Valencia debates risk, responsibility and trust in the digital society: first PATRIMONIUM international congress, 11 and 12 November
The Universitat de València hosts the 1st International Congress on risk, responsibility and trust in the digital society on 11-12 November.
On 11 and 12 November, Valencia becomes the capital of the legal debate on the digital society. The Universitat de València hosts, in the historic La Nau building, the 1st International Congress "Risk, Responsibility and Trust in the Digital Society", organised by the PATRIMONIUM research group and open to researchers, legal professionals and students in hybrid format, with in-person and online attendance. The call for papers and registration remain open through the event's website.
Risk, responsibility and trust
The congress programme is built around three axes that cut across European and Spanish digital regulation. The first, risk: the preventive management of harm arising from artificial intelligence, data and platforms, in line with the risk-based approach of the European AI Regulation. The second, responsibility: how to allocate the legal consequences of harm in environments where algorithms, intermediaries and users interact, a territory where classical tort law faces distributed causation. The third, trust: the institutional and technical conditions that make digital activity sustainable, from certification to transparency.
The choice of these three concepts is not accidental. The European regulatory agenda — with the staggered application of the AI Regulation, the Data Act and the proposed revision of product liability — is rebuilding precisely on these three categories the map of obligations for technology companies, and Spanish doctrine is beginning to provide its own answers, as shown by the AEPD's guide on generative AI in law firms and the Ibero-American guide to AI in case law approved in Brasilia.
An academic forum with practical projection
The PATRIMONIUM group of the Universitat de València brings together private-law and social-science researchers around patrimony and its risks, and this first international congress is born with the vocation of becoming a periodic meeting. The hybrid format — in person at La Nau and online — eases the participation of professionals who cannot travel to Valencia, and the call for papers is open to works on any of the congress's three axes.
How to take part
Registration and the submission of papers are managed through the event's page on the Universitat de València website. The hybrid format allows the sessions to be followed online, and the organisers plan to publish the selected contributions. The meeting takes place at La Nau, the university's historic building in the centre of Valencia, on 11 and 12 November. Given the proximity of the dates, those interested in presenting a paper should check the concrete deadlines of the call for papers, which remains open alongside attendee registration.
Valencia as a regulatory-debate venue
The choice of Valencia as venue strengthens the city's position as a meeting point for legal reflection on technology, at a moment when the staggered application of the European AI Regulation demands practical answers from companies and operators. The PATRIMONIUM congress joins an intense autumn agenda in the region and is born with the ambition of becoming an annual reference for Spanish-language doctrine on digital risk. For the profession, the practical interest is direct: civil liability for harm caused by AI systems, contractual cybersecurity and evidence in digital environments are matters of growing litigation in Spanish courts. Those looking for more of the season's events can review the Aranzadi congress for in-house lawyers or the Huesca civil liability and insurance congress.
Source: Universitat de València, verified 3 November 2026.
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