Democracy & Technology Salon

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm PDT

About this event

The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, a collaboration of the UCLA School of Law and Samueli School of Engineering, in partnership with UCLA DataX, invites you to a Fall warm-up event – the Democracy & Technology Salon.

Join us as we chart the tangled web of tech and power and identify cleavage points for law and policy. A special evening event to learn about ITLP’s work and meet our UCLA faculty, centering on a guest panel with invited guests from across California, moderated by ITLP’s new Executive Director and Tech Policy Lead at UCLA DataX, Professor Julia Powles.

Special guests:

Lisa Kim
Senior Privacy Counsel and Advisor
California Privacy Protection Agency

Jennifer King
Privacy and Data Policy Fellow
Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Brian Merchant
Writer, Reporter and Author
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone (2017)
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (2023)