Cloud computing continues to expand dramatically, becoming both mainstream and ubiquitous, and encompassing everything from the remote provision of essential computer processing and storage resources, through to delivery of complex business and government services. While cloud computing brings unprecedented opportunities in digital transformation, it also depends on there being appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks for contracts, cybersecurity, interoperability, data portability, and competition.
Against this background, Microsoft is organizing the Cloud Computing Law Roundtable Series in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Each roundtable session will delve into selected topics covered in "Cloud Computing Law" (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2021), edited and co-authored by Christopher Millard, Professor of Privacy and Information Law at Queen Mary University of London. To promote discussion among EU stakeholders, the series will enable participants to dive deep into the key legal and regulatory issues that surround cloud computing, including cloud standards, cybersecurity, implications of cloud supply chains for contracts, competition issues, and law enforcement access to data in clouds.
This first Roundtable will provide an in-depth discussion of what cloud computing is, why cloud deployment models and layering matter, how cloud deals differ from traditional IT outsourcing, current trends in cloud computing including AI as a Service, edge computing, trusted execution environments and other security considerations.
14:30 - 14:35 | Welcome & Introduction to the Roundtable series by Cornelia Kutterer |
14:35 - 14:40 | Setting the agenda by Lorelien Hoet |
14:40 - 15:00 | Presentation by Christopher Millard |
15:00 - 15:20 | Presentation by Jatinder Singh |
15:20 - 15:30 | Reflections and observations by Witte Wijsmuller |
15:30 - 15:40 | Reflections and observations by Chris Francis |
15:40 - 16:00 | Q&A / Discussion |
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Lorelien Hoet is Government Affairs Director at Microsoft, leading the work on critical infrastructure files. Before joining Microsoft in March 2018, Mrs Hoet worked as a legal executive at Proximus for 9 years, holding different positions including Head of Legal Consumer business. Mrs Hoet started her career as an attorney specialised in competition law, working in law firms in Brussels and Stockholm. She was also active as Director Regulatory Affairs at Mobistar (Orange).
Cornelia leads Microsoft’s European Rule of Law, Responsible Tech & Competition team which focuses on the impact of new technologies and regulatory frameworks that meet expectation of society and healthy competition. Her team covers policies such as responsible/ethical/trustworthy AI, digital safety and content regulation, privacy, lawful access, human rights and competition. She regularly engages with leading European scholars in these fields to advance academic thinking. Cornelia has long standing experience in Information Society & Internet policies and speaks regularly at regional and international conferences. Before joining Microsoft, she led the legal department of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. She has also gained experience in a top 10 law firm and started her professional career in the European Parliament as a political advisor to an MEP. Cornelia is a qualified German lawyer and holds a master’s degree in information technology and telecommunication laws. She studied law at the Universities of Passau, Porto, Hamburg and Glasgow/Strathclyde.
Christopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, and is Senior Counsel to the law firm Bristows. He has some 40 years of experience in technology law in academia and legal practice, and is a Fellow (and past Chair) of the Society for Computers and Law. He has led the Cloud Legal Project since it was established in 2009 and has been Joint Director of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre since it was launched in 2014.
Dr. Jatinder Singh is based at the Department of Computer Science and Technology (Computer Laboratory), University of Cambridge and is a member of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre. He leads the Compliant and Accountable Systems research group, and co-chairs the Cambridge Trust and Technology Initiative. Jat is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI, and is active in the tech-policy space, working with government, regulators, professional bodies, and third-sector organisations.
Witte Wijsmuller (1987) joined the European Commission in 2017 to work in the Cloud & Software team of DG CONNECT. His focus is on cloud regulation and governance in the framework of the data economy, with the financial sector and international data flows as special areas of expertise. Concrete projects Witte works on are the Data Act, the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, public procurement of cloud services, cloud marketplaces and the EU Cloud Rulebook. Between 2014 and 2017, Witte worked in the European Parliament covering digital files for an MEP. Witte holds an MSc in Diplomacy from The Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ and a BA in History from Leiden University.
Dr. Chris Francis is a technology policy expert focusing on UK government and public policy issues affecting the technology sector as well as a portfolio of EU and global policy interests. Alongside his role in SAP, he serves as TechUK board member. Previously served as DigitalEurope's representative on the SWIPO executive, two terms on the Government Digital Services Open Standards Board and a number of roles at the British Standards Institute as our National Standards body acting variously as Chair of a UK International mirror, Head of Delegation or Principal UK Expert. Chris has worked in the private sector covering government affairs and technical regulatory affairs for over 15 years after a career in the UK Civil Service with a background in mathematics, computer science and engineering.