LES International Annual Conference 2023 | Northern Networking Events | 30 April 2023 | Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, 1201 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec H3B 2L7, Canada

This event is a global organization, founded in 1972, representing more than 6,500 business leaders and professionals through its 33 societies with members from 90 countries. Throughout the year, LES societies across the globe provide networking, education and mentorship to executives locally focused on effectively managing and leveraging intellectual property as a business asset. The conferences provide the opportunity to amplify these discussions and bring together professionals – with diverse backgrounds and at various points in their career – and build global relationships that support and build your business.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Daniel Lamarre
Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil

François Ramsay
General Counsel, Hydro-Québec

Marc St-Hilaire
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology & Innovation, CAE

Vaishali Udupa
Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office

SPEAKERS:

Irene Abrams
Vice President, Technology Development and New Ventures, Boston Children’s Hospital

Paul Ashcraft
Lead Patent Agent, Pearson Education, Inc.

Marc Beaudet
Co- Founder, Turbulent

Seungyeob Baik
Patent Attorney & Founder, Near & Wise IP

Nina Belbl
Associate Legal Officer, Wipo

Vincent Bergeron
Partner, Lawyer and Trademark Agent, ROBIC, LLP

Bruce H. Bernstein
Founder, Greenblum & Bernstein PLC

Gina Bicknell
Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP

Koen Bijvank
Partner, Brinkhof

Iulian Bobe
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Circ

Cecilia Boije

Fabian Böttger
Director Legal & IP, resano GmbH – a BioNTech company

Peggy Burns
Publisher, Drawn & Quarterly

Georgina Busku
Attorney-at-Law, Thum & Partner

Ann M. Cannoni
Partner and Vice President, The Webb Law Firm

Tatiana Campello
Partner, Demarest Advogados

John Carney
Director, China IP Exchange, LLC

Erica Carter
Senior Counsel, Legal and Business Affairs, Epic Games, Inc.

Santosh K. Chari
Founding Partner, CPST Intellectual Property

Kimberly Chotkowski
President, Brandywine Ventures LLC

Dana Robert Colarulli
Executive Director, LESI

Pamela Cox
Partner, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

Stephanie Curcio
Co-Founder and CEO, NLPatent

Mattia Dalla Costa
Partner, CBA

Peter Damerell
Partner, Powell Gilbert

Jean-Hyacinthe de Mitry
Partner, Gides

Marion ”Amy” Dietterich
Director of the Global Challenges Division, WIPO

Dinesh Divakaran
Vice President of Partnerships, Owkin

Danie Dohmen
Partner, Adams & Adams

John Donch Jr
President and Shareholder, Volpe Koenig

Lizabeth Douville
President and Chief Officer, IRICoR

Stacey Dunn
Lawyer and Patent Agent, ROBIC

George Elvira
Partner, Gowling WLG

Mattia Fogliacco
President, Sisvel

Alan Fan
Vice President, Huawei Technologies

Laurie Fitzgerald
Senior Vice President, Avanci

Gillian Fenton
Special Counsel, GSK

Annie Gauthier
Partner, Lawyer, BCF

Fabian Gonell
Senior Vice President, Qualcomm

Charles Gore
Executive Director, Medicines Patent Pool

Eric Gottschling
Global Director, BorgWarner

Juergen Graner
CEO, Globalator

Yorikastu Hohokabe
Senior Advisor, OBLON Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho

Pat Patnode
President, General Electric

Heath Hoglund
President, via Licensing

Alan Hunt
Partner, Lewis Silkin LLP

Sungpil Hwang
Startup Investor, Patent and Trademark Attorney, E.M. Hwang & Partners

András Jókúti
Director of the Patent and Technology Law Division, WIPO

Efrat Kasznik
President, Foresight Valuation Group, LLC

Linda Kawano
Founder, GroupOptima

Nora Kessler
Partner, Klinkert Partners

Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal Officer, Omnisient (Pty) Ltd

Hideaki Kobayashi
Partner, Ohno & Partners

Sonja London
General Counsel and Licensing Executive, TactoTek

Daniel Lamarre
Executive Vice-Chairman of The Board, Cirque Du Soleil

Mike Lasinski
Incoming LESI President, Ankura

Janet Lau
Senior IP & Compliance Manager, Mark Anthony Group

Jean Le Bouthillier
Founder & CEO, Qohash

Jeff Dion
Senior Product Management Director, Flo EV Charging

Jack Lu
Founding Partner, IPMAP LLC

Adriana S. Luedke
Director and Associate General Counsel, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Klaus Mannsperger
CEO, Mercedes-Benz Intellectual Property

Joseph Mancini
Vice President and Head of Biological Sciences, adMare BioInnovations

Gordon Mccauley
President and CEO, adMare BioInnovations

Sarah Basford
Chief IP Counsel, Rio Tinto

Bienvenido Marquez Iii
Partner, Quisumbing Torres

Dan Mccurdey
CEO, RPX

Agathe Michel De Cazotte
Partner, Carpmaels & Ransford

Toshimoto Mitomo
Executive Deputy President and CSO, Sony Group Corporation

Judith Miller
Principal & National Practice Group Leader, Wrays Lawyers

Donald Min
Patent Attorney/formerly VP, Withrow & Terranova

Natália Molnárová
Technology Transfer Manager, Slovak University of Technology

David Mcintosh
Partner, Ropes & Gray

Gabriele Mohsler
Vice President Patent Development at IPR & Licensing, Ericsson

Tilman Müller-Stoy
Patent Litigator, Bardehle Pagenberg

Tadashi Matsumoto
President & CEO, ReqMed Company, Ltd

Laura Macdonald
Chief Executive, ASTP Proton

Charlie Macedo
Partner, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

Mariella Massaro
Partner, Berggren Oy

Dan Neely
Co-Founder and CEO, Vermillio

Elise Neils
Director, GE Licensing

Fiona Nicolson
Consultant, Burness Paull

Pierre Ollivier
Partner, Winnotek

Sophie Pasquier
Principal IP and Licensing Counsel, Philips

Pat Patnode
General Eclectic, Read more about Pat Patnode

Dario Paschetta
Partner, Frignani Virano e Associati

Mike Perham
Director, Innovations and External Relations, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Karthika Perumal
IP Transactions Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP

Naomi Pearce
CEO and Executive Lawyer, Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Attorney, and Founder, Pearce IP

Shayne Phillips
Director of Analytics Solutions, Anaqua

Tim Pohlmann
CEO and Founder, Iplytics

Rob Potter
Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend

Yves Potvin
Founder, Yves Veggie Cuisine and Garden Protein International

Richa Pandey
Partner, Krishna & Saurastri

David Powsner
Intellectual Property Lawyer, David Malm

Natalie Raffoul
Patent Lawyer, Managing Partner, Brion Raffoul LLP

Lally Rementilla
Managing Partner, BDC

Adam Rattray
Head of the Information and External Relations, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.

Christopher Ralph
Manager, Lion Electric

Sherry L. Rollo
Partner, Hahn Loeser

Sylvain Roy
Canadian Attorney, Law Offices of Sylvain Roy

Lucia Rybanská
Director of the Know-how Centre STU, Slovak University of Technology

Renzo Scavia
Attorney, Scavia & Scavia

Dirk Schüssler-Langehein
Patent Litigator, Hoffmann Eitle

Lloyd Segal
President & CEO, Repare Therapeutics

Dan Shores
Partner, Rothwell Figg

Stu Seltzer
President, Seltzer Licensing Group

James Sobieraj
Partner, Crowell & Moring Llp

Robert Sterne
Founding Director, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox

Tanja Sovic
Head of Patent & License Management, TU Wien

Anna Maria Stein
Counsel Intellectual Property, Eversheds Sutherland

Hilton Sue
Partner, Oyen Wiggs

Reid Schneider
Studio Head, Raccoon Logic Studios Inc

Jude Sullivan
General Council, Evozyne Inc

Eszter Szakács
Partner, Danubia Legal

Lionel Tan
Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Peter Toto
Senior Vice President Intellectual Property Department, Sony

Isabelle Trempe
Vice-President, Paladin

Stéphane Tronchon
Senior Director of Standards and Competition Policy , InterDigital

Jeff Turner
Retired/Former President & CEO, Defyrus Inc. (retired)

Vaishali Udupa
Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Charles Valauskas
Legal Counsel, Valauskas Corder LLC

Bruce Villard
Intellectual Property (IP) Manager, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Ningling Wang
Partner, Finnegan

Allen Wang
Managing Partner, Beijing TA Law Firm

Leann Pinto
President, I Pwe

Sam Wiley
Vice President, Thought Leadership & Partnerships, LOT Network

Mark Wilson
Director, Strategic Technology Bio Consulting

Jayde Wood
Lawyer, Patent Agent, and Trademark Agent, Gowling WLG

Frank J. West
Partner, Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP

Alice Xiang
Global Head of AI Ethics, Sony Group Corporation

Rickey Yada
Dean of The Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia

Yasunori Yamaguchi
President and CEO, IP Gaia

Yuanyou Yang
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur

Benjamin Young
CEO, Fyber X

Onur Yolay
TTO Manager, Bezmialem Vakif University

David Yurkerwich
Senior Managing Director, Ankura Consulting Group

Chris Anderson
Partner, StoneTurn Group

François Ramsay
General Counsel, Hydro-Québec

Marc St-Hilaire
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Technology & Innovation, CAE

Ichiro Nakatomi
LESI President, Avida Science

Bob Held
Conference Chair, Held IP

2023 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Dennemeyer
• Finnegan

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Anaqua
• Adeia
• Whiz Partners
• Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Boehmert & Boehmert

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
• Robic
• CCPIT
• Greenblum & Bernstein
• Brion Raffoul
• Minesoft
• StoneTurn
• Volpe Koenig
• Fasken
• Avida Science
• Sterne Kessler
• Aipi
• Intedigital
• LotNetWork