Tuesday, November 10, 2026
8:40 AM-9:10 AM
Registration and networking
9:10 AM-9:20 AM
Welcome address
9:20 AM-9:50 AM
Keynote interview: Hon. Laurel Beeler, Magistrate Judge, Northern District of California, U.S. District Court
Hon. Laurel Beeler
Magistrate Judge, Northern District of California, U.S. District Court
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
Diane Fiddle
General Counsel, Qloo
Matt Caplan
Partner, Foley & Lardner
Hongming Liu
Senior IP Counsel, Tencent America
Praveer Gupa
Director, Patents and Innovation Strategy, Uniphore
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
Justin Wilcox
Partner, Desmarais
Will Cheng
Senior Lead Counsel, Patents, Linkedin
Giri Pathmanaban
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
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
Abel Teshome
Managing Director, Ankura
Chuck Sholtz
Head of IP, Verdiva Bio
12:50 PM-2:20 PM
Lunch and networking
2:20 PM-3:10 PM
Lightning talks: The trade secret litigation landscape in focus
A series of 15-minute presentations led by subject matter experts
How the collapse of non-competes is driving a new wave of trade secret claims
Why escalating damages and criminal enforcement are raising the stakes
China's trade secret enforcement reform and the strategic response it demands
Adam Gershenson
Partner, Complex Commercial Litigation, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
3:10 PM-4:00 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
Erik Puknys
Managing Partner, Finnegan
4:00 PM-4:30 PM
Networking break
4:30 PM-5:20 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
Johanna Jacob
Director, Global Litigation, Investigations and IP Risk Management,, Applied Materials
Angelique Kaounis
Partner, Gibson Dunn
5:20 PM-5:25 PM
Closing remarks
5:25 PM-6:25 PM
Networking drinks reception
