World Standards Week 2024

EmerginG Standards Professionals Workshop: Leadership and Engagement in ISO and IEC Activities

In person event — all day
Open to individuals with 8 or fewer years of experience in standardization and conformity assessment. Should capacity be an issue, priority will be given to individuals who actively participate in standards development.

Registration for the workshop has closed. If you have questions, please contact Samantha Yost at [email protected].

Morning/Afternoon:
ANSI Headquarters
Washington DC

Evening:
National Housing Center
Auditorium
Washington DC

Day 3 will allow attendees to explore the flip side of international standardization through our conformity assessment overview and training as well as hear from industry experts on standards’ effects on emerging topics such as: AI, SDGs, gender equity, and much more. 

ANSI Legal Issues Forum

Hybrid event
Free event; open to all

10:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

National Housing Center
Auditorium
Washington, DC

Panel 1: Navigating the Impact of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Decision
The recent Supreme Court ruling in Loper Bright overturns the Chevron deference doctrine—a principle that has long constrained courts’ authority to set aside agency regulations. This decision is expected to reshape the landscape of administrative law, particularly in how courts assess agency interpretations of statutes, and affect regulatory practices across various industries. This panel will explore the potential consequences of this landmark ruling on the development and application of standards in regulation, and the evolving relationship between the judiciary, regulatory bodies, and the standards community.

Lunch Discussion: New Legal Developments Impacting the Practice of Incorporation by Reference
This LIF panel is the second in a series covering the increasing risk of loss of copyright protection for standards that are incorporated by reference into regulation. Through the practice of incorporation by reference, government agencies reference external standards developed by private organizations and, up until now, have protected the SDO’s copyright in the documents incorporated by reference. The SDOs, in turn, have made these standards “reasonably available” to the class of persons impacted by the regulation. While that approach has worked well for decades, some argue that standards incorporated by reference into regulations should be provided to everyone for free on the internet. This panel will analyze the current legal landscape, including recent decisions on point from United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the status of proposed legislation to address the IBR issue and other ideas for minimizing the risk of copyright challenges to IBR’d standards.    

Panel 2: What the Standards Community Needs to Know about Data Security Regulations, Practices and Standards
An increasingly complex digital environment is profoundly altering how businesses operate and compete today, raising the stakes associated with protecting and securing data assets. The impact of threats to data security is being felt across multiple sectors – healthcare, financial services, manufacturing – as well as in corporate and government supply chains. Enterprises are creating, manipulating and storing an ever-increasing amount of data, driving a greater need for data governance. Computing environments have also become more complex, routinely spanning the public cloud, the enterprise data center and numerous edge devices such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, robots and remote servers. This complexity increases the risk of cyberattacks, making it harder to monitor and secure these systems. This LIF panel will explore the regulatory and legal frameworks that are being put in place to address and mitigate data security risks, and the role of standards and conformity assessment in enhancing data security.

ANSI is pleased to offer Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for this conference.