2013 Agenda
Arrival Day – Sunday January 20, 2013
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Opening Cocktail Reception (WIPO Headquarters)
Day 1, Commercial IP Development – Monday January 21, 2013
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Welcome Remarks (WIPO Headquarters)
James E. Malackowski, GTIF Co-Founder and LESI Past President
Martin Schneider, GTIF 2013 Co-Chair and President of LES Switzerland
Hector E. Chagoya, GTIF 2013 Co-Chair and President LES Mexico
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Intellectual Property and Innovation Economics
Global Trends (Session 1)
Stuart Graham, Chief Economist, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Carsten Fink, Chief Economist, World Intellectual Property Organization
Dominique Forey, Chair en Economie et Management de I’lnnovation, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne
Moderator: Russell E. Levine, President-elect LES USA/Canada
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Networking Break
11:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Intellectual Property and Innovation Policy
2012 Year in Review (Session 2)
Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
Antony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization
Kevin Nachtrab, President, Licensing Executive Society International
Moderator: Chris Katopic, Executive Director, LESI
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (WIPO Cafeteria)
Visual IP Basics and Licensing
Maria Rehbinder, Aalto University
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
GTIF Breakouts: IP NGO Shared Agenda Issues
Assigned Table Talk Discussions
Compulsory Licensing
Emerging IP Exchange Efforts
PTO Programs to Support Humanitarian Tech Transfer
Trade Secrets as an Economic Asset
Valuation Primer
Co-moderator: Kevin Nachtrab, President LESI
Co-moderator: James E. Malackowski, Immediate Past President, LESI
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Networking Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Inaugural GTIF Congress
Discussion by Attending NGO Leadership and Registrants
Plans for GTIF 2014
Benefits of Invent for Humanity Intergration
Recommended Format (Location, Size, Cost, etc.)
Opportunity for Program Consolidation
Addressing Opposing IP Voice
Co-moderator: Yvonne Chua, President-elect, LESI
Co-moderator: James E. Malackowski, Immediate Past President, LESI
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
IP Investment for Commercial Return and Economic Development Private, Public and Sovereign Wealth IP Fund Activity (Session 3)
Patrick Terroir, Director General Delegue, CDC Propriete Intellectuelle
Liu Jin, Deputy Director, Shenzhen Science, Technology and Innovation Commission
Michael D. Friedman, Managing Director, Investments, Ocean Tomo
Moderator: James Pooley, Deputy Director of Patents, WIPO
6:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Transport Departure for Mandarin Oriental (WIPO Lobby)
6:30 – 10:00 p.m.
Reception Dinner (Mandarin Oriental)
LESI GTIF Awards Presentation
Hector Chagoya, GTIF Co-Chair, President LES Mexico
Day 2, Invent for Humanity: Tuesday January 22, 2013
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Recap of Day One (WIPO Headquarters)
Martin Schneider, GTIF Co-Chair, President LES Switzerland
9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Markets for Humanitarian Technology Transfer and Discussion and Adoption by Resolution of LESI IP Business Principles (Session 4)
Project Reports of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on IP and the Licensing Executive Society International
James E. Malackowski, Immediate Past President, LESI
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Networking Break
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
The Role of IP in Translating the Humanitarian Impulse to Invent into Technological Progress and Sustainable Economic Growth (Session 5)
Thaddeus Burns, Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property & Technology, GE
Richard Wilder, Associate General Counsel, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Yogesh Patil, CEO and Co-Founder, BioSense
Jon de Bufanos, Managing Director, Natural Balance
Moderator: Jennifer Brant, Director, Innovation Insights
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Networking Lunch (WIPO Cafeteria)
1:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Invent for HumanityTM Ecosystem Case Studies (Session 6)
Edward Elliott, USPTO Patents for Humanity
Katherine Lucey, Founder & CEO, Solar Sister
Risk McKenney, Executive Director, Water for Humans
Moderator: Kristi L. Stathis, Director, Center for Applied Innovation
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.
Improving Public Access to Technology Globally (Session 7)
Niven R. Narain, CEO & CTO, Berg Pharma
Kristin K. H. Neuman, Executive Director, Librassau MPEG LA, LLC
David Rosenberg, VP Corporate Policy, GSK
Moderator: Gary Keller, CEO, Xomix, LTD
