Keynote Speakers

• Alison Brimelow
  President-Elect, European Patent Office 
• Jack Chang
  Senior Intellectual Property Counsel - Asia, General Electric (China) Co. Ltd
• Jon W. Dudas
  Under Secretary of Commerce For Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• Francis Gurry
  Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

Session Speakers

• Charles Alexander
  Partner, Minter Ellison Lawyers
• Kwee Tiang Ang
  Regional Director and Counsel, Asia-Pacific International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) 
• Justice Annabelle Bennett
  Judge, Federal Court of Australia
• Jorge Amigo Castaneda
  Director General, Mexican Institute of Industrial Property
• Andrew Christie
  Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
• Brett Cottle
  Chief Executive, Australasian Performing Rights Association Ltd. (APRA)
• Frances Drummond
  Partner, Freehills Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
• Michael Ellis
  Senior Vice President & Director, Asia Pacific Region, Motion Picture Association (MPA)
• Jeffrey Hardee
  Vice President & Regional Director, Asia Pacific, Business Software Alliance 
• Suzanne Harrison
  Director, Intellectual Asset Management, LECG
• Ian Heath
  Director General, IP Australia
• David Hughes
  Principal, Griffith Hack Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Australia  
• Justice Masami Ichikawa
  Presiding Judge, Tokyo District Court, Japan
• Kevin Inkster
  Chairman and CEO, Arbortech Industries Ltd. 
• Adam Liberman
  General Counsel, Australian Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• David Livingstone
  Director, International Intellectual Property Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Donald Loch
  Plant Breeder Rights’ Expert and Leader, Turf Research Group, Redlands Research Station Brisbane
• Wayne Lonergan
  Managing Director, Lonergan Edwards & Associates
• Owen Malone
  Intellectual Property Director, Foster’s Group
• Leong May-Seey
  Regional Director, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Asia
• Philip Mendes
  Partner, Innovation Law & Director, Ozgene Pty Ltd. and CAST Cooperative Research Centre Ltd.
• Toshimichi Moriya
  Deputy Commissioner, Japan Patent Office
• Peter Roberts
  Managing Editor, Business Review Weekly
• Stephen Selby
  Director, Intellectual Property Department, Hong Kong
• Jay Sha
  Partner, Jeekai & Partners, China
• Andy Sierakowski
  Chair, Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia
• David Spencer
  Ambassador for APEC to Australia, Chair of the APEC Senior Officials' Meeting
• Rhonda Steele
  President Elect of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and Senior Trademark Adviser for Asia Pacific Mars Inc.
• Hugh Stephens
  Senior Vice President - International Relations and Public Policy (Asia Pacific), Time Warner Inc. 
• Jari Vaario
  Director, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Strategy Programmes, NOKIA Group, Finland
• Karen Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka
  Chair, Maori Trademarks Advisory Committee, New Zealand
• Tony Ward
  President, The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA)
• Weerawit Weeraworawit
  Minister, Ministry of Commerce of Thailand
• Lex van Wijk
  IP Asset Management Expert, Vereenigde, Netherlands
• Mike Williams
  Partner, Gilbert & Tobin
• Rob Willows
  Vice President, Patent Office Relationships, Thomson Scientific
• Marina Yastreboff
  Legal Counsel, BlueScope Steel Limited
• Barry Yen
  Partner in charge of IP Practice, SKYS Lawyers, Hong Kong
• Allen Yeo
  Nanyang Technological University of Singapore