Panelists / Speakers (2019 and Past)
BIOGRAPHIES
Abhimanyu Singh
Patent Associate - Joyce A. Tan
Abhishek Choudhury
Director, Nanobiz India
Ajay Panwar
Sr. Counsel Intellectual Property
Akilur Rahman
CTO - ABB India
Anand Sharma
Manager-IP analytics
Andre Frieden
Chief IP Counsel / AGC Legal Department
Anjali Balagopal
Head of Intellectual Property Practice
Anil Kumar
Head Patent Group Bangalore – LexOrbis
Anisha Rana
Sr. Legal Counsel - Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
Anubhav Kapoor
Akshay Kant Chaturvedi
AVP- Corporate IP and B.D.
ARVIND CHOPRA
Arshad Jamil
AVP & Head -BIOCON LIMITED
Ashish Bodhankar
Research Manager
Ashutosh Kumar
Aslam Mohamed
Partner - RNA IP Attorneys
Avaronnan Harish Chandran
Department Manager (Patents)
Avnindra Mohan
President, Essel Group
Balwant Rawat
Senior Program Manager
Bart van Wezenbeek
Head Patent Search & Analysis
Bejoy Namath
Global IP litigation, UPL Ltd
Biju.K.Nair
Licensing Lead ( India)
Brandon Stroy
Partner at Maynard Cooper & Gayle's
Brian Beck
Associate, Zuber Lawler, United States
Bryan J. Vogel
Partner at Robins Kaplan LLP
Calab Gabriel
Managing Partner, Lex IP Care
Chirag Soni
Deputy General Manager, Zydus Cadila
Christof Mathoi
EPO-Responsible for PCT procedural law
Christopher Griffith
Partner, Green, Griffith & Borg-Breen, US
David Dickerson
European & US Patent Attorney
Dennie Varughese
Director - Sterne Kessler’s Trial & Appellate Practice Group
Dr. A K Garg
Scientist 'F' / Director - Ministry of Electronics
Dr. Abiola Inniss
Executive Director, Caribbean and Americas..
Dr. Alka Mehta
Head – IP Cipla Limited, India
Dr. Bharati Nadkarni
V.P. Portfolio Planning & IP Litigation
Dr. Charles Brumlik
Managing Director, Nanobiz LLC, USA
Dr. Debjani Kapila
Engagement & Commercialization MGR.
Dr. Deepa Kachroo Tiku
Partner - K & S Partners, India
Dr. Fabian Leimgruber
Patent Attorney at ThomannFischer
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Walia
Partner, FisherBroyles LLP
Dr.Jayashree Mitra
Partner, Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP USA
Dr. Jaya Murthy
Manager - Global IPCoE
Dr. Jeff Holman
Partner, Madderns, Australia
Dr K Sudersanam
Manager-IP Analytics
Dr. Lynn M. Terrebonne
Offit Kurman’s - Intellectual Property Principal Attorney
Dr. Mahalaxmi Andheria
Vice President IPR - Panacea Biotec Ltd, India
Dr. Mandar M Kodgule
Chairman & CEO - IQGEN-X Pharma
Dr. Nimisha Agarwal
Senior IP Analyst - Dow Chemical International
Dr. Parithosh K. Tungaturthi
Founder, IP Pundit LLC, United States
Dr. Parva Purohit
VP - IPR - Amneal Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Paras Vasanani
Director B.D., Kashiv Biosciences, India
Dr. Pinaki Ghosh
Senior Advisor - KPMG, India
Dr. Rajesh Gulhane
Founder, VKNOW Patent Services, India
Dr. Raghunadh Vajjula
Lead Analyst - SABIC Research
Dr. Subramanyam Santhanam
Sr. Manager - SABIC, India
Dr. Sanjay Sarkar
Head IP - SABIC, India
Dr. Satish Tiwary
Head - IP Airbus India
Dr. Sheetal Chopra
India Lead – IPR Advocacy
Dr. Suchitra Vichare
Lead IP Professional - Dow Chemical
Dr. V. S. Ramamurthy
Ex-Secretary, Department of Science
Debarati Tripathi
Head – Strides Group IP
Deepak George
IP Analyst - Applied Materials
Denise M. Kettelberger
Ph.D. Counsel-Patterson Thuente Pedersen
Dileep Vangasseri
Senior IP Professional - GE
Dipak Mundra
Partner – LexOrbis India
Divyendu Verma
Patent Attorney at Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP
Dev Robinson
Partner - Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Durga Das Bhatla
Partner, DJS Legal
Edward D. Pergament
Partner – Pergament & Cepeda LLP, USA
Emer Simic
Partner, Green, Griffith & Borg-Breen, US
Eric Hunt
Partner - RMMS
Essenese Obhan
Managing Partner - Obhan and Associates
Etienne de Villers
Partner – MBM Intellectual Property
Faiz ur Rahman
IP Head, Wipro Ltd
G. Deepak Sriniwas
Partner - LexOrbis, India
Gautam Bakshi
Head - IPM & Patent Counsel, Unichem
Ged Owens
EPO-Coordinator for IP5 & Global Dossier
Greg Harrop Griffith
Business Development Executive
Gustavo Morais
Partner at Dannemann Siemsen
Hema Seetharamaiah
Head - Open Source Policy & Compliance, Wipro
Hemanth Puttaiah
Co- Founder - Indian Patent
Inderpreet Sawhney
Sr. Vice President & General Counsel
Irfan Modi
Senior IP Law Attorney - IBM, India
Ivan Poullaos
Partner - Winston & Strawn LLP
Jaithirth Rao
Founder and Former CEO - MphasiS
Jaap Mannaerts
Partner & Dutch and European Patent Attorney
Jay Erstling
Of Counsel - Patterson Thuente IP
Jeffrey Alan Hovden
Partner - Robins Kaplan LLP, US
Jeffrey S. Whittle
Partner - Hogan Lovells US LLP
Jennel C. Bilek
Attorney, Carlson Caspers
Jonathan D.Janow
Shareholder - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Kailash Joshi
Retired IBM executive - IBM, US
Kavitha Gupta
Senior Counsel-APAC - Hitachi Consulting
Kavita Mundkur Nigam
Partner, Krishna & Saurastri Associates
Kalyan Banerjee
Director – US Operations - iRunway
Kartik Puttaiah
Co- Founder - InvnTree IP Services
Krishna Chellapilla
Senior IPR Consultant
Kirit Palsana
Director - Knovos
Lakshmikant
Founder - DOLCERA, India
Lakshmikant Goenka
Founder, Dolcera
Lalit Ambastha
Founder - Patentwire Consultants, India
M Vinod Kumar
Inventor with CTO office - Tejas Networks
Manish Kumar
Associate Principal – Corporate Audits
Manish Sinha
CTO, Gridlogics Technologies
Manoj Pillai
CEO & Founder – Clairvolex
Manoj Radhakrishnan
Senior Patent Attorney, Ericsson
Mari Korsten
Partner, Dutch & European Patent Attorney
Matthew L. Fedowitz
Shareholder - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Maureen Rurka
Partner - Winston & Strawn LLP
Micheal Binns
Patent Attorney - Parker Poe
Mike Hogan
Principal - Offit Kurman's
Meera Vanjari
Senior Vice President – General Counsel
Munish Sudan
Innovation & IP Management
Namrata Chadha
Senior Associate, KNS Partners
Navneet Hrishikesan
Director & Head of Service Provider Legal
Nathan D. Louwagie
Attorney, Carlson Caspers
Neeraj Gupta
Founder & CEO - Formulate IP
Neha Goel
Leader - IP Team, Eaton India
Neelmegh R
Lead Analyst (IP) - GE Global Research
Nirupam Lodha
Partner – Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
Nishant Kewalramani
Founder & Senior Partner, EDIPLIS Counsels
Nitin Sharma
Patent Attorney, Innovation Management and IP Strategy
P. Kandiah
Founder & Director – KASS International
Paul Molino
Founding Partner - RMMS
Periadurai T
Sr. Scientist, SABIC Research & Technology
Philip L. Cupitt
Partner - Marks & Clerk LLP, UK
Prachi Tiwari
Director (Head) -IP Management at Fresenius Kabi Oncology
Priyanka Paul
Group Manager – LifeSciences
Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar
Partner - Boehmert & Boehmert
Prof. R Saha
Former Adviser Department of Science
Prof. Vipin Aggarwal
Principal – VBA Associates
R. Lakshminarayanan
General Manger – IPR Mgmt.
Rachna Bakhru
Partner – RNA, India
Ramachandra Kulkarni
Senior IPR Consultant - TCS
Raj S Dave
President & Founder at Dave Law Group, US
Rajan Ailavadi
Partner - CIP LEGIT, India
Rajeshwari Hariharan
Managing Partner, Rajeshwari & Associates
Rahul Verma
Chairman and Representative Director
Ravi Bhola
Patent Chair, K&S Partners, India
Raghu Chinagudabha
Director at Microsoft Corporation, US
Rahul Dubey
Manager IP & Competitive Intelligence – Baker Hughes, India
Rajeev Gupta
Legal & IP Lead, JIO
Ramesh Kumar Verma
Manager – IPR, Tata Chemicals Limited
Ram Sitaraman
Head IP – EdgeVerve
Ranjan Narula
Managing Partner – RNA, India
Ravi Upasani
Principal and Founder – SMIP LLC
Richa Pandey
Partner, Patent Attorney - Krishna and Saurastri Associates LLP
Roopal Jobanputra
Principal Associate - Gowling WLG Dubai
Samantha Lerner
Trial Lawyer - Winston & Strawn LLP
Sasha Rao
Chair of Maynard Cooper & Gale's
Saurabh Anand
Senior Associate, KNS Partners
Sanjaykumar Patel
Heading IPR - B&S group of UK
Scott Cunning
Trial Attorney - Parker Poe
Selvyn Seidel
Founder and CEO - Fulbrook Capital
Sreeram Appaswamy
Head - Semiconductor IP Consulting Practice
Sharon E. Roberg-Perez
Principal - Robins Kaplan L.L.P
Sharon Wong
IPOS-Director of the Innovation Solutions
Shekhar Khanduja
Associtate Vice President
Shilpi Jha
Senior Legal Counsel for Intellectual Property
Shruti Kaushik
Founder Director - Patentwire Consultants
Shashank Upadhye
Partner - Upadhye Cwik LLP
Shuvajit Mitra
Contracts Manager - Honeywell
Steven H. Sklar
Partner - Leydig‚ Voit & Mayer
Steven Moore
Head - IP & Technology, Withers Worldwide
Subhadip Sarkar
Assistant Vice President - Cognizant
Sujith Subramanian
Sr. Manager, IP & Innovation Samsung R&D
Sunita K Sreedharan
Founder & CEO - SKS Law Associates
Surajit Atha
Leader, Global Patent Operations, GE India
Suvarna Pandey
Senior Associate – RNA, India
Tara Raghavan
Partner - RMMS
Taranpreet Singh Lamba
Vice President of IP – Glenmark Pharamaceuticals
Tarun Khurana
Partner - Khurana & Khurana (K&K)
Tayan Patel
Timothy H. Kratz
Partner - Kratz & Barry LLP, USA
Tom Zuber
Managing Partner, Zuber Lawler, USA
UDAY SINGH
Managing Director Motion Picture
Uma Baskaran
Consultant
Vaibhav Parikh
Partner - Nishith Desai Associates
Vanessa Delnaud
Principal Associate - Gowling WLG Dubai
Vanessa Ferguson
Trade Mark Practitioner, Africa
Vennela Nallapusa
Scientist, SABIC Research & Technology
Vidyut Bedekar
Co-founder - TLA
Vijay Vijayaraghavan
Chairman and CEO, Sathguru Management Consultants
Dr. Amit Gaikwad
Senior IP Analyst - GE Global Research, India
Shiva Kumar
Partner - K & S Partners, India
Karthik Kumar
Ph.D., focuses on patent litigation
Sriram Jonnalagedda
Vice President – Client Services
Roxana Malladi
Lead IP Professional - GE
Nupur Sharma
Assistant Vice President - iRunway
Surendra Vyas
Director IP Strategy – VISA
Preeti Singh
Lead IP Professional - GE
Swati Singhla
Learning Leader (IP) - GE
& many more….