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Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Tal Niv, proper, addresses the group throughout An Evening of Open: Science, Software, & AI. The occasion featured remarks from Florian Cardinaux, consul basic of France in San Francisco and was co-sponsored by the consulate basic and GitHub.
- Lexlab’s connections to worldwide practitioners and policymakers and Bay Area know-how leaders led to An Evening of Open: Science, Software, & AI coming to the UC Law SF campus.
- The occasion introduced collectively researchers, technologists, and policymakers to look at how making analysis accessible to all accelerates discovery and innovation and serves the general public curiosity.
LexLab, GitHub, the Open Forum for AI, and the San Francisco French Consulate Office of Science and Technology co-hosted An Evening of Open: Science, Software, & AI, bringing dozens of researchers, technologists, and policymakers to the UC Law San Francisco campus. LexLab is UC Law SF’s middle for know-how regulation and lawyering.
The Oct. 24 occasion celebrated and examined how open-source software program, open science, and open-source AI work collectively to speed up discovery and innovation. Attendees mentioned how open science, or making scientific analysis accessible to all, can strengthen establishments and preserve expertise and requirements within the public curiosity.
The night featured remarks from Florian Cardinaux, consul basic of France in San Francisco, and Tal Niv, professor and director of utilized innovation at UC Law SF.
“For us as a law school, this work is core to training lawyers who understand technology, governance, and accountability so they can help build an open future instead of just reacting to it,” Niv mentioned.
A publish from the Consulate General’s Office underscored Cardinaux’s remarks, wherein he mentioned “France’s strong commitment to openness in research and innovation — a core principle of our National Strategy for Open Science. Through initiatives such as Choose France for Science, France aims to make scientific knowledge accessible to all and to foster international collaboration.”
The night’s program showcased LexLab’s deep connections to the thought leaders, students, and practitioners tackling at the moment’s greatest technological and authorized challenges.
Emmanuelle Pauliac-Vaujour, attachée for the consulate’s Science & Technology Office, moderated a panel on “Powering the Future of Research.” It included:
- Eva Maxfield Brown, Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington
- Adam Hyde, CEO, Kotahi Foundation and founder, Coko Foundation
- Quentin Gallouédec – analysis engineer, Hugging Face
- Sewon Min – assistant professor, UC Berkeley and analysis scientist, Ai2
Margaret Tucker, GitHub public coverage supervisor, moderated the “Law and Policy for an Open Future” panel, which included:
- Pamela Chestek, principal, Chestek Legal
- Joshua Levine, analysis fellow, Foundation for American Innovation
- Timothy Vollmer, scholarly communication and copyright librarian, UC Berkeley Library
- Peter Routhier – General Counsel, Internet Archive
Niv praised the occasion’s companions for elevating the dialog round an necessary coverage matter.
“The French Consulate’s science and technology office is a bridge that moves knowledge across borders and into labs, startups, and public institutions and agencies, a visible champion of open science,” she mentioned. “GitHub Policy is the policy voice of open source and software development, helping developers and institutions translate open practice into durable norms, good stewardship, and workable rules.”