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Agenda

Friday, April 5
10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley CA
Time Session Title Speakers

9:30-10:00 AM

 Check-In  
10:00-10:15 AM Welcome and Conference Introduction  
10:15-11:10 AM Streaming Wars: Balancing Content & Compliance

Betul Ayranci (FOX Sports, Director, Business & Legal Affairs)
Steve Bené (Twitch, General Counsel)
Joe Dimont (Tubi, IP Counsel)
11:15 AM -12:10 PM Game Changers: Navigating the New Era of Sports NIL

Richard Brand (ArentFox Schiff, Managing Partner, Cal Lecturer)
Joth Bhullar (Pac-12, Senior Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs)
Jay Larson (UC Berkeley, Senior Associate Athletics Director)
12:15-1:10 PM Lunch: Social Justice & Diversity in Entertainment

Sloan Whiteside-Munteanu (Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang, Entertainment Attorney)
Professor Kristen Holmquist (Teaching Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Experiential Education, Berkeley Law)
1:15-2:10 PM Opportunities and Risks of AI in Entertainment

Adam Leary (Paramount, Vice President ML Engineering & Personalization)
Olga Rodstein (formerly Meta, Associate General Counsel – Mobile & AI)
Ken Kumayama (Skadden, Partner)
2:15-3:10 PM Behind the Filter: Legal Realities of Social Media

Aaron Epstein (Take-Two Interactive, Counsel, Business Affairs)
Mindy Morton (Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Partner)
Evan Rose (FTC, Attorney)
Peter Steckelman (Tennis Channel, Senior VP of Business & Legal Affairs)
3:15-4:10 PM Unions, Guilds, and Strikes in Sports and Entertainment

Sarah Moses (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Partner)
Robert Darwell (Sheppard Mullin, Senior Partner)
Ryan Wedell (Associate, Sheppard Mullin)
4:15-5:30 PM Reception