Using AI Safely: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Compliance, IP & Privacy

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Learn how to harness AI confidently while protecting your business, intellectual property, and customers. Artificial intelligence is transforming every industry, but it also presents significant legal, ethical, and regulatory challenges. As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, leaders must understand how to implement AI responsibly while managing legal risk and maintaining stakeholder trust. This webinar provides a practical overview of the evolving AI compliance landscape, including AI governance frameworks, data privacy obligations, intellectual property considerations, and ethical best practices.

Participants will learn how to develop effective AI policies, protect proprietary information, navigate copyright and patent issues, address bias and transparency concerns, and prepare for emerging domestic and international AI regulations.

Whether you are an executive, entrepreneur, legal professional, compliance officer, HR leader, or technology professional, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to build and deploy AI systems responsibly, protect your organization, and foster innovation with confidence.

Presented by the Entrepreneurial Strategy Series and Gearhart Law.

AGENDA:

• Networking (11:30 am - 12 pm EDT)
• Presentation (12 pm - 1:15 pm EDT)

OUR SPEAKERS:
Ericka Watson is a leading voice in privacy, AI governance, and data strategy, helping organizations rethink how data is governed, operationalized, and ethically leveraged in a rapidly evolving landscape.
As CEO of Data Strategy Advisors, she works with companies to move beyond static compliance models and build governance systems that scale with innovation. Her approach is grounded in over two decades of experience designing global privacy programs across organizations including Danaher, AbbVie, Abbott, GE Healthcare, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
She is also the founder of MyDataMyDolla, a data-tech startup redefining the relationship between individuals and their data, shifting from passive collection to active ownership and participation.
Ericka’s work focuses on a critical gap in today’s market: organizations are accelerating AI adoption, but governance is struggling to keep pace. She helps leaders close that gap by embedding governance directly into how decisions are made, rather than treating it as a post-deployment exercise.
She advises the ABA and Uniform Law Commission on emerging issues in cognitive and neural data, and teaches at Northwestern University, preparing future leaders to navigate the legal and ethical dimensions of technology. Read more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericka-watson-data/

Paul Roberts, Esq. is a Director at TransUnion where he specializes in intellectual property law and litigation. Prior to TransUnion he was a Senior IP Counsel at GEICO, where he lead intellectual property strategy across AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies, advising cross-functional teams on patent defense, brand protection, and other complex IP matters. He is also the developer of IP Genie, an AI-powered patent drafting system that reduces patent application preparation from approximately 80 hours to 6 hours while significantly increasing technical depth. The platform analyzes codebases, generates patent claims and specifications, performs prior art analysis, evaluates patent eligibility, and conducts infringement assessments, transforming patent prosecution into more strategic, high-value work.
With more than 20 years of intellectual property experience, Paul has prosecuted more than 200 patents spanning machine learning, natural language processing, biometric systems, surgical robotics, and autonomous technologies. His career includes leadership roles at GEICO, the Department of Homeland Security, the USPTO, Foley & Lardner, Hogan Lovells, and boutique IP practices, where he has shaped IP policy, negotiated multimillion-dollar technology agreements, defended against patent assertion entities, and trained legal and technical teams on IP risk management. He earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Rutgers Law School while working full-time as a patent agent, and writes about AI-powered legal innovation at Modern Patent Law. Read more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsoftwareip/

David Postolski, Esq. is a senior partner at Gearhart Law, is a registered patent attorney and Intellectual Property (IP) attorney for close to 20 years. David specializes in assisting inventors, creators, artists, start-ups, entrepreneurs, early-stage companies, and emerging companies with their U.S and international IP strategy, protection, enforcement, and monetization. David is a frequent speaker and author on emerging IP issues and technologies including, raising capital, business formation, food science, software, licensing, Data and Privacy Compliance, equity-based crowdfunding, and compliance with other US and International Regulatory structures. David is also a Professor at Temple University, Parsons School of Design and the Radzyner Law School (Herzliya, Israel) where he teaches master-level students about IP, ethics, and other regulatory considerations. David is a current Council Member of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, founder of their International Action Group, and editor of their monthly newsletter, and the outgoing Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Officer. David currently serves on Harvard’s Lemann Entrepreneurial Program Advisory Board. Read more at: https://gearhartlaw.com/team/david-postolski-esq/

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This event is sponsored by Gearhart Law, a full service Intellectual Property firm specializing in Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law domestically and globally. We serve inventors, entrepreneurs, and established businesses. We can help you strategize and build your IP portfolio based on your business needs. Call us for a free consultation at 908-273-0700 or contact us through: https://gearhartlaw.com/