IPBC Global 2018 | IAM Media | 10 June 2018 | Palace Hotel San Francisco, 2 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

As ever, Ipbc Global’s unrivalled network of senior IP business leaders will ensure a speaking faculty unmatched by any other IP event. Panellists will be tasked with sharing key strategic knowledge points and experience of cutting-edge value creation issues, as well as offering deep insights into how corporate executives can most effectively tackle the challenges posed by today's constantly changing IP landscape. Attendees will enjoy a range of keynote addresses, topical debates, deep-dive industry focuses, scenarios, masterclasses and boot camps, including the following:
• Cipo scenarios: Corporate IP leaders discuss how to handle the kind of business-critical challenges that land on the desk of the 21st century chief IP officer.
• Win-win deal making: Explore how collaborative licensing programmes are changing, what’s on offer and how to get the best deal.
• The Patent Trial and Appeal Board: Understand the ways in which patent owners can be successful before the “death squads” of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
• Debates: Is the United States still the beating heart of the global IP market? Are antitrust laws and regulations getting in the way of standard-essential patent licensing? Is patent quality a distraction, when all that really matters is eligibility?
• Masterclasses: The dos and don’ts of IP transactions in China; and successful partnering with universities and other research institutions.
• Big data: The best ways to use data to maximise the effectiveness of IP value creation strategies.
• Meet the buyers: Who is buying patents, what are they looking for and how do they buy?
Industry focus: Review the IP landscape, the challenges and the trends in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence spaces.

2018 Speakers

Atulya R Agarwal
Head, Ip Licensing and Business Strategy, Genentech

BenoÎt Battistelli
President, European Patent Office

Garrard R Beeney
Co-Head, Ip and Technology Group, Sullivan & Cromwell Llp

Johanne Belisle
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Bruce Berman
Chief Executive Officer, Brody Berman Associates, Inc

Kurt Brasch
Head, Patent Transactions, Uber

Gustav Brismark
Chief Ip Officer, Ericsson

Paul Carpenter
Partner, QipWorks

Jeffery L Carter
President and Chief Executive Officer, Hts

Elvir Causevic
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

Billie Chen
Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Mark Cohen
Distinguished Senior fellow and Director, China initiative, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Barry A Costa
Director, Technology Transfer, The Mitre Corporation

Tim Croll
Deputy General Counsel, Ip, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Peter Damerell
Partner, Powell Gilbert

Giustino de Sanctis
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vectis

Patricio Delgado
Vice president, Frand compliance and new initiatives for Ip Rights and Licensing, Ericsson

François Drapeau-Paquin
Senior Ip counsel, Royal Philips

Jako Eleveld
Head, Ip licensing, Royal Philips

Bart Eppenauer
Managing Partner, Seattle, Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Mattia Fogliacco
Chief Executive Officer, Sisvel Group

Michael Friedman
Chief Executive Officer, Hilco Ip Merchant Banking

Diane Gabl Kratz
Senior Corporate Counsel, Ip, Seagate Technology

Mathen Ganesan
Executive Vice President and Head, Invention investment Funds, Intellectual Ventures

Stefan Geyersberger
Head, Patents and Licensing, Fraunhofer Iis

William Goldman
Vice Pesident, Ip, Kudelski Group

Eeva Hakoranta
Vice President, Licensing, Nokia

John Han Senior
Vice President & General Manager, Qualcomm Technology Licensing

Philip Hartstein
Chief Executive Officer, Finjan Holdings Inc

Heath Hoglund
Chief Patent Counsel, Dolby Laboratories

Andrei Iancu
Director and Undersecretary of Commerce, Ip, US Patent and Trademark Office

Vasheharan Kanesarajah
Director, Client Advocacy, Ip, Clarivate Analytics

Katharine Ku
Executive Director, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University

William R LaFontaine
General manager, Ip, Ibm

Joshua Landau, Patent counsel, Computer & Communications Industry Association

Ron Laurie
Co-Chair, Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter

Richard Lloyd
North America Editor, Iam

Kenneth Lustig
Co-Founder, RealWear

Taraneh Maghamé
Senior Director, Wireless Programmes and Corporate Development, Via Licensing

Robert McCauley
Managing Partner, Palo Alto, Finnegan

Ian McClure
Director, Office of Technology Commercialisation, University of Kentucky

Dan McCurdy
Chief Executive Officer, Provenance Asset Group

Lisa McFall
Deputy general counsel, Ip, Workday, Inc

Mike McLean
Senior Vice President, Ip services, TechInsights

Amar K Mehta
Deputy General Counsel and Head of Ip, Waymo Llc

John Mulgrew
Global Head, Ip, Uber

Eric Olsen
Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, Rpx Corporation

Ami Patel Shah
Managing Director and Head, Ip Analysis Group, Fortress Investment Group

Pat Patnode
President, Ge Licensing & Technology Ventures

John H. Pilarski
Director, Ip, Johnson Controls International plc

David Pridham
Chief Executive Officer, Dominion Harbor

Ilkka Rahnasto
Head, Patent Business, Nokia

Satish Rao
Associate Director, Physical Sciences Licensing, Columbia University

Kent Richardson
Chief Executive Officer, Richardson Oliver Insights

David Ruschke
Chief Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, US Patent and Trademark Office

Nicolas Schifano
Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft

Jacob Schindler
Asia-Pacific Editor, Iam

Sue Siegel
Chief Innovation Officer, Ge

Wayne P Sobon
Vice President, Ip, Juul Labs

Matthew Stack
Managing Director, Xlp Capital

Stefan Tamme
Vice President, Ip Strategy and Licensing, Rambus

Allen Tao
Managing Partner, Liu, Shen & Associates

Phyllis Turner-Brim
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Ip and Technology, Starbucks

Daniel Videtto
President, Ip, Clarivate Analytics

Harrick M Vin
Global Head, Digitate

Ben Wang
Vice President and Chief Ip Counsel, Zte Tx

Joff Wild
Editor, Iam

Stephan Wolke
Head, Corporate Ip, ThyssenKrupp Ag

Jay Yonamine
Head, Data Science, Global Patents, Google

David Yurkerwich
Managing Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• Clarivate Analytics

GOLD:
• Iam Market
• Dolby Laboratories
• Ericsson
• Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
• Rpx Corporation
• Houlihan Lokey
• Powell Gilbert Llp
• Via Licensing Corporation
• General Electric
• Sisvel
• TechInsights
• Hts
• Navigant Consulting, Inc
• Finnegan
• Shook, Hardy & Bacon
• Intralink
• Liu-Shen
• Vectis
• Nokia

SILVER:
• Uber
• Provenance Asset Group
• Microsoft
• Reatiss
• Dominion Harbor Group, Llc
• Richardson Oliver Insights
• Finjan
• Intellectual Ventures

BRONZE:
• iRunway
• Google
• Ieee
• IPlytics Platform
• Clairvolex
• Xperi Corp
• Anaqua
• Cpa Global
• Boehmert & Boehmert
• Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.
• Global Ip Law Group
• Parsa Wireless
• ClearAccessIp
• Crown Point Transactions
• Maxval
• Valuenex
• Nordic Patent Institute
• PatSnap
• Burford Capital
• Minesoft
• Hilco Ip Merchant Banking
• Mintz Levin
• IpValue
• Dolcera
• Perkins Coie
• Acumass
• Adamson & Partners
• Bureau van Dijk

SUPPORTED BY:
• California Technology Council
• International Chamber of Commerce
• The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Global Innovation Policy Center, US Chamber of Commerce
• Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Centre

MEDIA:
• International Law Office
• World Trademark Review
• Lexology
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