We’ve just wrapped up our 14th Annual General Meeting … and it was another huge success! Our hosts, Belgium member firm Litiguard Advocaten, organized a fantastic 2 ½ days for our network in the beautiful city of Antwerp.

Our members joined from all over and got to catch up, pick each other’s brain, sharpen their knowledge, talk shop and of course, share a great time together.

The Board wishes to thank the hosts Litiguard Advocaten for the care, ideas and time that went into the preparation of this great event, guest speaker Xavier Biot for broadening our minds and understanding of Decarbonization goals and challenges, as well as all our members for making Pangea Net such a vivid, active, high-quality international network of independent law firms.

It would be impossible to ignore the rise of AI over the past few months – with ChatGPT taking most of the headlines but facing competition from Google’s Bard and from Amazon and Facebook’s own AI offers.
With AI taking the headlines of the day it’s easy to forget about some of the other news stories that were (and may yet be) the next big thing, whether that be the continued evolution of the GDPR, the rise of the Metaverse or the implementation of new laws around digital services.
It’s a challenging time to be a data lawyer – with lots of potential distractions. In this issue we’ve picked up various of these ongoing themes, taking the perspective of different jurisdictions