IPWatchdog LIVE 2027 Arlington, VA

April 4-6, 2027

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Speakers

Subject to change.

All Confirmed Speakers

Ali Allawi

Senior Director, IP

Warner Bros. Discovery

Preeti Arun

Director, Patent Lead

BioNTech

Matthew Bathon

Principal Legal Counsel

Samsung Electronics

Carole Boelitz

Vice President, Global Intellectual Property

Schneider Electric

Jinjin Cai

Intellectual Property Specialist

Jecho Laboratories, Inc.

Philip Caramanica

SVP Intellectual Property

Oculis

Bennett David

Senior IP Counsel

Ohmium

Susan Evans

Senior Director, Intellectual Property

Olema Oncology

Anna-lisa Gallo

Global Head of Intellectual Property

LIXIL International

Allison Gaul

Legal Counsel

Boston Consulting Group

Dean Geibel

Chief Patent Counsel

Samtec, Inc.

Henry Hadad

Henry Hadad

Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Jason Harrier

AI Patent Counsel

Salesforce

Hon. John W. Holcomb

Judge

U.S. Federal District Court, Central District of California

Chuck Hong

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman

Netlist, Inc.

Andrei Iancu

Hon. Andrei Iancu

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

Sullivan & Cromwell

Gina Johnson

Gina Johnson

Chief Legal Officer

Ridge

Sivon Kalminov

Director, Intellectual Property Division

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Sherry Knowles

Principal

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Diane Gabl Kratz

Director, IP Strategy & Operations

Dolby Laboratories

Bukola Landis-Aina

Associate General Counsel

Verizon

Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard

General Counsel

Sunsweet Growers Inc.

John Manchester

Director of IP Policy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Anne McAleer

Head of IP

Paragraf Ltd

Idris McKelvey

Vice President, Patent Counsel

The Estée Lauder Companies

Nicole N. Morris

Professor of Practice; Director, IP & Innovation Clinic; Director, TI:GER Program

Emory University School of Law

Judge Kathleen O'Malley

Hon. Kathleen O’Malley

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (ret.)

Kate O’Malley LLC

Katie O’Sullivan

Senior Counsel, U.S. Litigation Lead

Renesas Electronics

Mary Penn

Managing Associate General Counsel

Verizon

Jordan Rossen

Senior Patent Counsel

Unified Patents

Thara Russell

Director, Assistant General Counsel for IP

Capital One

Steve Skelley

Vice President, IP Licensing

DivX, LLC

Jason Alan Snyder

Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer

Artists & Robots

Coke Morgan Stewart

Coke Morgan Stewart

President & CEO

Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP)

Adam Sulewski

Senior Director, IP Enforcement

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Gene Quinn

Founder & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Kyle Vallecillo

Senior IP Counsel

LG Energy Solution

Mark Vallone

Chief Patent Counsel, Americas

IBM

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Antonio Vann

Assistant General Counsel & Vice President, IP

Wells Fargo

Bryan Walker

Senior IP Counsel

3M

John White

John White

Special Counsel and Expert Witness

Harness IP

Leo White

Leo White

Chief IP & Associate General Counsel

The Duracell Company

Robert Wiesenberg

Chief IP Counsel

Bluefin Payment Systems

John Zevitas

Vice President and Managing Legal Counsel

T. Rowe Price

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