International Headwinds, New Technology and Social Justice

Can Australia be courageous in regulation of new technology while navigating international uncertainty and constant change?

Our expert panellists, including Raymond Sun, Miah Hammond-Errey, Louise Buckingham and Sarah Sacher, will consider this issue with chair, Evana Wright, and discuss how recent international policy upheaval could shape Australian responses to regulation of new technologies, including artificial intelligence.

With a renewed focus by the Australian government on the way regulation of technology impacts productivity, a key unresolved question is how these national and international developments will impact social justice and human-centered regulation of technology. Critical concerns include rights to privacy, protection of copyright, cybersecurity and the growing digital divide for vulnerable populations.

After the panel, guests are invited to continue the conversation over refreshments with external partners, UTS academics, alumni, and students.

Date:

Thursday 11 September 2025

Time:

5.30pm - Registrations open, networking & refreshments
6.00pm - Event commences 
7.00pm - Networking and refreshments
8.00pm - Event concludes

Location:

UTS Building 2 Foyer (Ground Level)

15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW, Australia

Panellists

Raymond Sun is a senior associate (technology) at HSF Kramer, specialising in emerging technologies. Outside of HSF, Ray is a full stack developer, having built and launched various software products, including a website that tracks AI regulatory developments around the world (Global AI Regulation Tracker), an AI-enabled dance analyser app (SyncTrainer), platform for creating interactive map trackers (Note2Map) and a tech news curation platform. Raymond is also recognised as a 'Top Voice' on Linkedin, and won Australia's Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Technology Lawyer of the Year Award (2023).

Dr. Miah Hammond-Errey is the founding CEO of Strat Futures Pty Limited and host of the Technology & Security podcast. She guides organisations and advises leaders on emerging technologies, intelligence, data, national security, cybersecurity and leadership. Her book is called Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence: National Security Disrupted. 

Dr Hammond-Errey spent eighteen years leading federal government analysis and communications activities in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She was awarded an Operations Medal for intelligence leadership. She is member of Australian Institute of Company Directors and teaches postgraduate cyber security at the University of Sydney. She is an adjunct associate professor at Deakin University.

She previously established the Emerging Technology Program at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and ran the information operations team at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Sarah Sacher is a Responsible Technology Policy Specialist at the Human Technology Institute where she researches and advises on AI regulation issues through a human rights lens. Sarah has worked across a range of human rights and technology issues as a lawyer, adviser and researcher. Prior to joining HTI she led research at Economic Justice Australia on automated decision-making in the social security system in response to Robodebt; worked as the advisor to the President at the Australian Human Rights Commission; and as a human rights policy lawyer at the Law Council of Australia. Sarah has a master’s degree in human rights law - her research focused on the use of AI in child protection systems.

Louise Buckingham is the CEO of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. She is a lawyer and academic who has specialised in intellectual property and human rights and worked in commercial and in-house roles across the corporate and not-for-profit sectors in Sydney, London and California (beginning at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Sydney, and most recently in the award-winning Tech + IP and Innovation teams at Gilbert + Tobin with several years as the Senior Lawyer at the Australian Copyright Council and an editor of the Copyright Reporter along the way). She is committed to the arts and creators’ rights, and lectures in NSW IP and cultural heritage and ‘art law’ in law, arts and science faculties.

Dr. Evana Wright (Chair) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law University of Technology Sydney researching in the fields of intellectual property, the protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge, as well as the regulation of technologies such as IoT devices and AI.

Her PhD thesis examined the emerging international framework for the recognition and protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge and its implementation in India and Peru with the objective of identifying lessons for Australia in developing a nationally consistent regime for the protection of traditional knowledge. As a PhD scholar, she held the Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Research Scholarship and Teaching Fellowship.

Prior to joining the Faculty as a Lecturer in 2018, Evana was a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law working on the ARC Linkage Project Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to protect Indigenous knowledge.

Evana was admitted as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2006. She has worked in Australia and Silicon Valley for major IT corporations and in an ICT research and development incubator.

We'd love to have you join us.
This event is part of the UTS Faculty of Law’s Tech + Social Justice Week. To engage in more events and opportunities within the areas of Legal Tech and Social Justice visit: Law Tech + Social Justice Week

Students engaging in the Brennan Program can self-claim 5 ROJ points by registering and attending this event. If you have any queries about this week, email Law.StudentPrograms@uts.edu.au.