Panel Discussion: Intellectual Property in the Era of Vibe Coding

About the panel

When AI tools generate working code in seconds, the code itself is no longer the moat. So what is?

Software development barriers are collapsing. AI tools are rapidly commoditizing code generation. Differentiation is shifting from code toward ideas, data, workflows, and execution — and with that shift comes a wave of new ownership, licensing, and compliance questions that most legal and engineering teams haven't sorted out yet.

This in-person panel — hosted at the Dipchand LLP law office in downtown Toronto — brings together an IP lawyer, an applied-AI governance leader, and an innovation strategist to dig into the questions that matter:

• When code becomes commoditized, what actually gets protected?
• Who owns AI-generated code — the developer, the employer, or the model provider?
• How do you protect architecture, data pipelines, workflows, and domain knowledge that lives outside the source files?
• What enterprise risks emerge when teams ship AI-assisted code without governance?
• Where does competitive advantage come from when software barriers keep lowering?

Format

• 6:00 PM — Doors open, networking
• 6:30 PM — Moderated panel discussion
• 7:30 PM — Audience Q&A
• 8:00 PM — Open networking, light refreshments

Who should come

• Directors, senior managers, and executives (CIO / CTO) shaping their organization's AI strategy
• Legal professionals advising on AI, software, and IP
• Developers and architects building with AI tools who need to understand the legal layer
• Startup founders thinking about defensibility in an AI-saturated market

What you'll walk away with

• Clarity on IP ownership for AI-generated outputs and the gray zones
• Concrete strategies for protecting value beyond code
• An enterprise risk and compliance lens on AI adoption
• A sense of where defensibility is heading over the next 24 months

Hosted by

Dipchand LLP — Toronto IP and corporate law firm, hosting in their downtown office at 401 Bay Street.

TorontoAI — Toronto's AI community of 10,000+ developers, founders, and researchers.

beCloudReady — AI and cloud training platform for engineering teams.

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