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Tommy is a co-organiser of the Brussels legal hackers. Professionally he is active as freelance legal counsel, mostly in financial services. His interest in the cross-roads between law & tech was present from the start (e.g. in the early 2000 on belcomelegal.com and with an own legal website repository). He is also a volunteer for Coderdojo (Belgium - Kortrijk).

When? Who? What? Where?

On Tuesday 28 May 2019, Ms. Nathalie Smuha, addresses the hot topic of Artificial Intelligence and ethics at Digityser in Brussels.

The EU High-level Expert Group

Ms. Smuha is a.o. closely involved in the work of the EU high-level expert group on AI which in April 2019 has delivered a

Where, when ?

The event is scheduled for Tuesday 23 April 2019. You can join us as from 18h30. The keynote should start at about 19h00. In case of a lively interaction the event may take a few hours.

The law firm Time.Lex  – a niche law firm that a.o. assembles experts on data

Where, when ?

The event is scheduled for Thursday 21 February 2019.

The event will be held at the VUB in Brussels (near metro station “Petillion” and tram stop “VUB”).

Topic: data subject rights

Data Subject Rights are a given in the data protection legislation (mainly Chapter III, but also part of Chapter VIII of

This is the placeholder for the Brussels participation to the second edition of the global Computational Law & Blockchain Fest. The focus will be on Saturday 16 March 2019.

What can you do?

We are still looking for

  • a venue
  • additional speakers (sharing their academic or practical experience)
  • additional hack challenges, i.e. assignments to

For a few months now we have started gathering the basic information of events in Belgium (and near surroundings) that seem of interest to the Belgian legal hackers community. We bundle that information in an open google calendar.

If you want to share events in this calendar, feel free to contact us.

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