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New Challenges for Traditional Laws
Synopsis
Famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote that "software is eating the world" in 2011. That increasingly looks like the real world, as new business models like Airbnb and Uber continue to revolutionise traditional industries. Terms like "the sharing economy", "the gig economy", "the on-demand economy" and "online to offline" (from China) all point to the next wave of Internet innovations transforming the offline real world. But traditional areas of law, like property and zoning laws, transport regulations, and employment law, have been slow to adapt, and often lag behind. How should lawyers think about this future of regulatory uncertainty and fast-moving changes?
Siew Kum Hong
Deputy General Counsel, APAC, Airbnb
Kum Hong spent the first 5 years of his career in private practice specialising in technology matters, first in a big firm and then in his own boutique practice. He has been in-house ever since. He joined Airbnb in October 2012, and was with Yahoo! for 5.5 years before that. Kum Hong was a Nominated Member of Parliament from 2007 to 2009, and was also a founding member and past Vice-President of MARUAH, a Singapore human rights NGO.
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Date
4 November 2016
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Time
4:00pm - 5:15pm
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Venue
SMU School of Law building
Level 2
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
60 Stamford Road
Singapore 178900
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