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14 Seattle J. Tech. Env't & Innovation L. [i] (2023-2024)

handle is hein.journals/sjel14 and id is 1 raw text is: THE TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION LAW, AND ETHICS PROGRAM LAUNCH SPEECH AT SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW The following article consists of a speech that was given by Gigi Sohn at the 2023 launch of the Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Program at Seattle University. Part One contains introductory comments by TILE Faculty Co-Directors Steven Bender and Margaret Chon. Part Two contains the speech itself. Part One: Introductory Comments Steven Bender and Margaret Chon TILE Faculty Co-Directors At the launch of the TILE Program at Seattle University School of Law in October 2023, Gigi Sohn, the Executive Director of the American Association of Public Broadband, shared her absolutely inspiring journey through the wonky and critically important world of telecommunications law. The policy (and personal) battles she has fought through her 30+ years to ensure net neutrality and access to essential communications infrastructure set an incredible example of how to follow ethics and justice principles when designing technology (including legal systems) for human flourishing and equal opportunity for all people. We are so grateful to all of those who were with us at the TILE program launch to hear Gigi's remarks and to celebrate the birth of a program focused not just on training lawyers to practice competently in technology and innovation-related fields, but also on making sure that our graduates hold steady to ethics, values, and justice principles as technology is developed rapidly. As it is being deployed, lawyers play a critical role to ensure that technology is applied for the enhancement of social welfare, sustainability, and human well-being, consistent with the mission of Seattle University with its abiding commitment to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world in an increasingly technologically challenging environment. In this first year of our TILE program, our main priority is to acknowledge and celebrate our amazing community, including the many remarkable alumni who have been at the forefront of these important areas of law and policy, working for tech companies, in public service, in non- profits, or in private practice. We aim to connect our accomplished alums with our talented students. As Dean Varona mentioned in his remarks at the launch, we already have hundreds of dedicated alumni who are working in TILE-related fields, whether in privacy, fintech regulation, gaming, blockchain, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence-related areas, not to mention the classic and traditional and very important areas of intellectual property prosecutions, transactions, and litigation.

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