Speakers

Hon. Alan D. Albright

Judge

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Meredith Addy

Co-Founder & Intellectual Property Litigator

AddyHart P.C.

Shawn Ambwani

COO and Founder

Unified Patents

Vishal Amin

Head of IP Policy

Intel

Heather Antoine

Partner

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP

Joan Archer, Ph.D.

Of Counsel

Carlton Fields

Jacob Babcock

CEO

NuCurrent, Inc.

Brent R. Bellows

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Jill Bindler

Partner

Gray Reed

Russell Binns

CEO & General Counsel

Allied Security Trust

Hon. Ada Brown

United States District Judge

Northern District of Texas

Dan Brown, Ph.D.

Founder and President

Loggerhead Tools LLC

Douglas J. Bucklin, Ph.D.

Senior Attorney

Volpe Koenig

Joseph Cammiso

Brand Protection Manager

Toyota North America

Benjamin Cappel

Partner

AddyHart P.C.

James Carmichael

Founder and Managing Partner

Carmichael IP, PLLC

Megan Carpenter

Dean and Professor of Law

UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law

Kimberly Philipp

Chief of Strategic Initiatives

Access Advance

Brad Close

Executive Vice President of Licensing and Transactions

Transpacific IP Group Limited

Carlo Cotrone

Founder & Principal Consultant

Quartal IP

Patrick J. Coyne

Partner

Finnegan

Makan Delrahim

Assistant Attorney General

Department of Justice

Abha Divine

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Techquity Capital Management

David Djavaherian

Founding Partner

PacTech Law

Jayne Durden

Global Brand Engagement, Customer Trust External Relations

Amazon

Rachel Elsby, Ph.D.

Partner

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Hon. Theodore Essex

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells

Steven Geiszler

US Chief IP Counsel

Huawei

Llew Gibbons

Professor of Law

University of Toledo College of Law

Kae Gruner

Counsel

McGuire Woods

Michael Gulliford

Co-Founder & Partner

Soryn IP Capital Management

Phil Hartstein

Co-Founder

Soryn IP Capital

Danielle (DJ) Healey

Senior Principal

Fish & Richardson P.C.

David G. Henry

Partner

Munck Wilson Mandala

Hon. Andrei Iancu

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

Sullivan & Cromwell

Marylauren Ilagan

Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

Olaplex, Inc.

Chris Israel

Senior Partner

ACG Advocacy

Sharon Israel

Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Kim Jessum

VP Legal, General Counsel

Heraeus

Miranda Y. Jones

Shareholder

Winstead PC

Hon. David Kappos

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

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Stephen Key

Contributor to Forbes; Entrepreneur; Author; Speaker

Stephen Key Media, LLC

Patrick Kilbride

Policy Advisor, Public Speaker & Corporate Trainer

Kilbride Public Affairs

Jay Knobloch

Executive Vice President for Intellectual Property

NuCurrent

Mark Kokes

Chief Licensing Officer & General Manager of Media IP Business

Adeia

John Kolakowski

Director of Patent Licensing

Nokia

Gary Lauder

Managing Director

Lauder Partners

Robert Leonard

Shareholder

Volpe Koenig

Van Lindberg

Partner

Taylor English Duma LLP

Nicholas Matich

Principal, IP Practice

McKool Smith

Eli Mazour

Of Counsel

Foley & Lardner LLP

Matthew McBride

Director of IP Services

CAS

Eileen McDermott

Editor-in-Chief

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Scott McKeown

Shareholder, Post-Grant Proceedings Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Megan Jeans

Corporate Counsel

Consumer Safety Technology, Inc.

Wesley McMichael

Shareholder

Volpe Koenig

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge (ret.)

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Raymond Millien

General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Exro Technologies

Micky Minhas

Senior Vice President

Thomas Moga

Member

Dykema Gossett

Changhae Park

Senior Vice President, Chief IP Officer

NXP Semiconductors

Kevin Post

Partner

Sheppard Mullin

Connie Powell Nichols

Of Counsel & Professor of Law at Baylor Law School

Gray Reed

Jon Putnam

Founder and Principal

Competition Dynamics, Inc.

Gene Quinn

President & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Former Chief Judge (ret.)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Reginald Ratliff

Partner

Vanguard/IP, LLP

Bob Rauker

CEO and Founder

MedicinusIP, LLC

Michael Renaud

Member, Intellectual Property Group

Mintz

Matthew Rizzolo

Partner

Ropes & Gray

Erick Robinson

Partner

Brown Rudnick

Chad Rutkowski

Partner

Baker Hostetler

Paul Skiermont

Partner

Skiermont Derby

Mark Snyder

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.

Michael Snyder

Shareholder, Intellectual Property

Volpe Koenig

Sarah Spires

Litigation Partner

Skiermont Derby LLP

Robert Stoll

Former Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

Stoll Patent Consulting and Expert Testimony LLC

Robert Taylor

Founder & Owner

RPT Legal Strategies

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

James Warden

Executive Vice President, Engineering

PanOptis Patent Management, LLC

Scott Weingust

Managing Director, Intellectual Property Valuation Practice

Stout

John White

CEO & Managing Director, PCT+ Learning Center

Partner, Harness IP

Michael Wilson

Co-Chair Patent LItigation

Munck Wilson Mandala

Katharine Wolanyk

Managing Director

Burford Capital

Christine Yun Sauer

Cloud Business Apps, IoT, and AI Attorney

Microsoft

David Yurkerwich

Senior Managing Director & IP Practice Leader

Ankura