Most Recent Webinar Series Recordings:


Optimizing Targeted Clinical Trial Recruitment and Increasing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Leveraging Data Analytics and Collaboration

June 29, 2022

Event faculty included Barbara Bierer, MD, Faculty Director, MRCT Center, and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Amy Franzen, Vice President, Tempus, Lyric Jorgenson, PhD, Acting Associate Director for Science Policy and the Acting Director of the Office of Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jill Pellegrino, Vice President of Recruitment and Real World Evidence (RWE), CVS Health Clinical Trial Services, Christine Moundas, Partner, Ropes & Gray, David Peloquin, Partner, Ropes & Gray.

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Speaker: Barbara Bierer, MD

Faculty Director, MRCT Center, and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Amy Franzen

Vice President, Tempus

Speaker: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD

Acting Associate Director for Science Policy and the Acting Director of the Office of Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Jill Pellegrino

Vice President of Recruitment and Real World Evidence (RWE), CVS Health Clinical Trial Services

Speaker: Christine Moundas

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Speaker: David Peloquin

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP


Web 3.0/blockchain: A more secure Internet?

May 19, 2022

Event faculty included Jon Adams, Director, Legal (Product, Platform, and Partnerships), LinkedIn Corporation, Marta Belcher, General Counsel, Protocol Labs, Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Anders Brownworth, Principal Architect, Payment Strategies, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Ravi Sarathy, Professor, International Business & Strategy, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, and Ed McNicholas, data, privacy & cybersecurity partner, Ropes & Gray.

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Moderator: Ed McNicholas

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP, and Professional Lecturer in Law, George Washington University School of Law

Speaker: Anders Brownworth

Principal Architect, Payment Strategies, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Speaker: Jon Adams

Director, Legal (Product, Platform, and Partnerships), LinkedIn Corporation

Speaker: Ravi Sarathy

Professor, International Business & Strategy, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

Speaker: Marta Belcher

General Counsel, Protocol Labs, Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and Special Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation


ESG and Climate Change: Developing Common Standards and Data to Evaluate Investment Risk and Corporate Performance

December 2, 2021

Event faculty included Robert L. Jackson, Jr., Pierrepont Family Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, and SEC Commissioner from 2017 to 2020, John (Jianqiu) Bai, Associate Professor of Finance, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Dr. Rao Kotamarthi, Senior Scientist, Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Sam Tortora, Global Head of Aladdin Sustainability, BlackRock, and Michael Littenberg, Partner, Ropes & Gray.

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Moderator: Michael Littenberg

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Speaker: Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

Pierrepont Family Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; SEC Commissioner from 2017 to 2020

Speaker: John (Jianqiu) Bai

Associate Professor of Finance, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

Speaker: Dr. Rao Kotamarthi

Senior Scientist, Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: Sam Tortora

Global Head of Aladdin Sustainability, BlackRock


Cyber Threats, Data Sharing and the New White House Executive Order

October 26, 2021

Event faculty included Dan Sutherland, Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Sara Cable, Chief, Data Privacy and Security Division, and Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Timothy Edgar, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University, David Luzzi, Senior Vice Provost for Research, Vice President of the Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA, Senior Advisor to the President, and Chairman of the Board of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University, and Ed McNicholas, Partner, Ropes & Gray.

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Opening Remarks: Dan Sutherland

Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Moderator: Ed McNicholas

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP, and Professional Lecturer in Law, George Washington University School of Law

Speaker: Sara Cable

Chief, Data Privacy and Security Division, and Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Speaker: Timothy Edgar

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University, and Former National Security and Intelligence Official

Speaker: David Luzzi

Senior Vice Provost for Research, Vice President of the Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA, Senior Advisor to the President, and Chairman of the Board of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University


Accelerating Next Generation Developments in Cancer Care: A Collaborative Agenda for Data Innovations and Policy

September 23, 2021

Event faculty included Dr. Todd R. Golub, Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dr. Brian Alexander, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Andy Beck, MD PhD, Co-Founder & CEO, PathAI, Rebecca Li, PhD, Executive Director, Vivli, Christine Moundas, Partner, Ropes & Gray, and David Peloquin, Partner, Ropes & Gray.

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Speaker: Dr. Todd R. Golub

Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Speaker: Dr. Brian Alexander

Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Medicine, Inc.

Speaker: Andy Beck, MD, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, PathAl

Speaker: Rebecca Li, PhD

Executive Director, Vivli

Speaker: Christine Moundas

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Speaker: David Peloquin

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP


Return to Normal? How Data Can Facilitate Recovery and Return to Work

June 30, 2021

Event faculty included Dr. Barbara Z. Larson, Executive Professor of Management, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Kevin Angle, Counsel, Ropes & Gray, David Luzzi, Senior Vice Provost for Research, Vice President of the Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA, Northeastern University, Erica Murphy, Chief Human Resources Officer, Ropes & Gray, and Marc Zissman, Associate Division Head, Cyber Security and Information Sciences, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barbara Z. Larson

Executive Professor of Management, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

Moderator: Mark Barnes

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Panelist: Kevin Angle

Counsel, Ropes & Gray LLP

Panelist: David Luzzi

Senior Vice Provost for Research, Vice President of the Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA, Northeastern University

Panelist: Marc Zissman

Associate Division Head, Cyber Security and Information Sciences, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Panelist: Erica Murphy

Chief Human Resources Officer, Ropes & Gray LLP


The Corporate World Turned Upside Down: Measuring Change in Culture, Compliance and Innovation in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

November 10, 2020

Event faculty included Zach Coseglia, Managing Principal, Head of Innovation, and Co-Lead, R&G Insights LAB, Koen Pauwels, Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Co-Founder of the DATA Initiative, Northeastern University, Tara Palesh, Senior Director – Global Compliance Analytics Lead, Pfizer Inc., Mike Garcia, Managing Vice President, Capital One Financial Corporation, Lili Gil Valletta, Co-Founder and CEO, CIEN+ and CulturIntel, and Eugene Soltes, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. 

Ropes & Gray is serving as the exclusive legal partner of Mass Insight Global Partnerships in an ongoing initiative to align leading financial services organizations with university members, academic researchers and venture capital partners to identify and address digital technology and data challenges. Leading the efforts to liaise with Mass Insight Global Partnerships and its members for the webinar series include IP transactions partner Ed Black and data, privacy & cybersecurity counsel Kevin Angle (both of Boston) in coordination with Bill Guenther, Chairman, CEO & Founder, Mass Insight Global Partnerships.

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Speaker: Zach Coseglia

Managing Principal, Head of Innovation, and Co-Lead, R&G Insights LAB

Speaker: Koen Pauwels

Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Co-Founder of the DATA Initiative, Northeastern University

Speaker: Tara Palesh

Senior Director- Global Compliance Analytics Lead, Pfizer Inc.

Speaker: Mike Garcia

Managing Vice President, Capital One Financial Corporation

Speaker: Lili Gil Valletta

Co-Founder & CEO, CIEN+ and CulturIntel

Speaker: Eugene Soltes

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School


Modeling COVID-19, Tracking Health Data: How Data is Developed and Leveraged to Inform Re-Opening Plans and COVID-19 Response

July 29, 2020

Event faculty included Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor, Director – Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Kevin Angle, Counsel, Ropes & Gray, Susan Holleran, Chief Compliance Officer and Vice President, Internal Audit, Waters Corporation, David Luzzi, Senior Vice Provost for Research, Vice President of the Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA, Northeastern University, Rohan Massey, data, privacy & cybersecurity partner, Ropes & Gray, Erica Murphy, Chief Human Resources Officer, Ropes & Gray, Ara Tahmassian, Chief Research Compliance Officer, Harvard University, and Marc Zissman, Associate Division Head, Cyber Security and Information Sciences, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani

Speaker: Kevin Angle

Speaker: Susan Holleran

Speaker: David Luzzi

Speaker: Rohan Massey

Speaker: Erica Murphy

Speaker: Ara Tahmassan

Speaker: Marc Zissman


Data Partnerships: How to Apply Data Solutions to Address COVID-19 and the Financial and Economic Crises (and Accelerate Innovation Long Term)

May 7, 2020

Event faculty included Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance, Director of Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management, Kevin Angle, Counsel, Ropes & Gray, Raj Echambadi, Dean, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Ed McNicholas, data, privacy & cybersecurity partner, Ropes & Gray, Alfredo Sciascia, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Research, Liberty Mutual, Randy Swanberg, Senior Vice President, Automation and AI, State Street, and Marc Zissman, Associate Division Head, Cyber Security and Information Sciences, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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Speaker: Andrew Lo

Speaker: Kevin Angle

Speaker: Raj Echambadi

Speaker: Ed McNicholas

Speaker: Alfredo Sciascia

Speaker: Randy Swanberg

Speaker: Marc Zissman