Global IP Europe Exchange 2025 | IQPC Exchange | 10 March 2025 | Meliá Berlin, Friedrichstraße 103, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Bringing Together IP Leaders To Discover Emerging Technologies, Increase Protection & Develop Lasting Connections
• Discover and define the role generative AI has to play in your IP department, and weigh in on its worth as a productivity tool.
• Hear from leading IP experts to help you realise the full potential of your patent portfolio while determining new methods to assess which patents are most valuable and essential for cost savings.
• Consider the best strategies to navigate the laws and regulations of foreign markets and the launch of the UPC.
• Explore the worth of propagating “the IP language” to other departments in order to minimise leaks and misunderstandings, and ensure the maintenance of optimised workflow and efficiency.
• Assess new approaches to protect your brand from the ever-evolving threat of infringements, particularly in the age of generative AI and e-commerce.

Who Attends the Exchange?
A MUST ATTEND EVENT FOR Vice Presidents, Heads, Officers, Directors, and Senior Managers of:
• Intellectual Property
• Patents
• Brand Protection
• Trademarks
• Legal/Legal Affairs
• Licensing
• M&A
• In-House Legal Counsel and Attorneys

2025 Speaker

Chris Benson
Partner & Head of Electronics, HGF

Morten R Serup
Senior Brand Protection Officer, Bang & Olufsen

Will Covey
Deputy General Counsel and Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline, USPTO

Verena Potting
VP IP, Berry Global

Kathrin Koerner
SVP, Global Head of Patents and Scientific Services, Managing Director, Merck Gruppe

Roxana Sullivan
Head of Trademarks, Galderma

Jennifer Chung
VP, Counsel, Simon & Schuster

Jeroen Gaasbeek
Director IP, FrieslandCampina

Alexander van Eeuwijk
Head of IP, Signify

Sean Alexander
Head of IP, Umicore

Christian Grünberger
Director IP, MTU Aero Engines

Tara Harris
Group IP Lead - Digital & Regulatory, Prosus

Abier Wasouf
Global Anti-Counterfeit Counsel, Danfoss

David Goodfellow
Chief IP Counsel, Aptiv

Lucy Wojcik
Chief IP Counsel, Ocado

Paula Dahlem
Legal Counsel, Hitachi Astemo

Sébastien Vitali
Head of Trademarks, Johnson Controls

Itai Galmor
CRO, BrandShield

Donato Pasquariello
Director IP, Ericsson

Leigh Outten
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property EMEA including India, Australia, Trane Technologies

Georg Müller
Head of IP, TomTom

Axel Grzesik
VP, Section Head IP, Bosch

Peter Arrowsmith
Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney, and UPC Representative, Gill Jennings & Every LLP

Rebecca Matheson
Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney, and UPC Representative, Gill Jennings & Every LLP

Shohta Ueno
Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel, Regeneron

Jennifer Debrow
Partner, Taft Law

Ashley Bennett Ewald
Partner, Taft Law

Dan Smith
Patent and Licensing Strategist, Motorola - a Lenovo Company

Erik Odeback
Attorney at Law, Partner, Hanol Intellectual Property & Law

Ajita Abraham
Deputy GC, SVP and Global Head of Commercial Privacy and IP, Avantor

Jörg Thomaier
Head of IP, Bayer

Georgina Wilkins, Dr.
Head of Intellectual Property, Hitachi Energy

Nicole Klug
Head of Global IP & Anti-Counterfeiting, HUGO BOSS

Belinda Gascoyne, Dr.
Chief Patent and Senior IP Counsel - EMEA and AP, IBM

2025 Sponsors

• Anaqua
• AWA
• BforeAI
• BrandShield
• CMS
• Computer Packages
• Digital Enforcement Concepts
• Digip
• Dennemeyer
• Ebrand
• Evalueserve
• GJE
• Haloo
• Hai Wen
• Hanol
• HGF
• IPRally
• K&S Partners
• Morae
• Prism IP
• Seprotec
• SICPA
• Sonoda & Kobayashi
• SunIP
• Taft/
• UnitedLex
• Withers & Rogers