Thank You to Our Speaking Faculty
STEVEN BALCOF
Partner
Desmarais
MICHEAL BINNS
Head of Patents and Trade Secrets
Meta
BRANDON BLUDAU
Director & Assistant General Counsel - Chief Patent Counsel
Capital One
HON. JACQUELINE BONILLA
Deputy Chief Judge, PTAB
USPTO
STEVEN CAPELLA
Patent Portfolio Manager - Physical Sciences & Semiconductors
IBM
CLARE COLLINS
Patent Attorney
Murgitroyd
JARED ENGSTROM
Senior Director, IP Strategy
Crowdstrike
DIANE FERGUSON
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel
Precisely
DAVID FOSTER
Principal Counsel
The Walt Disney Company
LORIE GOINS
Head of IP Strategy
Kyndryl
KHURRAM NASIR GORE
Director, Managing Associate General Counsel
Verizon
ROBERT GRAVOIS
Assistant General Counsel, IP
ADT
ELAINE HARWELL
Partner & Privacy Officer
Procopio
KULSOOM HASAN
Senior Manager, IP Counsel
Vishay Intertechnology
SHEEMA KHAN
Patents
Kinaxis
JASON HARRIER
Lead Counsel, IP
Plaid
LANCE HOCHHAUSER
Senior IP Counsel
Prove Identity
BENJAMIN HSING
Partner
Venable
JENNIFER LANGENBERGER
Executive Director of IP & COO, Penn Center for Innovation
University of Pennsylvania
DAVID LISSON
Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell
LINZY MCCARTNEY
IP Counsel - Patents, Licensing & Open Source
Meta
ELIZABETH MORRIS
Legal Director of IP & Product
Pure Storage
MIKE ROSS
Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - IP
Capital One
RODGER SADLER
Managing Counsel
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America
RALPH SCHROEDER
President, North America
RightHub
BRYAN SINCLAIR
Senior Director, IP Litigation
Cisco Systems
NICOLE SPENCE
Counsel - Data & AI
IBM
TARIANNA STEWART
Manager, Technology Licensing & BD
NYU Technology Opportunities & Ventures
MIKE TURNER
Director of IP
Yokogawa
WILLIAM VAN CUREN
Associate General Counsel, IP
Impossible Foods
TEARRA VAUGHN
Associate General Counsel
Meta
NAOMI WALTMAN
Executive Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Litigation
Paramount
KEVIN WANG
CEO
FOSSA
MARGARET (MAGGIE) WELSH
Partner
Baker Botts
JOHN ZHU
Director, Associate General Counsel - IP
Cisco Systems