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A webinar entitled “Contractual Abusive and Compulsory Clauses in the New Public Procurement Law” will be held on 23 October 2019. The event is organised by the Polish Chamber for IT and Telecommunications.

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss particular changes made by the implementation of the new Public Procurement Law and to present their effect on Clients and Contractors and potential influence on the way decisions are made by the National Appeals Chamber after Public Procurement Law is implemented on 1 January 2021.

The webinar will be held by experts from our Law Firm: Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor, and Tomasz Krzyżanowski, Legal Advisor.

To register go to: piit.clickmeeting.com

You are very welcome to participate!

We invite you to take part in the conference “Secure 2019”, which will be held in Warsaw on 22-23 October 2019.

The conference addressing the issue of information and communications technology became a fixed date on the calendar of annual meetings and has been organized by NASK and its CERT Polska team since its first edition in 1996.

The conference agenda will include discussions on the following topics:

• Robots, planes, and the AI and cyber inside them – isn’t it too much?
• How to steal a million dollars? – instances of technical attacks on financial applications
• Diamond are forever (threat actors are not) – diamond model in the analysis of incidents and threat intelligence
• Is is possible to find a secure smartphone, tablet, and TV today? Samsung vision of cybersecurity
• What influences the security of a domain? Security factors and tips for domain registrants
• How to catch a hacker?

We are happy to inform you that on the second day of the conference Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor, and Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, will give a lecture entitled “Legal Liability for Infringement of Cybersecurity Rules”.

We hope to see you there!

The Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (INP PAN) and the Association of Intellectual Property and Competition Law would like to invite you to participate in an international conference entitled “Trade Secrets in Theory and Practice”.

The subject of the Conference will be the broadly defined issue of protection of trade secrets in light of Directive 2016/943, including protection of know-how in employee relations as well as during court proceedings and mediation, scope of accountability for the disclosure of trade secrets, and scope of claims available in that respect.

The Conference will be held on 17 October 2019 at the main offices of the Institute in Warsaw, ul. Nowy Świat 72 (Pałac Staszica).

We are pleased to inform you that Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is one of the speakers during the event.

Detailed schedule is available on the organiser’s website: http://en.inp.pan.pl/agenda/

We invite you to register via registration form available on INP PAN website.

We invite you to take part in the conference on “Practical Aspects of AML Requirements Implementation by Financial Institutions”, which will be held in Warsaw on 16-17 October 2019.

We are pleased to inform you that during the event Michał Synowiec, Trainee Attorney-at-Law, will give his lecture on “Machine Learning for AML”.

The following matters will also be addressed during his presentation:

• Use of AI in AML processes
• Extent of Machine Learning application in the context of AML obligations
• Machine Learning and accountability for the application of financial security measures

More information about the event is available on the website of the organiser – MMC Polska.

The 8th edition of Retail Channels 360° Forum organised by European Conferences United will be held in Warsaw on 15-16 October 2019.

The programme of the event includes discussions on matters such as:

During plenary sessions:

• Borderless e-commerce
• Strategic challenges in the age of rapidly developing e-commerce

During panel discussions:

• Direct 2 customer
• Cooperation between online stores and producers
• E-commerce for retail chains
• E-commerce marketing & communication
• Customer loyalty & retention

The purpose of the Forum remains to present a wide perspective on e-commerce development and to point to the channels and tools companies should use to keep up with their customers.

We are pleased to announce that during the event the panel entitled “European Legislation in the Context of E-commerce. Opportunities and Challenges for Business” held on the second day will be moderated by Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm is the legal partner of this event.

For more information, see the Retail Channels website.

We hope to see you there!

On 4 September 2019, a training course entitled “Practical aspects of PSD2 Directive implementation in the context of amendments to the regulation of payment services market” will be held in Warsaw.

The purpose of the course is to review the practical consequences of the changes brought by the implementation of PDS2 Directive in Polish law.

We are pleased to announce that the training course will be hosted by our FinTech experts:

• Jan Byrski, PhD Habil. – will hold the session entitled “Introduction to the Payment Services Act in terms of PSD2 Directive implementation” and “Amendment of the list of exemptions to application of the Payment Services Act”;
• Karol Juraszczyk – will hold the session entitled “Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and liability for unauthorised transactions”;
• Michał Synowiec – will hold the session entitled “Rules of providing new payment services (AIS/PIS) and notification of PSD2-related incidents”.

For detailed information about the event, see the website of: Centrum Promocji Informatyki (link).

We hope to see you there!

Editors of the monthly “Public Procurement Consultant” and Partners invite you to the conference “Past for the future – 25 years of Polish public procurement”. The conference will take place on 10 June 2019 at the Nimbus Conference Centre in Warsaw.

The conference is organized in connection with the 25th anniversary of adoption of the Public Procurement Act  and its aim is to discuss the past and future of the Polish public procurement system in the context of the new draft public procurement law.

The event program is divided into 4 panels:

• Preparation of proceedings
• Procedures
• Public procurement contracts
• Legal protection measures

Tomasz Krzyżanowski, Legal Counsel, will give his lecture on “The scope of a public procurement contract” during the panel “Public procurement contracts”.

More information about the event is available on the website of the organiser.

We hope to see you there!

On 30-31 May 2019, a conference entitled “Image protection in intellectual property law” will take place in Warsaw. The organiser of the event is the Polish Patent Office.

The programme of the symposium includes the following thematic panels:

• Defining image as the object of protection
• Works of art and building structures, or a strategy for protection of cultural heritage
• Strength of image, or a strategy for protection of public persons
• Image commercialization

We are pleased to inform you that during the panel on defining image as the object of protection, Professor Elżbieta Traple, PhD Habil., will give a lecture entitled “Dissemination of the image of an object protected by an industrial design right – Permitted use or interference with design rights?”

Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, will be the moderator of the panel on image commercialization, and will give a lecture entitled “Can I sell my image? – Rules for exercising moral rights”.

The event’s programme is available on the website of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, as well as through the following link: Symposium Programme.

We are pleased to announce that the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm is a partner of the 9th edition of the Conference of the Cooperation in Rights Protection Program organized by Allegro. The event will take place on 8 May 2019 in Warsaw.

During the conference our experts, Paweł Podrecki, PhD, Habil., Professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Piotr Wasilewski, PhD, will take part in the panel “Has a new scope of responsibility emerged for intermediaries in electronic trade in the light of the directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market?”. The moderator of the panel will be Paweł Podrecki, PhD, Habil., Professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the second half of the day, Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak, PhD, Patent Attorney, and  Aleksandra Młoczkowska, Patent Attorney, will host a workshop on the “Limits of protection of the mark on the basis of decisions from authorities”.

For more information, please visit www.dlakupujacych.allegro.pl.

We invite you to participate!

We invite you to take part in the conference entitled “GDPR: First Year after Implementation” which will summarise the first year of GDPR. The event will take place on 15-16 April 2019 in Warsaw.

We are pleased to inform you that during the event, Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, will give his lecture entitled “Controller, co-controller and processor – new scope of responsibilities and accountability in the GDPR.”

The following issues will also be addressed:

• Controller and processor – how to understand the elements of deciding on goals and means of processing data;
• Co-controller in judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union and individual EU nations;
• Processor – new scope of responsibilities;
• Administrative, civil and criminal responsibility of the controller, co-controller and processor.

More information about the event is available on the website of the organiser – the Puls Biznesu daily.

Forum of Electronic Media Law will be held on 9-10 April 2019 in Opole.

This event is the largest Polish non-profit scientific conference. The conference is a periodical forum for exchanging thoughts and experiences between prominent scientists and practitioners of the topic. It is organised by scientists and representatives of the practice interested in electronic media law.

The main topics of this year’s edition will be:

• Blockchain
• Cybersecurity
• GDPR, e-privacy
• Artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles

During the second day of the event, lectures will be given also by experts from our Law Firm. Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, will give a lecture during the “Cybersecurity, e-Administration” session entitled “Are new ways of protecting technologies needed?” while, Grzegorz Sibiga, PhD, will present the subject “Automation of activities in public administration – current state and development perspectives.”

During the “Personal Data, ePrivacy” session, Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, will discuss AI and privacy in the context of legal barriers.

Participation in the 5th Law of Electronic Media Forum is free of charge.