Cybersecurity and AI governance risks | 1:30pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

III. Collaborative intelligence and legal practice transformation | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

IV. Regulatory trends and policy development | 2:40pm – 3:10pm