Speakers 2019

Stefan Eder is a lawyer and partner at Benn-Ibler Rechtsanwälte GmbH, an Austrian law firm with clients around the globe. He focuses, among other things, on IT law and data protection and has advised corporates and private clients on IT-related issues for more than 30 years. Aside from the… Continue reading Eder, Stefan

Robert Kowalski is Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London. He studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Bridgeport, Stanford University, the Univer-sity  of  Warsaw,  and  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  where  he  completed  his  PhD  in 1970. He joined Imperial College in 1975. Kowalski’s early research was in… Continue reading Kowalski, Robert

Christian Sageder, is co-founder and managing director of Cybly GmbH. He has obtained his degree in computer science (Johannes Kepler University Linz). Before starting Cybly, he has been working for international IT companies, including Sony, SKIDATA, T-Mobile UK and Jamba. He has 20 years experience in computer science. He… Continue reading Sageder, Christian

Günther Schefbeck is Head of the Austrian Parliament’s Executive Department for Parliamentary Research. He is a member of the ManyLaws team, a project that seeks to increase the accessibility of legal information by offering innovative services.He has published a number of expert papers and has moderated panels and given… Continue reading Schefbeck, Günther

Prof. Erich Schweighofer is Professor of Legal Informatics, International Law and European Law and head of the Centre for Computers and Law at the University of Vienna. He leads the Centre for Computers and Law – one of the top – 10 research groups in Legal Informatics worldwide. Erich… Continue reading Schweighofer, Erich

Francesco Sovrano is PhD student in Data Science & Computation at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna. His research mainly focuses on Deep Reinforcement Learning, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing/Understanding (NLP/NLU) of Legal Resources. He developed several experiment… Continue reading Sovrano, Franceso

Professor A Min Tjoa has been a full professor and director of the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology since 1994. He is  the  chairman  of  the  Austrian  National  Competence  Center  for  Security  Research  (Competence  Centers  for  Excellent  Technologies  Initiative  of  the  Austrian… Continue reading Tjoa, A Min