It is with immense pride and enthusiasm that DY Patil University School of Law, Navi Mumbai, and the Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Law and Technology Chapter warmly invite you to the 2026 ALSA Law and Technology Conference on the theme - Technology Governance or Technology Government? This belatedly biennial conference, building on the distinguished legacy of our 2021, 2023, and 2025 editions, attempts to gather the most interested legal minds from across Asia and then the globe to discuss pressing questions at the intersection of law and technology. In 2021, the Centre for AI & Data Governance of the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law organised the conference online. In 2023, the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law organised the conference in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The 2025 conference was organised by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. We extend our sincere gratitude and congratulations to these organisations for leading by example, effort, and intent these conferences of immense relevance.

It is the first time that it breaks its biennial tradition, and we are glad that it is being done in India. Law and technology has become a field of immense importance because of the pervasive nature of technology in all our lives (human and non-human). Acknowledging that fast adoption of technologies leaves out the introspective process that is required for law making, these conferences aim to provide a platform to that process; to bring together stakeholders across various stratas of society: students, teachers, policy makers, and jurists.

The conference goes further by incorporating within itself a symposium on the theme - Addressing the IT to AI journey: is there an effective regulator? Cognisant of the paradigm technological shift taking place due to the influx of Artificial Intelligence, we are making efforts to gain purposive and meaningful engagement on the topic of AI regulation by asking if there is an effective regulator. We have partnered up with the strongly indexed journal 'Law, Technology and Humans' (LTH) that is supported by the Humans Technology Law Centre in the Faculty of Business and Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. LTH publishes scholarship that is both introspective and impactful in a very unique pan-jurisdictional way.

We are honoured to host this landmark event at our campus in Navi Mumbai - a city that itself embodies the aspirational energy of India's technological transformation. We look forward to three days of vigorous debate, scholarly exchange, and meaningful connection. Welcome to DY Patil School of Law, welcome to Navi Mumbai, India.