Discussion Points:

• Overview of what happened
• Dataopolies:  FB user aspiration, AMZN, user consumption, NFLX user passion, GOOG user intention
• Personal data sharing permissions

Shelly Palmer - The Palmer Group:

Named LinkedIn’s #1 Voice in Technology for 2017, Shelly Palmer is CEO of The Palmer Group, a strategic advisory, technology solutions and business development practice focused at the nexus of media and marketing with a special emphasis on machine learning and data-driven decision-making. He is a trusted strategic advisor to the C-Suite of leading digital media, content, broadcasting and technology firms and a key driver of market, technology and strategic direction, as well as acquisition strategies, for his clients.

Subject Matter Expert: Palmer is a popular speaker and moderator at technology and media conferences hosted by industry organizations, like: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), The National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB), PromaxBDA, The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), CTIA – The Wireless Association, and other major trade events. He is a guest lecturer at the MIT Media Lab, Stern Graduate Business School at NYU, The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University, Tsinghua University, Rutgers Business School and other top tier colleges and universities.

Peter Greene - Lowenstein Sandler, LLP:

Partner and Vice Chair, Investment Management Group

Having served as the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of a buy-side investment firm early in his career, Peter has a unique understanding of his clients' goals and the nature of their interactions with investors, regulators, auditors, administrators, employees, and outside counsel.
He divides his time between representing top-50 (by assets under management) hedge fund managers and well-pedigreed managers launching their first funds; he enjoys the differing needs of these two client bases. Clients benefit from Peter's candor and experience. He advises them on the formation and structuring of funds and management companies, compliance and regulatory matters, and executive and employee compensation (on both the manager and employee sides). He also has particular expertise in advising clients with respect to insider trading determinations, including with respect to the purchase, analysis and use of alternative/big data.
Peter received a J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law, and a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan.

Tim Blank - Dechert, LLP

Managing Partner

Timothy C. Blank is managing partner of Dechert’s Boston office. He is a litigation partner on the trial team and is also head of Dechert's data privacy and cybersecurity practice. He represents technology, financial services and biotechnology companies in complex federal and state court litigation, including consumer and securities class actions and patent, copyright, trade secret, non-compete, and contract cases. He also advises on software licensing, data privacy and protection, IP transactions and government investigations.

Mr. Blank serves as a trial adviser for the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Program, is a member of the Computer Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and has published a number of articles addressing the resolution of software licensing disputes and software copyright litigation. He is recognized as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, a leading legal referral guide.

Tim Harrington - BattleFin Group, Inc.

Co-Founder and CEO

Tim is a Co-founder and CEO of BattleFin Group Inc.  BattleFin is made up of 3 businesses; Events, Technology and Asset Management.   Tim is CIO of BattleFin Asset Management which applies machine learning to alternative data sets that the company has identified.  Tim is also responsible for strategy selection and for external investment allocations.  He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry.  Tim was the President and a Partner at Lion’s Path Capital, a hedge fund strategy incubator where he allocated capital to 30 fundamental portfolio managers since the launch in 2009.  From January 2006 until 2009, Mr. Harrington was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan Ventures where he was in charge of Global Technology, Media & Telecom Investments and served as a Portfolio Manager. From February 2002 until January 2006 he was a Telecom & Media Portfolio Manager at Sigma Capital, a subsidiary of SAC Capital.  Mr. Harrington graduated from Columbia College in 1998.  He was a member of the Columbia University Judiciary Board as well as a member of the varsity crew team.