Archana Bhuta is head of intellectual property at The Clorox Company, where she leads the global IP team in protecting and maximizing the value of the company's brands and innovation portfolio and provides counseling on a wide range of intellectual property matters. Her practice includes patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, IP enforcement, and R&D and supply chain agreements. She is actively involved in enterprise AI governance efforts, helping develop policies and practical guidance at the intersection of generative AI, intellectual property, and trade secret protection. She also serves on cross-functional committees that review and evaluate emerging GenAI use cases across the enterprise. Prior to joining Clorox, Ms Bhuta was head of IP and senior executive, IP strategy and commercialisation at SRI, where she led the intellectual property team and aligned IP strategy with business objectives across patent and trademark portfolio development, patent licensing and sales, and IP licensing supporting more than 30 SRI venture spin-offs. She oversaw a diverse patent portfolio spanning artificial intelligence, including large language models and neural networks, content and media technologies, computer vision, robotics, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, chemical compounds, and medical platforms. Prior to joining SRI, Ms Bhuta built IP programs from the ground up at startups (Pebble Technology Corp. and LeEco US) in the areas of streaming content platforms and smart devices, including smartphones, smart TVs, smart bicycles, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and smart watches. Ms Bhuta was also the director of patents at Juniper Networks, managing the overall patent program and counseling Juniper's software, routing, and switching business groups on patent portfolio growth and management. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Ms Bhuta was at Sun Microsystems, as well as in private practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges, focusing on IP litigation, and at Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, focusing on patent prosecution, due diligence, and opinion work. Ms Bhuta obtained her JD from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and a BS in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.