On November 19, 2019, the Public Sector Lawyers Section of the Ontario Bar Association held a program on regulating disruptive technologies and policy and lawyering responses. The program panel speakers were Michael Rusek, senior counsel with the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council, Michael Rothe, president and CEO of the Canadian Finance & Leasing Association, and Craig Stewart, director of Industry Innovation with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Messrs. Rusek, Rothe and Stewart examined the impact of disruptive technologies on industries and regulators. They looked at how new innovations such as apps, driverless cars and artificial intelligence revolutionizes goods and services and how their rapid development leaves regulators having to play catch up with laws and regulations that balance protecting the public with encouraging innovation.
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