Carolina Rodriguez is a strategic and visual communications expert with 20 years of international experience. She has worked with the United Nations, the World Bank, NGOs and business in the design and development of high-impact advocacy campaigns and innovative communication products to explain policy issues and support high-level decision-making to promote sustainability. She is originally from Chile but is based in Singapore. She has worked in Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia.

Trod Lehong is co-founder of Afriqinnov8, a public affairs consulting firm in South Africa. He provides advice in relation to innovation, cybersecurity, trade, and IP commercialization to clients in the public and private sectors, drawing on his global experience and networks in the intellectual property and technology innovation space. He is the Attaché to Africa for the European Patent Office. Trod was previously the Registrar of Patents at the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in South Africa. A registered patent attorney, Trod is admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has degrees in mechanical engineering and law.

Phil has over 40 years of experience as an IP attorney in all fields of Intellectual Property. He has represented clients in both private and corporate practice, including VP and Chief Patent Counsel and VP and Legal Counsel for Global IP Policy at Qualcomm, executive level IP Attorney positions at IBM and staff IP attorney positions at Motorola. Phil was Chair of the IP Committee for the US Semiconductor Industry Association for many years, and he has served on various IP related committees for the American Intellectual Property Association and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

Professor Mark F. Schultz is the Goodyear Endowed Chair in Intellectual Property Law and Director of the IP & Technology Law Program at the University of Akron School of Law. Prior to coming to Akron, he was a co-founder and leader of the Center for Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) at George Mason University in Washington, D.C., where he remains a non-resident Senior Scholar.
Mark has testified before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on IP issues and has been called upon for his expertise on international IP issues by the USPTO, WIPO, the OECD, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Government of India, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, well as numerous academic institutions, think tanks, and industry groups.

Dini Djalal is Associate Director of the Hinrich Foundation, where she leads the international trade research program. She commissions research, shapes content, and manages collaboration with partners from around the world, applying her two decades of communications and public policy experience, gained from her tenure at the World Bank, the APEC Secretariat, and the Office of the President of Indonesia. Prior to working in economic development, she was a correspondent for international media outlets, including CNBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Utsav Bahl is a research associate at Innovation Insights. Currently an exchange student at the University of Cambridge, he is completing a bachelors in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Williams College in the United States. His interests lie at the intersection of Economics and Law, namely competition, taxation, IP, and social justice. Utsav has conducted research on these topics at Williams College, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the University of Lausanne, and Harvard Business School.

Sorelle Henricus is a doctoral-level communications strategist with expertise in academic, corporate and non-profit sectors. Sorelle has over a decade of research and teaching experience on deep approaches to knowledge creation in the information age at the National University of Singapore and consults on research communication and brand and content marketing. She has contributed to panels on cutting-edge approaches to technology and society, and contributed to work for Singapore Government agencies, UN agencies, non-profits and multinational corporations.