2025-11-18 –, Main Room
This Q&A panel will allow attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the paper presenters and to dive into some of the key questions behind the research they have presented as part of the Open Source and AI track.
This Q&A panel will allow attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the paper presenters and to dive into some of the key questions behind the research they have presented as part of the Open Source and AI track.
Renata Avila is an international human rights and technology lawyer specialising in data governance, open knowledge, and digital justice. As the CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), she leads global efforts to unlock the power of open data and knowledge commons, enabling individuals and organisations to drive social change through transparent and equitable access to information, knowledge, data and technical tools. With deep expertise in intellectual property and international trade policies shaping the digital economy, she actively analyses the intersection of intellectual property, data-driven innovation, and fair technology access, advocating for policies that prevent monopolistic control and foster open technologies. A vocal critic of restrictive digital trade agreements, she works to ensure that data sovereignty and emerging technologies contribute to economic justice rather than deepen inequalities.
A former fellow at the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, she is affiliated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France. She serves on the boards of Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination, and Whistleblower Network Germany. She is a member of the Working Group on Data Governance at all levels, established by the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD).
Marco is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto and a Research Assistant with the Guarini Global Law & Tech team at NYU. He holds master's degrees from NYU (USA), Peking University (China), and the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Before joining UofT, Marco worked with various universities and policy think tanks internationally. His research focuses on the transnational regulation of emerging technologies, the agency of the Global South in shaping digital infrastructure, and the role of law in governing open-source environments.
Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University.
Cailean Osborne is a Senior Researcher at the Linux Foundation, where he conducts strategic research and advocacy for promoting openness in AI. He has a PhD in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford, where he researched collaboration dynamics in the open source AI ecosystem. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab at Peking University. Previously, he was the International Policy Lead at the UK Government's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, where he co-authored the UK's National AI Strategy and served as a UK Delegate at intergovernmental AI governance initiatives at the OECD and Council of Europe. He is based in Berlin, Germany.
Ettore Maria is Professor of Private Law at the University of Florence School of Law and founder and managing partner of Studio legale Lombardi (priorly he was of counsel at DLA Piper and than at Hage-Chahine Law Firm). Ettore Maria is an expert in Economic Regulation from CUTS C-CIER (Jaipur, India), a DAAD alumnus (Germany), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). He served two terms as Member of the Arbitro Bancario Finanziario appointed by the Bank of Italy (Bologna) and currently serves as President of the Supervisory Board on the “231 Model” at Nuovo Pignone Holding S.p.A., part of the Baker Hughes Company.
He has taught and conducted research at prestigious universities in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany. Ettore Maria is an attorney qualified in Italy and New York and actively involved in international legal associations, serving as Event Officer for the Harvard Law School Association of Europe and as a member of the Association Henry Capitant (Paris) and The London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law.
His prolific publication record includes six books with esteemed global publishers and over sixty articles in leading international law reviews. His notable works address consumer goods warranties, financial market regulation, digital innovation and intellectual property rights (Copyleft), contractual authority, and financial innovation. His latest publications include “Alternative Acquisition Models and Financial Innovation” (2023) and “Digitalization, Copyright and the Law” (2025), both published by Routledge.
Kasia Odrozek works at the intersection of research, policy, and community engagement to help turn ideas into action in the ethical tech space. A strategist and AI ethics expert, she focuses on open and ethical datasets for AI, the emergence of artificial intimacy, identity shifts in human–AI interaction, and the broader concept of Public AI. She advises a range of organizations—from international institutions to grassroots initiatives—on responsible technology development and governance.
Kasia currently leads the Business Council at UNESCO, where she supports the implementation of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. She brings a cross-sector perspective, translating high-level AI ethics principles into tangible commitments and practice.
Previously, she served as Director of Insights at the Mozilla Foundation, where she led research and policy efforts to advance Trustworthy AI and supported responsible tech initiatives. She has also advised public-interest funders, including the EU AI & Society Fund and the Prototype Fund.
Kasia’s background spans open-source and open-knowledge communities, having worked with Wikipedia on open culture and software, and tech entrepreneurship, where she led product strategy at the podcasting platform TapeWrite. She also founded the Berlin chapter of Zebras Unite, a network promoting ethical, inclusive alternatives to traditional startup models.
She holds qualifications in law, political science, and product management, and brings a multidisciplinary lens to complex challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Wayne Wei Wang is a Non-Resident Fellow at the FGV Center for Technology and Society (Brazil) and an ACCP Fellow at the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention (South Africa). He recently completed a Ph.D. in Law and Technology at the University of Hong Kong. With an interdisciplinary background in Engineering and Law, his research focuses on Intellectual Property, Data Protection, AI Governance, and Science & Technology Studies, with an emphasis on Law, Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology (LIST) in the Global South. His work appears in Computer Law & Security Review, Journal of AI Law & Regulation, and edited volumes from Oxford and Cambridge. Wayne holds an LLM from WIPO-QUT (Australia) and is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Wayne co-drafts the Chinese Model AI Law, deemed as one of the two emerging legislative proposals on AI in China. He received the 2025 PTC Emerging Scholar Award granted by Pacific Telecommunications Council and contributes to the UN IGF’s Dynamic Coalition on Data and AI Governance.
Professor and Director of the E-commerce Center at FGV Rio Law. Research Lead on Platform Governance at the Centre for Technology and society. UNDP consultant and Non-Governmental Advisor for CADE (the Brazilian competition authority). Director of CPDP LatAm and Founder of the BRICS + Digital Competition Forum. PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University and a JD from the University of Bologna. Over the past 15 years, he has widely researched and consulted on law, technology and regulation, particularly with a focus on the digital economy.