Andreia Saad

Lawyer specialized in regulatory law & privacy and personal data protection. With over 15 years of experience in the private sector, she has worked at the largest Brazilian law firms and served as an international associate at Cleary Gotlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC, USA. She is the legal director and DPO of the Globo Group. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and an LL.M. in Trade Regulation – Antitrust & Competition Law from New York University School of Law (NYU). Speaker and author of publications on antitrust law and personal data protection topics. 

Christophe Rapin

President of the LIDC – International League of Competition Law 
Partner at Kellerhals Carrard in Switzerland 

Christophe Rapin is a partner at Kellerhals Carrard in Lausanne, specializing in competition, international trade, and distribution. Admitted to the Geneva and Brussels Bars, he practices Swiss and European law. With extensive experience in international distribution and franchising, Christophe Rapin advises franchisors on the establishment of franchises in Switzerland and litigates disputes between franchisees and franchisors. He advises and represents clients in antitrust matters and competition law enforcement proceedings. He is particularly well informed about sensitive issues at the intersection of intellectual property law and competition law. He is also a member of Kellerhals Carrard’s M&A and corporate transaction team and is active in M&A transactions, particularly in regulated sectors. 

Crystal Washington

Crystal Washington, CSP works with organizations that want to leverage technology to increase profits and productivity! 

 As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal takes complex social media, app, and web topics and makes them easy to understand and accessible for everyday people. 

 Crystal’s clients comprise Fortune 500 companies including Google, Microsoft, and GE, and as a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe. 

 As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she appears weekly on season two of the Emmy nominated show, Life 2.0 and she’s appeared in numerous publications including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is regularly called on by major television networks as a tech expert. 

 Crystal is the author of the books One Tech Action and The Social Media Why

Enrique Díaz

Enrique A. Diaz, Senior Partner at GRA, head of the Industrial and Intellectual Property Department; IP Latin American expert. 

Education 

LL.B., Centro Universitario Mexicano, Mexico City (2001). 

Specialization in Industrial and Intellectual Property, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City (2004). 

Languages 

Spanish, English and French. 

Member 

Mexican Bar Association; INTA, LES, FICPI, AIPPI, APAA (Observer); AMPPI, ASIPI Board of Directors (2012-2015), ASIPI Treasurer (2015-2018), ASIPI Vicepresident (2018-2021), ASIPI President (2021-2023) 

Etienne Sanz de Acedo

CEO INTA

Hermano Tercius

Inspection Superintendent
ANATEL – Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações

João Brant 

João Brant is the current Secretary of Digital Policies at the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (2018), a master’s degree in Regulation and Communication Policies from the London School of Economics (2006), and a bachelor’s degree in social communication with a specialization in Radio and TV from the University of São Paulo (2001). From 2015 to 2016, he served as Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and was a special advisor to the Municipal Secretary of Culture in São Paulo in 2013 and 2014. Before that, he worked for ten years in civil society organizations, focusing on topics such as freedom of expression, telecommunications infrastructure, and Internet rights. He was one of the founders of Intervozes, an NGO working to promote communication rights, where he served as executive coordinator for six years. Brant has provided consultancy services to UNESCO, the Ford Foundation, Global Partners, and other institutions. He was the director of the Institute for Culture and Democracy and coordinator of the Desinformante project. He is a co-author of “Digital Communication and the Construction of Commons” and has published other texts in books on communication and cultural politics. 

Jomarie Fredericks

Jomarie B. Fredericks is Deputy General Counsel, Chief Intellectual Property and Brand Counsel for Rotary International, the worldwide not-for-profit association of 35,000-memberRotary clubs and The Rotary Foundation. In this role, she leads a team of experienced professionals who are responsible for all trademark, copyright, licensing,and domain name work for Rotary International, globally.Ms. Fredericks joined Rotary International after being in private practice with law firms in Chicago, where she practiced in trademark, copyright, libel, privacy,and commercial and First Amendment litigation, with an emphasis on libel defense and media law, and after a prior career in radio.Ms. Fredericks holds an LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of Chicago School of Law, where she now serves on its Advisory Board, a J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and an M.S. and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.In her role as INTA President, Ms. Fredericks is Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Juliana Domingues 

Juliana Domingues is the Chief Prosecutor of CADE – Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense, a Doctor of Economic Law at the University of São Paulo, and a regional co-director of the Academic Society for Competition Law. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law School, serving as an International Scholar in Residence for the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, being the only Brazilian to hold that position. Additionally, she has served as the National Secretary for Consumer Affairs at the Ministry of Justice and as the President of both the National Council for Consumer Protection and the National Council for Fighting against Piracy. 

Júlio César Castelo Branco Reis Moreira

Júlio César Castelo Branco Reis Moreira is the Acting President of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office. He served as the Director of Administration from 2018 until January 2023 and as the Director of Patents at the BPTO for seven years until June 2018. Before that, he worked as a Technical Assistant in the Patents Directorate from 2008 to 2011. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Acting Head of the Chemistry Division I. He has a background in Industrial Property research and worked as a Patent Examiner from 1998 to 2007. 

As a career Public Servant, he holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006). He also holds a master’s in petroleum sciences and engineering from the State University of Campinas (1993). He has specialized in Petroleum Engineering and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1990). 

From 1993 to 1998, he worked as a Researcher in the field of petroleum, focusing on organic deposits, phase equilibrium, and thermodynamic modeling. He conducted physical and mathematical simulations, initially as an independent researcher at the UNICAMP Development Foundation and later at the Petrobras Research Center in Rio de Janeiro. 

Kathi Vidal

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Kathi Vidal serves as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) –America’s Innovation Agency.

As the chief executive of the USPTO, she leads one of the largest intellectual property (IP) offices in the world, with more than 13,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $4 billion. She is the principal IP advisor to the President and the Administration, through the Secretary of Commerce, and is focused on incentivizing and protecting U.S. innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity, and helping American workers and businesses compete and collaborate, especially in key technology areas and across demographics. As Director of the USPTO, Vidal is working to expand Americaninnovation for and from all,including serving as the Vice Chair of the Council forInclusive Innovation(CI2), alongside Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and the Council members; serving asa Co-Chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE);andthe Co-Founder, with the Secretary, of theWomen’sEntrepreneurship(WE)initiative.Prior to leading the USPTO, Director Vidal held top leadership positions at Winston & Strawn LLP and Fish & Richardson P.C. She has served a wide range of clients,from individual inventors and entrepreneurs, to some of our country’s most well-known and successful companies. Director Vidal holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering, has five years of industry experience in manufacturing and design, and has deep technical expertise in a myriad of technologies, from consumer products to artificial intelligence. In her various roles, Director Vidal has received numerous accolades, created innovative initiatives and programs, and been recognized as atrailblazer and thought leader. Director Vidal’s full bio is available on the USPTO website.

Klaus Grabinski

Dr Klaus Grabinski is President of the Court of Appeal at the Unified Patent Courtsince November2022. Beforehe served asJustice in the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the Supreme Court of Germany in civil and criminal lawmatters,where he wasallocated to the 10th Civil Division (X. Zivilsenat) withjurisdictionin patent disputesand other litigationsfor more than 13 years. He was Deputy Presiding Justice of theDivisionsince June 2020. Prior tojoining the Federal Court of Justice, he was Judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court and Presiding Judge of a Patent Litigation Division at the Düsseldorf Regional Court.He is co-author of a commentary on the European Patent Convention (Benkard, Europäisches Patentübereinkommen, 3rd edition, 2019) and a commentary on the German Patent Act (Benkard, Patentgesetz, 11th edition, 2015). He gives talks and takes part in panels at national and international conferences on IP matters.He wasan external legally qualified member of the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal.

Linda Lecomte

Linda Shudy Lecomte serves as the Assistant Reporter General for AIPPI and works as a U.S. patent attorney with Wuersch & Gering LLP on Wall Street (Manhattan, NY).  Ms. Lecomte’s practice focuses on patent, trade secret, and copyright counseling re the software, electrical, mechanical, and biomedical arts.  For more than 20 years, Ms. Lecomte has handled global IP portfolio prosecution and enforcement (litigation, arbitration), due diligence evaluations, opinions, and licensing, in fintech, enterprise systems, aerospace, automotives, video games, fashion, and other industries, for startup to multinational companies.  Her formal education includes a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering, minor Mathematics, and a Juris Doctorate (law) from the University of Minnesota. 

Luís Roberto Barroso

Minister and Vice-President of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF)

 Pedro Henrique Batista

Graduated in Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). Masters-of-Law (LL.M.) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany 

Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 

Member of the Intergovernmental Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) related to Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional Cultural Expressions 

Permanent Member of the Special Commission for the Protection of Plant Varieties of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) 

Founding member of the International Network for Antimicrobial Resistance Social Science (INAMRSS) 

Academic Coordinator of the Initiative Smart IP for Latin America  

Member of the Technical Group of the Brazilian Interministerial Intellectual Property Group (GIPI). 

International Correspondent of the German Academic Journal on Intellectual Property GRUR International 

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Digital and Intellectual Law & Society Network (RRDDIS) of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) 

Stephen Ezell

Vice President Global Innovation Policy
ITIF – Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Sherif Saadallah

Executive Director
WIPO