Programme

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Introduction

• 10:00-10:20. Introduction of the Legal Tech Lab and Special Issue, by Suvi Sankari, Alina Wernick & Anna Artyushina

Session 1: Gaps in the current regulatory human rights framework

• 10:25-10:55. "After Human Rights for the Smart City: An Inquiry"
  
  By: Beatriz Botero Arcila (Sciences Po, France)
• 10:55-11:25. "Smart cities, smarter sewers: the right to group privacy, data ethics, and the governance and regulation of wastewater-based surveillance technology"
  
  By: Dhiraj Nainani (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• 11:25-11:55. "A societal approach to the governance and regulation of artificial intelligence in cities: using the lens of data feminism to bridge the gap in democratic participation"
  
  By: Julia Iunes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• 11:55-12:10. COFFEE BREAK

Session 2: Temporal dimensions of human rights in the smart city

• 12:10-12:40. "Snapshots and Silhouettes: Corporate human rights responsibility for smart city AI systems"
  
  By: Lottie Lane (University of Groeningen, Netherlands)
• 12:40-13:10. "Temporalities of Law and Politics: Dynamic Rights Protection in Smart City Contexts"
  
  By: Philipp Hacker & Jürgen Neyer (European University Viadrina, Germany)
• 13:10-13:40. "Scotland as an overlooked anticipatory approach? The oversight of emerging technologies in policing for safeguarding human rights and securing public trust"
  
  By: Mariana Canto (Research Institute of Recife, Brazil)
• 13:30-15:00. LUNCH BREAK

Session 3: International approaches to addressing surveillance

• 15:00-15:30. "(Re)Inventing the Future: Metaveillance, Temporal Feedback Loops, & the Chinese Smart City"
  
  By: Joss Wright (University of Oxford, UK), Valentin Weber (The German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany) & Gregory Walton (SecDev Group, Canada)
• 15:30-16:00. "The gray-zones of public-private surveillance: policy tendencies of facial recognition for public security in Brazilian cities"
  
  By: André Ramiro (Research Institute of Recife, Brazil) & Luã Fergus (University of Campinas, Brazil & the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection)
• 16:00-16:30. "Your face is not new to me: the surveillance power of facial recognition technologies"
  
  By: Giuseppe Mobilio (University of Florence, Italy)
• 16:30-17:00. COFFEE BREAK

Session 4: Human Rights-aligned smart city development and procurement

• 17:00-17:30. "Assembling Open Smart Cities in Canada: An approach to governing emerging digital twins?"
  
  By: Tracey Lauriault (Charleton University, Canada)
• 17:30-18:00."Human-Centered Decision-Making for Smart Cities"
  
  By: Brett Frischmann (Villanova University, USA) & Madelyn Sanfilippo (University of Illinois, USA)
• 18:00-18:30. "Do smart city technology developers dream of GDPR-free countries?"
  
  By: Alina Wernick, Emeline Banzuzi & Alexander Wulff (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• 18:30-18:40. EVENT CLOSURE by Alina Wernick & Anna Artyushina