IPBC Global Conference 2024 | IAM | 10 June 2024 | Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, San Francisco, 2 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

This event is the world’s foremost gathering of senior thought leaders and decision makers operating in the global IP market. Corporate executives, deal makers, investors, policy experts and legal professionals will come together to share insights, discuss new trends, and build their networks. Stay ahead of the game and discover new opportunities at this event

2024 Speakers

Kyle Barlow-Williams
Counsel, Aurora

Garrard Beeney
Co-head, IP and Technology Group, Sullivan & Cromwell

Lyse Brillouet
Chief IP Officer, Senior Vice President, Licensing, Orange

Gregory Campanella
Senior Managing Director, Ocean Tomo

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

Sabrina Chang
Senior Patent Counsel, Google

Jeremiah Chan
Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents, Licensing, and Open Source, Meta

Ting-Mao Chao
Director, Patent Licensing, Dolby

Will Cheng
Senior Patent Counsel, LinkedIn

Kim Chotkowski
Chief Litigation Counsel, Access Advance

Laura Daly
IP Manager, Seurat Technologies

Patricia Dyck
IP Attorney and General Counsel

Noel Egnatios
Chief Legal Officer, DivX

Alan Fan
Global Head of IP, Huawei

Mattia Fogliacco
President, Sisvel

Naoise Gaffney
Vice President and Head of IP, GH Research

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

Tanya Garrett
Senior IP Counsel, Camcar Innovations

Lorie Goins
Head of IP Strategy, Kyndryl

Eeva Hakoranta
Executive Vice President, Chief Licensing Officer, Interdigital

John Han
Senior Vice President, General Manager Qualcomm

Suzanne Harrison
Founder, Percipience

Mathias Hellman
Vice President, IPR Strategy and Portfolio Management Ericsson

Bing Hu
Licensing Director, Corporate Business Development and IP Strategy, Xiaomi

Jonathan James
Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group

Kim Jessum
Vice President, Legal, Global Legal Business Partner
Heraeus

Shan Jiao
Partner Liu, Shen and Associates

Mark Kokes
Chief Licensing Officer and General Manager Media Adeia

Charu Kurani
Senior Counsel, Patent Strategy Airbnb

Bill LaFontaine
Senior Adviser, IP, IBM, and Senior Adviser Columbia Technology Ventures

Emilie Lavirotte
Senior Adviser, IP Sephora

Chia La
Head of IP, Waymo

Sunah Lee
Senior Corporate Counsel, Patents Microsof

Elizabeth Lester
Assistant General Counsel, IP Equifax

Otto Licks
Partner, Licks Attorneys

Lily Lim
Assistant General Counsel, IP and Software, Fortive

Paul Lin
Managing Director, Eagle Forest LLC

Warren Lipschitz
Principal, McKool Smith

Trevor Little
Managing Editor, IAM and WTR

Chen Li
Managing Counsel, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America

Ceyda Maisami
Vice President, Interim Chief IP Counsel, HP

Luke McLeroy
President, Avanci Video

Claus Melarti
Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, RPX

Angela Morris
Deputy Editor, IAM

Elizabeth Morris
Legal Director, IP and Product Pure Storage

Rachel Mountain
Editor, IAM

Andrew Mutter
Executive Vice President, Head of Contingent Risk Insurance CAC Speciality

Ricardo Nunes
Partner, Head of Patents, Daniel Law

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

Milan Patel
IP Director, Volvo

Arvin Patel
Chief Licensing Officer, New Segments Nokia

Erik Puknys
Partner, Finnegan

Hasan Rashid
General Counsel, GE Licensing

Michael Ray
Managing Director Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox

Sven Raz
Director, Legal Affairs, IP and Network Litigation T-Mobile

Kent Richardson
Chief Executive Officer, Richardson Oliver Insights LLC

Karen Robinson
Vice President, Litigation, IP, Fraud, and Enforcement Adobe

Fortune Shieh
Associate General Counsel, TSMC

Wayne Stacy
Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

Paul Stevens
Principal, SYNC IP Group

Joo Sup Kim
Research and Development Lab, Adviser LX Semicon

Gail Su
Senior Counsel, Patent Transactions, Google, and Co-founder ADAPT

Sean Thompson
Managing Director - IP Investments, General Counsel Parabellum Capita

Marco (Xin) Tong
Deputy Director of IP, ZTE Corporation

Sabra-Anne Truesdale
Associate General Counsel, IP Western Digital

John Tsai
Head of Patents, IP Litigation, Open Source, and Standards Stripe

Mauricio Uribe
Partner, Knobbe Martens

Richard Vary
Partner, Bird & Bird

Na Wei
Senior Director of IP Licensing, Xiaomi

Justin Wilcox
Partner, Desmarais LLP

Keith Wilson
Executive Vice President, Partnerships and Acquisitions IPValue Management Inc

Katharine Wolanyk
Managing Director, Burford Capital

Ada Wong
Vice President, IP Brightseed

Seunghyun Youn
Head of IP, Hyundai

Ash Zahr
Head of IP, Rivian

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jenni Lukander
President, Nokia Technologies

Dan McCurdy
Chief Executive Officer, RPX

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

Ran Xu
General Manager, Corporate Business Development and IP Strategy Xiaomi

Vishal Amin
Head of IP Policy, Intel

2024 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• RPX Corporation

GOLD PLUS PARTNERS:
• Bird & Bird
• Finnegan
• IP Value
• Sisvel
• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Access Advance
• Adeia
• Avanci
• Burford
• CAC Speciality
• Daniel
• Desmarais
• Docket Navigator
• Dolby
• Eagle Forest LLC
• Ericksson
• Fortress
• GE
• Huawei
• Intellectual Ventures
• Interdigital
• Knobbe Martnes
• Lexis Nexis
• Licks Attorneys
• Liu, Shen & Associates
• McKool Smith’s
• Nokia
• Ocean Tomo’s
• Parabellum Capital
• Qualcomm
• Richardson Oliver Insights
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
• SYNC Technology Law Group
• Tech+IP

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Clarivate
• The Dennemeyer Group
• Evalueserve
• HTS
• IPRally
• IP Research Group
• Philips Intellectual Property & Standards (IP&S)
• Prince Lobel
• REATISS
• RWS
• TT Consultants

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• AlphaClaim
• Ankura
• AST
• Bunsow De Mory
• Dechert LLP
• Deloitte i
• Dynamic IP Deals LLC
• GreyB
• HLK
• Key Patent Innovations
• Kramer Alberti
• LexOrbis
• Lumenci
• Mintz
• Patlytics
• Pellegrino & Associates
• Perkins Coie
• Red Chalk Group
• Researchwire
• Sagacious IP
• SilverBullet
• Simmons & Simmons
• Soryn
• Squark IP
• SRI
• Sherpa Technology Group
• Syscall
• Tulip Innovation Kft
• UnitedLex
• Via Licensing Corporation
• Vitek IP
• Volpe Koenig
• West U Capital
• WiLAN

NETWORKING SPONSORS:
• Connor
• Equip
• FIN IP Group
• Lighthouse IP
• Quest
• Strategic IP Initiatives, Inc.

INNOVATION PARTNER:
• Xiaomi

DEI COLABORATION PARTNERS:
• ADAPT (Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams)
• Increasing Diversity in Innovation