INTA Annual Meeting 2023 - Singapore | International Trademark Association | 15 May 2023 | Sands Expo & Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956

This year’s meeting will focus on the business of innovation, exploring the implications for IP and looking ahead to the future.

Connect with the largest international network of IP and brand professionals.

Launching in 2023, our Innovation Marketplace exhibition hall will highlight cutting-edge products, services, and solutions from around the world.

Join us for intimate, insightful programming focused on some of the critical questions shaping the future of IP—from navigating outer space to wellness in the workplace.

We welcome you to get inspired, expand your horizons, and take part in these compelling conversations.

2023 Speakers

GUEST OF HONOR:

Edwin Tong SC
Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and Minister for Law

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jennifer Jones
President, Rotary International

Daren Tang
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

Danny Marti
Head of Public Affairs and Global Policy, Tencent

Erika Yawger
Principal Counsel & APAC Team Manager (IP Enforcement & Anti-Counterfeiting), Apple Inc.

Pamela Hernandez
Partner, Minino

Tara Steketee
Director, Product Intigerity , Merck & Co., Inc.

Vivek Balasubramanian
Global Head of Intellectual Property Rights Protection, TikTok

Daniel Dougherty
Senior Director, Global IP Enforcement, Alibaba Group

Kostas Fintrilis
Head of Assortment, Content, Ads, and IP Governance, Lazada

Charles Hoskin
Head of Brand Protection, Shopee

Nina Ramesh
Director and Senior Associate General Counsel, Coupang

Sumit Kapoor
Global Brand Relations Manager, Asia Pacific, Amazon

Stefio Kurniadi
Head of Trust & Safety Team, Bukalapak

Julian Wong
VP, Risk Management & Compliance, Tokopedia

Ross Zhang
Legal Counsel, Tencent

Rachel Hofstatter
Partner, Honigman LLP

Sugouri Batra
Director of IP and Marketing, Palavan & Moore, PLLC

Pei Lin Low
Partner, Allen & Gledhill LLP

Eric De Gryse
Partner, Simont Braun

Jeanette Sanniola Zimmer
Legal Senior Director, Trademark Counsel, PepsiCo, Inc.

Patrick Low
Principal IP Counsel, Tencent

Miley Chen
Senior Marketing Manager, PUBG MOBILE

Pin-Ping Oh
Partner, Bird & Bird ATMD LLP, Singapore

Joey Zhou
Senior Business & Brand Manager, Game for Peace

Melissa LaBauve
Partner, Munck Wilson Mandala, LLP

Heike Bhonsle
Senior Director, Global IP, Crocs

Joe Ewell
Vice President Innovation, Flowers Foods

Nina Ramesh
Director & Senior Assoc General Counsel, Coupang

Michelle Ciotola
Partner, Cantor Colburn LLP

Randy Michels
Co-founder, Trust Tree Legal

Ella Cheong
Director, Ella Cheong LLC

Sven-Erik Batenburg
Associate General Counsel – IP Brand Protection, Coupang

Motasem Abu-Ghazaleh
CEO, Osha BWB International

Monica Su
Chief Representative Officer, INTA

Hui Huang
Partner, Management Committee Member, Wanhuida IP

Christopher Shen
Senior Partner, NTD IP Attorneys

Carol Wang
Principal, Rouse

Helen Xia
APAC IPMT Practice Area Leader, Hogan Lovells

Daria Kaplunenko
Patent Law Agency IPK, Ukraine, Managing Partner, Patent and Trademark Attorney of Ukraine

Yuliya Prokhoda
Patent & Trademark Attorney, Attorney-at-Law, CEO, INTELS-Ukraine, Head of National Association of Patent Attorneys of Ukraine

Steve Cooper
Partner, Ware Fressola Maguire & Barber LLP

Phil Cox
Business Development Coach, IP Attorneys

Alena Fischerova
Senior Associate, BomhardIP

Sungpil Hwang
Attorney, E. M. Hwang & Partners

Nicholas Lauw
Partner, RPC PREMIER LAW

Marissa B. Lewis
Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Serena Lim
Senior Legal Counsel, Ant Group

Heather McDonald
Of Counsel, Baker Hostetler

Daren Tang
Director-General, World Intellectual Property Organization

Rena Lee
Chief Executive Singapore

Lu Pengqi
Deputy Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration

Santisouk Phounesavath
Director General Department of Intellectual Property

Unnat Pandit
Controller General, Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks

Barba Rowel S.
Director General, Intellectual Property Office of Philippines

Goo Youngmin
Director General of Trademark & Design Examination Bureau, Korean Intellectual Property Office

Iris Gunther
Director, Enforcement and Sustainability, INTA

Chief Judge Guangyu Ding
Supreme People’s Court of China

Justice Dedar Singh Gill
Singapore Supreme Court

Judge Kwangnam Kim
Seoul High Court

Justice Manmohan
Delhi High Court

Referendaire Andrej Stec
General Court EU

Justice Azlan Sulaiman
Judicial Commissioner, High Court of Kuala Lumpur

Christine Repond
Brand IP Services Lead, Nestlé; Chair, INTA Madrid System Subcommittee

Benoît Apercé
Communications and Information Manager, Madrid Information and Promotion Division, Madrid Registry, Brands and Designs Sector, WIPO,

Denis Croze
Director, Madrid Information and Promotion Division, Madrid Registry, Brands and Designs Sector, WIPO

David Muls
Senior Director, Madrid Registry, Brands and Designs Sector, WIPO

Paolo Lazzarino
Equity Partner, ADVANT NCTM Studio Legale Associato

Brian B. Darville
Senior Counsel, Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P

Pamela Weinstock
Managing Counsel, Intellectual Property, Tiffany & Co.

Kathryn Szymczyk
Global Business Development Senior Manager IP, Gowling WLG

Tim Londergan
CEO & Founder, Tangibly

Jon Parker
Partner, Gowling WLG

Axel Nordemann
Founder and Partner, Nordemann, former Chair of INTA Copyright Committee

James Whymark
Associate General Counsel for Product IP at Meta, International Task Force Lead (International & Legislative Subcommittee) of INTA Copyright Committee

Abdulaziz Alswailem
CEO, Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property

Gavin Foo
Head of the Copyright Unit and Senior Legal Counsel, Legal Department, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Martin Correa Finsterbusch
Senior Counsellor for the Future of Intellectual Property at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Stanley Lai
Partner, Allen & Gledhill and and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Walter Chia
Chief Representative Officer – Asia Pacific, International Trademark Association

Rena Lee
Chief Executive Officer, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Zaheera Hashim
Director and Assistant General Counsel – Trademarks and Marketing Assets, Procter & Gamble, Inc

Janice Wong
Chief Executive Officer, JWO Holdings

Eunice Moller
Senior Trademark Paralegal, Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp

Eryck Castillo
Senior Partner, Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff, S.C.

Katie Rose
Senior Trademark Manager, Yoon & Yang (IP) LLC

Kevin Wong
Director, Ella Cheong, LLC

Vincent Yong
Founder, Danspire International

David Llewelyn
Professor of Law (Practice), Singapore Management University (SMU)

Oliver Morris
Deputy Director, IPO UK

Rangga Suryasaladin
Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Universitas Indonesia

Honorable Justice Prathiba M. Singh
Delhi High Court

Honorable Justice Sanjeev Narula
Judge, Delhi High Court

Honorable Justice Navin Chawla
Judge, Delhi High Court

Honorable Justice Amit Bansal
Judge, Delhi High Court

Ingyu Kim
Deputy Director, Trademark Examination Policy Division, Korean Intellectual Property Office

Ignacio de Medrano Caballero
Head of International Cooperation Division, European Union Intellectual Property Office

David Gooder
Commissioner for Trademarks, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Miwa Shoji
Administrative Judge, Deputy Director, International Cooperation Division, Japan Patent Office (Japan)

Yao Yang
Deputy Director, Examination Division I, Trademark Office, China National Intellectual Property Administration

Yoo Jiseon
Deputy Director, Trademark Examination Policy Division, Korean Intellectual Property Office

Samir Dixit
Asia-Pacific Consultant, International Trademark Association (INTA)

Tricia Chong
Investment Division – SG Innovate

Seemant Jauhari
Managing, Partner, HealthX Capital

Robin Nayak
Principal and Chief Strategist, Dare Consulting

Candice Kwok
Partner, Squire Patton Boggs

Fang Chen
Founder, RAYCAN Technology Co., Ltd.

Wang Kan
IP Director, RAYCAN Technology Co., Ltd.

Peng Fong Goh
Managing Director, DBS Bank Ltd.

Nigel King
Head, Legal, Intellectual Property & Brand, Standard Chartered

Ling Ho
Partner, Clifford Chance

Benny Lee
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Marketing, Coca Cola

Cedric Lindenmann
Senior Associate, Allen & Overy

Abe Sun
Partner, Baker McKenzie (Thailand)

Kerith Kanaber
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Irene Calboli
Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law

Ravi Ravindran
Partner, Ravindran Associates LLP

David Kappos
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Serena Lim
Soft IP & Litigation Counsel, Ant Group

Eleanor Merrett
Partner, CMS

Louisa Xu
Senior IP Counsel, Treasury Wine Estates Asia (SEA) Pte. Ltd

Jenny Barker
Director, Global Anti-Counterfeiting, GSK

Andy Leck
Principal, Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow

Perry Ng
Criminal Intelligence Officer, INTERPOL’s Program on Illicit Goods and Global Health

Yili CHIANG Yi-lee
Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department

Jami Gekas
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Auke-Jan Bossenbroek
Senior Managing Counsel, IP, Booking.com B.V.

Jillian L. Burstein
Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Laura Brett
Vice President, National Advertising Division, BBB National Programs

Kostas Fintrilis
Head of Assortment, Content, and Ads Governance, Lazada SEA

Jonathan Agmon
Partner and Head of Singapore Office, Soroker Agmon Nordman Pte Ltd.

Shuwen Koh
Director of IP Management & Tech Commercialisation at Technology Transfer and Innovation (TTI), National University of Singapore

Jomarie Fredericks
Deputy General Counsel, Chief Intellectual Property and Brand Counsel for Rotary International

Andrei Iancu
Partner, Irell & Manella LLP

David Kappos
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Pete Pollard
Founder, Fireball Patents

William Fauchoux
CEO, BlockchainyourIP, (France)

Chia Ling Koh
Managing Director, OC Queen Street LLC

Leann Pinto
President, IPwe Inc.

Etienne Sanz de Acedo
Chief Executive Officer, International Trademark Association

Lu Pengqi
Deputy Commissioner of China National Intellectual Property Administration

Audrey Yap
Regional Managing Director, Yusarn Audrey LLC

Tyler Capson
Managing Director, EverEdge Global

Martin Brassel
CEO & Co-founder, Inngot

Prantik Mazumdar
Venture & Angel Investor and Managing Director, CXM Group

Chee Chong Lau
Investment Manager, Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway

Courtney Laginess
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, FIS

Anna Mae Koo
Partner, Vivien Chan & Co

Karen May Fong
Partner, Keystone Law

Anthony Rose
Chairman & CEO, House of Rose Professional

Scott Woldow
Partner, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP

Britt Anderson
Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Catherine M.C. Farrelly
Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC

David Gooder
Commissioner for Trademarks, USPTO

Kerstin Gründig-Schnelle
Partner, SCHALAST

Jennifer Simmons
Government Relations, International Trademark Association (INTA)

Kathi Vidal
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Nick Redfearn
Principal, Global Head of Enforcment, Rouse

Yi-Hsen Gian
Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer, Nanofilm Technologies International Ltd.

Dr. Jing Lim
CTO, Osteopore International

Jordi Güell
Partner, Güell IP

Tom Scourfield
Co-Head of the International IP Group and UK Chair of the Consumer Products Sector Group, CMS

David Lossignol
Global Head, Legal Brand Protection, Novartis International AG

Rachel Armstrong
Partner, Gowling WLG

Uma Thana Balasingham
Vice President, Partner & Commercial Sales Asia Pacific & Japan, VMware | Co-Founder LeanIn, Singapore ​“VMWare LeanIn”

Carrie Fan
Director of Global Communications, Tencent

Jennifer Jones
President, Rotary International

Auma Reggy
Managing Lead Counsel, McKesson Corporation

Safir Anand
Senior Partner and Head of Department (Trademarks, Contractual and Commercial IP), Anand & Anand

Andrea Chiu
IP Strategist, IPOS International

Jaspreet Kochar
Director of Research & Development, Procter & Gamble

Elio De Tullio
Managing Partner, De Tulio & Partners

Lindesay Low
Deputy Diector Legal Affairs, Scotch Whisky Association (Edinburgh)

Stephen Stern
Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Stephen (Australia)

Massimo Vittori
Managing Director, OriGIN

Deborah Hampton
Trademark Team Leader, Senior Trademark and Copyright Program Manager, The Chemours Company FC, LLC

Stephanie Grenald
Principal Legal Counsel, Amazon

Marion Heathcote
Principal, Trademark Attorney, Davies Collison Cave (Australia)

Susanna HS Leong
Professor, National University Singapore

Yann Basire
Professor, University of Strasbourg – CEIPI (France)

Megan Carpenter
Professor, University of New Hampshire School of Law, Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property

Justin Hughes
Professor, Loyola Law School

David Llewelyn
Professor, Singapore Management University

Andrei Iancu
Partner, Irell & Manella LLP

Konstantinos Georgaras
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Rena Lee
Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Sune Stampe
Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Danish Patent and Trademark Office

Adam Williams
CEO and Comptroller General, Intellectual Property Office

Dongping Wu
Secretary-General, China Trademark Association

Wei He
Trademark Attorney/Director of Trademark Department, Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd

Dr. Hui Huang
Partner, Management Committee Member, Wanhuida IP

Lu Pengqi
Deputy Commissioner, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)

Liu Yijun
Senior Judge, Beijing Intellectual Property Court

Yao Yong
Deputy Director of Examination Division 1, Trademark Office, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)

Gedeona Maduro
Director, Bureau for Intellectual Property

Allan Jarry
Managing Partner, Jarry IP (Chile)

Daniela Rojas
Foreign Legal Consultant, K&L Gates LLP

Jessica Cardon
General Counsel, Parlux Holdings, Inc.

Juliet Alcoba
Attorney, Alcoba Law Group, P.A.

Brian Buss
Director, CBIZ Forensic Consulting Group

Irene Chang
Trademark, Copyright and Corporate Marketing Counsel, HP Inc.

Maria Fernandez Marques
Head Legal Brand Protection Rights Management, Norvatis Pharma AG

Scott Minden
Director & Associate General Counsel, Head of Trademarks, Meta Platforms, Inc.

Andrew Avsec
Partner, Crowell & Moring

Nicholas Hawkins
Associate, Womble Bond Dickinson

Rodrigo A. de Ouro Preto Santos
Senior Partner, Ouro Preto Advogados

Hongbin Zhang
Partner, LexField Law Offices

Hiroyuki Asano
Deputy Director, Anti-Counterfeit Research Section, International Cooperation Division, Japan Patent Office

Erin Howard
Retail Leader – Global Brand Relations, Customer Trust External Relations, Amazon

Shogo Matsunaga
Sonderhoff & Einsel and INTA Member from the Anticounterfeiting Committee

Dawn Ng
Assistant Director (Retail), Singapore Tourism Board

Etienne Ng
Regional Director (Southeast Asia), Weixin Pay

Erwin Wuysang-Oei
Head, Marketing & Merchandising Controller & E-Commerce, Metro Singapore

Sarah Bro
Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery

Neha Chugh
Founder, IPR International Services

Alex Garcia
Partner, Holland & Hart LLP

Chris Kindel
Member, Pirkey Barber PLLC

Esther Seow
Principal, Davies Collison Cave

Kate McMorrow
Associate, Knobbe Marten

Ellen Gevers
Managing Partner, Knijff

Seiro Hatano
Partner, TMI Associates

Itai Sela Saldinger
Director of IP, Playtika

Philip Lapin
Partner, Smart & Biggar

Dan Chen
Partner, Fairsky Law Office

Tomoya Kurokawa
Vice President, SOEI Patent & Law Firm

Brenda Matanga
Head of Practice and Lead IP Counsel, Bmatanga IP Attorneys

Gaurav Miglani
Managing Partner, Worldwide Intellec

Honorable Justice B.V. Nagarathna
Judge, Supreme Court of India

Honorable Justice Prathiba M. Singh
Judge, Delhi High Court

Pravin Anand
Managing Partner, Anand and Anand

Hemant Singh
Founder and Managing Partner, INTTL ADVOCARE

Samta Mehra
Partner, Remfry & Sagar

Laurence Morel-Chevillet
IP & Brand Protection Director, BVLGARI

Ivan Sempere
Co-CEO, Padima

NG Wei Qiang
Senior Trade Mark Examiner, Registry of Trade Marks IP Office of Singapore

Orietta Blanco Minino
Managing Partner, Minino

Kevin Hartley
CEO, Trust Tree Legal

Mark Jansen
Partner, Fenwick & West LLP

Kathryn Szymczyk
Global Business Development Senior Manager, IP Gowling WLG

Lewis Whiting​
Co-founder / CEO, iaido

Zechariah J. H. Chan PBM
Partner, Lee & Lee

Kevin Hartley
Co-Founder and Trademark Attorney, Trust Tree

Anuj Desai
Partner, Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP

Leslie J. Lott
Founding Partner, Lott & Fischer

Max Ng
Managing Director, Gateway Law Corporation

Mary Ann Wymore
Officer, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C.

Ted Davis
Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

John L. Welch
Counsel, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM PLUS:
• Tencent

PLATINUM:
• GoDaddy Corporate Domains
• Tracer

GOLD PLUS:
• Abu-Ghazaleh Inteelectual Property

GOLD:
• Dannemann Siemsen
• Vanrell Intellectual Property

SILVER:
• Complete Intellectual Property Services
• Lex Orbis Intellectual Property Attorneys and Advocates
• Olivares Mexico
• OBWB
• ST&P

BRONZE:
• CIIPO
• Maxval