On March 22nd, EPICentre, in collaboration with Myra Tawfik Don Rodzik Family Chair in Law and Entrepreneurship, hosted a Law and Entrepreneurship Symposium where academics, students, policy experts, and community leaders were able to kick-start conversations about automotive technologies and the innovation economy. With the support of Odette School of Business, Intellectual Property Ontario, University of Windsor Law, WEtech Alliance, and FedDev Ontario, the Law and Entrepreneurship Symposium welcomed close to 100 University of Windsor students and Windsor-Essex community members to the Ciociaro Club for an afternoon discussion with themes that included data privacy, data ownership and new policy mechanisms to support the commercialization of automotive technologies through Ontario Crown agency IP Ontario.
Guests had the opportunity to listen to two panel discussions followed by a round table discussion on the following topics:
Panel 1: Data Ownership and Data Sharing: Automotive Sector
- Wen Teoh | Moderator | Director of EPICentre UWindsor
- Peter Cowan | Panelist |CEO of Intellectual Property Ontario
- Dr. Mitra Mirhassani | Panelist | Co-director, SHIELD Automotive Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence
- Randy Zadra | Panelist | Director and Board Member, Canadian Automobility Enterprises
Panel 2: Data Collection and Data Privacy: Best Practices
- Dr. Pascale Chapdelaine | Moderator | Associate Professor Faculty of Law Director of LTEC Lab
- Dr. Bharat Maheshwari | Panelist | Associate Professor Odette School of Business UWindsor
- Marcin Pulcer | Panelist | Executive Director IT Services UWindsor
Policy Rountable Discussion: Innovation, IP, and Data
- Heather Pratt | Moderator | Executive Director Office of Research and Innovation UWindsor
- Peter Cowan | Panelist |CEO of Intellectual Property Ontario
- Asad Farooq | Panelist | Director of Sector and Cluster Development at The Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network OCI
- Matt Johnson | Panelist | Executive Director of Mobility Partnerships and Innovation at Invest WindsorEssex
- Yvonne Pilon | Panelist | President & CEO of WEtech Alliance
- Don C. Rodzik (Don Jr) | Panelist | Director of Operations & General Counsel for the NARMCO Group of Companies
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this insightful conversation