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Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016
Date: 27 October 2016
Registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: TBD, Hong Kong.
IP professionals are finding it increasingly difficult to monetise and enforce their patent portfolio. These challenges are compounded by a variety of changes in international IP law. An ineffective IP strategy will result in huge losses to the value of your organisation, while further encouraging current and potential infringers. On the flip side, a well-run IP strategy not only protects your brand and business but also earns respect in your marketplace.
Join us at the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016, where we will explore current trends and provide key tips on how IP processes can be improved in your business. Importantly, this forum will look at how a variety of programs can fit into your organisational goals and larger IP strategy.
Join us at the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016, where we will explore current trends and provide key tips on how IP processes can be improved in your business. Importantly, this forum will look at how a variety of programs can fit into your organisational goals and larger IP strategy.
Target Audience
- Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
- Trademark, Copyright, Patent Counsel
- Chief, Deputy, Associate General Counsel
- Director of Intellectual Property/IP Strategy
- Head of Litigation, Head of Licensing
- Director/VP of Intellectual Asset Management
- Director/VP of Business and Legal Affairs
Benefits Of Attending
- Get regulatory updates, practical tips and best practices in the field of IP.
- Network with and learn from senior IP professionals, In-House Counsels, lawyers and business leaders who are on top of their game.
- Real world, genuine discussions on key legal challenges facing IP professionals today.
Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016
Date: 27 October 2016
Registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: TBD, Hong Kong.
A detailed agenda will be annouced in the coming weeks.
Agenda includes:
Agenda includes:
- Aligning IP and Business Strategies: To fully maximise the value of an IP portfolio, the portfolio must be aligned with the company’s corporate strategy. This interactive discussion will focus on key components of designing, maintaining and using an IP portfolio.
- Brand Counterfeiting: IP Enforcement- the global and regional landscape of IP Enforcement- including examples from Hong Kong of what works and what doesn't work in fighting counterfeiting; the future of IP Enforcement for 2017 and beyond
- Unleashing Creativity in the Digital Era: Copyright Dilemma
- Developing In-house IP Capabilities for Your Business
- Best Practices in Transactional IP Due Diligence
- Overcoming Challenges of IP Protection in Foreign Jurisdictions
- Reducing the Costs of Effective IP Management
and more….
*topics subject to change
Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016
Date: 27 October 2016
Registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: TBD, Hong Kong.
More Speakers And Panelists Will Be Annouced In The Coming Weeks.
Dr Yahong Li
Associate Professor; Director for LLM Program in IP/IT- Department of Law
University of Hong Kong
Dr Yahong Li, JSD and JSM (Stanford), is an Associate Professor and Director for LLM Program in IP/IT at the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She specializes in IP law with a focus on cross-disciplinary study of IP, culture and technological innovation. She is an author of “China” chapter of International Copyright and Practice (edited by Lionel Bently) (LexisNexis, 2015), Imitation to Innovation in China: the Role of Patents in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2010), International and Comparative Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and Practice (LexisNexis, 2005), and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. Her current research focuses on copyright and creativity, copyright law reform, and IP boundary. In particular, she has been working on the projects of prosumerism, user-generated contents, public domain, digital culture and fair use. At HKU, she teaches Master’s courses of IP, Innovation and Development, Copyright and Creativity, and International and Comparative IP Law, and Introduction to Chinese Law and Legal System. Dr. Li is a frequent speaker at international and regional conferences, and visiting fellow/Professor, inter alia, at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Melbourne University Faculty of Law, Santa Clara University Law School, and Singapore Management University.
Gary Lau
Senior Sales Engineer
Intralinks
Gary Lau is the North Asia presales leader from Intralinks with more than 16 years specialization in IT security and networking technology. He has extensive experience in information security consulting including SIEM, APT detection for network and endpoint, virtualization and cloud, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), multi-factors authentication, DLP, PKI, encryption technology and key management solutions. Prior to Intralinks, Gary was the Greater China Sales Engineering Manager for RSA, the security division of EMC for 5 years, leading the presales consulting team in major projects planning, adoption and deployment for Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Gary joined RSA as the technical consultant for the North Asia region in 2000, before that he was the solution consultant with Hewlett-Packard HK Ltd. Gary is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) since 2001. Gary holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science- University of Sydney.
Gary Lau
Senior Sales Engineer
Intralinks
Gary Lau is the North Asia presales leader from Intralinks with more than 16 years specialization in IT security and networking technology. He has extensive experience in information security consulting including SIEM, APT detection for network and endpoint, virtualization and cloud, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), multi-factors authentication, DLP, PKI, encryption technology and key management solutions. Prior to Intralinks, Gary was the Greater China Sales Engineering Manager for RSA, the security division of EMC for 5 years, leading the presales consulting team in major projects planning, adoption and deployment for Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Gary joined RSA as the technical consultant for the North Asia region in 2000, before that he was the solution consultant with Hewlett-Packard HK Ltd. Gary is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) since 2001. Gary holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science- University of Sydney.
K.C. Sum
Head of Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management
ASTRI
Dr. K.C. Sum joined ASTRI in 2005. He is currently Head of Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management of the organization. He has extensive experience in vetting of patentable ideas, patent specifications preparation and patent prosecution. His experience also includes licensing of patents. Prior to joining ASTRI, Dr. Sum was with the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR government managing various funding schemes under the Innovation and Technology Fund. Dr. Sum was with the semi-conductor division of Hewlett Packard between 1997 and 2001 in Singapore focusing on development of communication products and image sensors. Dr. Sum obtained his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent and MBA degree from the University of Manchester.
Gary Lau
Senior Sales Engineer
Intralinks
Gary Lau is the North Asia presales leader from Intralinks with more than 16 years specialization in IT security and networking technology. He has extensive experience in information security consulting including SIEM, APT detection for network and endpoint, virtualization and cloud, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), multi-factors authentication, DLP, PKI, encryption technology and key management solutions. Prior to Intralinks, Gary was the Greater China Sales Engineering Manager for RSA, the security division of EMC for 5 years, leading the presales consulting team in major projects planning, adoption and deployment for Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Gary joined RSA as the technical consultant for the North Asia region in 2000, before that he was the solution consultant with Hewlett-Packard HK Ltd. Gary is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) since 2001. Gary holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science- University of Sydney.
Senior Sales Engineer
Intralinks
Gary Lau is the North Asia presales leader from Intralinks with more than 16 years specialization in IT security and networking technology. He has extensive experience in information security consulting including SIEM, APT detection for network and endpoint, virtualization and cloud, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), multi-factors authentication, DLP, PKI, encryption technology and key management solutions. Prior to Intralinks, Gary was the Greater China Sales Engineering Manager for RSA, the security division of EMC for 5 years, leading the presales consulting team in major projects planning, adoption and deployment for Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Gary joined RSA as the technical consultant for the North Asia region in 2000, before that he was the solution consultant with Hewlett-Packard HK Ltd. Gary is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) since 2001. Gary holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science- University of Sydney.
Audrey Shum
Senior Vice President, Head of Legal Asia
Christie’s
Audrey Shum is Head of Legal of Christie’s in Asia. She oversees all legal issues of Christie’s in Asia including the setting up of Christie’s auction house in Shanghai, the first wholly foreign owned auction house in China. Before joining Christie’s, she was a partner at an international law firm specialising in intellectual property litigation, commercial IP work and China related disputes.. While working in private practice, she managed the largest copyright infringement case in China at the time, multi-jurisdiction patent litigations as well as trade secret cases arising out of employment disputes.
Sharyn Ch’ang
Director and Global Counsel
PricewaterhouseCoopers
With a legal and business career spanning over 25 years, Sharyn Ch’ang has had a range of interesting roles. She’s been based in Australia, Singapore and now Hong Kong, and her clients today are located across the world. One of her long-time passions is IP. As Global Counsel for PwC, Sharyn leads the global legal team that manages the PwC brand (the World’s strongest Business-2-Business brand, Brand Finance Index rating 2016), and oversees the legal development of some of PwC’s most entrepreneurial global projects. She was PwC’s first Asia regional counsel, and in 2012, the Asia legal team won Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Award for the Best In-house team (under 50 lawyers). In 2016, Sharyn was honoured with the APAC Insider’s award as Best Corporate IP Counsel – Hong Kong. In addition to practice with major law firms where Sharyn specialised in IP, she’s worked in the IT industry with IBM and Silicon Graphics, and in education for the Australian Government, as the founding National Director of IP with responsibility for Australia’s 9,600 schools. She was National Training Manager for Australia’s first commercial online legal information business – training lawyers to efficiently maximize their online legal research capabilities (in those days that was the forefront of legal technology!) and the first female Associate to Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG - then President of New South Wales Court of Appeal, and one of Australia’s leading judicial personalities. She’s also a former member of Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property which advises the Federal Minister for Industry on Australia’s IP regime. A theme that joins the dots in Sharyn’s career is innovation – as a creator, advisor and advocate. While innovation is a stated priority for many public and private enterprises, it’s curious that many continue to underestimate the importance of aligning their IP strategy with their business strategy - unconsciously foregoing opportunities to maximum their returns on IP, the exploitable asset of successful innovation. Sharyn looks forward to exploring this topic at the conference.
Lara Lightbody
Head of Legal North East Asia and Japan
BT
Lara Lightbody is Head of Legal with responsibility for legal affairs in key Asian markets - Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Lara has extensive experience of complex transactions with a technology focus and highly regulated industries. She is a regular speaker at industry conferences on a variety of legal and soft skills topics. Lara speaks Russian, Italian and French. Her professional specialties include IP, Digital Media, Telecoms Regulation, E-commerce, Compliance, Data Protection and Privacy.
Sharyn Ch’ang
Director and Global Counsel
PricewaterhouseCoopers
With a legal and business career spanning over 25 years, Sharyn Ch’ang has had a range of interesting roles. She’s been based in Australia, Singapore and now Hong Kong, and her clients today are located across the world. One of her long-time passions is IP. As Global Counsel for PwC, Sharyn leads the global legal team that manages the PwC brand (the World’s strongest Business-2-Business brand, Brand Finance Index rating 2016), and oversees the legal development of some of PwC’s most entrepreneurial global projects. She was PwC’s first Asia regional counsel, and in 2012, the Asia legal team won Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Award for the Best In-house team (under 50 lawyers). In 2016, Sharyn was honoured with the APAC Insider’s award as Best Corporate IP Counsel – Hong Kong. In addition to practice with major law firms where Sharyn specialised in IP, she’s worked in the IT industry with IBM and Silicon Graphics, and in education for the Australian Government, as the founding National Director of IP with responsibility for Australia’s 9,600 schools. She was National Training Manager for Australia’s first commercial online legal information business – training lawyers to efficiently maximize their online legal research capabilities (in those days that was the forefront of legal technology!) and the first female Associate to Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG - then President of New South Wales Court of Appeal, and one of Australia’s leading judicial personalities. She’s also a former member of Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property which advises the Federal Minister for Industry on Australia’s IP regime. A theme that joins the dots in Sharyn’s career is innovation – as a creator, advisor and advocate. While innovation is a stated priority for many public and private enterprises, it’s curious that many continue to underestimate the importance of aligning their IP strategy with their business strategy - unconsciously foregoing opportunities to maximum their returns on IP, the exploitable asset of successful innovation. Sharyn looks forward to exploring this topic at the conference.
Lara Lightbody
Head of Legal North East Asia and Japan
BT
Lara Lightbody is Head of Legal with responsibility for legal affairs in key Asian markets - Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Lara has extensive experience of complex transactions with a technology focus and highly regulated industries. She is a regular speaker at industry conferences on a variety of legal and soft skills topics. Lara speaks Russian, Italian and French. Her professional specialties include IP, Digital Media, Telecoms Regulation, E-commerce, Compliance, Data Protection and Privacy.
Albert Ho
Director, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong Chapter
Former Assistant Commissioner of Hong Kong Customs
Albert Ho is currently Director of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Hong Kong Chapter). In January 2016, he retired as Assistant Commissioner of the Customs and Excise (Intelligence and Investigation). During his career in Customs, he had worked in various aspects of Customs enforcement and management, including anti-smuggling, taxation fraud investigation, protection of intellectual property rights, anti-narcotics, organized crime and anti-money laundering. One of his greatest achievements is winning the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Award 2014, which recognised the distinguished achievements of Customs in improving the protection of intellectual property rights in Hong Kong. In the following year, Mr. Ho was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the World Customs Organization for his contribution to Customs enforcement. Academically, he holds a doctorate degree in Chinese criminal law. He is a member of the Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and a barrister of the Middle Temple of England and Wales, and the High Court of Hong Kong.
Former Assistant Commissioner of Hong Kong Customs
Albert Ho is currently Director of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Hong Kong Chapter). In January 2016, he retired as Assistant Commissioner of the Customs and Excise (Intelligence and Investigation). During his career in Customs, he had worked in various aspects of Customs enforcement and management, including anti-smuggling, taxation fraud investigation, protection of intellectual property rights, anti-narcotics, organized crime and anti-money laundering. One of his greatest achievements is winning the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Award 2014, which recognised the distinguished achievements of Customs in improving the protection of intellectual property rights in Hong Kong. In the following year, Mr. Ho was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the World Customs Organization for his contribution to Customs enforcement. Academically, he holds a doctorate degree in Chinese criminal law. He is a member of the Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and a barrister of the Middle Temple of England and Wales, and the High Court of Hong Kong.
Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016
Date: 27 October 2016
Registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: TBD, Hong Kong.
The speaking/panel slots at this event are reserved for in-house legal/compliance professionals, while law firms/solutions providers speak on a sponsorship basis.
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Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong IP Strategy Forum 2016
Date: 27 October 2016
Registration: 8.30am to 9.00am
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Event: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: TBD, Hong Kong.
Law Firm / Service Provider: USD699 (Early Bird Rate) / USD799 (Full Price)
In-House IP Professional/Government/Academic: USD399 (Early Bird Rate) / USD499 (Full Price)
Group price - Enjoy a 20% discount by registering five participants from your organisation (The 5th person attends for free).
*Early Bird Rate ends on 30 September 2016.
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For more information regarding this event, please contact:
Amantha at
(65) 6870 3917
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