Conference Co-Chairs

Noreen Krall

Former Chief IP Counsel Apple
Member Board of Directors
National Inventors Hall of Fame

Ceyda Maisami

Associate General Counsel, IP HP

Vaishali Udupa

Former Commissioner for Patents USPTO

Government Speakers

Hon. Kathleen O’Malley 

Kate O’Malley LLC Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (ret.) 

Hon. Teresa Rea

Consultant Rea Consulting LLC
(Former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Former Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office)

Hon. Kathi Vidal

Partner Winston & Strawn LLP (Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property & Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office)

In-House Counsel

Vanessa Bailey

Head of Patent Public Policy Amazon

Christine Baylet Bergeron

Legal Director Shipt

Jennifer Chung

VP, Counsel Simon & Schuster 

Danielle Ely

Senior Director, Digital Legal Affairs Warner Chappell Music

Lisa Jakob

Executive Director, Intellectual Property Merck

Alexandra Lewis

Associated General Counsel (Senior), IP Product Meta

Honeah Mangione

Senior Counsel - Brand Trust, Privacy, and Safety Buzzfeed

Nicole Mastrangelo

IP Counsel Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Kristine Mbadugha

VP, Business Development Dream Chasers Records

Susan McGahan

Assistant Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel AT&T

Alanna Moulds

Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs Universal Music Group

Nishat Ruiter

General Counsel TED Conferences

Jane Marie Russell

Senior Legal Counsel OpenText

Min Y. Ryoo

Legal Counsel iCapital

Sarah Smith

Corporate Counsel, Americas Lansweeper

Helen Wan

Author, Media and IP Attorney, Adjunct Professor NYU Center for Publishing, Writing and Media

Cecilia Wang

SVP and Deputy General Counsel Emerald

Kim Youngberg

General Counsel The Paley Center for Media

Gail Zarick

Former IP Counsel IBM

Law Firms

Dorothy Auth

Partner Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP

Megan K. Bannigan

Partner Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Julie Bookbinder

Shareholder Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Juanita Brooks

Principal Fish & Richardson

Shruti Chopra

Counsel Linklaters LLP

Evi Christou

Attorney Banner Witcoff

Rachel Cohen

Partner Latham & Watkins LLP

Carol Pitzel Cruz

Partner Knobbe Martens

Ching-Lee Fukuda

Partner Sidley Austin LLP

Katherine Helm

Intellectual Property and Litigation Partner Dechert LLP

Sharon Lee

Partner Sidley

Elizabeth Manno

Partner Venable

Karalyn Mildorf

Partner Clifford Chance US LLP

Christine Morgan

Partner Reed Smith

Michelle O’Brien

Partner The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Lisa Pensabene

Partner O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Julia Rowe

Vice President Charles River Associates

Laure Sawaya

Of Counsel Pryor Cashman

Pallavi Seth

Principal The Brattle Group

Josephine Young

Partner Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP