Speakers

Hon. John W. Holcomb

United States District Judge

United States District Court for the Central District of California

Hon. Ryan T. Holte

Judge

United States Court of Federal Claims

Congressman Kevin Kiley

U.S. Representative for California’s 3rd Congressional District

United States House of Representatives

John Squires

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Joseph Allen

Executive Director

Bayh-Dole Coalition

Hon. Andrei Iancu

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Sullivan & Cromwell

Chris Israel

Senior Partner

ACG Advocacy

Hon. David Kappos

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Corey Salsberg

Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

Novartis

Alden Abbott

Former FTC General Counsel; Senior Research Fellow

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Ola Adekunle

Senior Patent Counsel

Google

Ali Allawi

Senior Director, IP

Warner Bros. Discovery

Joseph Allen

Executive Director

Bayh-Dole Coalition

Jonathan Barnett

Professor

Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

Jeff Barron

Partner

Barnes & Thornburg

Matthew Bathon

Principal Legal Counsel

Samsung Electronics

Brent R. Bellows

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Bruce Berman

Chairman and co-founder

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding

Matt Beyersdorf

Director of Intellectual Property

BioNTech

Suvashis Bhattacharya

Chief IP Counsel

IQVIA

Russell Binns

CEO & General Counsel

Allied Security Trust

Brian Blasius

President & Chief Executive Officer

PanOptis

Brandon Bludau

Director & Assistant General Counsel, Chief Patent Counsel

Capital One Financial

Evelyn Body

GM Intellectual Property

Xero

Carole Boelitz

Vice President, Global Intellectual Property

Schneider Electric

Hon. Susan G. Braden

Jurist-In-Residence

Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy C-IP2

Kady Bruce

Head of Intellectual Property

Crescent Biopharma

Steven Caltrider

Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Randy Canis

Associate General Counsel, Technology, Privacy, and IP

Smarter Technologies

Nuno Carvalho

Partner

Licks Attorneys

Louis Carbonneau

Founder & CEO

Tangible IP

Mark Cohen

Senior Tech Fellow

Asia Society

Will Covey

Acting Deputy Director

USPTO

Francesca Cruz

Senior Vice President of IP Solutions

Juristat

Stephanie Curcio

IP Lawyer, Co-founder & CEO

NLPatent

Matthew Cutler

Principal

Harness IP

Shana Cyr

Executive Director & Head of Patent Litigation

Bristol Myers Squibb

Libbie DiMarco

Shareholder, Litigation Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Jayne Durden

Global Brand Engagement, Customer Trust External Relations

Amazon

James Edwards

Founder and CEO

ELITE Strategic Services

Tim Fink

Partner, Former Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge

O’Melveny & Myers

Dean Geibel

Chief Patent Counsel

Samtec, Inc.

Pinar Gencer

Senior Associate

Competition Dynamics

Shawn Gorman

Patent Attorney, Chief IP Counsel

Whisper Aero

Dr. Kirti Gupta

Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology

Cornerstone Research

Terry Hart

General Counsel

Association of American Publishers

Joshua Hartman

Partner

Merchant & Gould

Paul Higgins

Vice President of Law - Head of Global IP Policy

Johnson & Johnson

Hon. John W. Holcomb

United States District Judge

United States District Court for the Central District of California

Hon. Ryan T. Holte

Judge

United States Court of Federal Claims

Chuck Hong

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman

Netlist, Inc.

Blair Hoyt

Principal

Harness IP

Kate Hudson

Associate Vice President & Counsel for Government Relations and Public Policy

Association of American Universities

Jonathan Hummel

Patent Attorney

Ballard Spahr

Hon. Andrei Iancu

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Sullivan & Cromwell

Chris Israel

Senior Partner

ACG Advocacy

Brian P. Johnson

Partner

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider

Emily Johnson

Head of IP Policy & Advocacy

Amgen

Philip S. Johnson

Chair, Steering Committee

Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform

David Jones

Executive Director

High Tech Inventors Alliance

Lisa Jorgenson

Deputy Director General, Patents & Technology

World Intellectual Property Organization

Sivon Kalminov

Director, Intellectual Property Division

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Hon. David Kappos

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Hon. F. Scott Kieff

Former ITC Commissioner, Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

Patrick Kilbride

Policy Advisor, Public Speaker & Corporate Trainer

Kilbride Public Affairs

Congressman Kevin Kiley

U.S. Representative for California’s 3rd Congressional District

United States House of Representatives

Sherry Knowles

Principal

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Suzanne Konrad

Of Counsel

Spencer Fane LLP

Bukola Landis-Aina

Associate General Counsel

Verizon

Jeffery Langer

General Counsel

Zoeller Company

J. John Lee

Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary

Mark Liang

Partner

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Tad Lipsky

Assistant Professor and Director, Competition Advocacy Program

Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University

Jerry Ma

Vice President of Global Affairs and Deputy CTO

Perplexity AI

Marie MacNichol

Mediator and Intellectual Property Attorney

Marie MacNichol LLC

William Mansfield

Director of Intellectual Property

ABRO Industries

Cynthia Martin

Assistant General Counsel

GSK

Christine McDaniel

Senior Trade Economist

The World Bank Group

Mike McLean

Chief Executive Officer

Innovation Asset Collective

Kevin McNish

Managing Member

McNish PLLC

Clint Mehall

Partner

Davidson Kappel LLC

Kwame Mensah

Assistant General Counsel, Oncology Biologics IP

AstraZeneca

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge (ret.)

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Nikos Minas

Global IP Counsel

Wesco International

Tamra Tyree Moore

Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

VantageScore®

Hon. Pauline Newman

Circuit Judge

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Joshua Ney

Partner

Barnes & Thornburg

Peter-Anthony Pappas

Director of Intellectual Property Policy

U.S. Senate, Committee on Judiciary

Daniel Papst

Managing Director

Papst Licensing GmbH & Co.

Mary Penn

Managing Associate General Counsel

Verizon

Laura Peter

Former Deputy Director of USPTO and Executive Director, Division of Research, UNC Charlotte

Office of Research Commercialization and Partnerships, UNC Charlotte

Robert Plotkin

Founding Partner

Blueshift IP

Anthony R. Prosser

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Gene Quinn

President & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Former Chief Judge (ret.)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Dustin Raney

Head of Industry Strategy

Acxiom

Jessica Richard

Vice President, Federal Public Policy

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Jordan Rossen

Senior Patent Counsel

Unified Patents

Thara Russell

Director, Assistant General Counsel for IP

Capital One

Matteo Sabattini

Executive Advisor, Government Affairs

Sisvel Group

Corey Salsberg

Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

Novartis

Joel Samuels

Principal

Harness IP

Colin Sandercock

Vice President & General Counsel

Cue Biopharma, Inc.

Charles Sauer

President

Market Institute

Bilal Sayyed

Counsel

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Joshua Schoonover

General Counsel

INmune Bio, Inc.

Stephen T. Schreiner

Partner

Carmichael IP, PLLC

Melissa Silverstein

Senior Legal Counsel, Brand Protection

Coke Morgan Stewart

Deputy Director

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Laura Smalley

Partner

Harris Beach Murtha

Jason Alan Snyder

Chief AI Officer

Momentum Worldwide

John Squires

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Robert Stoll

Former Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

Stoll Patent Consulting and Expert Testimony LLC

Anish Suri

Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer

Cue Biopharma

Bernard Tomsa

Partner

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Giulia Toti

Founding Go-To-Market

Ankar AI

Mark Vallone

Chief Patent Counsel, Americas

IBM

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Chen Wang

Economist

Competition Dynamics, LLC

Kevin White

Founder and Executive Director

Global Vision 2020, Inc.

Leo White

Chief IP & Associate General Counsel

The Duracell Company

TJ Whittle

Legal Counsel

Anduril Industries

Shawnna Yashar

IP & Technology Litigation Attorney/Partner

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

John Yun

Economist, Professor of Law

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School