Speakers: IPBC Asia 2026

Rodney Gilstrap
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Yasuyuki Kasai
Commissioner
Japan Patent Office

Margot Kokke
Legally Qualified Judge
Local Division The Hague, Unified Patent Court

Otto Aboim
Partner
Licks Attorneys

Sandeep Agarwal
Chief Executive Officer
XLSCOUT/TT Consultants

Koji Akutsu
General Manager, IPR Department
Shimadzu

Caitlin Burnett
IP Commercialisation Manager
Fonterra

Elvir Causevic
Co-founder, Managing Director
Tech+IP Capital

Daniel Chan
Deputy General Counsel, Head of IP
Yangtze Memory Technologies

Robert Earle
Chief Patent Enforcement Officer
Ericsson

Alan Fan
Chief Intellectual Property Officer
Huawei

Soenke Fock
Partner
Wildanger

Mattia Fogliacco
President
Sisvel International SA

Shan Jiao
Partner
Liu Shen & Associates

Christopher Kao
Partner
Pillsbury

Kazuki Kawakami
General Manager, IP Strategy Office
Panasonic Energy

Pooja Khemani
Head of Patents
Infosys

Chiaki Kobayashi
Partner
Finnegan

Tatsuya Koyama
Partner
Mayer Brown

Viviane Kunisawa
Partner
DANIEL

Irfan Lateef
Partner
Knobbe Martens

Han Sun Lee
Senior Vice President, Head of IP
LG Energy Solution

Yingyan Li
Founding Partner
Li & N IP

Ceyda Maisami
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Innovation, IP, Standards, Fraud Risk Management
HP

Mitsuaki Matsumura
Head of IP Licensing, APAC and EMEA
IBM

Julia Mattis
Executive Vice President, Chief Licensing Officer
InterDigital

Tomoko Noguchi
Director, Licensing
Nokia

Erik Oliver
Chief Operating Officer
Richardson Oliver Insights

Louis Ross
Chief Executive Officer
MEI Micro

Francis Rushford
Head of IP Finance, Managing Director
Pretium Partners

Caroline Ryan
Partner
Allens

Yuichi Saho
Deputy Manager, IPR Department, Legal and Corporate Governance Division
SoftBank Corp.

Mako Sasaki
Division General Manager, IP Department
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Oliver Schön
Presiding Judge
7th Civil Chamber of the Regional Court of Munich

Sandro Spina
Director of Licensing
Tulip

Marco Tong
Deputy Director of IP Department
ZTE

Jarred Twigg
GM Partnerships, Global Product
Breville|Sage

Richard Vary
Partner
Bird & Bird

Michael Waltrip
Managing Director, Intellectual Capital Management Group, PARC
SRI International

Katharine Wolanyk
Managing Director, Head of Global IP Business
Burford Capital

Eiichiro Yagi
Senior General Manager of IP Technology Center 1, IP and Legal Headquarters
Canon Inc.

Rebecca Yan
Vice President
Purple Vine IP

Jung-Ho Yun
Chief Executive Officer
wert intelligence

Paul Zeineddin
Partner
Blank Rome

Dylan Zhou
Executive Vice President, Head of Licensing, Asia
Access Advance