IPBC Europe 2024 | Law Business Research | 17 March 2024 | Munich Marriott Hotel City West, Landsberger Str. 156, 80687 München, Germany

This event is the region’s foremost gathering on IP value creation and is set to return in 2024. We bring together more than 300 top IP corporate executives, deal makers, policy experts, legal professionals, and service providers under one roof.

Network with and learn from elite decision-makers who will speak on key policy, business, and legal developments, as well as the most effective strategies for maximising IP value in an increasingly dynamic European market.

Why attend?

• Stay up to date with key market developments

• Be among the first to learn about new IP value creation best practices

• Meet with over 300 colleagues, contacts, clients and friends in one place

2024 Sponsors

Kemal Rıfat Aygör
Senior License Program Manager, Vestel

Azatuhi Ayrikyan
IP Manager, Calyxia

Peter Berg
Chief IP Counsel, Infineon Technologies

Kurt Brasch
Director of Patent Transactions, Uber, and President, Allied Transportation Association

Juliane Buchinski
Lead IP Litigation Counsel Europe, ZTE

Jim Burns
Senior Director, Business Development, RWS

Megan Carpenter
Dean and Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law

Roberto Castagno
Head of IPR, Neste

Elvir Causevic
Co-founder and Managing Director, Tech+IP Capital

Robin Cefai
Chief IP Licensing Officer, Volkswagen Group

Kinnery Chandarana
Head of IPR Legal Affairs, Ericsson

Le Chen
Senior Legal Director, Head of IP Policy, Xiaomi

Steve Chiang
Chief IP Officer, RPX

Ignacio de Castro
Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

Rajorshi De
Global IP and Technology Licensing Manager, Daimler Truck

Yann Dietrich
Group Head of IP, Atos

Miriam Divya Williams
IP Portfolio Manager, Giesecke+Devrient

Martina Eberle
Vice President, IP Legal, BASF

Linus Eklund
Vice President Patents, Volvo Group

Sophie Ertl
Partner, Maiwald Intellectual Property

Soenke Fock
Partner, Wildanger

Mattia Fogliacco
President, Sisvel Group

Tom Foster
Partner, Taylor Wessing

Michael Fröhlich
Patent Developments and IP Lab, European Patent Office

Marianne Frydenlund
Vice President, IoT, Avanci

Mathen Ganesan
Executive Vice President, Invention Investment Fund, Intellectual Ventures

Stefan Geyersberger
Head of Department Patents and Licensing, Fraunhofer IIS

Fabian Gonell
Senior Vice President, Licensing Strategy and Legal Counsel, Qualcomm

Alexander Haertel
Cluster Lead Patents, Deutsche Telekom

Jochen Herr
Partner, Finnegan

Andy Hilton
Partner, Haley Guiliano

Adam Houldsworth
Deputy Editor, IAM

Willem Hoyng
Chairman, Advisory Committee, Unified Patent Court

Rian Kalden
Presiding Judge, Second Panel of The Court of Appeal

Richard Kamprath
Shareholder, McKool Smith

Stavros Kyris
Chief Strategy, Operating, and Financial Officer, Nokia Technologies

Ekaterina Liseva
Patent Coordinator, eCubator, IP Unit Commercial Vehicles, Knorr-Bremse

Charlotta Ljungdahl
Senior Vice President of IP, ABB

Anne McAleer
Head of IP, Paragraf

Rachel Mountain
Editor, IAM

Ricardo Nunes
Partner, Daniel Law

Shayne O’Reilly
Director and Associate General Counsel, Meta

Elisabeth Opie
Founder, Opie

Sophie Pasquier
Principal IP Counsel and Licensing Programme Leader, Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Julia Pike
Global IP Head, Sandoz

Karin Pramberger
Head of IP, Polpharma Group

Jon Putnam
Founder, and Principal, Competition Dynamics

Hasan Rashid
Associate General Counsel, Licensing, GE

Alexandre Ribeil
Senior Patent Attorney, Amadeus

Demetrio Roberto Cavicchia
IP Manager, Angelini Holding

Jamie Rowlands
Partner, HLK

Sandra Schneider
Regional IP Head, Yokogawa Europe

Thomas Schwarzweller
Senior Director, IP Counseling EMEA and APAC, NXP Semiconductors

Michael Stevenson
Vice President, IP Rights Management and Head of Strategy, Media IP (Europe and Australia), Adeia

Pascal van Troost
Global IP Leader, Punch Powertrain

Charles Varvaro
Managing Director IP and Technology Alliances, IBM

Joseph Villella
Chief Licensing Officer, Longitude Licensing

Michael Waltrip
Managing Director, Intellectual Capital Management Group, PARC, SRI International

Beat Weibel
Chief IP Counsel, Siemens

Na Wei
Licensing Senior Director, Xiaomi Technology

Georgina Wilkins
Head of IP, Hitachi Energy

Lucy Wojcik
Chief IP Counsel, Ocado Group

Katharine Wolanyk
Managing Director, Burford Capital

Koenraad Wuyts
Chief IP Officer, KPN

Ran Xu
General Manager of Corporate Business Development, IP Strategy, Xiaomi Group

Emil Zhang
Head of European IPR Department, Huawei

2024 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Sisvel

INNOVATION PARTNER:
• Xiaomi Corporation

GOLD PLUS SPONSOR:
• Eagle Forest LLC
• Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
• Haley Guiliano LLP
• Wildanger

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Access Advance LLC
• Adeia invents
• Avanci
• Burford Capital
• Competition Dynamics
• Daniel Law
• Docket Navigator
• Dolby Laboratories
• GE Research
• HLK
• Huawei
• Intellectual Ventures
• IPValue
• Maiwald
• McKool Smith
• Nokia
• Opie
• RPX Corporation
• RWS
• Taylor Wessing
• Tech+IP

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Acacia Research Corporation
• Deloitte
• Evalueserve
• IPRally
• Key Patent Innovations
• REATISS

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• AST
• EIP
• GreyB
• Fabricant LLP
• Konsert Strategy & IP
• Licks Attorneys
• Liu Shen & Associates
• Lumenci
• UnitedLex
• Via Licensing Corporation

NETWORKING SPONSORS:
• Connor
• IP Advisory & Transaction
• PRISM IP