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| February 13 | Tuesday |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Reception for International Technology Law Association Board of Directors, Sponsors, Speakers, Chairs, International Delegates and Planning Committee Members, Le Meridian Hotel
Hosted by Orrick |
| Conference Agenda* - Day 1 |
| February 14 | Wednesday |
| Morning Program Sponsor Bird & Bird |
| 8:00am Onwards |
Registration for Delegates, Speakers, Sponsors & Media |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Breakfast (for Overseas Delegates, Planning Committee Members, Sponsors & Speakers only)
Hosted by Osborne Clarke |
| 9:00am - 9:05am |
Welcome Address
Richard Allan Horning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley (Redwood City);
President, International Technology Law Association |
| 9:05am - 9:35am |
Keynote Address
Dr. F.C. Kohli, Founder, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India |
| 9:35am - 10:50am |
Exit Mechanisms: Acquisitions and IPOs
Program Chair: Richard Allan Horning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley (Redwood City);
President, International Technology Law Association
Current Legal Concerns in Structuring M&A Deals in India
Jyoti Sagar, J Sagar Associates, New Delhi
International M&A From an IP Perspective
Stephen Gillespie, Fenwick & West, Mountain View
The Indian Securities Law Regime and IPO Exits
Rahul Guptan, Amarchand & Mangaldas, Mumbai
Going Public on AIM: Issues and Challenges for Non-UK Companies
David Roberts, Olswang, London
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| 10:50am - 11:20am |
Coffee/Tea/Networking Break
Hosted by Quislex |
| 11:20am - 12:50pm |
Latest Trends in IP Law
Program Chair: Hamish Sandison, Bird & Bird, London
Intellectual Property in India : Latest Trends
Keshav Dhakad, Anand and Anand, New Delhi
Open Source Issues: Audit, Due Diligence and Remediation
Dov Scherzer, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, New York
IT & IP: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the DRM
Richard Owens, Blake Cassels & Graydon, Canada |
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12:50pm - 2:20pm |
Buffet Lunch and Networking
Hosted by Fenwick & West |
| Afternoon Program Sponsor Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP |
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| 2:20pm - 4:30pm |
| Outsourcing |
Managing Technologies Globally |
| Program Chair: Rahul Matthan, Trilegal, Bangalore |
Program Chair:
James M. Kunick, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, Frankfurt |
Commercial Issues in negotiating
outsourcing contracts
Bradley Joslove, Franklin, Paris |
Strategic Global Patent Prosecution
Rajiv Patel, Fenwick & West, Mountain View |
What Customers Want: An Overview of Cutting Edge Offshore Outsourcing Contractual Benefits and Protection
Ole Horsfeldt, Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard, Copenhagen |
How to Survive Multi Jurisdiction Patent Litigation
I. Neel Chatterjee, Orrick, Menlo Park |
Learning From Market Standards For Outsourcing Agreements In The U.S:
What Concessions Should Your Supplier Be Ready To Make?
Brad Peterson, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Chicago |
Controlling Technology Risk in Global Contracting
Mark Lewis, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, London |
Emerging Regulatory and Risk Perceptions in IT Outsourcing
Satya Hegde, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd., New York |
IP Structuring Strategies for the International
Venture Capital Backed Tech Company
Lior Aviram, Shibolet, Tel Aviv |
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| 4:30pm
- 5:00pm |
Coffee/Tea/Networking Break
Hosted by Novo Law Group |
| 5:00pm
- 6:30pm |
| International Arbitration of IP Issues - (Remedies and Enforcement): A Panel Discussion | Legal Outsourcing: A Panel Discussion |
Program Chair: Richard Allan Horning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley (Redwood City)
Panelists:
David Perkins, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCoy, London
Erik Wilbers, WIPO Arbitration Center, Geneva
Alexander Duisberg, Bird & Bird, Munich
Michael Shang-Jen Chiang, Allbright Law Offices, Shanghai
Sajan Poovayya, Poovayya & Co., Bangalore |
Program Chair: Dov Scherzer, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, New York
Robert H. Lee, Intellevate LLC, Minneapolis/New Delhi
Sundari R Pisupati, Quislex, Hyderabad
Sanjay Kamlani, Pangea3, Mumbai
Denis Rice, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco |
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| 6:30pm
- 7:00pm |
Networking Break |
| 7:00pm
- 9:30pm |
Gala Networking Dinner (for all Delegates)
Hosted by Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
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Raffle Prize Draw - I
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| Conference Agenda* - Day 2 |
| February 15 | Thursday |
| Morning Program Sponsor Norton Rose |
| 8:00am
- 9:00am |
Breakfast
(for Overseas Delegates, Planning Committee Members, Sponsors &
Speakers only)
Hosted by Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP |
| 9:00am
- 9:10am |
Announcement of ITechLaw India Traveling Fellowship Award Winner
by Dr. Ursula Widmer, Dr. Widmer & Partners, Berne |
| 9:10am
- 9:40am |
Keynote Address
Mass-Market Licensing and Control of Content: The Conflicting National Schemes for
Implementation of the WIPO Treaty
Prof. Charles McManis, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis |
| 9:40am
- 11:10am |
Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing in India
Program Chair: Sailesh Rao, Regional Director, Transaction Advisory Services (Lead Advisory)
Structuring Venture Capital Funds Focusing on India
Bijal Ajinkya, Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai
Participating in Management - an Investor's Viewpoint
Sandeep Singhal, Sequoia Capital India, Bangalore [invited]
Structuring the Exit Before You Enter Key Legal Concerns in Exit Protection
Karlyn Stanley, B.G. Fund, L.P., Washington, DC
Current Legal Considerations in Structuring Venture Capital or Private Equity Deals in India
Stephen Mathias, Kochhar & Co, Bangalore
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| 11:10am
- 11:30am |
Coffee/Tea/Networking Break
Hosted by Pangea3 |
| 11:30am
- 13:00pm |
Employment Law Issues for Technology
Program Chair: Rahul Matthan, Trilegal, Bangalore
Managing Employment Law Issues Globally for a Software Services Company
R. Nityanand, General Counsel, Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore
Employee Background Checks: Commercial Risks and Employee Rights
Sanjay Kaushik, Vice President, Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, India
The Impact of International Employment Laws on Global Outsourcing -
The European Acquired Rights Directive
Jamie Nowak, LL.M. Eur., Norton Rose, London
Being A Corporate Insider - Lessons Learned from Abroad
Sharon Hendricks. Heller Ehrman LLP, Menlo Park
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| 1:00pm
- 2:30pm |
Buffet
Lunch and Networking
Hosted by Intellevate LLC |
| Afternoon Program Sponsor Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner |
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| 2:30pm
- 4:00pm |
| International Issues Facing Technology Companies |
Telecom and New Media Issues |
| Program
Chair: John Carson, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP,
San Diego |
Program
Chair: Sandhya Mehta, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
Berkowitz, Washington, DC |
International Issues Facing Technology
Companies
Ulrich Bäumer, Osborne Clarke, Cologne, and
Sanjukta Kulkarni, General Counsel, Satyam Computer Services, Hyderabad |
The Virtual Landscape -- How Video Games
Have Transformed The Law
Jorge L Contreras Jr, WilmerHale, Washington DC |
The Challenges of Technology Spin-Outs
Carl Middlehurst, National ICT Australia, Sydney |
RFID Technology: Current Business and
Legal Considerations
Lisa Lifshitz, Gowlings, Toronto |
Hurdles to Globalization of University-Industry Collaborations in Korea
Prof. Son-U Michael Paik, Seoul National University |
Development and Deployment of VoIP in Asia
Konrad Trope, Novo Law, Los Angeles |
Who Owns Data? A Comparison Of
Property Law Concepts Applied To Data
Under Various National Laws
Nigel Howard, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, New York |
The Proposed Broadcast Treaty - Issues and
Implications
Richard Owens, WIPO, Geneva |
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| 4:00pm
- 4:30pm |
Coffee/Tea/Networking Break
Hosted by Shibolet |
| 4:30pm
- 6:00pm |
| Infrastructure Issues for the Indian
IT Sector |
Internet Issues |
| Panel
Chair: Vishal Gandhi, Gandhi & Associates, Mumbai |
Panel
Chair: Sajai Singh, J. Sagar Associates, Bangalore |
Special Economic Zones and the
Software Industry: Understanding the
Legal and Tax Issues
Abhishek Goenka, BMR Tax, Bangalore |
The Net Neutrality Debate
Poojitha Rao, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner,
New York |
Real Estate Leasing for Large BPO and
Software Centers in India
Vivek Chandy, AZB & Partners, Bangalore |
Communities and User-generated Content on
the Internet: Managing Rights and Liabilities
Alan Sutin, Greenberg Traurig, New York |
Regulatory Issues in Operating a Software/BPO Center in India: A Multinational Bank's Perspective
Graham Jefferson, Deutsche Bank, Australia |
The Impact of New Information
Technologies on Existing Regulatory Schemes
Sunny Handa, Blake Cassels & Graydon, Toronto |
Structuring India-US IT Projects
James Black, Orrick, San Francisco |
IPTV - How Does The Law Cope With The
Covergent Technology
Wolfgang Buechner, Lovells, Munich |
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| 6:00pm |
Raffle Prize Draw II |
| 6:05pm |
Valedictory
Richard Allan Horning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley (Redwood City);
President, International Technology Law Association |
| 8:00pm onwards |
Wrap Party ** - At a Disco/Night Club, Bangalore
Hosted by: Seoul National University Technology Innovation Network |
*conference program is subject to changes
**Venue for Wrap Party & other relevant details will be announced on Day 2. Wrap Party is open only for Overseas Delegates, Planning Committee Members, Sponsors & Speakers |
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