Kent Draper
Chief Commercial Officer
Iris Energy
Edgar Brinkman
Honourable Judge
UPC Local Division Hague
Mr. Brinkman finished a chemistry degree in 1993, specialising in biochemistry, and law degree in 1995 at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. After joining the bar that same year as a solicitor/barrister in Amsterdam focusing on patents and regulatory affairs, he was appointed judge at the Court of The Hague, IP department in 2002. He became a senior judge in 2007. He has been involved in many patent and other IP cases and speaks regularly on international conferences. He is co-editor of a leading Dutch IP magazine (BIE).
Conrad Eckhardt
Vice President IP
Biotronik
Conrad practices in the IP field for more than 20 years and gained experience across various industries. Having started with Consumer Products at Procter & Gamble he moved on to Pharmaceuticals at Boehringer Ingelheim and is now active in the medical device field, first as Chief IP Counsel at Leica Biosystems and currently as Chief IP Counsel at Biotronik. Conrad is a European Patent Attorney and a European Patent Litigator and has patent litigation experience in Germany, the USA and China.
Brian O'Moore
Honourable Judge
Irish High Court
Andreas Robinson
Senior Counsel Intellectual Property & Litigation
Amgen
Brandon Clark
Director, Life Science & Healthcare
HSBC Innovation Banking
Morgan Tackett
Vice President Product
CAQH
Morgan Tackett is Vice President Product at CAQH. Over the last nine years, he has worked to build the portfolio of member and provider data solutions that CAQH offers to the industry. Prior to joining CAQH, Morgan spent 18 years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, where he led teams in Member Service Operations, EDI Services, and Network Management. Morgan holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Zihan Wang
Global BD Manager, Manufacturing & Industrials
NVIDIA
Zihan is a Global Industry Business Development (IBD) Manager in the Manufacturing and Industrials vertical at NVIDIA. He works with ecosystem partners and customers to see and realize the value of AI and HPC along the value chain.
Zihan started his career as a mechanical engineer at U.S. Dept. of Energy Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked with automakers on advanced powertrain system R&D. He has gradually transitioned to roles that combine business and technology. Prior to NVIDIA, Zihan worked for Ernst & Young as a management consultant. He advised F500 technology and manufacturing clients in P&L improvement and M&A activities.
Anlu Xing
Senior Data Scientist
Meta
Anlu Xing is a Senior Research Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, working on LLM applications for business product (GenAI for Monetization)
and leading projects on the company's top priority product -- Short-form video (reels) recommendation, ranking and creator relevance.
Paresh Dave
Senior Writer
WIRED
Paresh Dave is a senior writer for WIRED, covering the inner workings of big tech companies. He writes about how apps and gadgets are built and about their impacts, while giving voice to the stories of the underappreciated and disadvantaged. He was previously a reporter for Reuters and the Los Angeles Times, and an investigative reporting fellow at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. His work has tackled topics as varied as esports, Olympics baseball, and diversity and ethics in the tech industry. His team reporting on Snapchat’s IPO was recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. He is a lifelong Californian.