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MAY 2-4, 2023 | PALO ALTO
KAVITA AGGARWAL
Vice President, Legal
Coupa
STEVEN BALCOF
Partner
Desmarais LLP
SUVASHIS BHATTACHARYA
Senior Counsel - Product & IP
Hubspot
ARCHANA BHUTA
Head of IP Legal
SRI
MICHEAL BINNS
Associate General Counsel, Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy, Family of Apps
Meta
MICAH BLOCK
Partner
DavisPolk
JEFF BOLLAND
IP Counsel
10x Genomics
HONORABLE JACQUELINE BONILLA
Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge
USPTO
KERRI BRAUN
Senior Corporate Counsel
Cisco
SUBROTO BOSE
Assistant General Counsel, IP Strategy & Development
Marvell Technology
KATHERINE BROCKWAY
Associate General Counsel, IP Litigation
Meta
KEVIN BROWN
Vice President, Head of Legal
TenSixteen Bio
RENEE BROWN
Director, IP
LinkedIn
XIAO CHANG
Senior Corporate Counsel
Cisco Systems
WILL CHENG
Senior Patent Counsel
LinkedIn
MICHAEL CHERNOFF
Managing Director, Strategic IP Services
Murgitroyd
ALEX CHEN
Head of Patent Litigation & Risk Mitigation
TikTok
THOMAS CHIA
Senior Director, Patents & Corporate Development
Via Licensing Corporation
JEAN-PAUL CIARDULLO
Partner
Foley & Lardner
MIKE COLE
Managing Counsel
Mercedes-Benz R&D NA
EMILY COLLINS
Partner
Kilburn & Strode
JEFF DRAEGER
Vice President, Director Intel Patent Group
Intel
JONAE FELTON
Senior Patent Engineer & Patent Counsel
Mercedes-Benz R&D NA
CHRISTINE FOO
Associate General Counsel
Meta
THOMAS GEORGE
Associate General Counsel, Head of Patent Group
Samsung Research America
ELAINE HARWELL
Partner & Privacy Officer
Procopio
DIANE GABL KRATZ
Director, IP Strategy & Operations
Dolby Laboratories
RICK GILMORE
Shareholder & Registered Patent Attorney
Maschoff Brennan
LORIE GOINS
Head of IP Strategy
Kyndryl
STEVE GONG
Head of Data Science, PMO & Operations, Patent Counsel
Google
TROY GRABOW
Associate General Counsel, Patents
PAX Labs
(former)
SARAH GUSKE
Partner
Baker Botts
KANDA ISHIHARA
Senior IP Counsel
Lyft
PETER JOVANOVIC
Legal Director, IP
Dell
MILAN KAPADIA
Senior IP Counsel
Palo Alto Networks
KARINEH KHACHATOURIAN
Managing Partner & Litigator
KXT Law
SHEEMA KHAN
Patents
Kinaxis
JAMES KIRYAKOZA
IP Counsel, Analytics
Block
ANTOINETTE KONSKI
Partner
Foley & Lardner
JOSEPH KUCERA
Director, IP Strategy
Pure Storage
CHARU KURANI
Associate General Counsel, Patents
Meta
KRISTIN LAMB
Associate General Counsel
OURA
JENNIFER LANGENBERGER
Director of IP
Penn Center for Innovation
MICHAEL LEE
Head of Patents
Google
KARINA LEVITIAN
Associate General Counsel, Patents & Litigation
Roku
HELEN LI
Associate Director of Patents and Patent Portfolio Manager of AI Innovations
Intel
LILY LIM
Assistant General Counsel, IP & Software
Fortive
ERIC LIN
Senior Patent Counsel
Genentech
CHRIS LUBECK
Head of IP
Luminar
DOUGLAS LUFTMAN
VP & Deputy General Counsel
DocuSign
(former)
SHUBHA LUTHRA
IP Portfolio Manager
Kudelski Group
SARAH MACDONALD
Senior Corporate Litigation Counsel
Oracle
MICHAEL MARTIN
Assistant General Counsel, Patents
Workday
THOMAS MATHEW
Senior Patent Counsel
Align Technology
ERIN MEHTA
Senior Corporate Counsel, IP
Northrop Grumman
(to be confirmed)
SANJEEV MEHTA
Associate General Counsel and Director, IP Litigation
Verizon
ELIZABETH MORRIS
Legal Director of IP & Product
Pure Storage
NIDHI NAHAR
Head of Patents and Open Source
Block
DEV NARASIMHAN
Patent Portfolio Manager
CoMotion at University of Washington
MICHELLE PARK
Senior Director, Product & IP
Snowflake
JAMES PINYERD
Senior IP Counsel
SRI International
SCOTT POJUNAS
Senior Product Counsel, Google Cloud AI
Google
VISHNU RAMASWAMY
Director, Patent Asset & Development
Western Digital
CHUCK SHOLTZ
Vice President, IP
Nutcracker Therapeutics
GEORGE SIMION
Associate General Counsel & Senior Director of IP
Palo Alto Networks
MICHAEL SOCHOR
Director of IP
Forescout Technologies
(former)
ARI STEINER
IP Counsel
Palantir
TARIANNA STEWART, PhD
Core IP Licensing Executive
IBM
TARA STUART
Associate General Counsel, IP
Gilead Sciences
GAIL SU
Senior Counsel
Google
NIGEL SWYCHER
CEO
Cipher
CATHERINE TORNABENE
Deputy General Counsel, IP
Aurora Innovation
OLIVIA TSAI
Assistant General Counsel, Head of IP
Cruise
REBECCA UNRUH
Deputy General Counsel, IP & Transactions
EagleView
JYOTI UPPULURI
Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy, Reality Labs
Meta
VALENCIA MARTIN WALLACE
Deputy Commissioner for Patents
UPSTO
KEVIN WANG
CEO
FOSSA
BRAD WAUGH
Associate General Counsel
Intel
ANDREW WHITEHEAD
Assistant General Counsel
Genentech
FRANCES WINKLER
Legal Operations Manager
Pure Storage
ADA WONG
Vice President, IP
InterVenn BioSciences
GILBERT WONG
Global Head of IP
Block
SUE XIA
Lead Counsel - Patents & Open Source
Walmart
WADE YAMAZAKI
Supervising Principal Counsel, IP
Cruise
ERIC ZAISER
Senior Patent Counsel
Google
SAM ZUN
Director & Associate General Counsel
Shopify