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Keynotes and Plenary speakers
▶ CEOs/C-Suite
John Veschi Chief Executive Officer ROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM \ Canada
Kasim Alfalahi Vice President & Chief Intellectual Property Officer - directly reporting to the CEO ERICSSON \ Sweden
Lars Christian Hansen President NOVOZYMES EUROPE \ Denmark
John C. Lindgren President & Chief Executive Officer MOSAID TECHNOLOGIES \ Canada
Bart Van der Stockt Managing Director UNILIN, DIVISION TECHNOLOGIES (MOHAWK) \ Luxembourg
▶ Finance
Vincent Van Dessel Chairman & Chief Executive Officer NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS \ Belgium
Patrick Terroir Managing Director CDC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY \ France
Raymond Hegarty Managing Director INTELLECTUAL VENTURES \ Ireland
Art Nutter President & Chief Executive Officer TAEUS \ United States
John P. Pryor
Managing Director, Europe
ICAP PATENT BROKERAGE \ United Kingdom
Lawrence Bickers Head of IP Monetisation COLLER IP MANAGEMENT \ United Kingdom
▶ Institutions, academics
Kerstin Jorna
Director, Intellectual Property - Internal Market & Services DG
EUROPEAN COMMISSION \ Belgium
Francis Gurry Director General WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION \ Switzerland
Benoît Battistelli President EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE \ Germany
Lars Christian Engström MEP, Deputy Chairman SWEDISH PIRATE PARTY \ Sweden
Cecilio Madero Villarejo
Deputy Director General for Antitrust, Competition DG
EUROPEAN COMMISSION \ Belgium
Johanna Gibson Herchel Smith Professor of IP Law, Director QUEEN MARY IP RESEARCH INSTITUTE \ United Kingdom
Speakers in the workshops
3M Company, Air Liquide, AkzoNobel, Alcatel-Lucent, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Arçelik A.Ş., Article One Partners, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), Bayer Healthcare, Beiersdorf AG, Berggren Oy AB, Bloomberg BMC Software, Bosch Group, Bourguet Avocats, Casalonga & Associés, CDC Propriété Intellectuelle, Coller IP Management, Commercial Court Antwerp, CPA Global, Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU, Dolcera Ites, Ericsson AB, European Patent Office, Finnegan, France Brevets, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, GE Healthcare, German Federal Supreme Court, Google Inc., H. Lundbeck A/S, Hoyng Monegier LLP, HTC Corporation, IBM EMEA, ICAP Patent Brokerage, Ideas Matter, Infineon Technologies AG, Intellectual Ventures, Intercell AG, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, Krishna & Saurastri Associates, Max Planck Institute for IP and Competition Law, Leydig Voit & Mayer Ltd., Liermann-Castell, LLR China, L’Oréal, Mehmet Gün & Partners, Michelin, Microsoft Corporation, NineSigma, Nokia, Nyse Euronext Paris, Osiris Therapeutics, Papst Licensing, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, Powell Gilbert LLP ,PSA Peugeot Citroën, Qinetiq Ltd., Qualcomm Inc., Qualcomm Technology Licensing, Red Chalk Group LLC, Renesas Mobile Corporation, RPX Corporation, Safran Group, Seb Group, Sisvel International, Swiss Krono Group / Flooring Technologies, Taeus International Corporation, Taylor Wessing, Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd., Tsinghua University, University of Oxford, Valipat, Vossius & Partner, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, World IP Review, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, ZTE Corporation, …
Agenda
Thursday & Friday 6-7 December, 2012
Place
Brussels (Belgium)
Format
• 2 days of intensive patent debates, with keynotes, plenary sessions and workshops (9 streams)
• A comprehensive blend of key patent reforms
Audience
400+ delegates from all continents,
100+ high-profile speakers incl. 60+ corporate case studies
Networking
Real-time meeting facilities & social events, combined with our social networking platform
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