Sebastian Ko is a multi-award winning attorney turned technology entrepreneur. He is founder of A.I. Vermont, applying A.I. to regulation. Trained as a scientist and practised as an attorney, he holds leadership roles in the lawtech community in Greater China. He is a co-author of The RegTech Book and The LegalTech Book (both, Wiley).

Ko is passionate about access to justice, how new technologies will impact life, rights and governance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Ko founded the first Asia access to justice tech hackathon series and is founding chairman of the InnoTech Law Hub at the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is a World Commerce & Contracting Association Council Member and MIT Technology Review Global Panelist. He also sits on several civil society boards and committees advising on technology policy reform.

In 2017-18, Ko was elected Curator of the Hong Kong Hub, Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. He also received the Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxford) and the Law Society Distinguished Service Award, and was recognized as an Inter-Pacific Bar Scholar and Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow. He is legally qualified in New York and Hong Kong.