Tuesday, November 10, 2026
8:40 AM-9:10 AM
Registration and networking
9:10 AM-9:20 AM
Welcome address
Maia Biermann
Senior Reporter, IAM
9:20 AM-9:50 AM
Keynote interview: Hon. Laurel Beeler, Magistrate Judge, Northern District of California, US District Court
Laurel Beeler
Magistrate Judge, Northern District of California, US District Court
Ronald Lemieux
Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
9:50 AM-10:40 AM
Panel: AI and the new reality of trade secret exposure
- Protecting trade secrets in an AI enabled workforce
- How AI is changing reverse engineering and the liability it creates
- AI vulnerabilities: leaks and prompt injection attacks
Matthew Caplan
Partner, Foley & Lardner
Hongming Liu
Senior IP Counsel, Tencent America
Leon Medzhibovsky
Partner, DLA Piper
Ada Wong
Executive Director, IP, Revolution Medicines
10:40 AM-11:10 AM
Networking break
11:10 AM-12:00 PM
Masterclass: The patent v trade secret debate
- The market forces reshaping the innovation protection conversation
- Converting trade secrets into patents: the risks worth taking and the pitfalls to avoid
- Holistic IP protection: trade secret lessons from across industries
Will Cheng
Senior Lead Counsel, Patents, Linkedin
Praveer Gupa
Director, Patents and Innovation Strategy, Uniphore
Giri Pathmanaban
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Lopa Sengupta
Head of IP, Zoom
Willem Weenink
Chief IP Counsel, Head of Corporate IP, ASML
Justin Wilcox
Partner, Desmarais
12:00 PM-12:50 PM
Panel: Unlocking the commercial value of trade secrets
- Structuring licensing deals that protect and extract value
- Unprotected R&D assets and collaboration liabilities
- Why trade secret valuation is the conversation your C-suite needs to have
Jodi Benassi
IP Litigation Partner, McDermott, Will & Schulte
Katie Prescott
Associate General Counsel, Joby Aviation
Chuck Sholtz
Head of IP, Verdiva Bio
Abel Teshome
Managing Director, Ankura
12:50 PM-2:05 PM
Lunch and networking
2:05 PM-2:50 PM
Lightning talks: The trade secret litigation landscape in focus
A series of 15-minute presentations led by subject matter experts
Case law developments: Trade secrecy as AI evolves
Presented by: Amanda Morgan, Partner, DLA Piper
Trade secrets don’t expire but claims may
Presented by: Giri Pathmanaban, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Amanda Morgan
Partner, DLA Piper
Giri Pathmanaban
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
2:50 PM-3:40 PM
Risk scenarios: A cross-functional response to trade secret threats
- The departing employee: when talent walks out with more than a resignation letter
- The AI tool: when legal, HR and IT cannot agree on the protocols to protect trade secrets
- A trusted contact: an employee has been sharing information with an external research partner
Diana Kotenko
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nekonomikon Games
Katie Nolan-Stevaux
Associate General Counsel, Litigation, Genentech
Rina Wang
Assistant General Counsel, Velo3D
Naoki Yoshida
Partner, Finnegan
3:40 PM-4:10 PM
Networking break
4:10 PM-5:00 PM
Panel: Stress testing your trade secret framework
- The trade secret inventory dilemma facing every in-house IP team right now
- How cross-functional misalignment undermines even the strongest frameworks
- What separates a trade secret framework that holds from one that fails under scrutiny
Archana Bhuta
Head of IP, The Clorox Company
Johanna Jacob
Director, Global Litigation, Investigations and IP Risk Management, Applied Materials
Angelique Kaounis
Partner, Gibson Dunn
James Pooley
Attorney, James Pooley
Sanjesh Sharma
Assistant General Counsel, Patents, Johnson & Johnson Vision
5:00 PM-5:05 PM
Closing remarks
Maia Biermann
Senior Reporter, IAM
5:05 PM-6:05 PM
Networking drinks reception
