Please join us for our Virtual NJBIA AI, Technology & Innovation Policy Committee Meeting being held online via Zoom video conferencing.
This meeting will bring together leaders from across New Jersey’s innovation and business ecosystem to discuss the policies, technologies, and initiatives shaping the state’s future.
Our discussion will feature the following speakers:
- Margaret Durkin, TechNet, offering insight into the current legislative landscape affecting the technology and innovation sectors.
- Marie Pryor, Microsoft, highlighting ongoing and future AI research, development, and collaboration happening at the New Jersey AI Hub in Princeton, NJ.
- Ray Cantor, NJBIA, providing an update on state privacy regulations currently under development and their potential impact on businesses.
This is an excellent opportunity to hear directly from experts driving New Jersey’s technology and innovation agenda and to engage with fellow peers on emerging policy issues in this industry.
NJBIA will also be providing a legislative update during the meeting. If you have any matters you would like to have covered at this meeting, please email Jack Ramirez at jramirez@njbia.org.
Ray Cantor
Deputy Chief Government Affairs Officer, NJBIARay Cantor is Deputy Chief Government Affairs Officer of Government Affairs of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), the nation’s largest state-level business association whose member companies collectively employ 1 million people.
Cantor, an attorney whose career has included high-level positions in the legislative and executive branches of government, a former assistant commissioner and, later, chief adviser to the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), leads NJBIA’s advocacy efforts on environmental and energy matters affecting the business community.
At DEP, Cantor oversaw the offices of Legal Affairs, Dispute Resolution, and Economic Analysis in addition to advising the DEP commissioner on policy, legal, management, and economic matters. Cantor was also responsible for policy formulation related to all DEP regulations, including site remediation, NRD, air quality, water regulation, and land-use management.
A graduate of New York Law School, Cantor began his career working at the state’s Office of Legislative Services as senior counsel in the Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources section. He later served as the Assistant Commissioner of Land Use Management & Compliance at DEP until 2002 and also worked as a project consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Cantor’s experience as a business lobbyist includes five years as director of Government Affairs for the Medical Society of New Jersey and then executive director of the New Jersey Apartment Association. He returned to the state DEP in 2010, where he served as chief advisor to DEP Commissioner Bob Martin for eight years.
Margaret Durkin
Executive Director, TechNet