 Great. Hello everybody. My name is Dazza Greenwood and I was asked to actually say a few words about myself by way of context and framing going forward because I think unfamiliar to most people in the room. Typically, I hang out in technology circles and it's been a while since I've been at a legal conference. So by way of background, I started my career as a lawyer in the 90s and was Deputy General Counsel and General Counsel in the Commonwealth of Mass for Technology in the Weld Administration and learned a lot about practicing law and managing legal operations and our deal was that I would provide legal services and that I would have a key to the server room so that we could actually go and hack some things as we would now call it and this is the dawning of the web and so most of the thing the network we started with was not TCPIP as a Banyan Vines Network and the way that we stored data everything it was pre-web and a number of people because it was that context included fairly innovative people with really severe financial pressures from the Dukakis administration where he was terrific, but he was running for president and left the state somewhat in disrepair due to a lot of reasons but our bond status was a triple was junk bond status basically when we when we took over and There was a lot we had to do a lot more with less with technology and a lot of that was legal Because the state government is a heavily regulated entity And affects many others. So it was a really deep practice of law policy through technology largely and The reason I'm oh, so I guess I should say my particular area was electronic signatures contracts and Transactions and that's largely because as we tried to transition You know in-person and paper on processes to a digital footing It came up all the time and having to solve for it You know you solve electronic signatures once or twice and before you know it you become like the guy that knows About electronic signatures and start becoming deeper in it. So one of the things that we've recognized which is also told to say is That we needed a legal framework not sort of one at a time contractual and transactional solutions to digitization of signatures contracts and transactions, but statutes that were Recognized nationally so it spent again. Thanks to the wealth administration They flew me around for a couple three years You know is that every single drafting meeting of the Uniform Law Commission for what became Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and we were big contributors to that and similarly parallel legislation through the It was McCain's committee when he was chairman of commerce and Bliley in the house the electronic signatures and global and national commerce Hatcher parallel legislation. Now. It's really all about setting a reliable appropriate legal framework upon which electronic Really life could occur But the way that we could express identity and do transactions come to agreements ensure valid and enforceable Activity that map to existing bodies of law And that I suppose that's the theme that in a sense brought me here today Is this just interest in absolutely creating cool projects and doing things that matter but in a way that? It can be extrapolated more broadly Actually, I was supposed to mention one other thing And I should say I also so a stop practicing law in the like around 2000 and Just started doing consulting to companies and sometimes illegal departments that had some large technology project YouTube is working I think and And there was very very privileged to be taken up as a sort of an adjunct faculty at MIT You know sort of across the river where in the late 90s and to that I think it started 97 e-commerce was off the hook and they didn't have enough people that could teach you know the web and e-commerce related topics and It is a small town new people and I was invited to help start teaching and it's so great at MIT for people that are at all Techie or interested in technology and tinkering and hacking with things so many curious minds I just found it's utopia for me and I've just never I've always had a foot there at least since 97 and The last few years since 2009 a halftime appointment as a researcher in the Media Lab and halftime just of doing typical Enterprise-facing consulting and so it's really in that capacity wearing my MIT hat that I am with you today and I'll spend a long time coming, but finally at MIT we are about to announce in fact I think apparently we are announcing right here right now the Commencement of a legal program it you can find the Registration for our debutante kind of party are coming out party with Integra and with the IBM Watson team Focused on law the sponsors is going to be a two-day event on October 30th and 31st and the event is titled MIT legal forum on AI and blockchain and The we've got a pretty hot real estate domain for a registration page for pre registrations MIT dot edu forward slash law and if You register you will be invited to Updates and announcements that we're doing some hangouts with some of the speakers and talk previewing some of the topics and also gathering and garnering topics and questions and Issues and topics and ideas and possibilities that people have that that you would nominate for us to discuss You can sign up for all that at that URL I think it hold and then coming out of this will have a more of a regular set of programs with the classroom and with research and With some partnerships at MIT Part of that is we've got a visiting professor of law now at the Media Lab by the name of Gabe Tenenbaum I know some of you know he's a professor at Suffolk University Law School, and he is the chair of the Academic Alliance the Integra Academic Alliance We're we're bringing together academic and research communities that are transforming legal services and the law itself in some cases through Technology just how it's delivered and what it is as we refactor it to be digital Gabe is a great guy He wishes he could be here today. I'm standing in for him And and I will be helping with with his work on this academic alliance The way I'm going to be helping is mostly by doing the thing I like most which is hacking the law And so the way that we do that there's a group believe it or not called legal hackers And I just want to do a quick poll how many people show up hands. I've ever heard of legal hackers Really? Seriously, how many people have not heard of legal hackers? Really drumming. Okay. All right, so we're gonna hang out more often So the last time internet identity workshop. I went to is a few years ago. So I'll come back this time legal hackers is my favorite group and it's some basically a meetup of groups many practicing lawyers many folks from startups and technologists in Cities across the world now. We just had a third summit on a couple of weeks ago in Brooklyn. I think we had like 25 countries represented actually flew people out We're 20 so we had quite a few and we've got a lot more that participate online and we track each other's work Many people they were very excited about the launch of integral ledger and well We had all the chairs together a couple weekends ago We actually set up a ringlet of of small prototype jams is what we're calling them In these cities where we'll be looking at and getting hands-on integral ledger and some of the associated tools Doubtless IBM Watson for at least some of them probably Toronto and then doing some integration work Brainstorming about use cases and then at the end of the evening the way we do these things is we just kind of circle up and Do a review of what people came up with and some conversations and synthesis and some feedback They're terrific sessions the format we call prototype jam So San Francisco is coming up and it's an association with a computational contracts Workshop at Codex So we'll be gathering some people just before that at this hack at this prototype jam And then Toronto will be really Debuting with the chairperson of the Toronto legal hackers Amy to our heart here and Be gathering quite a few folks up there That'll be a bigger affair with more even beyond a prototype jam North Carolina is interesting Nina Kilbride Who heads that one is also leaked chief legal engineer for Monax a smart contract company? He is going to be leading a weekend hack on a state crowdfunding law And SEC exemption I came out recently and basically building up a prototype with some interested people of how to do that platform Starting with the statute as the business requirements for the system That's a great idea and she kind of was very excited a couple weekends ago about this I this sort of epiphany she had reading the statute which was tight Elaine Marshall secretary of state their longtime secretary of state and a fine Person who's been collaborative over decades to say on technology Her staff wrote it and it's a great statute And we're going to attempt to realize it as The source of requirements and against which we'll test for success metrics Over this weekend and guess where the legal identities and the document IDs and legal matter IDs are coming from you know kind of a Funding by funding in tecro ledger Because we need a source of truth for those identities and it's not we could hack it We could invent something and another fractured Silo of identity, but this is really not useful And so this is that'll be the integration that we explore on that weekend Massachusetts legal hackers to be decided but probably something with analytics. Maybe some Thompson Thompson Reuters blockchain app But we should talk about exactly what open for nominations of what we can hack And New York legal hackers probably we believe will be with claws.io Where we will be looking with how many others at their API? And as you construct these contracts through is absolutely a need for to identify the parties in the contract identify the The document got the contract and the associated files are doc document cluster for the contract And then there's a legal matter and so in that case we'd be looking to Integrate with that system and see how see how that goes and learn from that You know Clio is a great example of an API where they've been great collaborators with legal hackers and with the Emerging legal program at MIT, but they've now have a fairly mature rest interface and OAuth to Interface to integrate your apps and services Commercial apps or you've got a firm or an enterprise. They've got a legal matter They've got certainly identity of individuals and of documents And so there's another hack that really wants to happen to integrate with Clio Maybe at a city near you maybe at your city and so like I love to hack the law I like these little prototype jams. I learned how to do it at MIT how to wrap it prototype from a legal and policy Context and to utilize those rules as requirements and also to use the wisdom of the law not just as constraints that limit creativity, but also of but also as a way to derive the wisdom of what we should do and how and Now it is my privilege and my And my pleasure to introduce again Bob Who's going to help sort of summarize and bring it home and to say one of the best treats of starting to advise? this integral lecture has been to meet the other advisors and the people involved and With that I give you Bob. Thank you